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carried on in such troublous times amid so many difficulties. This at least is certain, that the litigation between Hazen, Simonds and White never proved a bar to their hearty co-operation against a common foe, and they united harmoniously enough in resisting any invasion of their domain on the part of outsiders. This brings us to the second historic controversy, the consideration of which must be deferred to another number of the New Brunswick Magazine.

In the first paper of this series I stated that M. Richard, in his book on the Acadians, claimed the Melansons to be of Scottish origin and that the first of that name in Acadia was one of Sir William Alexander's Scotch colony. I indorsed this statement to the extent of expressing the opinion that it was at least probable, but I cannot say that I regard it as a matter of vital importance one way or the other. Judge Savary, however, was not willing that the statement should go unchallenged, so in the December issue of the Magazine he put forward a number of reasons which he thought proved that the Melansons could not have come from Scotland. I shall not trouble the reader with these reasons because in a later communication to this magazine Judge Savary admits that the ancestors of the Melansons did come from Scotland. He has been led to this change of opinion by the discovery by Mr. Placide P. Gaudet of an affidavit made in 1767 by one Joseph le Blanc who says that he was married to Anne, daughter of Alexander Bourg, and his wife Marguerite