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��SL John, N. B.

��Coys, Pickards, Crystys, Hartts, Estys, Nevers, Palmers, Smiths, Easterbrooks, and others. All set- tled at Maugerville, on the St. John river, some seventy miles above St. John.

In 1783 the Loyalists landed at St. John, and in J. W. Lawrence's inter- esting little book, entitled "Foot Prints or Incidents in the Early His- tory of New Brunswick," the names of about 1,500 persons are given to whom town lots were assigned. Most of these belonged to well known fam- ilies of New England and the Mid- dle states. A "Colonel Glazier" is named among pioneers of St. John ; perhaps he was the " Bearrasly Gla- zier" whose heirs were granted a town lot 1783, with the Loyalists. In resfard to the first settlers of St. John and Maugerville named above as settling there 1761-'63, the first English in the province of New Bruns- wick, it is certain that some were from New Hampshire. Mr. John Quinten, an aged, respected citizen of St. John, says in regard to the father of the first child born there, — "My grandfather, Hugh Quinten, was a grantee of both Parr-Turn and Carleton (now St. John). In an old family Bible I find it recorded that Hugh Quinten was born in Cheshire, New Hampshire, in 1741 ; that Eliza- beth Cristy was born in Londonderry, N. H., in 1741, and that Hugh and Elizabeth were married in 1761."

If this Hugh Quinten was the same named in the Granite Monthly, March, 1884, in the sketch of Windham, as having been a soldier in the Old French War, he must have enlisted when quite a youth. But in the Rev- olutionary War, in some of the prov-

��inces, all boys sixteen years old were required to do military duty. The Cheshire named in the family Bible was probably the town now known as Chester, which was originally called Cheshire. Among the first settlers of this place (named in N. H. Pro- vincial papers, Vol. II) was James Quenten, of Scotch Irish descent. Was Hugh a son of this James ? Is there any record giving any informa- tion of the families of James and Hugh? Mr. John Quinten, who is a son of Jesse, and grandson of Hugh, says there is a tradition that Hugh left behind two half brothers named Joshua and Jonathan. In Adams's History of Fairhaven, Vt., mention is made of a Josiah Quinten, origi- nally of New Hampshire, who went to Whitehall, N. Y., and subsequently settled in Fairhaven, Vt.

The Cristys who settled in St. John went from Londonderry, N. H., and were probably descended from the Peter Cristy named as an early Scotch Presbyterian settler in Parker's History of that place. There was a Jesse and a Thomas Christy among the first settlers of St. John. Matthew Taylor, an early settler of St. John, and one of above named grantees of 1783, was also from Londonderry. These names would lead to the sup- position that perhaps others named were also from New Hampshire. Nathaniel Burpee, a soldier of the Old French War, settled at Candia, N. H. As Burpee, Quinten, and perhaps others, while soldiers in that war, had visited what is now known as New Brunswick, their reports may have induced the first settlers to go there after peace was declared. Capt. Francis Peabodv, who went to New

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