Excerpt from Colonel Alexander McNutt and the Pre-Loyalist Settlements of Nova Scotia The expulsion of the Acadians was regarded by Lawrence and Shirley as preliminary to a well considered plan for the introduction of English inhabitants into Nova Scotia in large numbers. On the eve of the expulsion Lawrence wrote to Colonel Monckton: When the French inhabitants are removed, you will give orders that no person presume to take possession of any of the lands until a plan of the whole has been laid before me, and terms of encouragement to English settlers deliberately formed and made publick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.