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The claim of 7-16ths of the schooner Favourite, she having been sold for the advantage of the owners.

The claim for 1-8th of expenses while in the West Indies.

The claim for losses at Penobscot, the purchases having been made during the troubles.

They considered, however, that the various claims had been fully proved.

In addition to the three brothers already mentioned, there appears to have been a fourth, John Pagan, of Montreal, whose son, George Pagan, married Catherine Putnam, daughter of Judge Upham. She, surviving her husband, died on the 26th November, 1878, aged 78 years. John Pagan was a grantee at St. Andrews, and was also a member of the Penobscot Association, by which name those who received grants with Stephen Roberts and others in Charlotte County, N. B., were commonly known.

Robert Pagan was a prominent figure in the social and political life of Charlotte County. He served the crown as agent for lands in New Brunswick and assisted in superintending affairs connected with grants to Loyalists. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Charlotte County, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was Colonel of Militia. He represented Charlotte County in the House of Assembly at Fredericton for several years, and was a leading and influential member of that body.

He married Miriam, daughter of Jeremiah Pote, originally of Falmouth, and who was a sister of Joanna Pote, the first wife of Col. Thomas Wyer, also of St. Andrews. No children resulted from this union.

A letter, dated 17th September, 1902, from Miss Mary Wiggins, of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, but who is at present on a visit to Mrs. Stickney, at Royalton, Vermont, contains an interesting anecdote regarding the courtship of Robert Pagan: