John Quinton says he heard this story many times from his grandmother’s lips. She was a woman of remarkable memory and lived until the year 1835. It would seem very improbable she could be mistaken as to the date of such an event.
Samuel Tilley and Lodewick Fisher were the progenitors respectively of Sir Leonard Tilley and Hon. Charles Fisher, the one came from Long Island, N. Y., the other from New Jersey. It is curious they should have settled on adjoining lots in view of the intimate relations of their distinguished grandsons in the battle for responsible government. The other names given above are those of officers in Lt.-Col. Van Buskirk’s battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers who were of Dutch descent.
See previous chapters, pp. 63, 110.
Several of these books are now in my possession.—W. O. R.
John Anderson was one of the first magistrates of the original county of Sunbury, appointed Aug. 17, 1765. He had a trading post, which he called “Moncton,” just above the Nashwaak on the site of the modern village of Gibson. The deed referred to above is one of the earliest on record in the province.