Richard Burkeley, Secy. 

Entered in the book of records 

Let 6, page 56 

Halifax 24^th Feb 1764 

Registered by one John Collier 

Nova Scotia, LL# 

To all whom These Presents shall come---Greeting. Whereas John Huston, Joshua Winslow and William Allan, Esq., Abel Richardson, Elijah Ayre, Josiah Throop and Joseph Morse, Committee of the Township of Cumberland on behalf of themselves and others, Proprietors in the said township apprehending and being advised that the former grants made to them and their associates would for many deficiencies be insufficient to secure them their properties therein and Therefore have requested that a new grant of part of the said premises might be made out for the more fully assuring to them and their associates their respective right and share therein. 

Now know Ye that I Montagu Wilmot, Esq. Lt. Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia or Acadie and Colonel of his Majesty’s Eighth Regiment of Foot by virtue of the power and authority to me given by his present Majesty, King George 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 confer unto the several persons hereafter named thirty-four thousand five hundred acres of land in said township of Cumberland, Which township situate lying and being in the district of Chignecto and is bounded--- Beginning at the entrance of the River O’Lae on the East side thereof and bounded by said River and measuring from the point of said entrance with the courses of the river till it comes to a marked boundary on the said river being four miles in a right line from the said point. Thence running North two miles to a boundary there marked. Thence-Northeast six miles and a half to a fixed boundary marked. Thence South thirty-five degrees East nine miles and seventy-five chains till it meets the Baie of Verte at the mouth of the River Gaspers, and thence is bounded by said Baie Verte till it crosses the River Tidnish at a fixed boundary and from thence running up the country Southwest. Nine miles and thirteen chains till it meets with the River LaPlanche, Then on said river till it comes to the Basin of Chignecto and by the said Basin till it comes to the point at O’Lae River first mentioned, containing in the whole eighty-nine thousand acres exclusive of land heretofore reserved about Fort Cumberland and on the said Bay Verte. Which said lands are hereby to remain exclusive of this grant according to a plan hereunto annexed. The said thirty-four thousand five hundred acres of land making sixty-nine rights or shares of one hundred sixty-nine rights or shares Whereof the said township doth computing every whole share at five hundred acres more of less with all rights and privileges Thereunto belonging as now divided, lettered, numbered and described on the margin of this grant With all and all manner of mines unopened excepting mines of gold and silver, precious stones and Lapis Lazuli in and upon the said tract of land hereby granted in the said township that is to say---Unto Joseph Morse, Elijah Ayres, and Josiah Throop two shares each and unto John Huston and Joshua Winslow, Esq., Jesse Bent, Gamaliel Smethurst, Sennacherib Martyn, James Law, Abel Richardson and Sara Jones each one share and a half and unto William Best, Jr., Obadiah Ayer, William Nesbit, William How, Windsor Eager, Archibald Hinshelwood, Gideon Gardner, Samuel Danks, Thomas Dixon, Zebulon Roe, John King, Hezekiah King, John Bent, Jonathan Cole, Ebenezer Gardiner, Jonathan Eddy, William Huston, Alexander Huston, Simeon Chester, Thomas Procter, Brook Watson, William Allan Sr., William Allan, Jr., Jonathan Gay, Martin Peck, John Walker, Henry McDonald, Daniel Gooden, Ebenezer Storer, Amos Fuller, Benoni Danks, Samuel Gay, John Allan, Assell Danks, Isaac Danks, Charles Oulton, David Burnum, Ebenezer Burnum, Daniel Earl, Robert Watson, Anthony Burk, William Welsh, John Fillmore, William Sutherland, Samuel Raymond, and Nehemiah Ward and John Collins one share each and unto Joseph Ayer, Thomas Clews, William Milburn, Abel Richardson Jr., George Allan, Winkworth Allan, Jabez Chappell, Leffy Chappell half a share each together with one share for the first minister, one for the Glebe and one for the school, (as particularly described in the margin of this grant, forever. Saving always the previous right of any other person or persons to the said township or any part thereof. To Have and to Hold the said granted premises in the said respective rights and shares to each and every of the said grantees in the manner herein before described with all privileges, profits, commodities and appurtenances there unto belonging. Unto the said Joseph Morse, Elijah Ayer, Josiah Throop, John Huston, Joshua Winslow, Jesse Bent, Gamaliel Smethurst, Sennacherib Martyn, James Law, Abel Richardson, Sara Jones, William Best Jr., Obadiah Ayer, William Nesbit, William How, Windsor Eager, Archibald Hinshelwood, Gideon Gardner, Samuel Danks, Thomas Dixon, Zebulon Roe, John King, Hezekiah King, John Bent, Jonathan Eddy, William Huston, Alexander Huston, Simeon Chester, Thomas Proctor, Brook Watson, Ebenezer Gardner, William Allan Sr., William Allan Jr., Jonathan Cole, Martyn Peck, John Walker, Henry McDonald, Daniel Gooden, Ebenezer Storer, Amos Fuller, Benoni Danks, Samuel Gay, John Allan, Assell Danks, Isaac Danks, Charles Oulton, David Burnum, Ebenezer Burnum, Daniel Earl, Robert Watson, Anthony Burk, William Welsh, John Fillmore, William Sutherland, Samuel Raymond, Nehemiah Ward, John Collins, Joseph Ayer, Thomas Clews, William Milburn, Abel Richardson Jr., George Allan, Winkworth Allan, Jabez Chappell, Leffy Chappell---their heirs and assigns forever each right or share of the said granted premises to consist of five hundred acres according to the division of said township now already made Yielding and paying to the grantees their fees and assigns which by the acceptance hereof each of the said grantees finds and obliges himself his Heirs and Executors and assigns to pay to His Majesty King George the Third, his Heirs and Successors or to the Commander in Chief of the said province for the time being or to any person lawfully authorized to receive the same for His Majesty’s use, A Fee yearly Quit Rent of one shilling Sterling money on Michaelmas Day for every fifty acres so granted and in proportion for a greater or lesser quality of land granted the first years payment of the same to be made on Michaelmas Day next after the expiration of two years from the date hereof and so to continue payable yearly hereafter forever. 

But in case three years Quit Rent shall at any one time be behind and unpaid and no distress to be found on the premises then this grant to the grantee so failing shall be null and void. 

And whereas the selling or alienating the rights or shares of the said township to any person except Protestant Settlers and ? ? within this Province may be very prejudicial to and retard the selling the said township in case any of the said grantees shall within two years from the date hereof alienate or grant the premises or any part thereof except by will without license from the Governor, Let. Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being under the seal of the said province for which license no fee or reward shall be paid. Then this grant to him so alienating or granting the premises or any part thereof except by will shall be null and void. And moreover the grant hereby made is upon this express condition and each of the said grantees finds and obliges himself, his heirs and assigns to plant, cultivate, improve or enclose one- third part of the land hereby within two years, one other third part within twenty years and the remaining third part within thirty years from the date of this grant or otherwise to forfeit his right to such lands as shall not be actually under improvement and cultivation at the time the forfeiture shall be incurred. And each of the said grantees doth likewise hereby find himself, His Heirs, Executors and assigns to plant within 2 years from the date hereof two acres of the said land with hemp and to keep up the same or a like quality of acres planted during the successive years. 

And for the more effectual accomplishment of His Majesty’s intentions for selling the lands within this Province the grant hereby made is upon this further express condition that if each and every of the said grantees shall not settle either themselves or a family on each of their respective shares or rights with proper stock and materials for the improvement of the said lands on or before the last day of November which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five then this grant shall be null and void and of none effect to such of the said grantees as shall fail to settle the premises in the manner aforesaid within the time above limited and the Governor, Lt. Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being may at his pleasure grant the rights or shares of all and every of the grantees mentioned in this deed so failing to any other person or persons whatever in the same manner as if this grant had not been made. 

In witness whereof I have signed these Presents and cause the Seal of the Province to be thereunto affixed at Halifax in the said province this twenty-second day of November in the fourth 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-three.