Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

N. B. GARRISON ARTILLERY. 43which appears really to have been the captaincy of a secondcompany.His predecessor was George P. Bliss, who, on lothSeptember, 1827, had been appointed and now received amajority. There is also a reference in militia records to Capt.Thomas Jones, artillery, 3rd York battalion. He was appointedon 3rd July, 1829, but of him there is no further trace.John Saunders Shore was gazetted lieutenant on 25thAugust, 1834, and Donald McLeod on 2nd September in thesame year. The former succeeded to a captaincy on the deathof Major. Bliss, i8th June, 1836, and George M. Odell wasappointed lieutenant on the same day. These officers cameinto the regimental formation in 1838.In 1833 another St. John company was formed under CaptainThomas L. Nicholson, with John Pollok, ChartersSimonds and William Ross as lieutenants. This was thePortland company. Nicholson was an auctioneer and commissionmerchant on the North wharf; Pollok was in RobertRankin & Co., an old time firm of great repute ; Simondswas in that employ and Ross was a steamboat engineer.Robert Reed, Esq., who died a few years ago, was afterwards,an officer in this company, and as a private wa* largely instrumentalin its organization. He was then a clerk with JamesWhitney, the pioneer steamboat owner of St. John. Shortlybefore his death he mentioned James Anderson and JohnHopkins, of St. John, as the only survivors of the originalcompany. In the same year Sergeant Robert Robertson andCharles J.Melick were appointed second lieutenants in theCoLViLLE company.St. John has always boasted of a ' Kid Glove ' battery. Onewas formed in 1834 by the appointment on 26th April ofWilliam Parker Ranney as captain, William Hughson as