St.
George are thus described by one of Mr. Clinch's sons:--

"My father had charge of a party of soldiers, who were disbanded
in 1783 and sent to colonize a howling wilderness--the most unfit
employment they could be put to. The delay which took place in
furnishing a vessel to convey them and their stores added much to
their difficulties. It was not until the 10th of November that a
landing was effected at the mouth of the Magaguadavic, where there
was neither house nor habitation of any kind to receive them; and
so glad was the skipper of the vessel to get rid of such a
disorderly and almost mutinous crew, that he sailed away the
moment he got them landed. He was under some apprehension that
they would insist on coming away with him again rather than land
on such an inhospitable shore. That night my father slept in the
open air and such a heavy fall of snow came that he had some
difficulty in removing the blankets next morning."

Peter Clinch, in 1793, raised a company for the King's New Brunswick
Regiment which he commanded. He was for some years a representative of
Charlotte County in the New Brunswick legislature, and a man prominent
in public affairs up to the time of his decease in 1816.

Lieut. Sam'l. Denny Street was born and educated in England and
admitted an attorney and solicitor at law in the court of Westminster.
He came to America in 1774, and enlisting as a volunteer was soon
gazetted a lieutenant in the Royal Fencible American Regiment. He
obtained for General McLean the pilots who accompanied him on his
successful expedition to Penobscot, and was himself sent on several
occasions from Fort Howe to Penobscot on confidential services. On the
25th of April, 1781, he was so unfortunate as to be betrayed by his
guide, and was captured near Machias with six of his men. He was sent
to Boston and put aboard the prison ship. Anxious to retain the
services of so useful and enterprising an officer, Gen'l McLean on two
occasions offered two "rebel" officers of superior rank in exchange,
but in each instance the offer was declined, and it was learned
afterwards that the failure was due to a memorial forwarded from
Machias by Col. John Allan representing that Lieut. Street was too
dangerous a man to be set at liberty.

After several months of irksome confinement Lieut. Street contrived,
with the help of a fellow prisoner, to seize the "rebel sentinel" as
he was pacing the deck one