FRANCIS PEABODY. 45 



traded to Miramichi with a schooner loaded with dry and wet 

 goods and Leonard Hawbolt did business for him. 



1 am, Sir, 



Yours &c. . 

 (Signed) Wm Innis, Sr. 



The spruce stood opposite the Bowser House on the property 

 now owned by W. S. Loggie, M. P. 



Francis Peabody, after he settleddown here, acquired possession 

 of the north west f^orner of the Henderson farm, which includes 

 that portion on which to-day are the following properties — The 

 World office, MacLachlan's warehouse. A. & R. Loggie's ware- 

 houses and wharf, Hickey Bros' store, the house and store of the 

 late Hon. Senator Muirhead, the Telephone Exchange, Jas. Des- 

 mond s property, the Golden Ball property, Gillis house, &c., 

 around to Johnston street, with all its river frontage. He lived in 

 a small one-and-a-half story cottage that stood between Hon. Wm. 

 Muirhead's store and the Telephone Exchange, on what is now a 

 vacant lot. This cottage was afterwards struck by lightning and 

 consumed with all the outhouses connected with it, and two or 

 three cattle were burned, but this was after Peabody had moved 

 out. 



He had his store where The World office now is, and his busi- 

 ness grew to be very extensive. He built the first ship that was 

 built on the river. Where his shipyard vvas I am unable to find 

 out. Our oldest inhabitant says he thinks it was where Snow- 

 ball's mill now stands, and which was afterwards Cunard's ship 

 yard, but why he should go away down there a mile to build 

 when he had just as good a chance on his own property, where 

 Hon. Wm. Muirhead afterward built some large vessels, I 

 cannot understand. He built five vessels, as Mr. Innis says, and 

 the fifth one, that Mr Innis forgets, was the bark "Peabody," 

 which was lying at Newcastle the day of the Miramichi fire of 

 1825, drifted across the river, burnt to the water's edge and sank. 

 Some portions of it, with crockery, tables, utensils, &c., were 

 dredged up a few years ago, and one iron knee with copper bolts 

 was presented by Governor L. J. Tweedie to the Miramichi 

 Natural History Association and is now to be seen in their Museum. 

 Besides this property in town, Peabody owned lands from the 



