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[RAyMoNx»] PRE-LOYALIST SETTLEMENTS OF NOVA SCOTIA S7 
100,000 acres at Pictou, the same quantity at St. Mary’s Bay, at St. 
Mary’s River, and at Petitcodiac; also lands at Miramichi and 1,100,000 
acres on the River St. John. The conditions were that fifty families 
should settle in each township every year until the whole should be 
completed, allowing 500 acres for each family. This would provide 
for the settlement of a township in four years. In case no settlement 
should be made during the first year the reservation of the township 
to be null and void. 
Dr. Franklin and his associates sent the celebrated Anthony 
Wayne! to Nova Scotia as a surveyor of their lands. A grant of 
200,000 acres at Pictou was made on the 31st October to Rev. James 
Lyon, David Rhea and twelve others. It was known as the Philadelphia 
Grant. Adjoining this and including most of the water front of Pietou 
Harbor, was a grant of 100,000 acres to Alexander McNutt, William 
Caldwell, Arthur Vance and Richard Caldwell. As the grantees were 
natives of Londonderry this was known as the Irish Grant. It em- 
braced the land on which the town of Pictou now stands. At one time 
an attempt was made to call it the Township of Donegal.? 
Colonel McNutt applied to the Lords of Trade to have Pictou and 
Jerusalem (Port Roseway) made ports of entry and discharge, alleging 
that it was a loss to the owners of vessels to enter and clear at Halifax, 
where they could neither land their passengers nor obtain any freight. 
It was an even greater loss to the settlers, for they should be able to 
proceed immediately to their lands without sacrificing valuable time 
by being obliged to enter Halifax. 
The condition on which grants were issued at this time was a 
matter concerning which there was some dispute. Colonel McNutt 
wanted to continue his plan of colonization under the arrangement 
approved by the Lords of Trade in 1761, and strongly objected 
to the reservation by the Crown of mines and minerals, and 
of pime trees, as well as to the regulations respecting quit 
rents. This led Governor Wilmot to write to the Lords of 
Trade in the following terms:—‘“ Among the persons who have arrived 
here is Mr. Alex’r McNutt, who has frequently attended at your 
Lordships’ board. His applications are of a very considerable degree 
and extent and he produces many letters from the Associations I have 
before mentioned, soliciting him in the most pressing manner to procure 
for them Tracts of Land for which they apply, and on such conditions 
as he had obtained at your Lordships’ board the 27th February, 1761, 
* Anthony Wayne, afterwards called mad Anthony, was a general in the U. 8. 
army in the Revolutionary War. He made application in 1766 for a grant of 6,000 
acres on the River Petitcodiac. : 
? See Rev. Dr. Patterson’s History of the County of Pictou, p. 67. QG C 
Sees EL, 1910. 7+ CO” 508 
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