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wood most convenient to the lime kilns, may have been cut, and this afforded a sufficient pretext on which to base an application for another grant. The bounds of the second grant were as follows:—
"Beginning at a Red Head in a little Bay or cove to the eastward of the Harbour at the mouth of Saint John's River described in a former grant of 2000 acres to James Simonds in the year 1765,[1] being the south eastern bound of said grant, thence to run north 75 degrees east 170 chains, thence north 15 degrees west 160 chains or until it meets the river Kennebeccasius, and from thence to run westerly until it meets the north eastern bound of the former grant."
The location of Red Head—that is the Red Head intended in this grant—was afterwards the subject of dispute and in the year 1830 seriously engaged the attention of the Common Council of St. John, but of this more anon.
THE WRECK OF THE ENGLAND.
The loss of the ship "England" in Courtenay Bay, St. John harbor, in December, 1846, was the most serious marine disaster that ever took place in the waters immediately around the city, and to many of the older people in this vicinity it is to this day one of the saddest reminders of the holiday seasons of the past. Though more than half a century has passed, it is not difficult to find those who remember well the night of the occurrence and the incidents which attended the affair, up to the time of the burial of the body of the captain in the lot where a now crumbling stone records in brief the story of the tragedy.
The "England" was a full rigged ship of 484 tons, built at Ten Mile Creek, St. John county, in the year 1837. by Captain Robert Ellis, who was the principal
- ↑ Red Head is thus described in the former grant: "Beginning at a point of upland opposite to his [Simonds] house and running east till it meets with a little cove or river, thence bounded by said cove till it comes to a Red Head on the east aide of the cove."