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ously proceeded in according to the increase of the colony, which under divine 
blessing and assistance may be expected. Every volunteer, therefore, who has 
come to the resolution of complying with the above proposal, will please obtain 
a license from his Government, and therewith apply either directly to Mr. John 
Dick! or to his agent in Franckfort on the Mayne, who may be found by enquiring 
of John Adam Ohenslagen, shipmaster, who resides at the Saxenhausen Bridge.” 
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Lawrence's First Proclamation respecting Vacant Lands in Nova Scotia, October 
12, 1758. 
“By His Excellency Charles Lawrence, Captain-General and Commander-in- 
Chief in and over His Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia, or Acadia, in America, 
Vice Admiral of the same, etc., etc. 
A PROCLAMATION. 
WueEreas by the late success of His Majesty’s arms in the reduction of Cape 
Breton and its dependencies, and also hy the demolition and entire destruction of 
Gaspé, Miramichi, and of Saint Lawrence and on Saint John’s river in the Bay of 
Fundy the Enemy, who have formerly disturbed and harassed the Province of 
Nova-Scotia and much obstructed its progress, have been compelled to retire and 
take refuge in Canada; a favourable opportunity now presents itself for the peopling 
and cultivating as well the lands vacated by the French as every other part of that 
valuable Province; I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of His Majesty’s 
Council, to issue this proclamation, declaring that I shall be ready to receive any 
proposals that may hereafter be made to me for effectually settling the said vacated, 
or any other lands within the Province aforesaid; a description whereof, and of the 
advantages arising from their peculiar nature and situation I have ordered to be 
published with this proclamation. 
Given in the Council Chamber at Halifax, the 12th day of October, 1758, and 
in the thirty-second year of His Majesty’s Reign. 
By His Excellency’s Command, 
with the advice of His CHARLES LAWRENCE. 
Majesty’s Council. 
Gop SAVE THE Kine! 
A description of the Lands, ordered to be published pursuant to the foregoing 
Proclamation, which consist of more than 100,000 acres of land, interval and plow 
lands, producing wheat, rye, barley, oats, hemp, flax, ete. These have been culti- 
vated for more than a hundred years past, and never fail of crops nor need manuring. 
Also, more than 100,000 acres of upland, cleared and stocked with English 
grass, planted with orchards, gardens, etc. These lands, with good husbandry, 
produce often two loads of hay per acre. The wild and unimproved lands adjoining 
abound with black birch, ash, oak, pine, fir, etc. 
All these lands are so intermixed that every single farmer may have a propor- 
tionable quantity of plow land, grass land and woodland, and are all situated about 
the Bay of Fundi upon rivers navigable for ships of burthen. 
' The nature of the voluminous correspondence of the Lords of Trade with John Dick on the 
one hand and the Governor of Nova Scotia on the other may be seen by reference to Brymner's 
Canadian Archives for 1894, pp. 150-187. The correspondence covered three years. 
