Very interesting... Loyalist Highlanders in the American Rev. & Move to Canada

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SOME OF YOU MAY FINDTHIS OF INTEREST AS IT TELLS OF THE LIVES AND DUTIES OF THE OFFICERS OUTSIDE OFMITILARY LIFE>The 40th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of theBritish Army, formed in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. After 164 yearsthe 40th was amalgamated into The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (SouthLancashire Regiment) in 1881. Following further amalgamations of British Armyinfantry regiments, today's direct linear descendant regiment is The Duke ofLancaster's Regiment.The West Nova Scotia Regiment was formed in 1936 by a mergerof the 69th (Annapolis) Regiment, formed in 1717, and the 75th (Lunenburg)Regiment, formed in 1870. Both of these descend from the 40th Regiment of Foot(Prince of Wales Volunteers), raised in 1717 at Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal,Nova Scotia.[1] It also perpetuates the 112th and 219th Battalions of Infantryof the World War I Canadian Expeditionary Force. It is one of the oldest elementsof the Canadian Forces. The regiment was raised in Nova Scotia by General RichardPhilipps in August 1717 out of independent companies stationed in North America and the West Indies. The Regiment was first known as Philipp's regiment(1717-1749)).>FROM THE 40^thOF FOOT, FREEMASONRY STARTED IN NOVA SCOTIA AND ALL OF CANADA. >275 YEARS AGO>Erasmus James Philipps was born in London, England, on St.George's Day, April 23, 1705. When he was a lad of twelve his soldier uncle, Colonel Richard Philipps, was appointed Governor of Nova Scotia, a position he held, chiefly in absentia, until the founding of Halifax in 1749. He made only two visits to the colony, 1720-22, and 1728-31; otherwise, his duties were carried out by Lieutenant-Governors. On his first visit in 1720, when he established a governing Council, he was accompanied by his nephew, who became an Ensign in the Philipps Regiment, the 40th Foot, part of which formed a garrison at the fort. Because of his political connections and natural ability, Erasmus James Philipps, was soon one of the prominent citizens of the community. He became a member of the Council, Advocate in the court of Vice-Admiralty, and a Major in the army>He arrived at Boston in August, 1737, and was in New England until the following Spring. In the interval Erasmus James Philipps was made a Master Mason. Records of the First Lodge in Boston give the date as November14, 1737. >It may be assumed that Philipps met, either officially or socially, the Provincial Grand Master of Masons in North America, Henry Price. Price, then forty-one years of age, was a native of England and had joined a lodge there. His efforts to extend Freemasonry in the New World led to his appointment in 1733 as Provincial Grand Master of Masons in New England. The following year, his authority was extended to include all North America. Through his leadership, a Provincial Grand Lodge, St. John's was established, and a subordinate lodge duly constituted. These were the first of their kind in North America. Other lodges were organized in quick succession: Philadelphia in 1734, and South Carolina, Georgia, and New Hampshire in 1735. With an eye to further expansion, Price saw in Erasmus James Philipps, nephew of the Governor and a member of the Council, a proper agent tocarry Freemasonry to Nova Scotia. How it was to be done was indicated in a news item which appeared in the Boston Gazette on March 13, 1738:>"We are informed that Major Phillipps is appointed Provincial Grand Master over the Free and Accepted Masons in the Province of Nova Scotia, and that a Deputation is getting ready for that purpose." At "Ye petition of Sundry Brethren at Annapolis in Nova Scotia" Mr. Price granted a deputation to hold a lodge there. The petition was signed by Philipps. On his return to Annapolis Royal in June 1738, the new Provincial Grand Master proceeded to establish a lodge which was the first to be constituted in the present Canada. It was the sixth Lodge to be established in the far-flung jurisdiction of Henry Price. Since most of the male population at Annapolis belonged to the garrison, the new organization was in its membership virtually a military lodge.>Tradition has it that the first meetings of the lodge were held in an Inn owned by Frederick Sinclair, later the Farmers Hotel, but modern research does not seem to support this claim. Philipps was Provincial Grand Master for Nova Scotia and Worshipful Master of the local lodge. How long he held the latter office is not known, but it was probably for several years, and he remained leader of the Craft until his death in 1760.>