APPENDIX D LXXXIII 



For these papers the Society is largely indebted to the generosity 

 of ]\Ir. Franik Winslow, a grandson of Judge Winslow, who placed the 

 letters and writings of his grandfather at the disposal of the Society, 

 and also financially aided in their publication, and also to the in- 

 defatigable industry and historical research of the Rev. W. 0. Ray- 

 mond, a former President of the Society, in editing this large collection, 

 with most copious explanatory notes of the many persons and events 

 alluded to in the correspondence. 



These papers will be found to shed much light upon the attitude 

 of the Loyalists in the American Revolution, and the circumstances 

 that attended their settlement in the Maritime Provinces at the close 

 of the war. 



They also contain a veritable mine of information with regard to 

 the circumstance under which the province of New Brunsiwick sprung 

 into existence, and much light is thrown upon the somewhat obscure 

 period, dating from the beginning of the last century down to the close 

 of the war of 1813. 



The other publication was Bulletin No. 5 of the Collections of the 

 Society, containing Winslow^s sketch of Nova Scotia in 1783, with an 

 introduction by W. 0. Raymond, LL.D. ; Monkton's Expedition on the 

 Saint John in 1758, and John Mitchell's Diary and Field Book Survey 

 of the Passamaquoddy in 1764, edited by W. F. Ganong, Ph.D.; Loyalists 

 in Arms, by Dr. Raymond; Tabulated Returns of Loyalist Corps; Roll 

 of Officers of Loyalist Corps, and Loyalist Transport Ships in 1783. 



The meetings of the Society have been held with regularity, and 

 various papers of historical interest, chiefly relating to matters in New 

 Brunswick, prepared by the members, have been read at them. 



In the centre of the city of Saint John is a burial-ground, in which 

 rest fche. bodies of many of the Loyalist founders of the city. The 

 Society has interested His Worship the Mayor and members of the 

 Common Council in having a better care taken of the grounds and of 

 the few tombstones remaining that mark their resting place. 



The following is a list of the papers read before the Society in 

 the year past: — 



"Cohbett's Life in New Brunswick,'' by S. D. Scott; "The First 

 Common Council of the City of Saint John,-" by Clarence Ward ; " His- 

 torical Notes on Old City Landmarks," by Rev. W. 0. Raymond; "In- 

 sane Asylums,'' with an account of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at 

 St. John, by Rev. C. T. Phillips; "Sketch of the Life of Samuel de 

 Champlain," with interesting details of his career, by Rev. W. 0. 

 Raymond. 



The time occupied with preparations for the Champlain ter-centen- 

 ary somewhat interfered with the usual historical course of the Society. 



