[RaymonD] PRE-LOYALIST SETTLEMENTS OF NOVA SCOTIA 47 
with the terms on which the lands were to be granted they appeared 
well satisfied, but being desirous of seeing the country, arrangements 
were made to send them in one of the government vessels to make 
inspection. A grant was forthwith agreed to be made on the north 
side of Annapolis river to one party of those applying, the township to 
be called Granville. 
Governor Lawrence soon after contracted with Messrs. Ainslie and 
Ball for the hire of their vessels at 10 shillings per ton a month to 
transport the settlers from Connecticut to Horton and Cornwallis. 
About this time Capt. Cobb of the province sloop “ York” wrote 
that on landing at Cape Sable with the committee who were proposing 
to settle a township, they were fired on by a party of about a hundred 
Acadians and Indians. 
The commander at Pisiquid reported that a like body of Indians and 
Acadians had appeared before his fort with every demonstration of 
hostility, remaining some days. The enemy also appeared in the 
environs of Lunenburg, killed two men at Fort Sackville, three at Dart- 
mouth, three at the River St. John and several at Annapolis Royal. 
What was quite as alarming to those who were preparing to remove 
with their families and effects was the fact that some of the Acadians 
had taken to privateering. Lawrence writes of this to the Lords of 
Trade in his usual energetic style: “Your Lordships will be surprized 
when I assure you that these land-Ruffians, turned Pirates, have had 
the hardiness to cruize on our coast, and that sixteen or seventeen 
vessels, some of them very valuable, have fallen into their hands. I 
have represented this to Admiral Saunders who I presume will take 
proper measures for putting a speedy and effectual stop to such Depre- 
dations.” 
The Governor asked the opinion of his Council whether it would 
be wise to proceed with the plan of transporting settlers from Connecti- 
cut or to postpone their removal till the next spring. John Hicks, one 
of the agents, was called in and his opinion asked whether the people 
would prefer to come at once or to wait till the next year. Hicks said 
that they would esteem it an indulgence to have the term of their first 
settling extended till the spring: this was accordingly done. 
Applications for townships continued to pour in. On the 19th 
July, there appeared Bliss Willoughby, Benjamin Kimball, Edward 
Mott and Samuel Starr, Jr., a committee from Connecticut, proposing 
to settle a township at Chignecto. They were allowed a vessel to convey 
them to the place and were promised a grant on their return. As we 
do not hear of them again until a couple of months later it is evident 
that they made a pretty thorough inspection of the country adjoining 
the isthmus. The present County of Westmorland, N.B., with its 
