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Antigua currency, of which 8s. 6d. equalled one dollar, and was again purchased by Mr. Pagan.

The Falmouth cost the Company £1200 Sterling, in 1775. She had sailed two voyages at the time of her capture and was victualled for six months.

The brig was plundered of all her stores, sails, boats, and in fact everything moveable, and the large sum of £300 Sterling was expended in refitting her, in addition to £35 spent by Mr. Pagan for stores for himself and family during their voyage to Great Britain.

Respecting the claim of himself and his brothers, William and Thomas, Mr. Pagan in his claim remarks that they had both come to America before the war, that they both continued within the lines during the whole time of the trouble, and that in 1787 they were engaged in business with him in British North America. It will be remembered that Robert Pagan carried on business at St. Andrews under the firm name of Robert Pagan & Co., while his brothers opened business at St. John under the firm name of William & Thomas Pagan & Co., where they were still in business in June 1802, as appears from their advertisement in the Royal Gazette and New Brunswick Advertiser, published on the 9th of June in that year.

Robert Pagan would appear to have been the principal partner in both concerns, and it is not surprising that he made his headquarters at St. Andrews, for the trade of that port for many years rivalled, if not surpassed, that of the port of St. John.

The dwelling house and outhouses at Penobscot, for which compensation was claimed, had been purchased in 1781 from Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, of the 74th Regiment, with the consent of Brigadier-General John Campbell, for £105 Sterling, and improvements were made to the extent of £15.

A dry goods store was built by him on land to which General Campbell gave a deed in 1781, and which cost £108 Sterling. A store was also built at "Waterside" which cost £108. The frames of both of these buildings