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There are 100 sheep on board the sloop which cost upon an average about 6s 10d a head. Now as the ten families who came from New York were to have 60 ewe sheep (and as they chose a ram or two in the number) you will please to deliver them their number out of the old sheep which we shall charge at seven shillings per head. There is a very likely ram on board (without horns) which we bought of Capt. White for the Company. This you will take care of.
Since writing the above we have been getting the sheep on board and find several very old, which please to take for the Company's use, and we will get an abatement made by the person whom we bought them of and who has deceived us in them.
Please to dispatch Newman as soon as possible as he has been detained here longer than he ought to have been. What will be wanting to fill up Newman besides the lime please to make up in lumber.
We would recommend it to you not to tarry till Mr. White's arrival with you before you go up the River.
Mr. Pickard and Mr. Hartt will give you an account of what freight they have on board which you will receive of them at the customary rate.
We are Sir,
Your sincere Friends and devoted hum. Serv's.
Hazen & Jarvis.
P. S. There is 2 H'hds molasses and 1 Bbl Rum on board Newman. 1 do. Capt. Peabody which please to receive, and charge Capt. Peabody with the freight. Please also to seal the letter directed to him.
While the Company assisted so far as they could in the settlement of the townships, they were not unmindful of their own lands at St. John, upon which they placed in the course of the year 54 head of cattle, 85 sheep, 3 horses and 7 hogs.[1]
Philip John Livingston wrote an interesting letter to James Simonds, dated at New York, Sept. 12, 1769, acknowledging his high sense of the many obligations which he and those concerned with him in sending families to the townships were under to Simonds and White, and requesting them to procure two families for Sir Charles Dabers, who had purchased the share of
- ↑ As surmised in the Magazine, Vol. I, p. 326, there was an error in the return of domestic animals owned at Portland Point in the year 1775 due to the fault of the copyist. Dr. T. Watson Smith has since very kindly furnished the correction which shows the correct number to have been 57 horses and mules, 18 oxen and bulls, 38 cows, 39 young cattle, 44 sheep and 12 swine.