A family of Truemans living in Ontario came to Canada about the year 1850, but we have not been able to trace any relationship.
The first purchase of land by the Truemans in Nova Scotia was from Joshua Mauger.This property was conveyed to William Trueman, sen.The deed reads: "I, Joshua Mauger, Esq., of London, in Great Britain, Esq.
member of Parliament, of the town of Poole, in the county of Dorsetshire, for and in consideration of the sum of ninety pounds lawful money of the Province of Nova Scotia," etc., etc.This ninety pounds was paid for eighty acres of upland and fifty-four acres of marsh adjoining a wood lot on Bay Verte Road, and a right in the great division of woodland, so-called.The deed was signed at Halifax by the Hon.John Butler, as attorney for Joshua Mauger, on the 8th September, 1777, and the money paid the same day.Thomas Scurr and J.B.Dight were the witnesses, it was proved at Fort Cumberland on the 31st of Sept., 1777, by Thomas Scurr, and registered in New Brunswick by James Odell, May 3rd, 1785.
The next purchase of real estate was made from Thomas Scurr, the place now called Prospect Farm.Six hundred and fifty pounds lawful money of the Province of New Brunswick was the amount paid.Between the first and second purchase the Province had been divided, and that part of the township of Cumberland in which the Truemans settled had gone to New Brunswick.The number of acres in this last purchase was estimated at eight hundred, including nearly five hundred acres of wilderness land.
The deed was witnessed by Thomas Chandler and Amos Botsford.Mrs.Scurr did not sign the deed, and the following is the copy of a document found very carefully laid away among the old papers at Prospect: