|
a.
|
Note: In 1814 Timothy McLean and John Fisher sold part of their property to David Archibald 3rd of Truro, who was interested in lumbering. He moved his family to Sherbrooke and built a sawmill, a grist mill and store in what is now the present Sherbrooke.(24) Boards sawn at his mill were sent by sea in various vessels to Halifax, where food supplies, manufactured goods and other articles were purchased. In turn David Archibald (described at first as a trader from Truro and who had mortgaged property to Samuel Lydiard and other merchants in Halifax in 1817) sold property to John McIntosh, house wright (1815), to his son William Thompson Archibald (1817), (who had married on 20th December 1814 at St. Mary's Jane McDonald, daughter of Angus), Archibald Jordain (1818), James Wilson (1819), Miles and John McIntosh (1822), Wentworth Taylor (1825), and a school lot of Wentworth Taylor and other trustees in 1817. Wentworth Taylor in his turn sold lots to Hugh McCutcheon (1820), to James Kirker (1824), to Thomas Pye Jr. (1818, 1820 and 1821), to William McDaniel in 1826, while in the same year James Wilson sold to Henry Cumminger. In 1822 Ronald McDiarmid, farmer at St. Mary's River, sold to William Sinclair, merchant at Sherbrooke, and John Howe, Jr., older brother of the famous Joseph Howe acquired land at Sherbrooke in 1826(25) David Archibald 3rd had been born in New Hampshire before his family emigrated to Truro, Nova Scotia, and had married Hannah Blanchard. The following children were born at Truro - Sally (1800), Rebecca Shepperd (1802), John Waddell (1806), Jotham Blanchard (1808) and Mary (1812) but Jane Walker (1816) and Harriot (1819) were born at Sherbrooke, on Saint Mary's River.(26) Tradition relates that Mr. Archibald was kind hearted and generous and never refused supplies from his store to a poor man(27), and he donated the lot for a church. An analysis of the early deeds in the Registry of Deeds in the Court House at Sherbrooke reveals that the sea coast settlements around the mouth of the St. Mary's River were pioneered by the children of the New England fishermen and shipbuilders from Queens and Shelburne counties, while the up river settlements of the Forks, Stillwater and Glenelg Lakes were founded by a group from Colchester County, descendants of Scot-Irish from New Hampshire, with a sprinkling of Scots from Pictou who were interested in the timber trade. The name Sherbrooke came into use in 1815 in honour of the Lieutenant-Governor of the time, and in 1816 William McDaniel was appointed surveyor of highways for Sherbrooke to Elys Cove and David Archibald from Sherbrooke to Stillwater, and William Taylor and James Lewrie were appointed surveyors of lumber.(28) By 1817 Sherbrooke had two sawmills, a grist mill, and about twenty houses according to Anthony Lockwood in A Brief Description of Nova Scotia...(29)
|
