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THE NEW BRUNSWICK MAGAZINE.

the necessity of taking an exact acct. of all the goods on hand. To make an exact computation of the cost of all buildings and works would be a work that cannot be hurried over and would require time. We could have had all those things ready, but must have neglected compleating preparations for the winter's work, which we think would be far greater damage than the accts, remaining unsettled for a few months and finish them in the winter evenings."

Mr. Simonds promised that either he or Mr. White would go to Newburyport the next summer to effect a settlement of the accounts. However, it was not until the spring of 1767, when Hazen & Jarvis had become exceedingly urgent, that he found time to visit New England. The trip was for him quite an eventful one. He sailed from St. John in the schooner Eunice, March 4th, and was twenty days in getting to Newburyport, the vessel having been detained by head winds. He repaired at once to Haverhill, about fourteen miles distant, to see his relatives, and on his return brought his family with him to settle at St. John. He was married at Haverhill this year to Hannah Peabody, but whether at this particular time or a little later is uncertain. On his arrival at the store of Hazen and Jarvis a new contract[1] was submitted for his signature. Mr. Simonds had assented to this as reasonable in view of the changes made in the membership of the Company and the new conditions that had arisen. In the new contract it was proposed that the firm of Hazen & Jarvis should have a half interest, James Simonds one third, and James White one sixth. The contract further provided (and this was the cause of all the subsequent trouble) that all the lands granted to any of the partners should be put into common stock and divided one half to Hazen & Jarvis, one third to Simonds and one sixth to White. This proposition was stoutly resisted by Mr. Simonds, and was the cause of "a warm

  1. ↑ This contract is printed in the Collections of the N. B. His. Soc., Vol. I., pp. 191, 192.
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