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James Allan, No. 18 in the township of Sunbury. Mr. Simonds was desired to furnish the two families with necessary supplies and draw for the amount on Major William Sheriff, Deputy Quartermaster General at New York. Mr. Livingston added that as soon as the committee of the Canada Company at Montreal should furnish the necessary cash he would write about finishing the mills, and meanwhile he would be glad to know what sum would put the mills in working order. He closes his letter thus:
"I intend, and it is my fixed resolve, to be on St. John's River as soon as the weather will permit in the Spring, which will be about the first of May. If Mr. Ogelvie should not send you an order to furnish Marrington with provisions—who was to settle Richard Burton's right—I think it most advisable to take that family for Sir Charles Dabers, as General Burton is dead, and the family without credit can't subsist."
The progress made by the Canada Company as a whole in the settlement of their townships, was by no means satisfactory, and about this time Hazen and Jarvis expressed their conviction, that half the company would never settle their lands, they theretore desired Simonds and White to take such measures as would secure their shares in Sunbury and New Town from forfeiture, and also the shares of Moses Hazen and Thomas Hutchinson, which they had lately purchased for Colonel Jarvis. They further recommended the settling of some useful labourers, employed in the Company's service, in the township of Conway, upon the presumption of in this way holding the lands taken possession of. This proposition met with the approval of Simonds and White, and some half a dozen of their employees were soon after settled in Conway. They wrote Hazen & Jarvis in July, 1770.