PRANCT8 PEABODY. 41 



Tin. mink and musquash skins, white pine, red pine, and black 

 hirch timber, white pine lath wood, white pine masts, spruce 

 spars, W. P. boards, clear boards and planks, and shingles. 



There was at this time a i?reat deal of trouble with the Indians, 

 who were particularly hostile. Cooney says that "the sedition of 

 a Mr. McLean, who suffered at Quebec, for conspiring against the 

 GovernTnent, and whose execution took place, I believe, in the 

 fall of 1793, afforded an opportunity to the Indians for renewing 

 their outrages. It is said that this man was here ; that he used 

 every means to excite a revolt among them, and that he secretly 

 supplied them with arms and ammunition. It is also stated, that 

 for some time after he w^ent from this, the Indians freqviently 

 assembled in great numbers, at Burnt Church and Moody's Point. 

 On one occasion, upwards of two hundred of them met at the for- 

 mer ])lace, and concerted measures for the total extirpation of the 

 people, when the timely arrival of the Rev Mr. Cassinette, a 

 Roman Catholic priest, from Gaspe. put an end to the conference, 

 by informing them of the fate of the man who had seduced them 

 from their all giance. On receiving this disagreeable intelligence 

 they all returned to their duty : and the people who had been 

 obliged to abandon their homes, and concentrate themselves at 

 Mr. Henderson's, in Chatham, and other places of defence, return- 

 ed to their res])ective homes, and enjoyed a tranquility which has 

 never since been disturbed by the Indians." He further states 

 that at this time "there were then, neither churches nor schools, 

 roads or bridges, ferries or highways. Every one travelled by 

 water ; communication was tedious and uncertain ; travelling dan- 

 gerous and fatiguing ; su]iplies extravagantly dear and very i)re- 

 carious ; delicacies unknown and privations fHmiliar." 



Such then was the state of the country at the rime of the arriv- 

 al of Francis Peabody in 1800. 



Now who was Peabody? For the history of himself and family 

 I am indebted to the history written by Ven. Archdeacon Ray- 

 mond, LL. D , of St. John, N. B. He gives, as copied from an 

 old paper \i\ possession of the Perley family at Fredericton, the 

 following: 



"In the year 1761 a number of provincial officers and soldiers 

 in New England, who had served in several campaigns during the 

 then French war, agreed to form a settlement on the St . John 



