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SACRED TO THE MEMORY
of
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, ESQ.
Representative for the County of Northumberland Province of New Brunswick, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Contractor for Masts for His Majesty's Navy.
He died on the 17th of June, 1890, aged 50. He was one of the first settlers of the river, and greatly instrumental in promoting the settlement. He left a widow and five children to deplore his loss.
Memento Mori.
Some additional facts of interest have come to the writer's knowledge concerning John Jones, mentioned in one of the previous papers.[1] The grandfather of John Jones came to America from Wales about the begining of the last century with his family and landed at Newburyport, settling afterwards at Amesbury. The father of John Jones was but a boy when he arrived in America. The grandfather was killed by the Indians. John Jones was the youngest of his father's family and learned the ship carpenter's trade. He came to St. John with William Hazen in 1775, having been engaged as a master workman to build ships for Hazen, Simonds and White. The first vessel on which he was employed was burned on the stocks at Portland Point by some marauders from Machias the year after his arrival.
At the time of John Allan's invasion of the St. John river (as will be remembered by those who have read the previous papers in this series) a guard of some sixty men was left at the mouth of the river by the invaders while Allan pursued his negotiations with the Indians at Aukpaque.[2] Upon the arrival of the troops under Major Studholme and Colonel Francklin they were landed at Manawagonish Cove near the house of