Inscription on Plaque: United Empire Loyalists: Erected to the memory of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, Major Samuel Vetch Bayard, Major Thomas H. Barclay and other Loyalists who settled in this part of Nova Scotia. Ruggles, 1711-1830, was born in Rochester, Mass. and educated at Harvard College. He achieved great distinction in civil and military life. Bayard 1757 - 1790, served in the Kings Orange Rangers. Barclay, 1757-1830, serve in the Loyal American Regiment, as speaker of the House f Assembly of Nova Scotia and as the British Consul General in New York.