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FN1 Ch7 See Winthrop Pickard Bell's Foreign Protestants (Mount Allison University, 1992) at p. 546.
FN2 Ch7 "John Doggett ... and Lawrence discussed settlement as early as 1757." (Brebner, The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia (1937) (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970) at p. 45.) Lawrence's grant is set out in an appendix at p. 281 in Diaries of Simeon Perkins (The Champlain Society) vol. 1. In the grant there is listed the names of the 164 grantees. At the bottom there is a note to the effect that 41 of the grantees were to take possession in September of 1760; 61 in September 1761; and 61 in September of 1762.
FN3 Ch7 "By the end of the year 1760, Annapolis County had a new Massachusetts, Kings County a new Connecticut, and the present Hants County a new Rhode Island. The whole Valley was a new, New England, with a population of nearly 2000 people." ("The Coming of the New England Planters to the Annapolis Valley," NSHS, #33 (1961) p. 100.)
FN4 Ch7 The 1760 influx of New Englanders was of greater importance to the future growth of Nova Scotia, because, by and large, they stuck it out; and, many people now in Nova Scotia can trace their line back these New Englanders. The settlers that came with Cornwallis in 1749, for the most part, departed after a winter or two, to settle in the more hospitable climate to be found further down the eastern seaboard, as for example, that which is to be found in the Carolinas.
FN5 Ch7 See, Esther Clark Wright's Planters and Pioneers, Nova Scotia, 1749 to 1775 (Hantsport: Lancelot Press, 1982) at p. 17.
FN6 Ch7 "Description and State of the New Settlements in Nova Scotia in 1761," Morris contemporaneous report to the Lords of Trade dated January 11th, 1762, as can be found in Report Concerning Canadian Archives Branch for the Year 1904 (Ottawa: 1905), p. 292-3.
FN7 Ch7 Ibid., p. 299.
FN8 Ch7 A History of the American People (New York: HarperCollins, 1999) p. 68.
FN9 Ch7 As contained in the published Diaries of Simeon Perkins (The Champlain Society) where Innis made extensive notes. This note is at the bottom of p. 35, vol. 1.
FN10 Ch7 Perkins started his diary in 1766 and generally kept it up until the year of his death, in 1812. The Perkins' Diaries have come down to us. They have been published by The Champlain Society and consist of five volumes: the first volume (1948) covers the years 1766-1780 and contains an introduction by Harold A. Innis; the second (1958) covers the years 1780-1789 with an introduction by D. C. Harvey and notes by Chas. Bruce Fergusson; the third (1961) covers the years 1790-1796; the fourth (1967) covers the years 1797-1803; and the fifth (1978) covers the years 1804-1812. The last three volumes were introduced by Chas. Bruce Fergusson. I should say, too, that in 1766 the year Perkins began his diary, he also started to build his house for himself and his family at Liverpool. The house stands yet today as a museum. There is a web site, the URL to which, as of this writing, is, http://museum.gov.ns.ca/peh