[RAYMOND] PRE-LOYALIST SETTLEMENTS OF NOVA SCOTIA 71 
the proposals expected by your Lordships for making Settlements upon 
the lands remaining to be granted.”’ 
’ Unfortunately the pioneers of the Ulster immigration arrived too 
late in the season to be placed upon their lands before winter. Most 
of them were without means of subsistence and in consequence were 
compelled to remain in Halifax until the spring. They supported 
themselves by their own labor with the assistance of the Government, 
the charitable aid of the citizens and some provisions furnished them 
by Colonel McNutt. Early the next spring a contribution was made 
by the Council and principal citizens for the hire of a vessel to send them 
to Cobequid where excellent lands, including the best marshes of that 
region, were assigned them. They were also furnished with provisions, 
seed corn, tools and materials for building, and being afterwards in 
distress were further supplied with provisions by the Province. 
The other townships were at this time making satisfactory progress. 
During the summer of 1761, Truro, Onslow, Cumberland, Annapolis 
Royal and Granville had been settled with one hundred and fifty 
families. Repairs were made to the dikes at Horton, Truro and Onslow, 
and the marsh lands rendered fit for cultivation. The lots which had not 
been taken up by members of the Associations, who had originally 
signified their intention of becoming settlers, were by proclamation 
declared forfeited and other settlers invited in their room!. 
An excellent synopsis of the state of the various townships was 
prepared by Surveyor General Morris at the close of this year for the 
information of the Lords of Trade? McNutt was instrumental in 
the establishment of Truro and Onslow. The experience of the settlers 
of these townships in the first year was discouraging. Owing to con- 
trary winds they had a long passage from New England and did not 
arrive till the latter part of May. Their crop of corn, being sowed late, 
suffered by the excessive drought of the summer and was finally blasted 
L A PROCLAMATION. 
Whereas many Rights are become vacant in several of the Townships in this 
Province, viz.: Sackville, Amherst, Granville, Yarmouth, Barrington, Onslow, New 
Dublin, Chester, by failure in the Grantees of performance of the required condition 
of settling with their Families within a limited time, I have therefore thought fit, 
by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty’s Council for the said Province, 
to publish this proclamation giving notice that all persons who shall come as settlers 
to any of the above mentioned Townships with their families and stock, on or before 
the 15th day of September next, shall be entitled to shares according to the number 
in each family, and in proportion to the grants heretofore made until the number 
in each Township shall be completed. 
Given at the Council Chamber at Halifax this 25th day of March, 1762. 
J. BELCHER. 
_ 2? This report is printed in the Report Concerning Canadian Archives for 1904, 
pp. 290-300, and a number of the plans made by Morris are reproduced therein. 
See. II., 1911. 6. 
