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business being largely one of barter. Edmund Price, one of the Gagetown settlers, for example, delivered to the company nine chaldrons of Grand Lake coal at 20 shillings per chaldron, showing that the mines were then worked to a limited extent.^[1] Quite a number of the settlers in Conway were employed by the company in various capacities and as they were nearly all tenants of Hazen, Simonds and White they naturally procured whatever articles they needed at the Portland Point store.

During the first six months after Mr. Hazen's arrival the names of no less than 120 different customers representing as many households, are found entered in the day book kept by James White; of these 25 were residents at Portland Point, 20 lived across the river in Conway, 45 belonged to Maugerville, 20 to other townships up the river, and 10 were merely transient visitors.

In the autumn of the year 1775 the company sold three-eighths of their old schooner the Polly to Joseph Rowe and James Woodman, two of the Conway settlers and the former seems to have sailed in her as captain. James Woodman was by trade a shipwright, and a man of enterprise and very fair education. He associated himself in business with Zebedee Ring and their names appear in the pages of Mr. White's journal as "Woodman & Ring." They were engaged in 1775 in building a vessel for the company. To assist them a man named John Jones^[2] was brought on from Mass-

↑ The Grand Lake Coal mines are said to have been first worked by Joseph Garrison, who was a native of Massachusetts and a grantee of Maugerville in 1765. He was grandfather of William Lloyd Garrison, the celebrated advocate of the abolition of Slavery.—See Sabine's Loyalists, also Collections of N. B. Hist. Soc. for 1897, page 310.
↑ John Jones, with one Peter Connor, who also came to St. John in 1775. afterwards settled on Kemble's Manor. Jones' farm of 400 acres was situate at what is known as "The Mistake" at the head of Long Reach. The Kingston Loyalist settlers, while they were building their log houses in the summer 1783, lived in tents on the bank of Kingston Creek. They used to send over to Mr. Jones' place for milk and other things, and the kindness of the Jones family was rendered doubly acceptable on account of an epidemic of measles that broke out among the children. The old Raymond house built at Kingston in 1788 is now

[1] The Grand Lake Coal mines are said to have been first worked by Joseph Garrison, who was a native of Massachusetts and a grantee of Maugerville in 1765. He was grandfather of William Lloyd Garrison, the celebrated advocate of the abolition of Slavery.—See Sabine's Loyalists, also Collections of N. B. Hist. Soc. for 1897, page 310.

[p328-2] John Jones, with one Peter Connor, who also came to St. John in 1775. afterwards settled on Kemble's Manor. Jones' farm of 400 acres was situate at what is known as "The Mistake" at the head of Long Reach. The Kingston Loyalist settlers, while they were building their log houses in the summer 1783, lived in tents on the bank of Kingston Creek. They used to send over to Mr. Jones' place for milk and other things, and the kindness of the Jones family was rendered doubly acceptable on account of an epidemic of measles that broke out among the children. The old Raymond house built at Kingston in 1788 is now

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