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response to the call for active service; the different companies returned to their homes on the following day. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed in the preparation for active service as above.

The glimpses we get of the course of events at Portland Point during the two years that preceded the coming of the Loyalists are not many or important. James Simonds was still living at Maugerville, and Wm. Hazen and James White at the mouth of the river. The relations existing between the two latter gentlemen and the officers of the garrison at Fort Howe were very cordial. Colonel Michael Francklin continued to come occasionally to St. John in connection with his duties as superintendent of Indian affairs. In the year 1780, Mr. Hazen's son William and a son of Colonel Francklin were sent by their parents to Quebec to finish their education, under the tuition of Le Compte du Pré. The bill rendered by the Compte du Pré for his services, a queer old document, is now in the possession of the writer of this paper. The young lads were two years absent from their homes at a cost to their fathers of $1,500. The education of children was a serious problem to the inhabitants at Portland Point in the year of our Lord 1780.

The presence of Major Studholme's garrison at Fort Howe afforded the surest guarantee of the preservation of law and order during the troublous times of the American Revolution, nevertheless the authority of the civil magistrate was not entirely superseded by