commanded by Captain Malcom, of Boston,
who was taken by the above frigate, as she was returning from
Quebec, where she had been on a trading voyage.

Names of the Indian Chiefs inhabiting the coast of Acadia:

Louis Frances, Chief of Miramichi,
Denis Winemowet, do. Tabogimkik,
Etienne Abchabo, do. Pohomoosh,
Claud Atanaze, do. Gediack,
Paul Lawrence, do. La Have,
Joseph Algimoure, do. Chignectou,
John Newit, do. Pictou,
Baptist La Morue, do. Isle of St. John's,
Reni, do. Nalkitgoniash,
Jeannot Piguidawelwet, do. Keshpugowitk,
Batelemy Aungualett, do. Minas,
Augustin Michael, do. Richibucto.

A NARRATIVE.

_Of the proceedings of the first settlers at the River St. John, under
the authority of the Government of Nova-Scotia._

In the year 1761, a number of persons from the county of Essex,
province of Massachusetts, presented a petition through their agent to
the Government of Nova-Scotia, for a grant of a Township of twelve
miles square at the river Saint John, they received a favorable answer
and obtained full authority to survey a tract of that dimension
wherever it might be found fit for improvement. In consequence many of
the applicants, proceeded in the course of the winter and spring
following to prepare for exploring the Country, and to survey such
Township: they provided a vessel for that purpose, and on the 16th May,
1762, embarked at Newburyport and arrived in three days at the harbour
Saint John (the 19th:) The party amounted to near twenty men, exclusive
of two families, who took passage in the same vessel, one of whom
shipped a small frame for a dwelling, and boards to cover it, with a
small stock of cattle; the frame and stock was landed the day of their
arrival; on the third day the house was finished and inhabited.

The exploring and surveying party then proceeded to view the lands
round the harbour and bay of Saint John in a whale boat, they brought
with them: for they could not travel on the land, on account of the
multitude of fallen trees that had been torn up by the roots in a
violent gale of wind, nearly four years previous. (The same gale
extended as far up the river as the Oromocto, and most of the Country
below that place, was equally incumbered with the fallen trees.)--After
making all the discoveries that could be made near the harbour, it was
the unanimous opinion that all the lands near that part of the Country,
w