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400,000 acres.^[1] The grantees were Captain Beamsley Glazier. Captain Thomas Falconer, and some sixty associates. The conditions rendered it necessary that a certain number of settlers should be placed on them within a limited number of years or the lands were liable to forfeiture. An immediate attempt was made by Captain Falconer and Captain Glazier to procure settlers and improve the townships. Men were brought from New England, mills were built and some progress made, but the task was gigantic and the progress necessarily slow. As early as the 27th of January, 1765, the scheme had been so far perfected that Captain Falconer engaged one Richard Barlow as a store keeper, promising him a lease of 200 acres of land at a nominal rent; Barlow thereupon removed with his family to the river St. John, where the company's headquarters was to be established. In all probability the trade name of the corporation by which Barlow was employed was "Beamsley Glazier & Co." The account books of Simonds and White show that they had business transactions with a firm bearing this name, extending over a period of six years, beginning with 1765.

In addition to being largely instrumental in procuring the grants of the townships,^[2] Colonel Glazier was actively concerned in the attempts to effect their settlement. He very probably lived at the mouth of the Nerepis, where he owned an estate of 5,000 acres known as Glazier's Manor, extending from Brundage's Point up the river two or three miles above the Nerepis. At what is now known as Woodman's Point there was some land that had been cleared by the Acadians where stood an old French fort on the site of which musket balls