126 ; Timehri. 
His colours as shown were white and red stripes. Forrester kept a large store in 
Stabroek and one of his descendants is now representing the colony at the 
Coronation. 
Old Firebrace, a legal practitioner in 1821-1825, and afterwards Judge of the 
Roll Court, is in the flesh as I see the brass candlestick and mammoth engraved 
old barrel shade and I wonder howmany judgments the worthy gentleman 
wrote under its dim lustre. 
A richly gilt china cup and saucer and old English clock by Arnold and Dent 
of London bring us to the halcyon days when the Essequebo Coast was one vast 
sugar bearing country. They were presented to old Chapman for making top 
sugar In quantity and quality. He stipulated that the clock should have a string 
so that when he was in bed and awakened by the estate’s watchman he could 
pull the string and see whether it was really time to get up, and his behest was 
carried out. He lived toa good oldage. He leaves behind him the Stephensons 
of Essequebo as his descendants. The old man would sit by the clock a'l 
day when in the sere and yellow leaf, and he died with the companion of his 
youth and splendour by his bed. 
John Daly, Administrator General of the colony, is represented by two 
Lowestoft cups with his monogram in gold showing that he had visited the 
celebrated Potteries whilst in England. His brother wasa merchant here. One 
of his nephews 1s in the Post office and another in the Colonial Bank. 
Old Thierens’ grandfather speaks to me from an old Dutch teapot and spirit 
lamp and cup painted in the best Dutch style of the period. He was Commander 
ad interim of Essequebo in 1791-1793 and was beloved of all the people there. 
The older inhabitants of Scapie used to point with pride to the tablet on his grave 
and I remember old Schomburgk, a river captain, telling me that his father, 
the explorer, spoke highly of the Commander. He repeated himself in the 
history of the colony through J. T. Thierens, Provost Marshal, and J. H. Other- 
bien, First Marshal of the Colony. The people under Thierens’ kept up the Dutch 
language at Agatash and Fort Island until recent times. 
Some pieces of white and gold Spode raise a smile whenever I look on them 
for did they not belong to that eccentric Magistrate, old McNulty ? He never 
looked to the right or the left when going to Court and he could give old Imlach 
some points n the language which is not fit for publication. Once he swore 
at his groom, old Firebrace, who had been lent to him by the Judge of that 
name. Firebrace knowing the peculiarity of the Beak drove him to the Board 
of Police and there laid a charge for abusive words. 
Four pieces of white and gold stone ware recall the days of serfdom. They 
belonged to Miss Van Cooten who had an interest in Vryheid’s Lust and were 
given by her to one of her old slaves, Simpson by name, from whom I got them 
Simpson was called after the g. q. of Miss Van Cooten and he kept a store and 
was agent for several estates. The Van Cootens and Simpson were related. 
There is a Van Cooten, a painter to-day, an old man, and the Simpsons are repre- 
sented by the Richardsons, one of whom is a Solicitor, 
