. The river St. John, its physical features, legends and history, from 1604 to 1784. ost unless the goods on board theEunice were delivered as speedily as possible. Underthe circumstances he decided to sign the contract. James White declined to sign on the ground thathaving one-fourth part of the duties and trouble oftransacting the business he was by the contract entitledto one-sixth part only of the lands to be divided, henevertheless joined with James Simonds in carrying onthe business in full confidence that some equitableallowance would be made him for his services. The first grant of lan
. The river St. John, its physical features, legends and history, from 1604 to 1784. ost unless the goods on board theEunice were delivered as speedily as possible. Underthe circumstances he decided to sign the contract. James White declined to sign on the ground thathaving one-fourth part of the duties and trouble oftransacting the business he was by the contract entitledto one-sixth part only of the lands to be divided, henevertheless joined with James Simonds in carrying onthe business in full confidence that some equitableallowance would be made him for his services. The first grant of lands in which the company was-concerned was made on the 2nd October, 1765, to JamesSimonds, Richard Simonds and James White. It isdescribed as Beginning at a point of upland opposite ST. JOHN 38a to his (Simonds) House and running East till it meetswith, a little Cove or River; thence bounded by saidCove till it comes to a Red Head on the east side of theCove—thence running North eleven degrees fifteenminutes west till it meets Canebekssis River, thence- Ke jtm-s szcx-^ szs EZYMH. bounded by said river, the River St. John^and Harbortill it comes to the first mentioned boundary. The bounds of this tract will be seen in the grant was thought to contain 2,000 acres, more orless. In this case it was decidedly more, viz., about .384 THE RIVER 5,496 acres in all. A generous allowance was made forlakes, sunken and broken lands and barren rocks. Tlie line from Mr. Simonds house eastward toCourtenay Bay is that now followed by Union peninsula south of this street, which now containsthe business part of the city of St. John, and which waslaid out for the Loyalists in 1783 as Parr-town, was notincluded in the grant. The primary object of thegrantees was evidently the limestone quarries and thebig marsh, and they probably deemed the land south ofUnion Street hardly worth the quit rents. The grant, however, included a very small portion ofthe marsh and a further grant wa
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