Reference: RG1 Vol. 189, microfilm reel 15289. Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
At a meeting on 13 March 1767, the Nova Scotia Executive Council decided to appoint James Boyd as a Justice of the Peace and to give him a reservation of land. An extract from the minutes is given below:
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That Mr James Boyd be appointed Justice of [the] Peace for a District from the River St John to the Western boundary of the Province.
On the Memorial of James Boyd praying for liberty to occupy an Island called Isle Lutteral or Fish Island, whereon he has erected several buildings & Flakes for carrying on the Fishery, & that he may have a reservation of land [?] to Eastern head of Scoodiack River he proposing to introduce Fifty families thereon, Ordered, That a license of occupation be granted to the Memorialist, and that Fifty thousand acres of land lying & Situated on the River Scoodiack and the lands allotted to Major Gorham & others, he be reserved & laid out, agreeable to His Majesty’s Instructions, to him, for One year from the first day of June next.
The resolution to make Boyd a justice of the peace was executed
in a Commission on 17 March 1767.
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