. The New England magazine . First Loyalist Church erected sighed for the land they had left behindthem. Tents were erected near the land-ing place ; and in one of them Ann, thedaughter of Thatcher Sears of Connecti-cut, was born shortly after the landing,she being the first child of Loyalistparents born in that city. The wholeregion about the landing place of theLoyalists is full of historical Square, of which it forms a part,was for many years the chief business 312 THE A Picturesque Bit of St. John. centre of the city, and contained the oldCity Hall, which wa
. The New England magazine . First Loyalist Church erected sighed for the land they had left behindthem. Tents were erected near the land-ing place ; and in one of them Ann, thedaughter of Thatcher Sears of Connecti-cut, was born shortly after the landing,she being the first child of Loyalistparents born in that city. The wholeregion about the landing place of theLoyalists is full of historical Square, of which it forms a part,was for many years the chief business 312 THE A Picturesque Bit of St. John. centre of the city, and contained the oldCity Hall, which was used for many yearsas a market, a court house, a councilchamber and a lock-up. It was in thisbuilding that in 1828 a boy eighteenyears of age, named Patrick Durgen, wastried and found guilty of entering thedwelling of his master at night and rob-bing the till of a quarter of a this offence he was condemned todeath and executed. Such was justiceas administered in New Brunswick sixty-three years ago. The Crookshank House, is the oldestin St. John, and stands within a hundredfeet of the Market Square. The lot uponwhich it stands was drawn by JamesCodner, a native of New England, whowas a lieutenant in the 2d Americanregiment. He became a magistrate ofSt. John, was one of the first merchantsof that city, and for many years filled theoffice of chamberlain. The Crook-shank House was erected by a mer-chant named John Colville, who diedin it upwards of eighty-three years wife was th
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