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organized for business there. Richard Simonds died Jan. 20, 1765, and Robert Peaslie (who, so far as we can gather, never lived at St. John) retired at the expiration of the first year. Meanwhile, Leonard Jarvis had, in the autumn of 1764, been admitted to partnernership with Wm. Hazen at Newburyport, and became by common consent a sharer in the business at St. John. Samuel Blodget, the Boston partner, retired in May, 1766, and his share was taken by Hazen and Jarvis. The business was thenceforth conducted by Hazen and Jarvis at Newburyport, and by Simonds and White at St. John. In addition to their interest at St. John, the Newburyport partners carried on a considerable trade to the West Indies, in which they employed some half a dozen small vessels. The same vessels, with ten or twelve others, were also employed in the business at St. John and Passamaquoddy. The cargoes sent to the West Indies consisted chiefly of fish, hogshead staves, boards, shingles and other lumber obtained largely at St. John, but sometimes at Penobscot. In return the vessels brought cargoes of rum, sugar, molasses, etc.

The names of the sloops and schooners engaged in the St. John trade, and of the masters who sailed them, are worthy of a place in our commercial annals. In those days there were neither lights, beacons nor foghorns, and charts were imperfect, yet there were but few disasters. The qualities of pluck and skill were, however, indispensable in the hardy mariners who were the pioneers of the coasting trade of the Bay of Fundy and North Atlantic coast, and the names of Jonathan Leavitt and his contemporaries are worthy of all honor. The list following is properly as complete as at this distance of time it can be made.