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Grant's place in 1784, until the home aiitharities should be consulted— 

 ordering Thos. Ainslie, collector of customs, at Quebec; Geo. Pownall, 

 cleTk of the court, and other publia servants, to pay aver to Caldwell 

 only, the public moneys received by virtue of their respective office. 

 The Colonel's permanent appointment was gazetted in 1794. 



On the 28th February, 1801, Col. Oaldwdl purchased from Gen- 

 eral James Murray, by the agency of Lt.-Col. Robert Matthews in 

 London, not only tilie lordly doimain of Laiizon (wliich included the old 

 parishes of Point Levy, St. Charles, St. Henri, part of St. Gervais, 

 St. Nicholas), but also the seigniories of Rivière du Loup, Madawaska, 

 Foucault, on Lake Cbamplain, Sans Bruit estate with Belmont manor, 

 near Quebec, together with the fief of St. Foy and a house in St. John 

 Street, Quebec. ,| i 



Price of sale, £10,180 sterling, payable in instalments. 



Wihen taken in connection with other real estate purchased. Col, 

 Caldwell then ranked with the greatest land owners in the province. 

 His speculations ux land were not always satisfactoTy. In 1788, 

 he had applied, but in vain, to Lord Grenville to be compensated by 

 the Crown for the loss of 20,000 acres of land which ^the verification 

 of the boundary between Canada and ithe United States had lopped 

 off, the 35,000 acres whidi liitherto had -eoimpiosed his seigniory of 

 Foucault (Caldwell manor) on Lake Ohamplaiin; he petitioned, in con- 

 junction with others, for Crown Lands from the British Government 

 and was informed that each petitioner ought to make a separate request; 

 thus were rewarded his military services ! 



The Hon. Henry Caldwell in the enjoyment of the perquisites 

 of his exalted post of Receiver-General was dmwn deeper and deeper 

 into land speculations and indusitrial schemes. The seigniory of 

 Lauzon soon could boast of a splendid grist mill and saw-mills at 

 St. Nicholas, Levi, Btchemdn. Roads were opened — bridges built — 

 colonization promioited. 



Belmont Manor,^ near Quebec — his elegant ihome — (the seat of 

 generous hospitality, burnt in 1798, had been improved and rebuilt. 

 Here 'Continued to reside, courted and esteemed, the hero of the two 

 sieges, 1759 and 1775. Col. Caldwell, according to tradition, seems 

 to have also been favoured \Mith a handsoime person. I well remember 

 being told by the late Hon. William Sheppard, of Woodfield, near Que- 

 bec, that le Imu militaire was supposed to have been the hero in Mrs. 



■^ Proprietors: Intendant Talon, 1670; Gen. James Murray, 1765; Hon. Henry 

 Caldwell, 1801; 8ir John Caldwell, 1810; John W. Dunscomi, 1854. 



Sec. II., 1903. 3. 



