Petition of the Residents of Conway - March 11 1783
Petition of the Residents of Conway - March 11 1783 |
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When the Loyalists arrived at Digby in 1782-3, there were already settlers living in the area; pioneers from the American Colonies had started settling in the Province after the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755), as well, many of the Acadian French had returned to the Province. The Township of Conway, stretching from the Joggin to the Sissiboo River, had failed to attract the required number of settlers agreed to in the original grant, thereby making the grant liable to forfeiture.
"That your memorialists have been informed that the Township of Conway, in the County of Annapolis, is going to be forfeited to the Crown, to be regranted to a number of refugees arrived in this Province last fall."
"---- the following persons have become settlers, by leave of Michael Franklin, since the date of the above obligation, to wit--"
" Your memorialists therefore most humbly pray that if the said Township should be forfeited, that the part of said Township which we have been set down upon, built our houses, cleared and improved, may be reserved to us. And that your Excellency would re-grant the same to us as settlers, with a proportionable part of Marsh Land to the same in that Township --- "
Contributed by John Thurber
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