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Assembly. In consequence of the dissatisfaction, a new Province 

 was formed and Col. Thomas Carleton came out in the fall of 1704 as 

 its first Governor. Courts of Justice were speedily established and were 

 hailed with great satisfaction. Benjamin Marston, first sheriff of 

 the County of Northumberland, writes in his diary under date Feb- 

 ruary 1, 1785: 



"The Supreme Court of Judicature opened this day at St. John for the first 

 time. The Chief Justice gave a very judicious, sensible charge to the Grand Jury. 

 The advantage of a dernier resort for justice in all civil and criminal cases will be 

 very great to the people of this new Province. They will find a mighty odds between 

 having Justice travelling regularly about among them and being obliged to cross 

 the Bay of Fundy and travel 130 miles to Halifax." 



The clamour for lands still continued and Elias Hardy was kept 

 busy promoting escheats and drafting memorials to the Governor in 

 Council. Governor Carleton was assiduous and sat in Council three 

 days in each week at the old Council Chamber in St. John. The extent 

 of the labours of the Governor and Council can only be appreciated 

 by those who have examined the immense number of land memorials 

 on file in the Provincial archives. 



Hardy was admitted Attorney at the Bar of New Brunswick on 

 the occasion of the opening of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice 

 Ludlow. He was not long in being recognized a^ a leader in his pro- 

 fession. 



About this time steps were taken for the incorporation of the City 

 of St. John and the consequent disuse of the name of "Parr-Town." 

 Edward Winslow writes on Jan. 13, 1785, to his friend Chipman: 



"I have never been an enthusiast for towns and cities, but I emphatically 

 endorse the selection of Col. G. G. Ludlow as Mayor, and if Mr. Hardy is induced to 

 accept the appointment of Common Clerk and the Council completed as planned 

 I shall expect to see Halifax evacuated by the most respectable of its inhabitants 

 and Sheiburne totally eclipsed and that immediately." 



Hardy did not get the position of Common Clerk, which passed 

 to the nestor of the New Brunswick bar, Bartholemew Crannell. 



On the death of Bartholemew Crannell in 1790, there were two 

 applicants for the vacancy, namely, Elias Hardy and Gabriel V. 

 Ludlow, the latter a son of the first Mayor and a nephew of the Chief 

 Justice. Stephen Sewell, who was at that time a law student with 

 Ward Chipman, wrote to his brother Jonathan (afterwards Chief 

 Justice at Quebec) as follows: 



"Gabe Ludlow has lost the Clerk's ofifice in a strange manner. It is considered 

 a curious circumstance by all the Whigs here. He had made application to the 

 Chief Justice a long time ago to use his influence in his behalf, but as the demon of 

 ill luck would have it the Chief never mentioned it to the Governor till the latter 



