Fredericton where he resided. His son was killed in World War 1: Benjamin, wife
Marion Allen of Boston, Mass. lived in Boston for a time. He was a
bookkeeper. He and family came to St. Andrews to live with his mother, who
had moved in from Bocabec when R.B. Sr. had died. After the death of his
mother, they moved to Fredericton. His son, Horace, is a lawyer there and
daughter Ruth married a Hyslop, of St. Stephen, and went to Calgary. The
youngest son of Burpee was Richard Burpee (Dick) of Fredericton, lawyer and
politician, well known all over Canada. His wife, Dot Cadwalder, of Marysville,
daughter of Professor Cadwalder, music professor at the Provincial Normal
School. His one child Hope married in Halifax, N.S. A lumberman, Burgess, from
L’Etete, lived in that house one winter, followed by George Holt and wife
Helen Dixon, teacher, while having his home built--oh the painting and
papering that had to be done ! Their son, Kenneth Holt (now a banker in
Ontario for many years) was born there. Then they moved to Holt's Point
road where he had been given two acres from the estate of his great aunt,
Miss Kavend.

    Next to the Bill Hanson place was the old John Hanson house, father of
Isaac, Judson, etc. This, in my girlhood, was empty for many years, but later
Alberta, youngest daughter of Isaac Hanson and Eliza Ann Dawson, who had lived
in the States from early girlhood, married Mr. Walker in Truro, N.S. who did
not live many years. She came back to Bocabec and built up the old home of her
grandfather, and spent the rest of her days there. When she married, she had
persuaded a dear friend of hers, Miss Whittier, to go to Truro with her and
so Miss Whittier, came here with her. Mrs. Walker, at her death, gave her the
home. Miss Whittier and brother and his family came for a few years, then
rented the cottage in summer. Among them were the Davis family of Houlton, Dr.
Russel, a woman doctor of Boston with two foster daughters, Anice Rideout and
Doris Russel; Doris later married Herbert Gates and they bought the cottage and
ever since has been known as the “Gates Cottage". Their son is Herbert Chisholm
Gates, now in Boston. Doris later rented the cottage for many summers to Miss
Susie Turner, Saint John, niece of Mrs. Botterell's, until the house was not fit
for use.

    Not far from McGills gate, nearer to Exchange, is a road leading to shore--
passes by the camps where Kenneth Foster and family used to live. At the shore
is a new camp built by Ralph Lord of St. Andrews, on the property of Mr. McGill,
old Bill Hanson land. The property adjoining is now adjoining the present Mrs.
Miles Foster property. In the early days of the Empire Loyalists, my great
grandparents Rachel Clark husband Charles Carrick, residents of Castine, Maine,
were given three grants of land -- one near Mohannes Stream, St. Stephen, a
house lot at St. Andrews, and a farm lot at Digdeguash. It was very lonely there
and they frequently came down to visit their old friends from Castine, Mrs.
Hanson and Mrs. Turner, near the end of Holt’s Point Road. One time Mrs. Hanson
told them there was a place for sale nearly opposite to them, down in the field.
Mr. Ballantyne was selling and moving away. The Carrick’s purchased the place
and left the place up in Digdeguash. Evidently land meant nothing to them, for
they just never tried to locate or doanything with the three grants. Gillis
people took up the Digdeguash place. The Bocabec place was known for many years
as the"Carrick Place". One of the family, Anne Carrick, married a deep sea
captain, Capt. George Matthew Keavend of Edinburgh, Scotland, sailing from the
Port of Leith. He brought many enigrants [sic] to this country, chiefly from Northern
Ireland. Capt. Kavend and Anne Carrick were married in St. Andrews, by Rev.
Dr. Galley, Anglican, and lived in St. Andrews. After a few years he changed
his port of call to Saint John, where they resided. His daughters were Janet
and Elizabeth. We meet them later in our story of Bocabec. Others of the
Carrick family were: Mary (Polley) who married John Orr Sr., and became the
mother of John and Thomas Orr, Elizabeth (Betsy) who died in her fifties, and
James. When James was left alone following the death of his mother and sister,
he gave the farm to Elizabeth Kavend and Thomas Taylor of Milltown, Maine, who
at James’ death moved back to Milltown, after selling Carrick farm to John and
Nettie Orr. For many years Mr. & Mrs. Orr had no family. They adopted a boy,
Taffy Orr, whom I well remember. Then they had a family of seven-- four girls
and three boys: Julia, Mrs. Jackson, Portland, Maine; Louise who had gone to
Worcester with her uncle, William Brown: Ellen, and Clara, Mrs. Snow, in Boston.
And sons, Harry: George--of Mass. and Amos of California. Can’t think of
any there until Edmund Holt and family, who fished weirs at Holt’s Point, for
a long time. His daughter Ethel, later Mrs. Howard Greenlaw, St. Andrews and
sons Lewis, John, Eugene and Harold. Mr. Holt and family moved away, first
to St. Andrews, then to a place on Magaguadavic River above Bonney River. Lewis
and family moved to Maine for a number of years. When Edmund Holt moved away