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thus became the brother in law of Mr. Simonds and Mr. White. In 1774 Mr. Leavitt left the Company's employ and settled in the Township of Conway, where he had purchased land and built himself a house. The Company's business at St. John at this time, according to Mr. Leavitt, was quite extensive including the fishery, fur trade, manufacture of lime, building vessels, and sawing lumber, and they employed a great number of workmen and laborers in cutting wood, burning lime, cutting hoop poles, making casks, digging stone, clearing roads, clearing lands, curing fish, cutting hay and attending stock. The workmen and laborers were supported by the Company. Several that had families lived in small log houses in the vicinity of the Point, others lived in the building adjoining the house occupied by Simonds and White which served as an outhouse and kitchen. The store at the Point contained dry goods, provisions and various articles for the Indian trade or for the white inhabitants of the country. The families of Simonds and White were supplied with bread, meat and other eatables and drinkables out of the common stock and no account was kept of this so long as they lived together, but after they separated these articles were charged against each family. Part of the laborers and workmen were hired by William Hazen and sent from Newbury, others by Simonds and White at the River St. John.

The deposition of Samuel Webster is an interesting one. From it we learn that Samuel Webster's mother was a half sister to James Simonds, they being children of Nathan Simonds by different wives. During the three and a half years of Webster's sojourn at Portland Point, Simonds and White lived together like one family and he lived with them. While he was at St. John goods were shipped to Newburyport and the