This grass still grows naturally on the St. John River intervals, and is known to the farmers as “blue-joint.”
The reference is to the settlement made at Maugerville two or three years before, which at this time seems to have been called the Township of Peabody, in honor of Captain Francis Peabody.
Probably Port Le Bear (or Hebert) near Shelburne on the southern coast of Nova Scotia.
Captain Glasier seems to have been on excellent terms with Gov’r Wilmot. On 1st March, 1755, he wrote to Capt. Fenton of Boston, “I have received great civility from all sorts of people here in Halifax. I have made your compliments to the Gov’r and he has desired his to you; poor D——l has had the Gout all winter, which seems to be the General Distemper in this place amongst people of Rank.”
In another part of his letter Glasier says, “Capt. Falconer, who is on the spot, is desired to petition the Lords of Trade for this Island.” Capt. Falconer intended to have gone to the River St. John to assist in the management of affairs there, but this plan was upset by his being ordered with his regiment to Ireland.