After successfully obtaining a land grant of 50 acres in the township of Clements, in the annapolis area,
Joseph moved to the Weymouth area because of disorder over land claims. He settled in Hassett, which is a village
located on route 340 approx. 5 miles from Weymouth. In 1786 Joseph and his wife Jane gave birth to a son named Jerome.
Jerome and his brother William are listed in the book written by Isaiah W. Wilson; "Geography and History, County of Digby",
originally published in 1900. Jerome settled in what is know as the community of Hasset and was a pioneer in the community
and was active in helping build sawmills, which was the mainstay in the area at the time.

It is believed that one of Jerome's daughter Elizabeth married a Langford man, this was the beginning of the merging of these two
black families. Jerome's sister Hannah would marry Thomas Falls Sr. With the arrival of Jarvis men and others, they too would marry
into the family. Between Jerome and William, the two men are responsible for all the Black Cromwells that exist today that
originally came from the area of Weymouth, Southville, Hasset, New Tusket, Woodville, Nova Scotia.
Between the two brothers they were able to attain approximately 1000 acres each of land in the
Southville, Hasset area. In the early 1800's, descendants of William left Nova Scotia and made
their way to Ontario via the Underground Railway passing through New York state back into
Canada, settling in the Brantford, Ontario area, where his desendants still live today.
some left Nova Scotia for England.