Excerpt from A History of the County of Pictou, Nova Scotia In this course he has also had a special object in view. Of those who have hitherto professed to write the History of Nova Scotia, none have yet attempted fully to delineate the period of British colonization and yet the author regards this as the most important era in the past of the Province. He has, therefore, attempted to depict the life of the early settlers in Pictou, - to give, as far as he can, . The very form and pressure of the age and as what occurred in one county, was, in a large measure, a repeti tion of what took place in another, he hopes that his work will thus serve, as a contribution to the illustration of that. Era in our colonial history. 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.