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active and laborious part of the work in which he was daily absent from home and sometimes by night also. Hewn timber, poles, stakes and brush were used in the construction of the aboideau, and from fifteen to twenty or twenty-five men, and sometimes more, were employed upon it, of whom six or eight were Acadians, others were farmers or laborers from the settlements on the St. John river.

Some additional particulars of the history of Portland Point during the Revolutionary war, remain to be considered and will furnish material for one more supplementary paper.

In The New Brunswick Magazine for February of the present year, I called attention to the paucity of published information concerning the life and personality of our first governor, and gave some new facts about him, lately received from relatives of his in England. it was stated, too, that his burial place was uncertain. As a result of that article some important additions and corrections have been sent me, which are here to be presented.

In a letter of May 8th, 1899, the Hon. Mrs. Leir-Carleton, of Greywell Hill, Winchfield, Hants, cousin of the late Lord Dorchester, and since his death created Baroness Dorchester, has had the kindness to write me as fellows, after first calling attention to several errors in the information supplied by Lord Dorchester, who evidently had written from memory:—