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"I need not tell you that all above Articals must be good cost what it will; the cow, sheep, &c., can be bought of one John Car at Kingston; Young tells me he has those of a good Breed. Young and all the Carpenters intends to stay & settle here & begs you'll be so good as to acquant his wife and famaly of it.
Mr. Simonds has had four bbl. of Pork of me & four Hog'd of Bread, about 1,600 pounds, all which you may replace in the same speacea, or Indian meel for the Bread when you can buy it cheepest. Mr. Simonds will let you you know if he can furnish the Plank and Boards; it would be better for us if he could, but there must be no risque.
Thoes articals markt with a Cross against them may be sent next time the Sloop comes if they can be had cheeper, but you must be sure she or some other comes.
Send me a few leamons or limes, if not too dear, two pr of shoes for myself good, inclose measure, a small pr scales & weights."
Colonel Glasier writes a fair, though not an elegant hand and he signs his name B. Glasier—not Glazier. The letter above quoted was written in August, 1766.[1] Hazen & Jarvis in their correspondence manifest very great interest in the colonizing attempts of the Canada Company. They mention on one occasion the receipt of a letter written by Colonel Glasier at New York about the close of the year 1767:—
"He informs us that one hundred families will go down the next year to settle on the St. John's river—that a vessel from Ireland will be with you this fall that Mr. Livingston, a gentleman of fortune, has purchased three Rights [or shares] and that the Patent is daily getting into fewer hands. This gives us encouragement to think that some time hence our interest in your River will be valuable."
Philip John Livingston, who is here mentioned, sent down a number of settlers in September, 1767, but evidently they were not a very energetic lot of men, for James Simonds says that he and James White were obliged to provide provisions "to save the lives of the
- ↑ Colonel Beamsley Glasier was one of the two first representatives of the old County of Sunbury in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. He held a commission as Lieut. Colonel in the 4th Battalion of the Royal American regiment. His brother Benjamin Glasier was the progenitor of the Glasiers of Sunbury County, N. B. Simonds and White continued to furnish supplies to Colonel Glasier in 1767. One of the items charged is "cash paid for a canoe to Narapis, 5 shillings." Glasier's manor was at the Nerepis.