well wrote Novell."

No account of the business of St. John during the period of the
operations of its finest trading company, would be complete without
some mention of its shipping. Naturally it was the day of small things
with the future "winter port" of Canada. The ship that bore de Monts
and Champlain to the Bay of Fundy in the month of June, 1604, was a
little vessel of 150 tons, smaller than some of our coasting schooners
of today; but the vessels employed in the business of Hazen, Simonds
and White and their associates, were smaller still, ranging from ten
to eighty tons burden.

The qualities essential to successful navigation--pluck, enterprise
and skill--were admirably displayed by the hardy mariners of New
England, the pioneers of commerce in the Bay of Fundy. In their day
there were no light houses, or beacons, or fog-horns and even charts
were imperfect, yet there were few disasters. The names of Jonathan
Leavitt and his contemporaries are worthy of a foremost place in our
commercial annals.

The following list of the vessels owned or chartered by Hazen, Simonds
and White in their business at St. John, A. D. 1764-1774, is probably
as complete as at this distance of time it can be made:

Names of Vessels and Masters.

Schooner Wilmot, William Story.
" Polly, Jon. Leavitt, Jas. Stickney, Henry Brookings.
" Eunice, James Stickney.
" Betsy, Jonathan Leavitt.
" Seaflower, Benjamin Batchelder, Jonathan Leavitt.
" Sunbury, Jonathan Leavitt, Daniel Leavitt.
" Essex; Isaac Marble.

Sloop Bachelor, William Story.
" Peggy & Molly, Henry Brookings
" Merrimack, Jon. Leavitt, Samuel Perkins, Daniel Leavitt.
" St. John's Paquet, Richard Bartelott, Hen. Brookings,
Joseph Jellings.
" Speedwell, Nathaniel Newman
" Dolphin, Daniel Dow.
" Woodbridge, David Stickney.
" Sally, Nathaniel Newman.
" Deborah, Edward Atwood.
" Kingfisher, Jonathan Eaton.

Of the vessels enumerated the schooners Wilmot, Polly, Eunice and
Betsy and the sloops Bachelor, Peggy & Molly, Merimack and St. John's
Paquet were owned by the company.

For some years the company paid insurance at the rate of 3 per cent.
on the vessels and their cargoes, but the insurance was obtained with
difficulty and after a time was discontinued on the ground that the
business would not bear the expense.

When the partnership was form