Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 058

Transcript

Dr. Alexander Back, was an early settler, and originally had land on the Lincoln Road. He became postmaster here, in a small building on the Market Square, later Mrs Pope’s. He had an assistant named “Smutty” Thompson, and Bill Moore, a sailor man, who brought up the mail from Adams’ cottage at the Foot of the Hills, and then distributed the letters on horseback, coo-eying people out to get them. He afterward became mixed up with provincial Immigration, when thousands were being poured in, and was also Sheriff. He was a remarkable man in appearance, with strong black eyebrows, always very neatly dressed in black. A man of an honest fidgetty temperament.

[within the text is a sketch of a small building and the note: about 18 x 12]