46 FRANCIS PKABODY. 



Bishop's residence that now is back to the swamp beyond the 

 Chatham Branch, I C. R. , on the West side of the Chapel road, 

 with barns on it for storing tlie ])roduce. 



He built what at that time must have been considered a splendid 

 residence in 1838, viz. , that large two- story house occupied and 

 owned afterwards by the Hon. Wm. Muirhead, and now owned 

 by A. & R Loggie and occupied at present by Mr. Babineau as 

 "Babineau's Hotel." The work on this house was done by 

 Andrew Currie, stone mason, and is a fine piece of work, as the 

 cement and joinings, &c., are all as perfect to-day apparent'y as 

 the day it was built ; but a third story in wood has lately 

 been added to it. He was a man of considerable importance on 

 the river and was quite well off. He was the means of giving the 

 town its name, as Mr. Innis shows in his letter. One of his ves- 

 sels and a street in town, viz., what is now lower Duke St., from 

 Princess to St. Andrew's St., were called after his wife, Lydia. 



He had no family but his wife lived until . 1845, and is well re- 

 membered by some persons still living. 



Some of the i^rincipal men in Chatham, in consideration of the 

 .services rendered by Mr. Peabody to the town, had a large oil 

 painting, about 4x5 feet, made of him by some artist in the old 

 country and presented to him. 



This portrait at his death fell in o the hands of his legal 

 adviser, the late George Kerr, Esq. At Mr. Kerr's death it fell 

 into the hands of his clerk or amanuensis, John Ellis, Esq., and 

 after his death the late Dr. Joseph Benson obtained it from Mrs. 

 Ellis, and at Dr. Benson's death it passed to his sisters, the Misses 

 Benson, in whose hands it now is. This picture shows a fine look- 

 ing old man with a thick growth of long grey hair around a face 

 of strong, pronounced, firm features, bright black eyes, a clean 

 shaven face, with a prominent nose and a set mouth. He Is 

 seated beside a small table, on which lies a book and an old- 

 fashioned folded letter with a large wax seal, His right hand lies 

 on the arm of his chair ; the left lies on his lap, holding his well- 

 remembered tortoise shell and silver snuff box. A photograph of 

 this portrait, as well as his coat of arms and his signature 

 (original), are to be seen in the museum of the Miramichi Natural 

 History Association at Chatham. (See cut in this number.) 



The coat of arms is Azure, a chevron or between a Lion passant 



