I believe a few people were curious about the Cumberland County
boundaries and when Kings County extended into the present day
area.
I've placed a scan of the anonymous map enclosed in a letter from
Parr to Nepean dated 25th Nov. 1787. on a web page at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber/parrmap.html
My understanding is that the boundaries were as indicated until the
realignment in 1841. You can see that Kings included from Cape
Chignecto down past Parrsboro to what appears to be more or less
the current Colchester line.
For a comparison to the current boundaries you can view the
Roe map of 1878 which marks the Parrsborough district
in green, although it is all Cumberland county as is Amherst,
indicated in yellow.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber/roemap.html
For people searching for families before the 1841 boundary changes it
might be of interest to note the comment by Terry Punch
in his book Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia:
"The 1838 census is the first nearly complete surviving census.
Missing is Cornwallis Township in Kings County, and all of
Cumberland County other than Parrsborough Township which
was in Kings County until 1841."
-=brian=-