ing Boats, about 36 Hours from the
time the Vessel was wrecked. Capt. Doughty, Lieut. McFarlane, Mrs.
McFarlane and Ensign Montgomery perished....

Lieut. Col. Hewlett's letter to Sir Guy Carleton, announcing the
arrival of the fleet at its destined port, is brief and to the point:

St. Johns, Bay of Fundy, 29th September, 1783.

Sir.--Agreeable to your Excellency's orders I have the honor to
inform you that the Troops under my command arrived at the River
St. Johns the 27th instant, except the ship "Martha" with the
Maryland Loyalists and part of the 2d Batt'n De Lancey's, and the
ship "Esther" with part of the Jersey Volunteers, of which ships
no certain accounts were received since their sailings.

This day a small party of the Guides and Pioneers are landed,
which proceed from the Falls up the River St. Johns tomorrow, if
the weather permits.

I have given the necessary orders for the Troops to disembark
tomorrow and encamp just above the Falls, from which place they
shall be forwarded with all possible expedition to the place of
their destination, but am much afraid the want of small craft will
greatly prevent their dispatch.

I have the honor to be sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,

RICHARD HEWLETT, Lt. Col.

On the 13th October Col. Hewlett informed Sir Guy Carleton that the
troops had all been disbanded by Major Augustin Prevost, and were
getting up the river as speedily as the scarcity of small craft for
conveying them would admit.

A large number of the officers and men of the disbanded regiments drew
lots at Parrtown, and many remained at the mouth of the river during
the winter. George Leonard, who was one of the chief directors of the
settlement of the town, says that the lots at first laid out were
divided and subdivided, on the arrival of almost every fleet, to
accommodate the Loyalists as they came. These proved to be so greatly
in excess of what had been anticipated, that the lots of those who
came at the first were reduced by degrees to one sixteenth part of
their original dimensions. It was not until the 17th December that a
complete plan of Parrtown was prepared by Paul Bedell. Meanwhile there
had been much delay in laying out lands for settlement on the River
St. John.

Colonel Morse, of the Royal Engineers, gives a summary of the causes
of the delay in placing the disbanded troops upon their lands: "First
their arriving very l