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to do all in your power to have a good understanding between your you will not only see the advantage yourself, but you will greatly oblige your friends here, Why need you concern about his giving bonds to provide tor his girl or child. It is no more your or the town of Maugerville's business than to see he pro vides for the future for the other part of the garrison: therefore beg you will endeavor to have every matter settled and be on good terms for the future."
Colonel Francklin supplied many things required for the masting business, such as chains, blocks and tackle, camp supplies, etc. He sent from Windsor several skilled hewers of timber, and he also sent James Proud, "a most industrious, sober, good-tempered lad," to keep books and act as clerk for the company. The operations in the woods in olden times were carried on in a very primitive fashion, and in midwinter the men endured considerable hardships. The lumber surveyor, Hayes, in one of his letters to Hazen and White, reports Mr. Peabody's party very badly off for bread, adding, "people cannot work without good food, besides it takes much time in baking Indian cakes for them in the woods, one hand continually imployed." Oxen were used in "bowsing" out the masts by use of block and tackle. The exigencies of the work on one occasion induced Hayes and Peabody to press into their services a particularly fine looking yoke of oxen that were being sent down the river from St. Ann's by Philip Weade for another purpose. This led to a spirited remonstrance on the part of Hazen and White, who wrote:
"We are much surprised that you stopped the Particular pair of oxen which we desired last Fall to be stall fed for the use of the officers of the Garrison here and ourselves, which hath left them and us without a good slice of beef!"
In addition to the mast sticks cut by Samuel Peabody's party, sub-contracts were made with parties at Maugerville, Grand Lake and Long Island, and with the Acadians at French Village on the Kennebecasis. Some of the largest trees were found up the Oromocto,