Someone sent this to me and I am JUST passing it on. Saint Croix Courier, St. Stephen, NB January 26 1893 GLIMPSES OF THE PAST Contributions to the History of Charlotte County and the Border Towns. LII - PIONEERS OF SCHOODIC. In 1779 or the following year, so far as can now be ascertained, there were nine persons settled on the present site of the town of St. Stephen-James and Jeremiah Frost, Benjamin Getchell, Samuel Milberry, Samuel, Jacob and Eben Libby, John Rolfe and Dr. McDonald.1 On the opposite side of the river, (soon afterwards known as Plantation No. 5, now the city of Calais,) three more had made their homes-William Swain, David Ferrol and Daniel Hill. The latter were joined a year or two later by Samuel Hill, Jones Dyer, Abiel Sprague, James Sprague and others; and at the time of the landing of the Loyalists there were perhaps fifteen or twenty families living in log houses, on both sides of the Schoodic, at or near the head of tide waters, and within the present limits of the three towns. Most of these settlers had come from Machias; and the valuable timber lands and convenient water powers were the attractions which brought them here. They built a saw-mill at the mouth of Dennis stream, which now forms the eastern boundary of the town of St. Stephen; and there began, under most unfavorable circumstances, the lumber trade of the St. Croix. They found their principal market, probably, in the Annapolis valley and other parts of Nova Scotia where Loyalist refugees were already beginning to settle in considerable numbers. The owners of this first mill are said to have been Daniel Hill, Jacob Libby and Jeremiah Frost.2 It does not appear that any effort was made at the time to obtain a grant of the mill privilege, or to establish a legal claim to their land. In 1792 the mill privilege at the mouth of the stream was granted to a company, in which were Jacob and Eben Libby, Jones Dyer and Ebial (Abiel) Sprague, and also James Chaffey, of Indian Island, with others who were later comers. Another mill privilege adjoining this was at the same time granted to John Curry, James Chaffey and Sarah Frost; the latter, the widow of Jeremiah Frost, holding six of the eight shares. Of the persons above named, James and Jeremiah Frost were probably the first to come. We know little more about them, except that Jeremiah came to Passamaquoddy in 1770. Swain and Ferrol were also here before the coming of the Machias men. Swain's house stood near to where the pumping station of the water works stands to-day, not far from the Calais end of the upper bridge in Milltown. The site of Ferrol's house is somewhere near the railway station in Calais. =========== In 1769, James Brown and Jeremiah Frost located at St. Andrews, and william Ricker in 1771 built himself a home on Moose Island, now eastport; and thus these towns had their beginning. (Knowlton Annals) About 1780, Daniel Hill, Jeremiah Frost and Jacob Libbey built a small, rude mill on Porter's Stream, near it's mouth. This was the first saw mill. It was supplied with logs from trees growing near the strea, cut and rolled in without the aid of a team. Here the first boards were sawed, and here the great business of the place began. (Knowlton Annals) Last Modified: 22 Mar 2005 do nv da go lvi---until we meet __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com