following
extract of one of his earliest letters.

Halifax, Oct'r 1st, 1764.

"Last night arrived here after four days passage from St.
John's--the first 24 hours were at sea in a severe storm, the
second passed a place called the Masquerades where there was seas
and whirlpools enough to have foundered the largest ships--we were
providentially saved with the loss of all our cable and anchor
endeavoring to ride at anchor till the tide slacked, but in vain.
It was unlucky for us that we happened to fall in with that
tremendous place in the strength of flood tide in the highest
spring tide that has been this year. Gentlemen here say it is
presumptuous to attempt to return the same way at this season in
an open boat; but as the boat and men are at Pisiquit (Windsor),
and I have no other way to get to St. John in season for my
business this fall, shall get our business done here as soon as
may be and return the same way I came. The plea of the above
difficulty will have a greater weight than any other to have
business finished here immediately. This morning I waited on the
Governor, Secretary and all officers concerned in granting
license, etc., who assure me that my request shall be granted
directly so that I hope to be on my way to St. John's tomorrow."

We cannot but admire the courage and enterprise of a man who after so
fatiguing and perilous a journey, was ready, on the second day after
his arrival in Halifax, to remount his horse and travel forty-odd
miles over a very rough road to Windsor to face again the perils of
the Bay of Fundy in an open boat at a stormy season.

The establishment of Fort Frederick on the west side of the Harbor of
St. John, by Brig. General Monckton, in the fall of the year 1759,
contributed not a little to the advantage of the first settlers. The
Indians were disposed to be troublesome to the English, and the
presence of the garrison rendered their situation less lonely and
added very greatly to their sense of security. Not only so, but the
garrison brought quite an amount of business to the store of Simonds &
White. In the old accounts of the year 1764 are to be found the names
of Lieut. Gilfred Studholme of the 40th Regt., Lieut. John Marr and
Commissary Henry Green. Captain Pierce Butler, of the 29th Regt., was
in command at Fort Frederick the following year and his name also
appears in the accounts. For a year or two after the fort was
establ