The names of the associates in this grant were Dorothy Sterling, Walter Sterling, jr., Christopher Sterling, Ann Sterling, William Sterling, Andrew Sterling, John Ewer, Walter Ewer and John Francis.
The two preachers were in all probability Rev. Theodore S. Harding and Rev. Joseph Crandall. See Dr. Bill’s History of the Baptists, page 698. The people referred to as “Brooksites” by Sheriff Bates were the founders of the Baptist denomination in Waterborough and Canning, Queens county, N. B., over whom Rev. Elijah Estabrooks presided as teaching elder, with Joseph E. Brooks (or Estabrooks) as deacon, and Zebulon Estey as clerk. An interesting account of the origin of this church is to be found in Dr. Bill’s Hist. of the Baptists pp. 594–602. Another reference to the “Hammonites” and “Brooksites” will be found in the Winslow Papers, page 392.
That is the portage to Marble Cove, or Indiantown, above the falls. This portage is shown in Champlain’s plan of Saint John. It was used by the Indians long before the coming of the whites.
Dr. Seabury was consecrated first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, November 14th, 1784.
Sampson Salter Blowers was appointed chief justice of Nova Scotia in 1809. He died in 1842 in his 100th year having outlived all his contemporaries. He was a man of wonderful vitality and is said never to have worn an overcoat.