cy the Governor of this Province has assigned a certain
tract of land for the accommodation of the Provincial Regiments on
the River St. John's, beginning at the eastern boundaries of the
Townships of Sunbury and Newtown, and extending up the River, I am
directed to acquaint you that you have Brigadier General Fox's
permission to remove the King's American Dragoons to that part of
the district which has been allotted to the regiment.... Lieut.
Colonel Morse, chief Engineer, will, in consideration that your
Regiment may be exposed to peculiar inconveniences from being the
first who are ordered to but on the River St. John's, forward to
you such articles as he apprehends cannot be procured at that
place."

On the 16th September, Gen'l Fox wrote from Annapolis, informing
Governor Parr that the Loyalist regiments embarking at New York were,
by the Commander in Chief's express order, to be discharged as
contiguous as possible to the lands on which they were to settle, and
he accordingly asked the Governor to determine the district each
regiment was to settle, so that on their arrival they might proceed
immediately to their respective destinations. Up to this time no
attempt had been made to lay out lands for the troops, save in the
district of Prince William for the King's American Dragoons. There
was, it is true, an order to reserve for the Provincial Regiments, a
tract extending from the townships of Maugerville and Burton on both
sides of the river on the route to Canada as far as to accommodate the
whole, but no survey had been made.

About this time the Hon. Charles Morris prepared a plan of the river
in which the land not yet granted was laid out in blocks. These blocks
were numbered and drawn for by the various regiments shortly after
their arrival. But as the lines had not been run, nor any lots laid
out for settlement the disbanded troops were in great perplexity. They
knew not where to turn or what to do. Extracts from the letters of two
regimental commanders will show how they regarded the outlook. Lieut.
Col. Gabriel De Veber, of the Prince of Wales American Regiment,
writes at Parrtown on the 14th December. "I am still here, where I
have built a small house for the present. I have not been up the River
yet, indeed the block, No. 11, which our Regiment has drawn, is so far
up that I am totally discouraged. The numerous family I have demands
some attention to the education of children. At s