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the Canada Company took measures to provide for their settlement. They appointed Nathanial Rogers of Boston, their treasurer, and Beamsley Glasier their agent, and they levied a tax of one hundred dollars on each of the proprietors towards expenses of management and settlement. Richard Barlow was sent to the River St. John to act in the capacity of Company store-keeper, and some supplies were furnished him and Colonel Glasier in 1765 and 1766 by Simonds and White for which Hazen and Jarvis received from Mr. Rogers the sum of £146 in payment.

In July 1766 the sloop "Peggy & Molly" sailed from Newburyport for St. John with a number of articles for the Canada Company. On the way she called at Portsmouth and took on board Colonel Glasier and five mill-wrights, Jonathan Young, Hezekiah Young, Joseph Pike, Tristram Quinby and John Sanborn, who were charged twenty shillings each for passage and provisions. Soon after their arrival they framed and erected the saw-mill on the Nashwaak river. In September of the same year Hazen and Jarvis sent down to St. John in the "Peggy & Molly" for Colonel Glasier, 1 cow, 4 heifers, 24 sheep and lambs, 4 coops of fowls, 1 hogshead of mill irons and sundry other articles, the freight in all amounting to £20. 3. 1. The writer has before him the "Memorandum of Sundrys to be sent to the River St. John for the use of the Society to the care of Captain Glasier." There are upwards of forty items in the list including articles of clothing, household utensils and provisions for settlers, cattle, sheep, pigs and fowls; also seed corn and barley, garden seeds of all kinds, six pieces of paper for a room, 4,000 feet of 2½ inch plank, 2,000 feet of good boards and all the mill gear. Colonel Glasier appended to his memorandum the following note: