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The sloop St. John's Paquet sailed from St. John for St. Croix in the West Indies in the latter part of the year 1769, it being the first voyage to the West Indies in which Simonds and White had consented to be interested. She made a trip the next year from St. John to Newburyport with a cargo of lime and Mr. Hazen returned with her. Simonds and White had asked to have the vessel and cargo insured, but Mr. Hazen says the reason they gave for it, namely her being "an unlucky vessel," did not make any impression on the minds of Leonard Jarvis and himself, and as it was a good season of the year they did not effect it. The vessel unfortunately got on the shoals at Newburyport the day after her arrival, and by taking "a rank heel" got water among her lime, which set her on fire. The sloop and cargo were sold for £300 where she lay. She was hired of the purchaser by Hazen & Jarvis and again sent to St. John to load for the West Indies.

Of all the vessels owned by the Company none seem to have done better service than the little schooner Polly. For twelve years she bore an almost charmed life, and during that time she was employed in the greatest variety of ways. At one time in a fishing voyage at Passamaquoddy or Annapolis, at another engaged in the Indian traffic up the St. John River, at another carrying supplies and settlers with their effects from Newburyport to the River St. John, at another on a voyage to the West Indies. The first misadventure that befell her was on her return from the West Indies in the month of July, 1776, when she was captured by an American privateer sailed by one O'Brien and sent to Newburyport. Mr. Hazen and Peter Smith, her super-cargo, went to claim her, and after some time and trouble she was restored and brought back to St. John where she discharged her cargo. Not long after