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remembered. One old lady, Mrs. MacR, remembers his visit in 

 1797. 



"Mr. Perley remembers of his coming up from Bay du Vin, in a 

 vessel with two shipmasters, that he called at his house (that is 

 his father's), and that as they were at the door the doctor turned 

 their attention to a field of ripe wheat before them and said, 

 referring to the drooping heads, 'these were the heaviest, and so 

 they that have the most grace are the most huml)le.' On the first 

 and second visit he preached and baptized at Black River, Bay du 

 Vin, and on both sides of the Miramichi, up as far as the Point, so 

 called, at the junction of the North and South West Branches" ' 



In a letter in Appendix E. I find the following : 



"Fraser, Thom & Co., respectable merchants in Miramichi, 

 promised to write to Hunter & Co., Greenock, to answer the or- 

 der of the Rev. Jas. Robertson, Kilmarnock, for the passage of 

 the minister to that place, and we suppose he has performed it, or 

 if not, it will be done before the passage be long due." 



This letter is signed by James McGregor, Duncan Ross and John 

 Brown, and dated Pictou, Feb. 5, 1799. 



Cooney, in his history of Northern New Brunswick says : 

 "In 1790, agreeably to a contract made between him and Messrs. 

 Hunter & Robertson of Greenock, Mr Davidson shipped three 

 cargoes of masts and spars for His Majesty's dock yards on board 

 of the 'Achilles', Capt. Pike, the 'Admiral Parker,' Capt, Skin- 

 ner, and the 'Queen', Capt, Dawson. After the death of Mr. 

 Davidson which happened in the course of this year, the mast con- 

 tract was taken by Messrs. Fraser & Thom, a firm then lately 

 established on Beaubair's Island. For the five or six succeeding 

 years, the whole trade of the country, then embracing a very 

 brisk and profitable exportation of fish, furs, peltries, and sawed 

 lumber, fell into the hands of these gentlemen." 



The representatives of the County of Northumberland to the 

 General Assembly were : 



First returned — Elias Hardy and Wm. Davidson. 



1791 — Elias Hardy and Harris W. Hailes, Vice Davidson, de- 

 ceased. 



1793— General Election — John Black and Ward Chipman. 



1795— Dissolution of the House — James Fraser and Sam '1 Lee. 



This James Fraser was the Fraser of Fraser & Thom of Beau- 



