This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SPECHT, SPEICHT, SPULIT. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SOC.2ACE/929 Message Board Post: While visiting Digby some years back, I bought a 1:50 000 topographical map and found marked on it Spechts Cove, situated in the St.Marys Bay near the village of Barton, appr, 8 miles east of Digby, N.S. I take it that it got its name from an early settler of the area, and checking my military files of Hessian soldiers, I found that an Ensign with the Brunswick troops, Johann Julius Anton SPECHT did come to Digby in 1783 and brought with him a wife and a child over 10 years. In the book by Isaiah Wilson, published by Mika Publishing, titled "County of Digby, Nova Scotia", he lists on page 74: Muster Roll for Digby County, discharged officers and privates, 18.July 1784: Anthony SPEICHT. The Public Archives (PANS) in file RG1, Vol.376, page 17, has this: SPULIT, Anton, Hessian officer,, mustered at Digby, N.S. in 1784, with a wife and a child.- Having done my research for this Nova Scotia settler, I found his name in the Brunswick files as originally stated as Julius SPECHT, born in Braunschweig/Germany, the name Spulit is not found, and has been misread by previous researchers. After having found Spechts Cove, I am sure that was the name he was known by. I posted this to this Message Board, because I could not find any reference to this early settler, but noticed the name in an obituary in the late 1800's. I am sure there are many descendants around. John Helmut Merz, http://www.cgocable.net/~hessian