[RAYMOND] PRE-LOYALIST SETTLEMENTS OF NOVA SCOTIA 109 
V. 
His Maijesty’s Confirmation of the Plan for Settling the Province of Nova Scotia. 
At the Court of St. James the 16th day of February, 1760— 
Present.—The King’s Most Excellent Majesty, Lord Keeper, Lord President, 
Lord Steward, Earl of Hyndford, Earl Gower, Viscount Barrington, Lord Delaware, 
Mr. Vice Chamberlain. 
Wuereas there was this day read to the Board a Representation from the 
Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, dated the 20th of December last, 
containing an account of the proceedings of the Governor in Council of Nova-Scotia, 
with regard to the settling of the lands evacuated by the removal of the French 
inhabitants from that Province, as well as other tracts of land in the wild and un- 
cleared part of that country, and also with regard to the terms and conditions upon 
which the said Governor and Council have agreed to make grants of the said lands: 
And the said Lords Commissioners being of opinion that the plan so laid down by 
the said Governor and Council, will be a means of the speedy settling the vacant 
lands in that Province, and therefore proper to receive His Majesty’s approbation; 
His Majesty has this day taken the said representation into consideration, and is 
hereby pleased with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare his Royal approba- 
tion of the said plan of the said Governor and Council for the speedy settling the 
vacant lands in that Province; and also of the terms and conditions agreed upon 
for that purpose, and doth therefore order that the Governor or Commander-in- 
Chief of his Province of Nova Scotia for the time being do carry the same into 
execution. 
(Signed) W. SHARPE. 
Viz 
Extract of a letter from His Excellency Governor Lawrence to the Agent for the 
Province of Nova Scotia at Boston, dated the 24th of June, 1760. 
“I am ready to receive farther proposals, in consequence of His Majesty’s 
approbation of our measures, from any person or persons who will offer themselves 
to become settlers in this Province; and that all due encouragement shall be given 
them to the utmost limits of the authority which His Majesty has been pleased to 
invest the Governor and Council of this Province.” 
Nota Bene.—Proposals left with Mr. Hancock will be transmitted to the Governor 
at Halifax. 
VII. 
Letter of Charles Morris to His Excellency Governor Charles Lawrence. 
Pisquid, June 1st, 1760. 
Sir, —Having left the Inhabitants of Liverpool in high spirits, extreamly well 
pleased with their scituation and the choice they have made for a Township and 
for having discovered among other things great quantities of fine Oak for Ship 
building, on the 24th Inst., I sailed for the Bay. The 29th I put into Annapolis 
to deliver Letters I had charge of. There I found forty settlers belonging to the 
Township of Annapolis, arrived just before us, and a Committee for the Township 
of Granville to lay out Lotts for their first setlers. These came in a Vessel hired 
by Mr. Hancock for Mr. Evans and Comp’y, and was to return the next Day for the 
