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therein, 118 were from Connecticut, twenty-nine from Rhode Island, 
twenty from Massachusetts, twenty-two from Dutchess County, 
New York, eight from New Jersey, three from Long Island, and one 
from Pennsylvania. Of those from Connecticut, Stamford furnished 
thirty-eight, Norwalk thirty-four, Reading fourteen, Stratford nine, 
New Haven seven, Fairfield four, Milford and Danbury two each, 
while New Milford, Killingsworth, and Newtown are credited with 
one each. Five are indefinitely assigned to ‘‘Connecticut.’’ The 
occupations of the men of the party, which also appear in the manifest 
were well adapted for the pioneer work they had undertaken; more 
than half of them were farmers, and there was also a goodly sprinkling 
of carpenters and shoemakers. In addition there were two black- 
smiths, a refiner of iron, a wheelwright, a cooper, a joiner, a mason, 
a weaver, a seaman, and an attorney-at-law.! 
Mr. Bates tells us that when the women and children set eyes on 
the unbroken wilderness at Belleisle Bay they “did not refrain from 
tears.’ Most of the company spent the night on the sloop which, 
after landing had been effected the next morning, took its departure. 
Then came the labor of setting up a sufficient number of tents to fur- 
nish shelter for all. This was accomplished the first day. On the 
second the settlers were alarmed by the approach of ten canoes filled 
with Indians of the Mimac tribe, but the visit proved to be a friendly 
one, the spokesman of the Mimacs greeting the whites with the generous 
and readily understood remark, “‘We all one brother.” Convincing 
force was given this crisp introduction by liberal presents of moose 
meat, which the little colony in the wilderness received with gratitude. 
In July Frederick Hauser was commissioned to survey the new settle- 
ment, according to the desires of its inhabitants. As a base for his 
operations a site was designated for a church and school-house, from 
which a series of twenty-two lots were laid out on either side of a road 
that was made six rods wide. It was agreed that the land for the school- 
house and church should comprise four acres, one each from the 
adjacent corners of the first four lots; that lot No. 1 on the west side 
of the road should be reserved for a parsonage, and that the water 
privileges should be accorded to those who would engage to erect a 
grist mill and supply the sawn lumber for the two structures to be 
erected at the head of the road. After these provisions had been 
specified the lots were drawn, and the men at once set to work clearing 
spaces for building and laying up their log houses. By November, 
seventeen of these rude structures had been erected and covered with 

1 Bates, Kingston and the Loyalists of 1783, 10-13; Lawrence, Foot-Prints, or 
Incidents in the Early Hist. of N. B., 4; Jack, Centennial Prize Essay on the Hist. 
of the City and County of St. John, 63. 
