. The river St. John, its physical features, legends and history, from 1604 to 1784. ng out of anymoney that benefits will not be immediately reapedfrom, and that you will make as large remittances asyou possibly can to enable us to discharge theCompanys debt to Blodget, for we shall endeaver all inour power to discharge our obligations to him as we donot chuse to lay at his mercy. Thus it appears that if Samuel Blodgets two yearsconnection with the company was not greatly to hisadvantage, it did him no material injury. From thistime he ceases to have any interest for us in the affairsat Portl
. The river St. John, its physical features, legends and history, from 1604 to 1784. ng out of anymoney that benefits will not be immediately reapedfrom, and that you will make as large remittances asyou possibly can to enable us to discharge theCompanys debt to Blodget, for we shall endeaver all inour power to discharge our obligations to him as we donot chuse to lay at his mercy. Thus it appears that if Samuel Blodgets two yearsconnection with the company was not greatly to hisadvantage, it did him no material injury. From thistime he ceases to have any interest for us in the affairsat Portland Point. James Simonds, whose name is second among thesigners of the business contract of 1764, may be regardedas the founder of the business, and of the first permanentsettlement at the mouth of the River St. John. His mostremote ancestor in America was William Simonds ofWoburn, Massachusetts. William Simonds marriedJudith Phippen, who came to America in the Planter in 1635. Tradition says that as the vessel drew near herdestination land was first seen by Judith Phippin, which. JAMES SIMONDSA Pioneer at Portland Point. ST. JOHN 293 proved to be the headland now called Point the passengers on the Planter were ancestorsof many families well known in America — the Peabodys,Perleys, Beardsleys, Carters, Haywards, Peters andothers. In 1643 Judith Phippen became the wife ofWilliam Simonds. The honse in which they lived atWoburn, Mass., and where their twelve children wereborn, was standing when visited a few years since byone of their descendants living in this Simonds tenth child, James married SusannaBlodget and their sixth child, Nathan, was the father ofJames Simonds, who came to St. John. Nathan Simondsmarried Sarah Hazen of Haverhill, an aunt of WilliamHazen, and their oldest child the subject of this sketch,was born at Haverhill, December 10, 1735. James Simonds was not only a man of remarkableenergy and ability but of stout constitution and
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