The Chignecto Isthmus and Its First Settlers

The book is titled The Chignecto Isthmus and Its First Settlers and names Howard Trueman as its author. The preface says the author, in common with many others, has felt that all letters of interest and accessible facts in connection with the early history of the Truemans should be collected and put in permanent form. A passage says the Seigneur La Valliere was, no doubt, the most prominent man, politically, on the Isthmus during the French period, and was appointed commandant of Acadia in 1678, by Count Frontenac.

The text says that on the 11th April, 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht was signed. A passage on a twenty-year record says the date when the apples trees were in bloom was scarcely ever omitted, and that it varied from the fourth of June to the twenty-first. The text says Siddall settled first on the farm now owned by James Colpitts, near Point de Bute Corner, and married Mary Oulton, by whom he had a family of five children.