Jean-Paul Mascarene was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as commander of the 40th Regiment of Foot and governor of Nova Scotia from 1740 to 1749. During this period, he led the colony through King George's War with the French, and rose to the rank of Major-general. He is best known for repulsing two French attempts to capture Annapolis Royal in 1744 and 1745.
Portrait by John Smibert (c. 1729)
Mascarene's grandchild William Handfield Snelling, d. 1838, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
The 40th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 82nd Regiment of Foot to form the Prince of Wales's Volunteers in 1881.
Officer's Cap Badge 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot c.1830
Nova Scotia Lt. Gov. Paul Mascarene, commander of the 40th, portrait by John Smybert, 1729
Private, 40th Regiment of Foot, Nova Scotia, 1742
John Bradstreet - member of the 40th, captured by the French in the Raid on Canso in May 1744