Hello John. This is taken from my first pages of my NS research. If any error(s) appear let me know and a reference to quote. -Rannie ----- JOTHAM BLANCHARD (1744 - 18 MAR 1807), the tenth child of Colonel JOSEPH and REBECCA (HUBBARD) BLANCHARD, was born at Dunstable and died at Truro, Nova Scotia. He married at Middleton, Mass., on NOV 10, 1766, ELIZABETH TREADWELL (1738 - 05 JAN 1811). This TREADWELL family began with THOMAS TREADWELL and his wife, the former MARY TAYLOR, each aged thirty years, and with a son, THOMAS, aged one year, emigrated from London, in the "Hopewell" in July 1635. They purchased land in Dorchester, Mass. in 1637, sold it, and in 1638 were residing in Ipswich, Mass. Their third child, NATHANIEL (13 MAR 1637(8) - ), married his first wife, ABIGAIL, daughter of THOMAS and ABIGAIL (WARNER) WELLS. The seventh child of NATHANIEL and ABIGAIL was also named NATHANIEL (13 JUNE 1677 - 17 AUG 1723). The first child of this second NATHANIEL and his wife, HANNAH --?--, was JACOB (24 JAN 1699 - ), who married in 1721, SARAH, daughter of WILLIAM and ANNA (CARTER) COTTON, Jr. The second child of JACOB and SARAH was ELIZABETH who, as stated, married Colonel JOTHAM BLANCHARD. Colonel JOTHAM BLANCHARD, as well as his brother, JONATHAN, lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the four of his children were baptised, until 1773, when JOTHAM removed to Petersboro, N.H. He was then styled Captain. He was active and prominent in Town affairs, was Moderator during 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1781, and a Selectman for 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, and 1781. He had signed in Petersboro, 1776, the Association Test pledging life and property in defence of the Revolution. He was a Representative of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Petersboro and Temple for the legislative term beginning in December 1777. He attended all Sessions of the year, and occupied a prominet position, serving on many important Committees. He served on the Committee with JOHN WENTWORTH of Somerswont and SAMUEL CUTTS of Portsmouth in the preparation of the historic Act of Confiscation of estates and proscription of Tories. This Committee was to decide upon what action should be taken with regard to those who had not been active in the cause of the Revolution. Their report was resonable and moderate recommendation that those who had been active on the side of the British should be proceeded against, and their land confiscated, while no action should be taken against those who had been strictly neutral. JOTHAM, becoming more discontented with the cries of these carpetbaggers, and their disability to set the past behind them and moving onward, sold his property in Petersboro and moved to Truro, in the British province of Nova Scotia, in 1785. JOTHAM was commissioned a Colonel. JOTHAM was the recipient of Grants of Land of 200,000 acres, in what were the Counties of Sydney and Halifax, which, at the present time, are the Counties of Pictou and Antigonish. Failing to get settlers he hoped for the area, the grant was reduced to 23,000 acres on April 19 1796. JOTHAM never lived in either County, but his son, JONATHAN, lived in Pictou, and his son-in-law, NATHANIEL SYMONDS, settled in Antigonish in 1804. In the House of Assembly, on March 30 1790, the petiton of JOTHAM BLANCHARD was considered and resolved, the sum of fifteen pounds to be granted and paid the petitioner, as a bounty on three tons of potash manufactured and shipped by him in 1788, in a vessel called the "Truro". JOTHAM and ELIZABETH are both buried in Truro Cemetery, Truro, NS. JOTHAM and ELIZABETH had eight children, two of whom never came to Nova Scotia and one who came after Jotham had. 1. JOHN (1767 - ) Never came to Nova Scotia. 2. SARAH (1768 - ) Married JACOB LIPPENCUTT. 3. ELIZABETH (1770 - 1808) Married Dec 29 1791, NATHANIEL SYMONDS 4. REBECCA (1772 - 1831) Never came to Nova Scotia Married 1790, JONATHAN SHEPARD 5. HANNAH (1774 - 1830) Married 1799, DAVID ARCHIBALD, the Third 6. JONATHAN (1776 - 1843) First married Dec 2 1798, SARAH GOGGINS Second marriage Nov 2 1837, MARTHA ARCHIBALD 7. EDWARD SHERBURNE (1778 - 1856) Married Feb 18 1802, JEAN ARCHIBALD 8. NANCY (1780 - 1818) Married Sept 2 1802, Rev JOHN WADDELL -------------- REFERENCES: A valuable history of the TREADWELL family is printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 60; and can be seen in the Archives building, Halifax, N.S. on pages 48 - 55, 191 - 198, 291 - 298, and 386. "History of Antigonish County", J W MacDONALD, 1876 "The Blanchards" by 3391. D.G.Whidden, published in "The Pictou Advocate" March 9, 1933 and "The Eastern Chronicle" Aug 10, 1933 "History of Antigonish", Volumes 1 and 2, Raymond A MacLean, 1976 - Vol 2, pg10, #27 - "JOTHAM was first granted the 23,000 acres in April 1796 but the land lay unclaimed until 1804 when HARTSHORN joined BLANCHARD taking 17,250 acres as his share. JOTHAM had 5750 acres." - Vol 2, pg73, #62 - "LAURENCE HARTSHORN, Halifax, April 1804, received grant of 23,000 acres, embracing the present James River, Beaver Meadow, Addington Forks, and West River. JOTHAM BLANCHARD shared 5750 acres of the grant which is sometimes called the Addington - Hartshorne grant." "On April 27 1876, Yankee Grant by the Act of Legislature was called Clydesdale. It is said that the new name was suggested by the late DONALD CHISHOLM, father of the late C.P. CHISHOLM (1854 - 1934) M.L.C. 1916 - 1928. The original name of the district rose from the fact that the first settlers were from New Hampshire. In April 1796, JOTHAM BLANCHARD, New Hampshire, received a grant of 23,000 acres at the foot of the present Brown's Mountain. A few years later, two other New Hampshire men, ROBERT CAMPBELL and MOSES TOWNS, with their families, started clearing farms out of the woods in the grant." Index: Joseph. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Rebecca (HUBBARD) . 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Jotham. 1744 b. Dunstable. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Jotham. 1807 d. Truro,NS,Can. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Elizabeth (TREADWELL) 1766 m. Middleton, Mass.1997 . 11. 21. Index: John. 1767 b. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Sarah. 1768 b.1997 . 11. 21. Index: Jacob [LIPPENCUTT]. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Elizabeth. 1770 b. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Nathaniel [SYMONDS]. 1791 m. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Rebecca. 1772 b. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Jonathan [SHEPARD]. 1790 m. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Hannah. 1774 b. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: David [ARCHIBALD]. 1799 m. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Jonathan. 1776 b. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Sarah (GOGGINS). 1798 m. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Martha (ARCHIBALD). 1837 m. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Edward Sheburne. 1778 b. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Jean (ARCHIBALD). 1802 m. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: Nancy. 1780 b. 1997 . 11. 21. Index: John [WADDELL]. 1802 m. 1997 . 11. 21. ------oo------