Thursday night was a game night with our local club. Graham delivered the 2nd installment of the British forces to me for Muskets and Tomahawks, Six Highlanders and six American colonial militia figures. I asked that the Highlanders be painted as the 42nd Regiment with Blue facings. The unit was briefly deployed to Halifax in 1757. As always Graham did a superb job on the figures.
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42th Regiment of Foot
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Colonial Militia from Boston sitting fire to stores in Acadia
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I added the comment about the Colonial Militia in recognition of how my family arrived in Nova Scotia. In 1758 Captain John Hinckley and his sons were part of the American colonial forces that marched from Annapolis Royal to the fortress of Louisbourg. They were part of the garrison who came to demolish the great fortress while the troops of the regular army were redeployed to take part in the siege of Quebec. The expulsion of the Acadian had taken place in 1755. The remains of their settlements still doted the countryside. In 1759 a young John Hinckley (son of the Captain) was one of about 20 settlers who came up from Massachusetts to settle in what is now Truro, NS. The hard work of clearing the land having been achieved almost 150 years previously.
My source is the History and genealogy of the Hingley Family in Nova Scotia by A. E. Marble published in 1966
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