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to itself all seigniorial rights. That this reply did not quiet the fears 

 of the colony was demonstrated three weeks later by a communication 

 from Captain Azariah Pritchard, who had recently visited Machiche 

 in the interest of a permanent settlement at Chaleurs Bay, which he 

 was promoting. While in Machiche Pritchard had noted an adver- 

 tisement posted for signers to settle at the Bay of Chaleurs and at 

 Cataraqui, and another, which Haldimand disapproved of, for signers 

 desiring to go to Mississquoi Bay, at the northern end of Lake Cham- 

 plain. He also saw a petition addressed to the Governor General, 

 which set forth the alleged unreasonableness of the terms under which 

 the government lands were being offered to Loyalists, and which stated 

 that there were gentlemen in the Province of Quebec who would sup- 

 port such persons as would settle on their estates until these settlers 

 could support themselves. Evidently these were seigniors in search 

 of tenants. 1 Another evidence of the discontent prevailing among 

 the refugees at Machiche is found in the application (December 11) of 

 Stephen Tuttle, formerly justice of the peace of Albany County, 

 New York, and deputy surveyor general of the province, on behalf 

 of himself and a number of families for permission to settle on the 

 Miramichi River in what is now northern New Brunswick. Although 

 Haldimand made no objection to this plan, Tuttle and his party were 

 still in the colony at the end of April, 1784. 2 



Early in the following May Seignior Gugy was able to send to 

 Quebec lists of those who were ready to locate at Cataraqui and at the 

 Bay of Chaleurs and one of such as were disinclined to go to either 

 locality. As these lists are no longer extant we do not know how many 

 names they contained; but from the testimony given before the 

 commissioners of loyalist claims in Canada several years later we 

 learn that a few members of various corps who had found their way 

 to Machiche by 1783 went soon after to Chaleurs Bay, settling chiefly 

 at New Carlisle. Among these were the schoolmaster Josiah Cass, 

 Lawrence McKenzie, John Lane, Christopher Pearson, Thomas 

 Shearer, Benjamin Betts, and Donald Munro. All of these men had 

 been residents of the Province of New York, although Cass was a 

 native of Connecticut, and Pearson had lived in Philadelphia before 

 removing to Tryon County, New York. Most of them had joined 

 Burgoyne's expedition, and had served afterwards to the end of the 



1 Haldimand Papers, B. 162, pp. 180, 227; B. 63, pp. 192, 193; B. 162, pp. 270, 

 271. 



2 Ibid., B. 162, p. 127; Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. I, 29; 

 Haldimand Papers, B. 63, p. 250. 



3 Ibid., B. 63, p. 267; Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. I, 328, 

 330, 337, 338, 344. 



