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of Hazen and Simonds since he wrote to Governor Parr about this time:—
"Messrs. Hazen and Simonds, two of the original proprietors of Conway, have at different times placed a number of settlers on the lands of that Township and have used every effort on their parts to comply with the terms of their Grant but the continual robberies committed by the Rebel boats during the war, to which these settlements were totally exposed, obliged a number of their tenants to remove. However as every exertion was used by them, I take the liberty, sir, to recommend their claims on that Township to your consideration."
Whether or not the claims of Hazen and Simonds would have saved their interests in Conway from forfeiture we cannot tell, for a proposal having- been made to Mr. Hazen that if they would offer no opposition to the escheat of the entire township their shares in it would either be regranted them or an equivalent elsewhere, he accepted it and afterwards his affidavit of the general state of the township was read at the trial in the court of escheats and was the principal evidence on which the jury found their verdict. The whole of the township was accordingly escheated.
The township of Gage was in like manner escheated, but the lands of bona fide settlers as also those in possession of Colonel William Spry and his tenants were regranted. In the case of the township of Burton, eleven parts, out of twenty-one into which the whole township was divided, were escheated in the court of escheats at Halifax, early in the year 1784.
The township of Sunbury was entirely escheated; regrants were made to Benjamin Atherton and Philip Weade at Ste. Anne's but the Acadians who lived in the township were removed and the majority of them went up the river to Madawaska.
New Town was entirely escheated. In this township William Hazen had two shares, one drawn by himself, the other purchased from his brother, Captain Moses Hazen. By relinquishing his rights here for the accommodation of the Maryland Loyalists he, by the