Loyalists and Planters of Minas Basin

Diligent River, Nova Scotia

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Other

Lt. Elizear Taylor and Capt. Samuel Wilson are named in the book Loyalists and Planters of Minas Basin by Robert Wilson Salter (1915-2008), Amherst, Nova Scotia.

To get there, start in Diligent River at the intersection of Highway 209 with Ramshead River Road. Then drive 1.9 km south on Ramshead River Road,and look around. The monument is about ten paces to the west of the road.

Inscription

[front/devant]
NEAR THIS SITE LIVED LIEUTENANT
ELIZEAR TAYLOR. A FELLOW OFFICER
AND ONE OF THE ORIGINAL GROUP
OF LOYALISTS WHO SETTLED THE AREA.
IMPRESSED BY THEIR DILIGENCE AND
INDUSTRY, GOVERNOR PARR NAMED
THE COMMUNITY DILLIGENT RIVER
DURING HIS VISIT IN 1785.

[back/arriere]
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
CAPT. SAMUEL WILSON
WHO FOUGHT FOR HIS KING THROUGH
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 82 YRS.
HIS WIFE MARY CLARK
HIS DAUGHTERS
SARAH AGED 16 YRS.
MARY, WIFE OF
ROBERT SALTER