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references

^ "somewhere else". Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Retrieved 20 October 2024.

Townships in Nova Scotia

1825 map showing townships
Bluepete.com history of NS
township records
Township Records at the Nova Scotia Archives
The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, Ca. 1760-1830
British Dominions in NA Table of counties, districts and townships; Vol II, ch1-7
An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova-Scotia, Volume 2 1829
Local Government in Nova Scotia CB Fergusson - 1961
Cumberland Township: A Focal Point of Early Settlement on the Bay of Fundy
The Struggle for the New England Form of Township Government in Nova Scotia D. C. Harvey

Establishing and settling the townships

Townships were created when a proprietor had a sufficient list of prospective settlers. In July 1759 Joseph Scott submitted a list of names to the Council of Nova Scotia who resolved to create the Township of Onslow and issued two hundred shares. By October of that year Scott had

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Provincial troops in the French and Indian Wars
Captain Silvanus Cobb
Governor Jonathan Belcher
Richard Upham
Charles Morris (surveyor general)

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The Chard and Taunton Railway.^{[note 1]}

Bristol and English Channels.^{[note 2]}

Somerset.^[2]^[3]

raise the money required.^[4]

broad gauge.^{[note 1]}

15+1⁄2

Notes

^ ^a ^b Carter calls it the Chard Ilminster and Taunton Railway
^ From Bridgwater B&ER via Chard and Axmouth Bay, i.e. Seaton

References

^ Campbell & Smith (2011), p. 24.
^ Carter (1959), Chapter 3.
^ Awdry (1990), p. 21.
^ Phillips & Pryer 1997, pp. 42–46.

Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Frome: Patrick Stephens. ISBN 1-85260-049-7.

Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Hierlihy was an Irish American settler who fought in the French and Indian War (1754–1763) and sided with the crown during the American Revolutionary War, after which he joined the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment. When that disbanded he was granted land in Nova Scotia where he founded the town of Antigonish.

Early life

Hierlihy was born in Ireland in 1734.^[1] In 1753, at the age of 19, he moved to America and settled in Middlefield, Connecticut.

On the 26 April 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War, Hierlihy enlisted as a private in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment.^[2] On May 10 of that year he was married to Miss Elizabeth Wetmore, the daughter of a trainband officer. Their first son Timothy William was born in July.^[3] On September 15 he was promoted to ensign, the lowest commissioned rank.^[4] On the basis of his administrative abilities, on November 27 he was promoted to acting lieutenant serving as adjutant to Col. Jonathon Bagley at Fort Edward where he spent the winter.^[5] The following summer he was at Fort William Henry preparing to attack Crown Point, but the campaign was cancelled after the loss of Fort Oswego, and the regiment returned home and was disbanded.^[6] In the following March he purchased land and a house adjacent to his father-in-law.^[7]

In 1758 he got his first command as Captain of No.7 Company of the 1st Connecticut Regiment.^[8] He took part in the Battle of Carillon and despite a terrible defeat with the loss of over 2000 men, Hierlihy survived unharmed.^[9] By the end of the war he held the rank of Major.^[10]

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