Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

42 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THEmany years, yet Capt. Rose retired as major on 13th June,.1866, and Lieutenant Clewly was promoted to the captaincyvice Rose. The names of the officers are elsewhere stated.Westmoreland county also appears to have had some menwho could handle the rattling gun. When on August 3rd, 1825,Sir Howard Douglas visited Sackville the Artillery company,under command of Capt. Harris, attached to the2nd battalion,fired a salute of fifteen guns. In this county the artillery wereattached to the 2nd and 3rd battalions, a departure from theusual course. The names of Westmoreland artillery officers,so far as known, are given in the appendix.In 1825, on nth July, when Sir Howard Douglas visitedMiramichi a salute of seventeen guns was fired, and later inthe year troops were called out because of the great fire. Itdoes not appear, however, that they were militia artillery.York county, which prior to 31st March, 1831, includedCarleton county, furnished considerable strength to the artilleryof those times—but from inaccuracy in detail of available recordsit is difficult to determine the precise commands held by theofficers named in connection with it. In 1824 Major GeorgeMiNCHiN appears, his commission bearing date the 25th Mayof that year. In 1826 Richard Dibblee, then a merchant ofFredericton, was lieutenant. He subsequently removed to Woodstockand became a company officer there. On loth September,1827, Sergeant-major James Holbrook was promoted toa lieutenantcy, and by orders of 20th March, 1832, he wasappointed to the captaincy of a new company, probably infantry.Abraham K. Smedes Wetmore, a prominent lawyer,-was on 22nd November, 1828, gazetted as lieutenant. He, too,afterwards removed to Woodstock, and succeeded on 17 thSeptember, 1833, to what was called the second captaincy.