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Rh there was an Indian dance." This tract of land was granted, "with reservation of gold, silver, precious stones and lapis lasuli" to settlers from the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The new town, first called Shoreham, was frequently pillaged by American privateers of cattle, poultry and other property.

One of the mother churches of Chester had for its pastor the Reverend John Seccombe, a Presbyterian minister who graduated from Harvard in 1728. He was tried at Halifax in the year 1776 for praying for the success of "the rebels," and was put under bonds not to repeat the offence.

The first bell used in the original Episcopal church of St. Stephen's was cast in 1700 for a French monastery. When its place in the belfry was usurped by a new and larger one, the old bell was used as a fog alarm on a banker. From this service it graduated to a place in the town, from which it rang New Year and wedding chimes. The last seen of it was on the brig Peerless in Valparaiso harbour. Thus do the bells of Nova Scotia, like its ships, wander up and down the world.

Four miles out in the harbour, there is an island famed for beauty, but still more for the suppositious treasure buried in its bowels by no less a personage than the ubiquitous Captain Kidd, who in 1696 left Plymouth, England in the Adventure, a 287-ton galley, to prey on vessels hostile to France and England. The Captain's piratical career