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ROBERT Pagan was one of three brothers who immigrated to Falmouth, Casco Bay, Mass., from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1769. Of these, Robert established himself as a merchant at Falmouth, now known as Portland. Lorenzo Sabine, in his Biographical Sketches of the Loyalists of the American Revolution, and quoting from an older authority, remarks that though a young man, Robert Pagan "pursued on a large scale the lumber business and ship building. The ships which were built were not generally employed in our trade, but with their cargoes sent to Europe and sold. Mr. Pagan kept on the corner of King and Fore streets the largest stock of goods which was employed here before the war. He was a man of popular manners and much beloved by the people."

Sabine further remarks that in 1774 he was a member of a committee appointed to ascertain the names of the holders of tea in town, and the quantity and quality of that obnoxious article. A year later he became involved in the controversies of the time and abandoned his business and the country soon after the burning of Falmouth by Mowatt.

In 1778 Mr. Pagan was proscribed and banished, and in 1784, he settled at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, of which place he was one of the principal grantees. His name also appears as a grantee among those of Morristown, now St. Stephen, and which was known as the Port Matoon Association.

From the New York Public Library the writer has recently received a copy of the claim fyled by Robert Pagan, on his own account, and also on account of the firm of which he was a member. These records, with the evidence