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THE NEW BRUNSWICK MAGAZINE.

to Passamaquoddy with the sloop Peggy and Molly and a party of fishermen, who were engaged there for the season's fishing ending August 20th. For a year or two the company continued to do business at Passamaquoddy, sending from thence quintals of dry cod fish, cod oil, pollock, etc., to Boston and Newburyport; but the number of competitors they encountered and the growing importance of their business at St. John led them to concentrate their attention at the latter place. Mr. Simonds, in a letter to Hazen & Jarvis dated at St. John's River, 27th May, 1765, writes, "There is such a number of traders at Passamaquoddy that I don't expect much trade there this spring; have prevailed with the Commandant to stop their going up this river."

The principal rival they had to encounter on the river St. John was John Anderson, who has been already mentioned in this series of papers. Mr. Anderson had, as regards the Indian trade, the advantage of being settled only a few miles below the Indian village of Aukpaque, his trading post occupying the site of Villebon's old fort at the mouth of the Nashwaak.^[1] This situation he obtained through a memorial presented to the Governor and Council of Nova Scotia on the 15th October, 1765, soliciting a grant of 1,000 acres "on the Rivulet called Nashwaak" with a frontage of half a mile, of which he desired one half to be on the side on which his dwelling house stood.

Mr. Anderson had the honor to be appointed, on Aug. 17, 1765, the first justice of the peace for the new county of Sunbury; the next appointed seems to have been Col. Beamsly Glazier, on 15th October following. Mr. Anderson continued in business until the Revolutionary war put a stop to his operations. He procured

↑ On a map of the river St. John made in 1765 by Charles Morris, Surveyor General of N. S., the site of Villebon's fort is shown with an explanatory note, "Here is the ruins of a French fort and at present a Factory for the Indian trade, which is the furthermost English Settlement up the River."

[1] On a map of the river St. John made in 1765 by Charles Morris, Surveyor General of N. S., the site of Villebon's fort is shown with an explanatory note, "Here is the ruins of a French fort and at present a Factory for the Indian trade, which is the furthermost English Settlement up the River."

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