See page [208], ante.
Speaking of the fishery in St. John harbor, Captain Glasier writes, under date December 15, 1764, “The Bass is ketcht in Weirs just under the Point below the Fort,” that is on the Carleton side of the harbor, and in the next sentence he goes on to identify this point or neck of land with that adjoining Fort Frederick. “The Cod Fish,” he says, “strikes in here a month sooner than at Cape Sable shore & goes off a month sooner; you ketch the Fish a league within the mouth of the Harbour and quite up to the Island [Navy Island] near the Point of Land I have asked for.”
The second contract, or Articles of Partnership, entered into by William Hazen, Leonard Jarvis, James Simonds and James White is printed in Collections of the N. B. Hist. Soc., Vol. I. p. 191. It is entered also in the book of records of the old County of Sunbury. The original document bears the following certificate, “Registered by me March 9th, 1782, Ja. Simonds, Dep’y Reg’r.”
This letter has unfortunately been lost.
The following inscription on the monument of Mrs. Sarah Hazen was written by her grandson, the late Chief Justice Chipman:
Sacred to the Memory of
MRS. SARAH HAZEN,Widow of the Honorable William Hazen, Esquire; who was born in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay on the 22d February, 1749; and died in the City of St. John on the 3rd April, 1823.
Exemplary for Christian piety and benevolence and the exercise of every female virtue. She bears to her Grave the fond recollections of a numerous host of Descendants and the esteem and respect of the community.