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was an exceedingly difficult matter to attend to then, all. At one time the fishery claimed special attention, at another the Indian trade; at one time the dyking and improving of the marsh, at another the erection of a mill or the building of a schooner; at one time the manufacture of lime, at another the building of a wharf or the erection of a store house; at one time supplying the garrison at Fort Frederick, at another bartering with the white inhabitants of the country; at one time building houses for themselves or their tenants, at another laying out roads and clearing lands. In addition to their private business, each of the partners had his public duties to perform—Mr. Simonds as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, a magistrate and judge of probate, and Mr. White as sheriff, superintendent of Indian affairs and collector of customs.

James White was the junior of his colleague by several years. He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, about the year 1738, and was a lineal descendant of the Worshipful William White, one of the well known founders of Haverhill. His grandfather, John White, a grandson of the "Worshipful William," was also grandfather of William Hazen on the mother's side. In early manhood Mr. White held a commission as ensign in a regiment of foot, and on his retirement from active military service entered the employ of Tailer & Blodget, merchants of Boston, for whom he acted as agent in furnishing supplies to the garrisons at Fort George and Crown Point from September 1761 to July 1763. After this he was in Mr. Blodget's employ at Haverhill, New Salem and Bradford, until he came to St. John in April, 1764. The statement made by Moses Perley in his well known lecture on the early history of New Brunswick, and repeated by the late Joseph W. Lawrence in "Foot Prints," that James