ch, along with
their father. The important services of Major Gilfred Studholme were
also rewarded at this time by a grant of 2,000 acres on the
Kennebecasis river, just above Captain Baxter's land. Two years later
Major Studholme obtained a grant of a tract nearly three miles square,
at Apohaqui, to which he gave the name of Studville.

It was not without fore-thought and serious consideration that the
Loyalists came to the River St. John. Several associations were formed
at New York, in 1782, to further the interests of those who proposed
to settle in Nova Scotia. One of the Associations had as its
president, the Rev. Doctor Seabury,[136] and for its secretary,
Sampson Salter Blowers.[137] It was under the arrangements made by
this Association that a great many of the Loyalists of the Spring
fleet came to the St. John river. The document, which is published
below, is well worthy of preservation by the descendants of those
devoted men and women, who were induced by unshaken loyalty to seek
refuge in a wilderness under its provisions.

[136] Dr. Seabury was consecrated first Bishop of the Episcopal Church
in the United States, November 14th, 1784.

[137] Sampson Salter Blowers was appointed chief justice of Nova
Scotia in 1809. He died in 1842 in his 100th year having
outlived all his contemporaries. He was a man of wonderful
vitality and is said never to have worn an overcoat.

ARTICLES.

Of the Settlement of Nova Scotia, Made With the Loyalists at New
York, at the Time of the Peace of 1783.

"The reverend Doctor Samuel Seabury, and Lieutenant Colonel B.
Thompson, of the Kings American Dragoons, having been appointed by
the Board of Agents to wait on His Excellency Sir Guy Carleton,
Commander in Chief, in behalf of the Loyalists desirous of
emigrating to Nova Scotia, they read the following rough
proposals, as articles of supply for the settlers in Nova
Scotia:--

1st.--That they be provided with proper vessels and convoy to
carry them, their horses and cattle, as near as possible to the
place appointed for their settlement.

2nd.--That besides the provisions for the voyage, one year's
provision be allowed them, or money to enable them to purchase.

3d.--That some allowance of warm clothing be made in proportion to
the wants of each family.

4th.--That an allowance of medicines be granted, such as shall be
thought necessary.

5th