lease to consign him to Mess. John & Temple Knight in
that place.

There are 100 sheep on board the sloop which cost upon an average
about 6s. 10d. a head. Now as the ten families who came from Now
York were to have 60 ewe sheep (and as they chose a ram or two in
the number) you will please to deliver them their number out of
the old sheep which we shall charge at seven shillings per head.
There is a very likely ram on board (without horns) which we
bought of Capt. White for the Company. This you will take care
of.

Since writing the above we have been getting the sheep on board
and find several very old, which please to take for the Company's
use, and we will get an abatement made by the person whom we
bought them of and who has deceived us in them.

Please to dispatch Newman as soon as possible as he has been
detained here longer than he ought to have been. What will be
wanting to fill up Newman besides the lime please to make up in
lumber.

We would recommend it to you not to tarry till Mr. White's arrival
with you before you go up the River.

Mr. Pickard and Mr. Hartt will give you an account of what freight
they have on board which you will receive of them at the customary
rate.

We are Sir,
Your sincere Friends and devoted hum, Serv's.

HAZEN & JARVIS.

To Jas. Simonds, Esq'r.

Philip John Livingston, who has been mentioned as a promoter of the
settlement of the townships, was a member of a distinguished and
wealthy New York family. His mother was Catherine de Peyster and his
wife a daughter of Samuel Bayard. His brother, John W. Livingston, and
his wife's brother, Abraham de Peyster, were both captains in Col.
Edmund Fanning's King's American Regiment during the Revolutionary
war. Philip John Livingston was himself high sheriff of Dutchess
County, Now York, and during the Revolution held several important
positions under British authority in the City of New York. His father,
brothers and sons were all Loyalists.

About the close of the year 1767 Col. Glasier wrote from New York,
seemingly in excellent spirits at the prospect of speedy settlement of
the lands. "He informs us," writes Leonard Jarvis, "that one hundred
families will go down next year to settle on the St. John river--that
a vessel from Ireland will arrive there this fall--that Mr.
Livingston, a gentleman of fortune, has purchased three shares, and
that the Patent is daily