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Saint Croix Courier, St. Stephen, NB
November 30, 1893

GLIMPSES OF THE PAST

Contributions to the History of Charlotte County and the Border Towns.

XCIII – ST. ANDREWS GRANTEES.¹

[Brief notes of some of the principal grantees of the town of Saint Andrews have been already given; others are to follow.]

John Dunn came from New York.  He was the second sheriff of Charlotte, holding that office from 1790 to 1803.  He was for many years comptroller of customs at St. Andrews, and was much respected.  A large stone tablet marks his grave in the old burial ground.  He died in 1829.

Daniel Grant was a Scotchman by birth.  He died in St. Andrews in 1834.

Daniel Brown, also a native of Scotland, died in St. Stephen in 1835, aged ninety-one, leaving upwards of two hundred descendants.

Lillie hill, at the head of Oak Bay, presumably took its name from John Lillie, who had a grant of land near that place; as did the Gallop stream, at the foot of the hill, from William Gallop, a prominent man among the new inhabitants, and one of their first magistrates.

Francis Norwood, of Cape Ann, carried on a fishing business at Passamaquoddy after the close of the war, and seems to have been the leader in the organization of the Cape Ann Association, to be mentioned later.

Dugald Thompson was a New York Loyalist who had taken refuge at Castine.  He died at St. Andrews in 1812, aged sixty-three.

William Stewart came from Castine, and was for many years a pilot at St. Andrews.

John Dogget was born in Middleboro, Mass., and died on Grand Manan in 1830.

William Vance built the first mill above the Mohannas, and may be considered the founder of the towns of Upper Mills and Baring.  Further mention of him will be made in connection with the Cape Ann Association.

Henry Goldsmith, an Irishman, and, it is said, a nephew of Oliver Goldsmith, the poet, became one of the leading men of the Cape Ann Association.  He had a saw mill at the place now called Bartlett’s Mills.

Matthew Limeburner had a mill not far distant, at the shore of the Waweig.²  One of the Chamcook lakes is still called Limeburner’s lake.

John and Martin Carlow were probably the brothers mentioned by Sabine, who, in 1778 ‘set out to travel to Halifax by land, and, after enlisting with the rebels to avoid detection, and various other adventures, arrived in Nova Scotia.’  They seem to have gone from Halifax to Castine after the occupation of Penobscot.

John McIntosh lived on the north slope of the hill in St. Andrews, not far from the site now occupied by the Algonquin Hotel.  When he grew old and infirm, his daughter, Katy McIntosh, took charge of the property-hence the name of Katy’s Cove.  She was a large woman, of masculine strength and appearance, and a terror to the boys who ventured to trespass on her land.³

Andrew Martin kept the old ‘St. Andrews Coffee House.’  The following statement of account⁴ tells its curious story:-

Dec. 1783

Andrew Martin to John McPhail  Dr.

Estimate of the value of the St. Andrews Coffee House, with the expense of removing it to St. Andrews:

This old house was well made for it still stands where it was rebuilt, at the foot of William street.

The Rementon of the St. Andrews grant was doubtless Jonathan Remington, of Pennfield.

William Towers was the principal workman engaged in the erection of the fort at Castine, and he also built the first house put up at St. Andrews after the removal.  He finally settled in St. David; where he died in 1835, at the age of eighty-four.  From him Tower Hill takes its name.  There is a tradition that his wife, on the arrival of the transports at St. Andrews, jumped from a boat into the water and waded ashore, in her eagerness to be the first person to land on the site of their new home.

¹Additional to articles lxxxiii and lxxxiv.

²Mr. Chas. Jamieson.

³Dr. R. K. Ross

⁴Published in the Bay Pilot (?) in 1878.

Addition: Article XCVI contains the following addition to this one: "Add to fourth paragraph, ‘William Gallop was registrar of deeds from 1786 to 1789.  In company with Colin Campbell and Thomas Wyer, he owned the Oak Point Bay mill, at the mouth of the stream which bears his name.’ 

Correction: Article CIV contains the following correction to this one: "If the tradition that William Vance built the first mill above the mouth of Mohannes stream is founded on a fact, he was probably not its sole owner.  The county records show that in 1795 Abiel and Eli Sprague gave to Samuel Milbery a bill of sale of three-eigths of a saw-mill, ‘situate and upon Scodiac or Saint Croix River, known and described by Mohannes Ripplings’; and there can be little doubt that this was either the same or an earlier mill than that in which Vance was concerned."

Correction: Article CIX contains the following correction to this one: "Capt. Goldsmith should not have been mentioned as a grantee of St. Andrews."