“Col. Henry Munro was the younger brother of Sir George Munro of Scotland. Being a younger son, he entered the army and rose to rank of 1 st lieu. in Montgomery's Highlanders which was sent to America to fight the Indians, when his regiment arrived, the war was over.
In 1776 he came to Nova Scotia where he was granted 2000 acres of lands in compensation for his tour of duty. This land was around the present Bridgetown in Annapolis Valley.
In 1767 he married in Nova Scotia, a Sarah Hooper, daughter of a Thomas Hooper of Mass. They had eight children.
Henry was the first representative of Granville Township, serving for two terms after which he resigned. He became a Justice of the Peace, a lieutenant colonel in the militia, dying in 1782 in Granville.
Henry's great grandson was Henry Munro, father of Mary Munro McNeil and grandfather to Thelma, Hibbert and Douglas McNeil. Through Mary's mother, a Spinney, the family were connected to Abbie Campbell, who was a granddaughter of Beniah Spinney and daughter of Prior Spinney. Abbie kept her home in Melvern Square (where Lenore Crooks lives) as a summer home until it was sol to Max Crooks after her death. A daughter of Beniah's was Amanda who married Charles Jacques whose daughter Stella married Harry Bustin and lived across from Prio's house. At one time Stella was engaged to Wm. Parsons, son of Jane Munro and H.C. Parsons. Stella's brother Hartley married Margaret Locke from which union there were two daughters. One died in childhood. the other was Abigail who married Fred Lane and who became prominent in civic affairs in Halifax. The Abbie Lane Hospital is named after her.
Hartley Jacques was a doctor who acted as House surgeon at Victoria hospital in Halifax and in other companies until in about 1880 he was appointed Medical superintendent, being the first person to occupy that position.
Through Jane Munro's son, Wm. and Norval, the family were cousins to Ruth Appleby and Hibbert Parsons and Mona Parsons, the heroine of the Dutch underground.
Mary Munro McNeil's father---toreturn to our immediate branch, Henry was a farmer and a teacher living in Melvern Square, the corner house opp. the community hall. At that time the house was considerably larger. For five years he was principal of the Round Hill Public School. There he went for a period of some years, returning again to Melvern. He was an extremely intelligent man considered ahead of his time.
In 1913 he died at Kingston Station.”
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From: "Cyndy Munro" <>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 3:02 AM
Col. Henry Munro, the ancestor of the Munro families of Annapolis County, NS, was born in Scotland (date unknown), the son of Capt. John Gun Munro and Elizabeth Sutherland. He came to North America to fight against the French but the Peace of Utrecht was signed soon after his arrival and his regiment never saw service. He was granted 2,000 acres in Nova Scotia in 1765. He married circa 1767 Sarah Hooper, daughter of Thomas Hooper, who was a settler in Annapolis Township before the coming of the Loyalists. Col. Munro died of apoplexy in early 1782.
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From: "george r.adams" <>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 3:02 PM
Am sending attachment on Henry. Would like to swap data with you I descend from G. Grandfather Valentine Munro. I go way back
Regards, George Adams
HENRY MUNRO, son of CAPTAIN JOHN MUNRO of Braemore, Scotland and Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of John Sutherland of little Tarbol and his wife Christian, second daughter of George Mackenzie, II of Gruinard, Scotland. Henry was born in August 1745 at Braemore, Cromarty, Scotland. He died 06 January 1782 in Annapolis, Nova Scotia.. After serving in Montgomery's Highlanders (77th Regiment of Foot) as a Lieutenant in the French-Indian battle at Fort Du Quesne (now Pittsburgh, PA) he was discharged and given a grant of land (lot 148) in Granville, Nova Scotia. in 1757. In the early 1760's he was appointed Justice of the Peace. He was also second in command at Annapolis Royal while it was garrisoned by the British. Before 1770 he was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel of the militia and referred to as"Colonel" Munro in the census for that year. In 1765 he was chosen as the first representative of Granville in the Assembly of the Province. In the early 1760's he married Sally Hooper, daughter of Thomas Hooper from Boston, who had arrived with his wife and family on the "Charming Molly" on 17 May 1760.
The resource material for the above is taken from A. W. Savary & W. A. Calnek's "History of Annapolis County". Part of Lt. Col. Henry's land was being used in the 1970's as "DunRoamin" Campground. Calnek only listed 7 children for Lt. Col. Henry. However, Calnek gave the name Nancy Anna as the daughter of the Colonel who married John Hall from Bristol, England in his genealogy of John Hall.
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HENRY, who entered the army, and fought in America, but before the War of Independence went, with the rank of Lieutenant, from Machusetts to Nova Scotia, where he was second in command for a time at Annapolis Royal while that place was garrisoned by the British. He was the first elected representative for the Township of Granville, Annapolis County, to the General Assembly of Nova Scotia. He married and left several descendants in the Province, one of whom is ROBERT GORDON MUNRO, barrister, and solicitor for the Bank of Nova Scotia at Digby. (Source: from Alexander MacKenzie's "History of the Munros of Foulis")
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From: "Barbara Logan" <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 8:27 PM
There are some MUNROs from Halifax buried in St.Paul's Cemetery from Halifax. They are in MG1, Vol 427 , No.3 (D) in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. There is NOT a Henry listed in this book.
As for the "Charming Molly" , you may find it on the Ships Lists on the Nova Scotia Genweb site.
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1770 census of Granville Twp (Calnek, p. 197): Col Henry Munro, household of 9, one of whom was 'American' (his wife?), 7 of whom were 'Acadian', meaning born in NS.
From the late W A Calnek and A W Savary, History of the County of Annapolis, Toronto, William Briggs 1897 Page 331:
"Henry Munroe was commissioned first lieutenant of the first company in a Highland regiment, raised in Argyleshire for service against the French in America in 1759 or about that time. The regiment had scarcely arrived in Massachusetts when the Peace of Utrecht was signed and the war with France was ended, in consequence of which it never saw any service in the filed, and was soon disbanded. According to the terms of enlistment its officers were entitled to grants of land in Nova Scotia and Henry Munroe received a grant of 2,000 acres in this county in 1765. Some of his descendants still own and occupy portions of it.
Soon after his arrival here he married Sarah, Daughter of Thomas Hooper, one of the Massachusetts pre-loyalist settler of the township of Annapolis as one of the grantees in the grants of 1759 and 1765, and in the latter year Mr. Munroe had the honour of being chosen the fists representative of Granville in the Assembly of the province, in which he served two years, when he voluntarily vacated the seat. He was appointed a Justice of the peace and commissioned a lieutenant-colonel of the militia in or about 1776, a position which he continued to hold until his death, late in 1781 or early in 1782, when he died suddenly of apoplexy, leaving a widow and seven children with slender means of support, notwithstanding the large grant of land which he had secured on his arrival in the county some years before. On his death his widow wrote to his elder brother, Sir George Munroe, of Cromarty, informing him of the sudden demise of her husband, and of the conditions I which she and her infant children were left by the sad events, on which George ordered his London agent to remit the sum of forty pounds annually to the widow toward the support and education of the children until they reached their majority, or their mother married again. One of the great-grandchildren, Henry Munroe, has also had the honour of a seat in the assembly as a representative of the county. "
Calnek also has Henry's family, and for Robert he says: b 1774 m 1806 Penelope Green 9th daughter of Thomas) 14 Children.
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The 3rd son of the Reverend John Munro of Halkirk, Caithness and Janet Gunn, heiress of Braemore.
Henry's senior brother, John Gunn Munro of Braemore, was major tenant on the property of Navidale in Sutherland at the time of his commissioning in Montgomery’s Highlanders.
The holder of the wadset on this property was none other than Major James Grant, the senior major of the regiment (see above).
Capt. Gordon Graham of Drainie and Lt. John Sutherland, 42nd Foot, (see 42nd register) were his brothers-in-law.
Henry was one of the original officers of the regiment and went to Charlestown South Carolina for the winter of 1757-58. The regiment was assigned to BGen John Forbe’s force assigned to capture the French fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio in western Pennsylvania.
He was wounded on Grant’s Hill outside Fort Duquesne on 14 September 1758 and one of only four officers who escaped death or capture during the debacle known as Grant’s Raid. He subsequently fought in all the major campaigns of the 77th (Fort Duquesne, 1758, Ticonderoga & Crown Point 1759, and the 1761 Cherokee Expedition) with the exceptions of the capture of Montreal and the subsequent Caribbean campaigns.
From late 1760, until the regiment’s disbandment in 1763, he served as a company officer in John Sinclair’s company garrisoning Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia. On discharge he settled in the local area, receiving a grant of 2000 acres in 1765.
He married Sarah Hooper, daughter of Thomas Hooper, one of the original Massachusett’s settlers in the township, and they had seven children.
In 1765, he was elected the first representative of Granville in the province’s legislative assembly, a post he resigned two years later.
He became a justice of the peace and was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in the militia in 1776, a position he held until 1782 when he died suddenly of apoplexy.
His widow and young family were then taken care of financially by one of his older brothers, Sir George Gunn Munro, of Poytnzfield.
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