James D. Howe reads a vaulable paper on Col. David FANNING, a North Carolina loyalist who came to this city and settled in this province where he lived for several years. He afterwards removed to Digby, N.S. where he died in 1825 at the age of 70. .. Mrs. FANNING' maiden name was Sarah CARR. She was born in South Carolina and her family were also Loyalists. Several of the name served under Col. Fanning and Capt. William CARR of the Chatham county loyal militia was married at the same time and place, with Col. Fanning. The marriage took place in the early summer of 1782. "I concluded within myself that it was better for me to try and settle myself, being weary of the disagreeable mode of living, I had borne with for some considerable time, and for the many kindnesses and the civility of a gentleman, who lived in the settlement of Deep River, had introduced me to pay my addresses to his daughter, a young lady of 16 years of age. The day of the marriage being appointed, on making it known to my people, Capt. Wm HOOKER and Capt. William CARR agreed to be married with me. They both left me to make themselves and the supposed wives ready, and the day before we were to be coupled, the rebels before mentioned, with their good horses came upon them and Capt. Hooker's horse being tied so fast, he could not get him loose until they caught him and murdered him on the spot. Capt. Carr and myself was married and kept two days merriment. The rebels thought they were sure of me then; however, I took my wife and concealed her in the woods with Capt. Carr's and caused an anonciation to be put out that I had gone to Charleston; in order to be convinced the rebels sent a man in as a spy with two letters from General Leslie (the British commander in South Carolina) with instructions to me to enlist men for the service which I knew was forged, in order to betray men." .. Finding the British cause hopeless, Col. Fanning sent a flag to General Marion, the celebrated Carolina partisan, with a request that he would grant safe conduct to his wife and some property to the British garrison in Charleston. ... Many years after peace had healed partially the wounds of the great revolution, Mrs. Fanning revisited the home of her childhood in South Carolina and spent some months with her relatives who had remained there. One relic of that eventful visit is still preserved in Digby, a gourd or drinking vessel formed from a plant grown in that state and which was presented to her on the eve of her departure for Nova Scotia by an old negro slave owned by her relatives. After a married life of 43 years and a widowhood of eight, the old partisan and his wife were again united. (see original - abridged)