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potatoes and other things that will not bear the frost; this building will serve as a house and store, the Old Store for a Cooper's Shop; we shall want also boards for the house, some glass &c., bricks for a chimney and hinges for two doors."
A few months later Mr. Simonds wrote to Newburyport for 5 M. feet of boards "to cover a frame that is now decaying and will serve for a Lime House and Barn." Until the erection of their saw mill a couple of years later most of the building materials had to be imported in the company's vessels.
Among the buildings at Portland Point when the Hazen family arrived, there were, in addition to the residences of the three partners, a smaller dwelling adjoining the Simonds house, another small dwelling and barn, a store called the Lime Store, another the Log Store, another the Salt Store (or Cooper's shop), another the New Store, and a blacksmith shop. The "New Store" was finished about the time of Mr. Hazen's arrival; it stood near the old mast dock a little to the west of the Point. On the 21st July, 1775, the goods were removed from the old store to the new.
At this time nearly all the settlers on the St. John river obtained their goods from Hazen, Simonds and White. The little schooner Polly made frequent trips to Maugerville and St. Anns and no craft was so well known on the river in those days as she. A glance at the old account books shows that on one of her trips up the river, May 10, 1773, goods were sold to thirty families at various points along the way, and consignments were also left with Benjamin Atherton & Co. of St. Anns, with Jabez Nevers of Maugerville, and with Peter Carr of Gagetown, to be sold on commission for the company. A similar trip was made in November, 1775, before the close of navigation, and a considerable quantity of goods sold to more than forty families whose names appear in the accounts. Various articles were received from the inhabitants in return, the