On March 28, 1767, James Boyd was granted 1000 acres of land on the Bocabec River by the government of Nova Scotia. The following is an extract of the grant from Nova Scotia Land Grant Book 7 (Old), pages 200-203:
Nova Scotia ssA map of the grant is shown on the Vardon Land Records page. Although the name "Dickawasset" suggests that the land was on the Digdeguash River, it was actually on the Bocabec and all subsequent land transactions for the lot and surrounding lots treat it as such. The comment about "the Westermost of the Three Rivers in the Grand Bay of Passamaquody [sic]" is interesting since there are actually four such rivers: St. Croix (Scoodic), Bocabec, Digdeguash, and Magaguadavic. The surveyor must have considered Passamaquoddy Bay to consist only of the waters between St. Andrews and Letete. In that case, there are only three rivers and the Bocabec is the westernmost.
William Campbell
No 83
Dated March 28 1767
Regd March 28th 1767To all to whom these Presents shall Come Greeting Know Ye that I Lord William Campbell Captain General and Governor in Chief in and Over his Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia or Acadie and its Dependencies Vice Admiral of the same &c &c &c By Virtue of the Power and Authority to me given by his Present Majesty King George the Third under the Great Seal of Great Britain have Given Granted and Confirmed and Do by these Presents by and with the advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council for the said Province Give Grant and Confirm unto James Boyd Esquire his heirs and assigns a Tract of Land situate Lying and being at the mouth of the Westermost of the Three Rivers in the Grand Bay of Passamaquody [sic] in this Province Called Dickawass[et] River, and to measure Westerdly [sic] Thirty Chains on the Shore of the Bay, Thence to Run North one Hundred and Seventy Chains, Thence East Sixty Chains, Thence South one hundred and sixty Chains more or less till it meets the said Bay, Thence Westerly the Several Courses of the Bay to the Mouth of the said River just mentioned Containing in the whole by Estimation one Thousand acres with allowance for Highways Rivers Lakes &c being all Wood Land
[Standard provisions.]
In Witness Whereof I have signed these Presents And Caused the seal of the Province to be Thereunto Affixed at Halifax this 28th Day of March in the seventh Year of the Reign of Our sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and sixty seven
By his Excellency's Command with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council
Richd Bulkeley Secy
Boyd lost the land in a sheriff's sale to John Curry in 1780.
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