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the quixotic expedition against Fort Cumberland. After this escapade, Mr. Quinton thought better of his conduct, took the oath of allegiance to the King, and on several occasions turned out and fought the rebel parties. After the peace of 1783 he kept for years a well known house of entertainment at Manawagonish. He died in 1792, but his widow lived until the year 1835.
Reference has been made to John Hazen, who came to this country with his Uncle William when a lad of nineteen. He was born at Haverhill Nov. 29, 1755, and received a good education. His father, Captain John Hazen, died before the Revolution, and his uncle seems to have been his natural guardian. After a short residence at St. John he went up the river to Maugerville, where he lived until the latter part of November, 1785. He then removed to Oromocto, where he built a house and store and engaged in business. A letter to his uncle, written about this date, contains a paragraph that affords a curious illustration of the jealousy existing between the old inhabitants of the country and the Loyalist settlers.
Our Election for the Assembly goes on, I am told, very much in favor of Messrs. Hubbard and Vandeburg. The old Inhabitants have quite overshot their mark by giving their votes the first day in favor of Simonds and Beckwith. I rather think that not one old inhabitant gets in by their wishing to have the two. To-morrow decides. Mr. Simonds would without doubt have been one of those elected if the old inhabitants had voted for him and Hubbard or Vandeburg; but it grew quite a party matter with them.
John Hazen is classed as a Loyalist by Sabine, and as he came from Massachusetts to this country during the war and was always loyal to the crown he may not improperly be so considered. He married, September 2, 1787, Priscilla McKinstry[1] a daughter of Dr.
- ↑ Mrs. John Hazen's brother, William McKinstry, was present as a spectator at the battle of Hohenlinden in 1800, and had as his companion the poet Campbell, whose poem on Hohenlinden has attained world wide fame. In the course of the action a cannon ball struck the earth almost at their feet.