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settlement of his grant of 10,000 acres at the foot of Kingston peninsula, now known as "Lands End." The grant was eventually forfeited to the crown.

Another gentleman with whom Simonds and White had business transactions bore the high sounding name of Charles Newland Godfrey Jadis. He had served as captain-lieutenant in the 52nd Regiment and came to Nova Scotia in August, 1769, with his wife and a large family to settle some lands which he had purchased before leaving Europe. He brought with him an assortment of goods for carrying on trade with the Indians, built a house and store at Grimross, and was succeeding very well when, on February 6, 1771, the house and store with all his effects were destroyed by fire. He estimated his loss at £2,000, and strongly suspected the Indians to have been the incendiaries, they having frequently threatened to destroy his property. There had been many complaints of the conduct of the Indians since the dismantling of Fort Frederick in 1768, and Captain Jadis, in his memorial to the authorities, recommended the construction of a Block House^[1] higher up the river to overawe them and protect the increasing settlements. Captain Jadis retired to England, where he endeavored to obtain some compensation for his losses.

The name of Captain Jonathan Eddy appears in one of James White's old account books as the purchaser of 22 grindstones. Captain Eddy was at that time a member of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia for the township of Cumberland and lived not very far from Fort Cumberland, on the New Brunswick side of the isthmus of Chignecto, where he had settled in 1763. His subsequent relations with Hazen, Simonds and White were not of so peaceable a