Otis Little was Captain of one of the New England Independent Companies.
He was probably a native of England. Being in England in 1749, he came
out with Governor Cornwallis, who appointed him Commissary of Stores,
from which office he was dismissed on suspicion of having traded in the
supplies for the settlers. He acted as first Attorney General of the
Colony, and was probably a lawyer by profession. He was the author of a
well-written pamphlet on the resources of Nova Scotia, written in 1748,
with a view to encouraging British emigration to the province. Capt.
Little left a daughter, who died unmarried at Halifax early in the
present century.
John Baptiste Moreau, designated gentleman and schoolmaster in the book
of the settlers, had been originally a Roman Catholic priest, and Prior
of the Abbey of St. Matthew at Breste. He joined the expedition under
Cornwallis in 1749, and went to Lunenburg with the settlers in 1752. He
received ordination as a clergyman of the Church of England in 1750, and
officiated to his countrymen and the Germans in the County of Lunenburg,
where he died much esteemed and regretted in the year 1770. He left a
son, Cornwallis Moreau, who was the first male child born in Halifax,
and was called Cornwallis after the Governor. This old man was living at
La Have, in Lunenburg County, in the year 1848, being nearly 100 years
of age. He received pecuniary assistance from the Nova Scotia
Philanthropic Society in that year.
Doctor John Breynton came up from Louisburg with the army, where he had
been acting Chaplain to the Forces. He succeeded Mr. Tutty at St. Paul's
in 1751 or 1752, in conjunction with Rev. Thomas Wood. Mr. Breynton was
inducted Rector in 1758 or '9, under the provisions of the Statutes of
the Province, and Mr. Wood acted as Curate or Vicar. After Mr. Wood's
removal to Annapolis in 1763, Mr. Joshua Wingate Weeks, from New
England, became assistant minister at St. Paul's. Dr. Breynton received
his degree of D. D. in 1770. He died in 17--, and was succeeded at St.
Paul's, as rector, by the Rev. Doctor Robert Stanser, afterwards Lord
Bishop of the Diocese. Dr. Breynton was esteemed an eloquent preacher,
and was in the habit of addressing the settlers in English, French and
German.
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