Nova Scotia Archives

Acadian Heartland

Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768

ACADIAN FRENCH.

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The Council did thereupon Advise that General Murray should be acquainted, that it was by no means thought convenient or safe, by the Government, to give Settlements to the Acadians, mentioned in his Letter, in this Province; and that they were here to be disposed of according to the directions of General Amherst, or agreeable to His Majesty's pleasure.

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J. DUPORT, Sect Con:

At a Council holden at Halifax on Monday the 26th July 1762.

PRESENT —

The Honble. the Lieutenant Governor.

The Honble. Jno.Collier, Councilor

Chas. Morris, Councilor

Richd. BulkeJey, Councilor

Alexr. Grant, Councilor

Edmd. Crawley, Councilor

Hen. Newton, Councilor

Michl. Francklin, Councilor

The Lieut. Governor desired the Council to take into Consideration, the present Circumstances of the Province, from the number of Acadians in many parts of it, and particularly the large Body of them now in this Town; and to give him their Opinion of the fittest measures to be taken at this Time, for the Security and Safety of the Province.

      The Council took the same under Consideration accordingly, and were of Opinion that so long a Continuance of so

    * Hon. Henry Newton was for many years Collector of Customs at Halifax. He was son of Mr. Hibbert Newton, a member of H.M. Council at Annapolis Royal, at the first formation of the Board by Gov. Philipps, in 1720, and afterwards Collector of Customs at Annapolis and Canso.
    Henry Newton was appointed a Councillor by Governor Belcher, 24 Octob., 1761, and became President of Council in Febry. 1790. He died at Halifax, January 29, 1802. His son, the Hon. Ed. Newton, born at Halifax, settled in Massachusetts, and was some time a member of the Executive Council of that State. He had another son, the late Joshua Newton, of Liverpool, N. S.
    Hibbert Newton, of Annapolis, had two other sons and a daughter: John, Surveyor of the Customs, who was the elder brother of Hon. Henry Newton, and was father of the late William Newton, of Halifax; Philip, an officer in the Army whose daughter married the Hon. R. J. Uniacke, Attorney General of Nova Scotia; and Thomas, who died in Ireland. His daughter married the Hon. Jonathan Binney, of Halifax. The late Maunsel Newton, of Halifax, was a descendant of Hibbert Newton. — MS. Memoranda, by Hon. Ed. Newton of Pittsfield, Mass. Council Books of N.S.