On Grand Lake - In 1783, John BELMAIN, David SIM, and a party of the brother Loyalists sailed through the Jemseg and into the Grand Lake. Their eyes wandered over the inbroken forest that lined its shores until they discovered, near Indian Poinyt, a small clearing or opening for which they steered their little vessel and founded the settlement of Scotchtown which extends from Douglas Harbour to Indian Point, a distance of about five miles, and chiefly occupied by their descendants today. The house built by John Belmain was the first frame dwelling ever erected on Grand Lake. ... surrounded by the present day residences of five of his grandchildren, David BELMAIN, Henry BELMAIN, Jacob BELMAIN, Lydia BELMAIN and Sophronia BELMAIN... It is related of Mr. Belmain that he was the first to erect a frame dwelling in Saint John and that his remains were interred in the Old Burying Ground in that city. Among other relics of old time shown the reporter by Henry Belmain was an elaborately carved powder horn, made by his maternal grandfather, David BRILL, in New York in 1780. In the burial ground at Scotchtown, the stately grantite monument was the oldest that the SUN reporter could discover: "Erected / To the memory of / David SIM / a native of Morayshire, Scotland / Who came to thids Province with the first Loyalists / from New York in 1783 and died / January 12, 1810, / Aged 72 years / Also / Jane / His wife, who died / February 7th, 1815, / Aged 82 years." Another Loyalist monument is inscribed: "In memory of / David BRILL / a native of New York / who died / Feb. 7, 1848 / Aged 86 years, / Also / Lydia / his wife / June 9, 1836 / Aged 78 years". ... On a point extending into Maquapit Lake, Solomon DENTON has a beautiful place ...At Jesse CLARKE's, about two miles distant from Mr. Denton's, he was shown three parchment deeds of property in New Jersey which were conveyed to his great grandfather, Alexander CLARK in 1627. Alexander Clark came to Saint John where he held the position of Master Armorer in 1783. He was buried at Grand Point. Mrs. Albert CLARK has in her possession a secretary and book case made by Alexander Clark at Jersey City in 1758. Katie THORN, 76 years of age, who lives not far from the boarding house of Abijah COAKLEY near Douglas Harbour, has in her possession the discharge of her father who served eight years in the Revolution under King George I. It is dated Saint John, 1783. The reporter has been sojourning for two days at the residence of Carey ESTABROOKS His grandfather, Rev. Elijah ESTABROOKS was born at Haverhill, Mass. in 1756. His parents removed to Halifax in 1763 and in 1768 to St. John. In 1777 they removed to that part of Waterborough now known as Canning. In 1800, the son Elijah was baptized by Rev. Joseph CRANDALL and in September of the same year he was ordained pastor of the church in Waterborough. He died in 1825. His wife, (formerl) Mary WHITTEMORE, bore 15 children of whom only two are living, Jarvis ESTABROOKS, age 82 and Charles ESTABROOKS, age 84. Jarvis married Deborah GILLIS, the daughter of a Loyalist who served seven years in the Revolution, by whom he had eleven children, eight of whom are now living, Carey being the tenth. The wife of Carey Estabrooks is shown by the recently published 'Genealogy of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick' to belong to the sixth generation of their descendants. They came to America in 1630. Jarvis Estabrooks occupied the home in which his father and mother lived and died until 16 years ago, when he became owner of the place on Maquapit Lake where, with his son, he presently resides. He has for sixty years been a member of the Baptist Church and for fifty-seven years been an office bearer in the church at Canning. (see original)