have Lost money--perhaps you may Know to the Contrary. But then
how agreable would it be to me (who have a Large Sum in your
hands) to know as much as you do. Pray Suffer me to ask you, can
you wonder to find me anxious about my Interest when I am so
Ignorant what it is in? I am sure you don't Gent'n. I am not in
doubt of your Integrity. I think I know you Both Two well. But
common prudence calls Loudly upon us all to adjust our accounts as
soon as may be. I have not the Least Line under yours and Mr.
White's hands that the Articles which we signed the first years,
which was dated the First of March, 1764,--which was but for one
yeare--should Continue to the present Time, nor do I doubt your
onour, but Still mortallety Requiyers it to be done and I should
take it Coind to Receive Such a Righting sent by both of you."

Mr. Blodget's uneasiness as to the outcome of the business was set at
rest very shortly after he wrote the above, for on April 5th Hazen and
Jarvis tell their partners at St. John:--

"We have purchased Mr. Blodget's Interest, for which we are to pay
him his outsetts. We are in hopes that we shall be able to carry
on the Business better without than with him. * * We must beg you
would be as frugal as possible in the laying out of any money that
benefits will not be immediately reaped from, and that you will
make as large remittances as you possibly can to enable us to
discharge the Company's debt to Blodget, for we shall endeavor all
in our power to discharge our obligations to him as we do not
chuse to lay at his Mercy."

Thus it appears that if Samuel Blodget's two years connection with the
company was not greatly to his advantage, it did him no material
injury. From this time he ceases to have any interest for us in the
affairs at Portland Point.

James Simonds, whose name is second among the signers of the
business contract of 1764, may be regarded as the founder of the
first permanent settlement at the mouth of the River St. John. His
most remote ancestor in America was William Simonds of Woburn,
Massachusetts. This William Simonds married Judith Phippen, who came
to America in the ship "Planter" in 1635. Tradition says that as
the vessel drew near her destination land was first described by
Judith Phippen, which proved to be the headland now called "Point
Judith." Among the passengers of the "Planter" were the ancestors
of many well known families in Am