number of other
families from New England: the district adjoining Maugerville was
settled, and the whole called by the general name of Sunbury, where the
Courts of Justice were held till 1783: when the peace with America left
the Loyalists who had followed the British standard, to seek an asylum
in some part of the British dominions.

Prior to this period a number of families from Yorkshire in England,
and others from Massachusetts, had settled in and about Cumberland,
where many of their descendants still remain.--These people, actuated
by different attachments, lived during the war in a state of hostility
with each other;--one part adhering to the British, and the other to
the Americans.

In the month of April, 1783, about three thousand persons, men, women,
and children, sailed from New-York for the River Saint John; many of
them being passengers, but the major part persons who had joined the
British army, and were now sent to this Country to be disbanded and
settled. In the month of October following, about twelve hundred more
arrived from the same place. Those as well as the former had to seek a
shelter from the approaching winter, by building log and bark huts; a
few indeed were admitted into the houses of the settlers who had
resided here before and during the American war. Provisions and
clothing were furnished by Government for the first year, with a few
implements to commence a settlement. Lord DORCHESTER appointed the Rev.
Mr. SAYRE, GEORGE LEONARD, WILLIAM TYNG, and JAMES PETERS, Esquires, as
agents to apply for lands and locate them. Major STUDHOLM was soon
after added to the number by Governor PARR.--This Officer at that time
commanded the Garrison of Fort Howe, at the entrance of Saint John
River. These agents appointed the Rev. Mr. ARNOLD for their secretary.
The duties that devolved on these gentlemen were of the most arduous
nature; they had however the satisfaction of receiving the thanks of
the Governor and Council of Nova-Scotia, for their upright conduct in
transacting that business.

In the year 1785, the present limits of New-Brunswick were divided from
Nova-Scotia, and a separate Charter of a Constitution was granted to
the Province, under Governor CARLETON, with a Council composed of the
following gentlemen:--BEVERLEY ROBINSON, GABRIEL G. LUDLOW, GEORGE D.
LUDLOW, ABIJAH WILLARD, JONATHAN ODELL, JAMES PUTNAM, JOSHUA UPHAM,
EDWARD WINSLOW, WILLIAM HAZEN, GILFRED STUDHOLM, AND DANIEL
BLISS.-