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1739, by Mather Byles, Pastor of a Church in Boston."

Rev. Mather Byles, D. D., son of the above, was rector at St. John when the corner stone of old Trinity church was laid, and in that church he officiated for nearly a quarter of a century. His son, the third Mather Byles, was, like his grandfather, a poetical genius and clever letter writer; many of his letters and some of his verses are still in existence. He went from New Brunswick to Grenada in 1789, where he married the daughter of the Chief Justice of the Island. He died at Grenada Dec. 17, 1802, in his 38th year. His grandson, the fourth Mather Byles, sailed into the harbor of St. John in July, 1889, as captain of Her Majesty's ship of war Tourmaline. When here he visited with much interest the scene of his great-grandfather's labors.

The occurrence during the month of May of the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the Landing of the Loyalists at St. John renders it a very proper time to furnish for the information of our readers the document that follows, taken as a clipping from the New Brunswick Courier of Saturday March 28, 18 35 and preserved among the mementoes of an old Loyalist family. The Courier refers to the document as "a relic of olden times well worthy of preservation by the descendants of those devoted men who were induced by their unshaken loyalty to seek refuge in a wilderness."

The Reverend Doctor Samuel Seabury and Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Thompson of the King's