Photographed on 7 June 2003
("Planters" means colonists or settlers)
Located on the Town Plot Loop road, Starrs Point
GPS location: 45°06'03"N 64°22'56"W
Photographed on 7 June 2003
Photographed on 7 June 2003
Photographed on 7 June 2003
Photographed on 7 June 2003
Photographed on 28 June 2006
Links to Relevant Websites...The Haliburton family records tell of an even larger number of settlers, who sailed together in a fleet of twenty-two vessels conveyed by a brig-of-war with sixteen guns under the command of Captain Pigot that reached the Cornwallis Town Plot on June 4, 1760. Horton Landing in King's County on the opposite side of the river from Cornwallis had been the chief place of anchorage for vessels going to Grand Pre through the whole French period in Acadia, but there is no record of a ship landing at Horton until Sunday, June 7, 1760, the day Betty Wickwire, the daughter of Captain Peter Wickshire of New London, was born in the harbor of Horton Soon there would be ports at Hortonville, Wolfville, and Avonport... http://www.csmaginnis.com/NOVASCOTIA.htm |
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A Survey of the Descendants of Francis West of Duxbury, Massachusetts ...Stephen West was a farmer at Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, then moved to Rochester, Massachusetts, in 1752, and in 1760 to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. He served in the French and Indian War as an ensign and lieutenant ... Stephen went to Nova Scotia with his cousin William in a fleet of 75 vessels convoyed by a brig of war. They arrived 14 June 1760 at Town Plot (Starr's Point). Stephen was shortly given a grant of Lot 5 in the Twelfth Division of Cornwallis Township, next to the grant of Eliakim Tupper at no. 6. Stephen's grant was in Upper Canard, about half a mile from the First Cornwallis Baptist Church and was the first property west of the county fire pond. It consisted of 1½ shares, or 1,000 acres, 66 acres of farmland and the rest in dyke and woodland. The grant was made 21 July 1761... He was a representative in the Assembly in the Third Session of 1761-1765... http://history.vineyard.net//franwest.htm Note: Stephen West (1724-1771) was a member (MLA) of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1761 to 1764, representing Cornwallis Township. On 3 April 1764, the Lieutenant-Governor declared the seat "vacant" due to "sickness and infirmity". Source: The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: A Biographical Directory, edited and revised by Shirley B. Elliott, 1984, ISBN 088871050X. This volume was prepared as a contribution of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia to the celebration of the bicentenary of the establishment of representative government in Canada. |
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Burgess Family and Genealogy ...In 1760, three years after his marriage, at the age of 24, Seth Burgess removed with his wife and two children (Mary and Thankful) to Kings County, Nova Scotia ... Arriving at Town Plot, Seth settled in Habitant, one mile east of Canning, on the Kingsport road... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~burgessgen/d5.htm |
Prescott House Starrs Point
Wellington Dyke Starrs Point
Plaque: Bishop-Beckwith Marsh Body 1760-1995 Port Williams
1967 Willow Park plaque Wolfville
Harold Borden monument, 1900 Canning
Ebenezer Bigelow shipyard monument Canning
Planters monument Horton Landing
Monument: 1747 Attack at Grand Pre Grand Pre
Iron Cross monument Horton Landing
French Cross monument Morden
Sir Robert Laird Borden monument Grand Pre
Abraham Gesner monument Chipman Corner
Two Early Churches memorial stone Chipman Corner
North Mountain airplane crash memorial Brow of Mountain
Kentville Legion war memorial Kentville
Kentville Park war memorial Kentville
Mona Parsons tombstone Wolfville
Stephen P. Benjamin tombstone Wolfville
Fort Edward blockhouse Windsor
Windsor Exhibition founded in 1765
Blue Mountain Cemetery Association Blue Mountain
Monument: Bloody Creek 1757 Bloody Creek
Acacia Villa School monument Hortonville
Arthur W.H. Eaton tombstone Kentville
Marguerite Woodworth tombstone Church Street
Rawding Captains monument Clementsport
Annapolis Iron Mining Company monument Clementsport
Wolfville war memorial
Canning war memorial
Fort Point monument LaHave
Diligent River historic monument Diligent River
Alfred Fuller memorial Somerset