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a member of the Legislative Council. His earlier years in the Legislature were marked by stirring political events in the history of the province, of which perhaps the most momentous was the settlement of the Inter­national boundary line between New Brunswick and the State of Maine, a question that brought the two coun­tries to the very verge of war, and which was no doubt hastened at the time by the great land speculation that swept over this eastern country in 1835-37, as well as by the agitation that had begun in the scattered provinces for an intercolonial railway, a preliminary survey of which had been made between St. Andrews and Quebec in 1835 by Col. Yule, R. Engineer, the route of which lay through the disputed territory. The chief cause of the trouble arose over the direction the line should take from the source of the St. Croix River to the highlands dividing the waters which flow into the St. Lawrence from those that flow into the Atlantic as expressed in the Paris Treaty of 1783, and which involved a large area known as the Aroostook Country; and it may be remarked here that the diver­ gence between the two lines as claimed by the respec­ tive commissioners amounted to nearly a right angle.

The New Brunswick Legislature voted a large sum of money and called out the militia to hold the disputed frontier against the maurading lumbermen and land speculators, who had begun to attack the tall pines for which the Aroostook had become so famous. Mr. Brown, who had before this time risen in the militia to the rank of Major (and afterward to Lieutenant Colonel) was ordered with a force of militia into the field, but happily before armed hostilities began the case was settled by peaceful arbitration between the high contracting parties, Great Britain and the United States, and the line definitely defined in 1842. Mr. Brown was one of the chief actors in the great