some means or other have been
misrepresented to the Lords of Trade, or not clearly understood.

They are chiefly American soldiers, officers or privates; they
have sold their Farms in New England, and have transported
themselves at their own expense; they have brought considerable
stock with them, and their Families, and if it is the intention of
the Ministry to settle disbanded Troops on that River, we are of
Opinion these people will be of use and service, as it cannot be
expected that English Soldiers can bring any great stock with
them. The removing these people now they are settled, will be
their utter ruin, the particular circumstances of which they have
set forth in their Memorial to the Lords of Trade, which we beg
the favor of you to present to them, and are with great Respect,

Sir, your most obedient and very Humble Servts.,

Chas. Morris,
Henry Newton.

Joshua Mauger, Esqr.

MEMORIAL.

To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Lords of Commissioners
of Trade and Plantations:

The Memorial of Francis Peabody, John Carlton, Jacob Barker,
Nicholas West and Israel Perley, late officers in the American
service and now Disbanded, In behalf of themselves and others
disbanded from the said service and now settled at St. John's
River in Nova Scotia, Humbly Sheweth:--

That your Memorialists, previous to their entering into his
Majesty's Service, among other Encouragements were induced thereto
by a Proclamation of his late Majesty promising that at the
Expiration of the service they should be entitled to a Grant of
Lands in any of his Majesty's colonies for them to Settle upon.
That they have many of them been in Service during this Present
war, and as Americans are not intitled to half pay, as his
Majesty's British Troops are, and therefore expected no other
Recompense than a Donation of Land agreeable to his late Majesty's
Promise to them.

That having been sollicited to settle in Nova Scotia, by Colonel
McNutt, who appeared to us to be authorized by your Lordships,
having produced to us an Instrument Signed by your Lordships and
under seal promising a Right of Land to each Settler equal to
those already Granted to Horton, Cornwallis and Falmouth, we were
induced to come into the colony of Nova Scotia, and accordingly
sent a Committee of us to view Lands proper for a Settlement. That
our Committee accordingly vie