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THE NEW BRUNSWICK MAGAZINE.

carried. The moving spirit in this inquiry was Laughlan Donaldson, mayor of the city from 1829 to 1832, his colleague on the committee was Daniel Ansley. In their report Messrs. Donaldson and Ansley propounded a theory that must have been rather startling to the heirs of Hazen, Simonds and White, namely, that the Red Head mentioned in the grants of 1765 and 1770 was not Red Head on the east side of Courtenay Bay at all, but a red head or bank, at the Mill Pond, not far from the corner of Mill and Pond streets.

By referring to the plan, the reader will see at a glance how greatly the limits of the first grant would have been curtailed by fixing the south east bound in the vicinity

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