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THE NEW BRUNSWICK MAGAZINE.

survey was just finished, and asked him if they began their survey where Mr. Bedell did at Red Head; to which he answered, "No, d—n Red-Head, we began at Little River!"

Samuel Emerson came to St. John with James Simonds in 1767, and staid upwards of three years. Knows "a Red Head in a little Bay or Cove to the eastward of the Harbour, at the mouth of St. John's River"[1] and has often heard it spoken of by the name of Little Red-head in the families of Simonds and White. He otten picked goose-berries there and drove cows there. It was called Little River and Little Red-head and was as well known by one name as the other He perfectly remembers one Sunday when he and Kimball returned from picking goose-berries there that Godsoe, who was an officer of some kind, threatened to prosecute them and said that he knew well enough where they had been—that they had been at Little Red-head. He drove cattle there sometimes with Mr. White, sometimes with Mr. Simonds, sometimes alone; sometimes he drove them to the sunken marsh on this side Great Red-head. Never heard either of the Red-heads mentioned as a boundary of their lands. Little Red-head lies to the southward of Little River. Remembers an Indian and his family drowned in the falls who were afterwards found on the beach; remember it was said they were found on this side Little Red-head. Knows Jonathan Leavitt, Daniel Leavitt, Godsoe, Kimball and Atherton; the three last named lived in a small building near Mr. Simonds house, part of the time he was at St. John. Knows Estabrooks, also Samuel Peabody, but does not know whether the latter was then married; he used sometimes, not often, to visit Simonds and White.

In the trial, in which the foregoing evidence was submitted, Hazen and White seem to have got the better of Simonds. They eventually secured the larger share of the marsh lands, but in the settlement of accounts a balance of £1,300 was awarded Mr. Simonds.

The quarrel between the old time partners lost much of its asperity with the lapse of years, and the later proceedings of the Chancery Court were largely for the purpose of getting a legal pronunciamento upon difficult and obscure points arising either out of the inadequate way the bounds were described, or out of the numerous complications arising in the course of a business so complex in its character and

  1. ↑ These words are quoted from the second grant. This witness was called by Hardy.
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