48 FRANCIS PEA BODY. 



1809 Jas. Fraser and Alex Taylor. 



1816 Jas. Fraser and Richard Simonds. 



1819 Richard Simonds and Joseph Saunders. 



1820 Richard Simonds and Hugh Munro. 

 1827 Richard Simonds and Alex. Rankin. 



1829 Alex. Rankin and Joseph Cunard. 



1830 Alex. Rankin and Joseph Cunard.'' 



He also gives in his list of ships hiTilt between 1820 and 1830 : 



" Builders. No. Tonnage. Supposed Value. 



Francis Peabody & Co. 5 1.594 £15.940 .0.0 " 



Nor does Peabody seem to have had any connection with the 

 central Government offices. The seat of Customs was not at that 

 time either in Chatham or Newcastle, but at a point half way be- 

 tween, at Bushville, and the Customs officials were men sent out 

 from England for the purpose. The custom house was a small 

 one-story building with a portico with green columns It stood 

 slightly back from the road at the North West corner of the 

 Ullock property, below Judge Wilkinson's, and John Wright, 

 when he was Customs Collector, lived in a cottage-roofed house a 

 little further back from the road and in the centre of the lot. This 

 house was only lately burned down 



To find out who were the appcjintees here I have written to 

 Fredericton, Ottawa and London, and have searched all available 

 material at the Custom House here, where I came across 

 an old book of Ships Entries or Ship Register, in which I find 

 John Wright's name signed as Collector of Customs fiom 22nd 

 June, 1828, to Nov. 3rd, 1834. He was evidently the Im^jerial 

 Collector sent out from England, but how far back his appoint- 

 ment, or how long after he continued to act, I do not know, but if 

 I get a reply to my letter sent to the Customs Deimrtment, Lon- 

 don, before 1 finish this paper, J will put it in the Addenda. In 

 this book also, signed as Controller, I find attached the name of 

 George Pinchin. This I took to be the appointee of the Local 

 Government, as then there were always two. one Imperial, the 

 other Local. I wrote to Fredericton, and, through the kindness 

 of Jos. Howe Dickson, I have the following : 



"1828, June 25: Dedimus to James Peters to qualify George 

 Pinchin. 



1832. Leave of absence to George Pinchin as comptroller, 



