 […] His son-in-law, Colonel [Sinclair] , of the 42nd Regiment, known commonly as the Black Watch Regiment, did not care to leave his wife; so, when the war broke out he sold his commission and came to Dartmouth […] Colonel Dawson and [Sinclair].Colonel Dawson took a fancy to Cow Bay.He thought that the island in Cow Bay Lake, being completely surrounded by water, belonged to nobody.