Grant. Captain Campbell accordingly returned to Isla, and
brought from thence at a very large expense, his own Family and
Thirty other Families, making in all, one hundred and fifty-three
Souls. He went again to visit the lands, received all possible
respect and kindness from the Government, who proposed an old Fort
Anna to be repaired, to cover the new settlers from the French
Indians. At the same time, the People of New York proposed to
maintain the people already brought, till Captain Campbell could
return and bring more, alledging that it would be for the interest of
the Infant Colony to settle upon the lands in a large Body; that,
covered by the Fort, and assisted by the Indians, they might be less
liable to the Incursions of Enemies.

That to keep up the spirit of the undertaking, Governor Clarke, by a
writing bearing date the 4th day of December, 1738, declared his
having promised Captain Campbell thirty thousand acres of land at
Wood Creek, free of charges, except the expence of surveying & the
King's Quit Rent in consideration of his having already brought over
thirty families who according to their respective numbers in each
family, were to have from one hundred and fifty to five hundred
acres. Encouraged by this declaration, he departed in the same month
for Isla, and in August, 1739, brought over Forty Families more, and
under the Faith of the said promises made a third voyage, from which
he returned in November, 1740, bringing with him thirteen Families
the whole making eighty-three Families, composed of Four Hundred and
Twenty Three Persons, all sincere and loyal Protestants, and very
capable of forming a respectable Frontier for the security of the
Province. But after all these perilous and expensive voyages, and
tho' there wanted but Seventeen Families to complete the number for
which he had undertaken, he found no longer the same countenance or
protection but on the contrary it was insinuated to him that he could
have no land either for himself or the people, but upon conditions in
direct violation of the Faith of Government, and detrimental to the
interests of those who upon his assurances had accompanied him into
America. The people also were reduced to demand separate Grants for
themselves, which upon large promises some of them did, yet more of
them never had so much as a foot of land, and many l