The Masonic celebration - notes regarding some old craftsmen: Elias HARDY, Richard BONSALL - He was a Mason and came here as a Loyalist and his certificate from Lodge No. 213, New York, dated 18th August 1783 and that from Hiram Lodge, 1796, are now in the possession of his great-grandson, J. Sydney KAYE. Bonsall sleeps in the Old Graveyard since 1814. John SINNOTT was one of the old school teachers of Parr Town and afterwards a clerk in the Commissariat Dept.; George MATTHEWS who died in 1832 was one of our earliest shipmasters and perhaps the first harbor master. Wm CAMPBELL was second mayor of the city and served from 1795 to 1816, resigning from age. He succeeded Christopher SOWER as post master 1795 and was the founder of the St. Andrew's Society in 1798 and an elder in St. Andrew's church; Chapman JUDSON died in 1817 and was in the Ordnance Dept.; Charles McPHERSON was in the regular army. He built the Old Coffee House. Azor BETTS was a physician who died in Digby, N.S. in 1807 and grandfather of the late chaplain. Craven CALVERLY was first in the Royal Artillery and afterwards a West India merchant who built probably the greatest house in town in its day, the stone house on Main St. where John E. TURNBULL lived before the fire (of June 20th, 1877). He died in a French village in Kent Co. in 1851 at the age of 83 at the residence of his nephew, Calvin LANGSTROTH. John RYAN was a partner in the printer's firm here and removed to New Yale afterward. Abraham DePEYSTER was the first sheriff of Sunbury Co. after the separation from Nova Scotia and subsequently treasurer of the Province. Wm S. OLIVE was sheriff of St. John. John TOOLE was the grandfather of Charles WATTERS. His name appears as one of the first wardens of St. Malachi's Church. Samuel Denny STREET was an officer on service at Fort Howe in 1781. Afterwards he was admitted to the bar and became meorable for events which arose out of his defence of a slave on a trial in Fredericton in 1800. John BEARDSLEY was chaplain in Col. Beverley ROBINSON's regiment and afterwards became rector of Maugerville. David WATERBURY, 1758-1833, one of the founders of Trinity Church, was a first engineer and captain of the New Brunswick Artillery. In 1825, after he and many others fitted out a vessel laden with stores for the Miramichi sufferers, took off his hat and coat and threw them on the vessel as she drifted from the wharf. (see original)