Planters
4 June 1760
Photographs of Cairn
Town Plot Starrs Point
Kings County Nova Scotia
The New England Planters of Cornwallis Township
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
1983
Photographed on 7 June 2003
Starrs Point highway sign
Photographed on 28 June 2006
Also see: Planters Monument at Horton Landing
Map showing the location of the Planters cairn
Town Plot, Starrs Point, Kings County, Nova Scotia
Roads are shown as they were in 1956.
Except for the Greenwich Connector to Highway 101,
the layout of the roads in 2006 has not changed
much from that shown here.
Planter 2010 Celebration in Nova Scotia
Settlement by the New England Planters by E.L. Eaton, 1961
http://www.nseaton.org/Eaton/Library/Sheffield_Farm/
Settlement_Planters.html
The Coming of the Planters Parrsborough Shore Historical Society
http://www.ottawahouse.org/pages/history/new-england-planters.php
Starr’s Point, Nova Scotia Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starr%27s_Point,_Nova_Scotia
The Survey Plan of Cornwallis Township, Kings County E.L.Eaton
http://www.nseaton.org/Eaton/Library/Grants_Survey/
The_Survey_Plan_of_Cornwallis_Township,_Kings_County.html
Ernest Lowden Eaton Archive
http://www.nseaton.org/Eaton/Library/E.L._Eaton_Archive.html
Fort Vieux Logis, Hortonville, Nova Scotia Northeast Archaeological Research
http://www.northeastarch.com/vieux_logis.html
Thirty Year Assessment of the Cornwallis Estuary Evolution (PDF)
http://www.bofep.org/PDFfiles/GISCornwallis_PerryGiraud.pdf
These links were accessed and found to be valid on 15 November 2009.
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 14June 1760 at Town Plot (Starr’s Point). Stephen was shortly given a grant of 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 1½shares, or 1,000acres, 66acres of farmland and the rest in dyke and woodland. The grant was made 21July 1761… He was a representative in the Nova ScotiaAssembly (Legislature) 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, ISBN088871050X. 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.
