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5. New Town lay on the east side of the St. John opposite Fredericton, extending from the Sunbury and York county line about eight miles up the river, and including parts of the parishes of St. Mary's and Douglas.

Among the proprietors of the townships were Hon. Thomas Hutchinson, governor of Massachussetts, Sir William Johnson, General Frederick Haldimand, Col. Beamsley Glazier, Capt. Thomas Falconer, Capt. Isaac Caton, Capt. William Spry, Capt. Moses Hazen, Rev. John Ogilvie, Rev. Philip Hughes, Rev. Curryl Smyth, Richard Shorne, Charles Morris, jr., Samuel Jean Holland, John Fenton, Philip John Livingston, Daniel Claus, Wm, Hazen and James Simonds. Incidental references will be made to some of these gentlemen hereafter. Capt. Isaac Caton has been already mentioned (in the first paper) as an early trader and fisherman; an island in the Long Reach a few miles below Oak Point still bears his name.

Thomas Falconer, Beamsley P. Glazier and Richard Shorne were perhaps the most active agents in the attempts made to settle the townships sufficiently to prevent their forfeiture..

It was while these gentlemen were thus engaged that they had the honor to be chosen by the inhabitants as their representatives in the general Assembly of Nova Scotia. The only other members of the company who possessed any local knowledge of the lands contained in the five townships were Charles Morris, jr., Surveyor General of Nova Scotia, who frequently visited the river and had made an excellent map of it as early as 1765, Capt. William Spry, the chief engineer at Halifax, and the Messrs. Hazen, Simonds and White. The story of the old townships and their ultimate fate must be reserved for the next number of this magazine.