See Hannay’s article on the Maugerville Settlement, Collections of N. B. Hist. Soc., Vol. 1, p. 63.
Hugh Quinton is called Captain Quinton by the rebel Col. John Allan in his diary, printed in Kidder’s “Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revolution.” The report of Major Studholme’s exploration party in 1783 states that “Quinton was one of the Cumberland party, but since hath taken the Oath of Allegiance to his Majesty and behaved in a loyal manner; turned out sundry times and fought the rebel parties.”
A pretty full account of the siege of Fort Cumberland will be found in the Canadian Archives for 1894, pp. 355–366. Other particulars are to be found in Kidder’s Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia, pp. 67–74.
Commonly called Mahogany Cove, about three miles to the west of the harbor of St. John.
That is Simonds house at Portland Point.