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to elect two representatives in the Assembly for each township and 
town officers annually by ballot, and that those who had conscientious 
scruples should be permitted to testify in Courts of Justice by holding 
up the hand in lieu of the customary oath. 
The Lords of Trade very properly sent a copy of MeNutt’s memorial 
to Governor Wilmot and his Council, who transmitted a stinging 
rejoinder to many of the allegations contained in it. They asserted that 
the measures of the Governor and Council had always been in accordance 
with His Majesty’s Instructions and the directions of the Lords of Trade, 
except in regard to the terms of the grants lately made to MeNutt 
and his associates, wherein the Government had departed from those 
Instructions in order to favour and encourage the Colonel in his under- 
takings. “That the obstruction Colonel McNutt complained of from 
the Rulers of the Province since the death of Governor Lawrence had 
proceeded from his own intemperate zeal and exorbitant demands upon 
the Government, obstinately insisting from time to time upon terms 
of settlement that the Government were by His Majesty’s Instructions 
unable to grant. In all other respects he had had that indulgence 
and kind treatment that any reasonable man could desire, not on 
account of his knowledge or ability, but from a hope the Government 
had that his zeal and application to make Settlements in the Province 
might be a means of inducing men of much more knowledge and ability 
than himself to become inhabitants in it.” The proportion of land 
stipulated to be given him for his trouble and expense in introducing 
settlers had been granted him in such tracts of land as he himself had 
chosen and fixed upon, and there had been no partiality shown. The 
Council added that “ The Government in consideration of Colonel MeNutt’s 
zeal for settling the vacated lands of the Province—as they conceived 
it to be in some measure primarily owing to him that these Associations 
-were entered into for that purpose, and that the procuring of such a 
number of inhabitants of ability was a great acquisition to the Infant 
Colony—had thought it to be but just and right to have Colonel McNutt 
included with each and every Association wherein he appeared to have 
been in any way concerned, and his name was accordingly inserted in 
the grants made to them of about sixteen townships. There were other 
townships with which he had little or no concern. Two of these were 
on the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick in what was then the County 
of Cumberland, N.S. To one of these (originally called Monckton, now 
known as Hillsborough) there came a little colony from Pennsylvania, 
in 1765, which introduced the well-known Albert County names of 
Steeves, Lutes and Somers. Another township at Shepody, called 
Hopewell, was established about the same time by an association 
from Philadelphia, which sent a ship with twenty-five families, placed 
