of New Brunswick, leaving to Nova Scotia only the peninsula which is bounded on the north of the Misseguash River. The British government expended vast sums in settling the Loyalists in Nova Scotia, and it pensioned a large number of them who had served in the war. It also gave by way of recompense to those who had lost their property the sum of £3,292,455 sterling, which may well be described as an unparalleled instance of generosity on the part of a nation which had already expended one hundred and sixty millions in carrying on a fruitless

contest.

St. John, which is pre-eminently the -Loyalist city, is a place of great interest to whose who would study the story of the Loyalists. The old graveyard, which lies in the very heart of the city and contains some four acres of land, is the resting place of many thousands of them, some of whom were men of great eminence in their day in the old colonies.

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original foundation in 1784. further told by the inscription that he had, for many years before the war which terminated in the independence of the United States, been an eminent barrister and attorney at law, and that he was the last attorney-general under his majesty in the late province of Massachusetts Bay. Judge Putnam died on the 23d of October, 1789, aged sixty-four years. Putnam was regarded as the greatest lawyer of his day in Massachusetts, and it was in his office that John Adams, the future president of the United States, studied law, being at the same time resident in his family. Putnam was of the same family as General Isaac Putnam, the soldier of the Revolution. John Adams describes Judge Putnam "as a man who possessed great acuteness of mind, who had a very extensive and successful practice, and who was eminent in his profession."

The same vault contains the remains

of Jonathan Sewall, who died in 1796. Sewall also was attorney-general of Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard University of 1748, and a close friend of John Adams. Sewall and Adams frequently lived together, and often slept in the same chamber, and sometimes in the same bed. It was in 1767 that Sewall was appointed attorney-general; and of him Adams remarks that his influence with judges and juries was as great as was consistent with an impartial administration of justice; that he was a gentleman and a scholar; that he possessed a lively wit, a brilliant imagination, a great solidity of reasoning, and an insinuating eloquence. Sewall was an addresser of Hutchinson in 1774, and in September of that year his elegant house at Cambridge was attacked. by a mob and much injured. His name appears among the proscribed and banished, and among those whose estates were confiscated. Sewall attempted to dissuade John Adams from attending the first continental Congress, and it was in reply to his arguments as they walked on the great hill at Portland that Adams used the memorable words, "The die is now cast; I have now passed the Rubicon; sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, with my country, is my unalterable determination." They parted and met no more until 1788, long after the great contest had closed. Sewall's wife was Esther, a daughter a daughter of Edmund Quincy, and a sister of the wife of John Hancock. His son, Jonathan Sewall,

rose to distinction, and became chiefjustice of Lower Canada. The Putnam tomb therefore contains the remains of two men who occupied the most distinguished positions in the Massachusetts colony.

Another family that is represented in the old graveyard is that of Bliss, so wellknown throughout Massachusetts. Jonathan Bliss, whose wife and son are buried here, was a native of Springfield, Mass., and a graduate of Harvard of 1763. He was a member of the general committee of Massachusetts in 1768, and one of the seventeen rescinders. He was proscribed under the act of 1778. He rose to be chief justice of New Brunswick, and died

lie interred the bodies of Colonel Chaloner, who was high sheriff of Newport in the British colony of Rhode Island, and afterwards one of his majesty's justices of the peace for King's County, N. B., and of his wife, Ann Chaloner. Here also lies interred Robert Parker, a Massachusetts Loyalist who became a storekeeper of the province of New Brunswick, and

The Rectory Porch, Kingston.

died at St. John at an advanced age. Two of his sons became judges of the supreme court of the province. The name of Prince, so well-known in the annals of Massachusetts, also finds a representative in this burying ground. The Prince family of New Brunswick can trace their descent back to the Rev. John Prince, the first historian of Massachusetts. Here also lies Thatcher Sears of Connecticut, who died in St. John in 1819, aged sixty-seven. Thatcher Sears was descended from the Rev. Peter Thatcher of Boston, and was the second son of Nathaniel Sears of Norwich, Conn. The noted whig, King Sears, as he was called, of New York, was his father's brother. In early life Thatcher Sears

was much employed in the Mohawk country, under the patronage of Sir John Johnston, in the purchase of furs. His pecuniary affairs were injured by the burning of Norwich, and were otherwise deranged in consequence of his adherence to the fortunes of the crown. He was finally forced to leave home, when he sought refuge with the royal army in New York. In 1783, he was one of the emigrants that went to St. John, and he received the grant of a lot of land in King Street, which is still owned by his descendants. "With a sorrowful and heavy heart," he said, "I commenced the task of cutting down and hewing the timber for the building which was to be the shelter and abode of myself and family in our exile in the wilderness." Thatcher Sears enjoyed the distinction of being the only man of his family who was a Loyalist. His descendants still reside in St. John. Here also is the tomb of David Waterbury, who was born in Stamford, Conn., in 1758, and who died in St. John in 1813. The name of Garrison, so well-known in Massachusetts, is also represented here. A stone records the death of Nathan Garrison, who, we are told, departed this life suddenly, February 18, 1817, in the thirty-ninth year of his Nathan Garrison was a brother of Abijah Garrison, the father of William Lloyd Garrison, the great Anti-Slavery apostle. Abijah Garrison was born in New Brunswick, and probably died there, but there is no stone to mark his grave.

age.

The old graveyard was closed in 1848, and since then many of the monuments erected to the Loyalists have disappeared. Others have been removed to the rural cemetery, which is situated about two miles from the city. Among those who were originally buried in the Old Buryingground and afterwards removed were the Hon. William Hazen and his family, Isaiah Chandler, and Amos Botsford. The Hon. William Hazen was a resident

Colonel John Allan made his raid on the St. John River during the Revolutionary war, was taken prisoner, but escaped and made his way to Halifax, and gave the royal forces the warning that led to troops being sent to St. John. The house which he erected is still standing in that part of the city of St. John formerly known as Portland. It is situated at the corner of Simonds and Brook Streets, and was erected prior to

exceedingly comfortable. The frame and other materials probably came from New England, the frame being of oak, which is not found in abundance in New Brunswick. The clapboards on it are of a style not often seen at the present day, some of them being thirty-five or forty feet long. They are of clear pine, and appear to have been cut out of the log full length, by hand, with a whip-saw, after which they had been planed, and had a bead run on the edge. Although they have been more than a century exposed to the weather, the material is so excellent that they are just as sound as the day they were put on the house. This house was the scene of many festivities in the early days of the province.

Lyons flouse!!