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1,500 acres in what is now Lower Sheffield. Hazen and White on their part obtained a grant of a large tract on the Rushagonish stream, a branch of the River Oromocto. But in addition to these lands Messrs. Hazen and Simonds were interested in the townships of the Canada Company on the St. John River. The fifth paper of the Portland Point series^[1] contained a good deal respecting the Canada Company and its townships, but there is much additional information in the papers that have since been put at the disposal of the writer by Mr. Ward Hazen, which cannot well be passed over. Two documents are especially important and will be given in full in an early issue of the Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society. One of these is a circular printed for the Canada Company at Quebec by Brown and Gilmore, shortly after the grants of the townships were made in 1765. It contains a list of all the original grantees, the dates of the several grants with a condensed description of their boundaries and the conditions under which they were issued. This very interesting old document has been mounted on linen for better preservation, and bears evidence of having been much handled, being worn away in places and worn through at nearly every folding. The other document is perhaps even more interesting. It is printed on a sheet, each of its four pages 8x12 inches, including the margin. It has evidently been much handled by those interested and is worn through and through at the foldings. It begins with a "Remonstrance" addressed by Captain William Spry, (under, date New York, April 11, 1768), to the Rev'd. Dr. Oglevie and William Johnston, Esq., two of the committee appointed by the proprietors of the townships of Conway, Gage, Burton, Sunbury &c., on the River St. John's, in, Nova