Nova Scotia Archives
Nova Scotia Land Papers 1765-1800
Brownrigg, R.R. and others – 1785 – Halifax County
Names listed in the documents: (Capt.) R.F. Brownrigg, (Major) James Balmor, (Capt.) Gideon White, (Capt.) Ralph Cunningham, (Lieut.) Bryan Meighan, (Lieut.) Angus MacDonald, (Surgeon) John MacPherson, John Dunnaway, James Horsford, Stephen Jones, William Paylor, James Harris, Eli Rogers, (Lieut.) Robert Barrett, Thomas Miles, Benjamin Critchett, Peter Harrell, Nathan Pushee, John Pringle, John Wetherford, Esom Franklin, Major Russell, George Hines, John Hewin, Reuben, Johnston, (Music Master) William Harbourn, William Sherrin, Thomas Jones, Daniel MacCarthy, William Spain, Daniel Williams, John Cappard, James Taylor, John Cowen, William Pearce, David Lewis, Samuel Oliver, Barnabas Studevin, Ulderic, Frend, Isaac Everidge, John Murphy, George Whitman, John Bumgarner, Henry Stanagin, Edward Herrerman, Zackeus Davis, Samuel Jewell, Daniel Sellers, Thomas Reynolds, Robert Brownlie, Abraham Parnell, Patrick Rielly, Marmaduke Pendlebury, Nathan MacKeel, William Boswell, Cornelius Carney, William MacCarthy, Miles Murphy, Lewis Clark, Frederick Smith, Walter Glasco, Gideon Symonds, Robert Armstrong, James Wishart, James Bundey, Lewis Tilley, James Land, Edward MacCaffray, Shaduck Watkins, Basil Phillips, John Roberts, George Brown, James Staunton, Jeremiah Harrigan, William Carey, David Bradley, John Read, John Porter, Samuel Serratt, Charles Fielder, Charles Fraser, Nathan Conyers, Peter Hines, John Hopkins, William Fryer, Philip Nouse, William Rogers, John MacLeese, Samuel Thompson, William MacCoy, John Wilson, William Parsons, John Shanks, John Flick, John Haddox, Jesse Neilson, Timothy Brooks, William Wheeler, Thomas Shores, John Davis, Edward Goodwin, Henry Driver, George Bruce, Matthew Rhodes, Bryan Matthews, William Lewis, William Brown, John Harding, John Hope, Edward Read, David Essex, Andrew Robertson, Edmund Penrice, Cutlick Rhiedeker, Thomas Kelly, John Upton, Patrick Hannigan, Thomas Byram, Baptist Armsworthy, Roger Brickstock, John Clements, James Harris, Zepheon Williams, George Devenish, James Farrow, Robert Markham, Oliver MacGeen, Isom Whitt, Harry Henry, David Willoughby, Philip Weller, Isaac Kennedy, John Whitt, John Ambrose, Madderson Hunt, George King, Sterling King, John Wilson, Thomas Fox, Henry Johns, William Mayes, David Martin, William Barnel, William Higgins, John King, John Todd, James Lyle, William Read, Andrew Robinson, Robert Byrd, Jacob Beasley, James Reeves, George Pinkley, Benjamin Proctor, Peter Ogilvie, John Ogilvie, Thomas North, Samuel Smith, Joseph Rogers, Timothy Panlon, William George, George Spangs, James Proctor, Isaac Goltney, David Welch, John Matterson, Ralph Cook, William Tucker, Joseph Carter, George Dorsey, Archibald MacDonald, Robert Sloane, James Magee, Samuel Scott, Alexander McKnight, Adam Terrymouth, Anne Reynolds (Widow), Thomas Smyth, Abraham Wilkie, George Campbell, Thomas Snarlock, Elizabeth Agnew (Widow)
The Duke of Cumberland's Regiment and Loyalists from St. Augustine. Granted 30,700 acres in the Township of Manchester, on Chedabucto Bay (near land granted I. Boyd) to the mouth of a small Riverlet entering the Gut of Canso and from Benjamin Hollowell's Grant on Milford Haven to the sea shore of Chedebucto Bay. Containing in all 50,000 acres, in which the 30,700 acres is included as well as 13,744 acres reserved to the Crown and land allowed for a Town Plot, Glebe, School Lots, Roads and further Grants.
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