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THE NEW BRUNSWICK MAGAZINE.

Fort Frederick by reason of contrary winds, and were not yet assigned to any particular township; that several other families had been procured to be sent that Spring by different proprietors who were at a loss where to locate them without an immediate drawing for the respective townships; that it was therefore in every way desirable there should be a drawing for the townships without loss of time. Captain Spry further proposed that the division of the townships among the proprietors should be as follows:

The Townships of Gage, Burton and Sunbury, containing 100,000 acres each, to be divided among twenty Proprietors to each Township, which will be 5,000 acres to each Proprietor.

The Township of Conway, containing 50,000 acres, being conveniently situated for the Fishery, to be divided among all the Proprietors in equal lots and drawn for, which will be about 735 acres to each.

The Tract north-west of Maugerville of 20,000 acres, granted separately, and that of 20,000 acres [adjoining] granted with the Township of Sunbury, to be made one Township of 40,000 acres and to be called New-Town, and divided among eight Proprietors which will be 3,000 acres to each Proprietor, the same as in the other Townships.

The propositions of Captain Spry were unanimously agreed to and off Wednesday the 20th of April, 1768, the proprietors of the lands, or their representatives, held a meeting and in the presence of Dirck Brinckerhoff and Elias Desbrosses; justices of the peace and aldermen of the City and County of New York, made a drawing of the townships in the manner proposed. In the drawing the lot of James Simonds was fixed in the township of Sunbury, and that of William Hazen and his brother Moses in the township of New Town. The saw-mill it was agreed should be built on the River Nashwaak, in the township of New Town, (or the Forty Thousand Acre Tract), and remain the joint property of the proprietors of the several townships for the space of twenty years, the expenses attending the erecting and repairing of the mill to be defrayed by the pro-

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