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appear a transformation almost miraculous. A story is told of Asa Blakslee, the old me soap and candle maker, that he was accustomed to transport his wares to Indiantown on a wheel barrow in order to ship them by vessels going up the river. Part of his equipment was a plank to be laid down where there were very bad mud holes so that he could push the wheel barrow across.

The census of Acadia for 1671 contains the names of Perrine Landry, widow of Jacques Joffriau, aged 60, and of René Landry, aged 53, and his wife, Perrine Bourc. The latter pair had seven children, two sons, Pierre, aged 13, and Claude, aged 8, and five girls whose names and ages are not given. Marie Landry, who was the wife of Laurent Granger, and who had two very young children, we may assume to have been one of René Landry's five daughters. Marie Landry, who was the wife of Germain Doucet, and who had three children, the oldest six years of age, may have been the daughter of the widow of the deceased Jacques Joffriau Landry. Antoinette Landry, who was doubt-less a sister of René Landry, was the wife of Antoine Bourc, and had eleven children, four of whom were then married. René Landry was probably one of the earliest of the Acadian settlers and a contemporary of Latour. His name does not appear as a signer of the memorial of the ancient inhabitants made in 1687, so we may presume that he was not then living. He was not rich in 1671 but was in comfortable circumstances for an Acadian farmer, being the owner of ten head of