~25~ _ captain, one or two lieutenants, an ensign, a doctor, a com' missary, and an ordnance store keeper* The barracks were two long, low, buildings, situated on the ground reaching south from the jail square (now ), Sydney Street to , and including , south to the water. All along that part now called the Esplanade and lower corner of was The Battery of nine guns. Earth ?rorks were thrown up six or eight feet high all round on the bank, or water front, and anyone passing along the shore could see the muzzles of the cannons point™ ing towards the harbour. The soldiers' quarters backed on and closed up the end of Dorchester , King and part of Water Streets. The ordnance, and non-commissioned officers' build¬ ing reached from northwardly toward Sydney Street. The whole Fort was surrounded by a high pointed picket fence. There was a large double gate opening on the and a sentry marched backwards and forwards con¬ tinually. The officers lived in houses nearby. Commissary Lament resided in a house later owned by Mrs. J. D. Mason on west part of , and Doctor Poole lived at Prog- more, on the corner of Rochford and Euston Streets. A num¬ ber of retired naval and military officers were also settled there. Some were comparatively wealthy, others had good positions under the English Government, and there were also many descendants of the old Loyalists, who had come to the Island from the United States years before. GOViiItlMSffl, HOUSE , at that time, was not as it is now. The main building was the same, but there was no ver¬ andah, and the portico was supported by four round pillars, standing on stone supports and reaching above the second storey. There was sufficient room for a horse and carriage to drive or stand underneath, as the carriage drive passed along close by the front door and underneath the portico. Any stranger coming in the harbour could see at once that it was a building of some importance. General Edmund Fanning , the second Governor of the Island, knowing the necessity there was for a proper residence for the Lieutenant Governor , granted one hundred acres of land to the Governor General foi all time, on which a suitable residence should be erected. The present Government House was built on this land in 1835, and first occupied by Sir Aretas W. Young in the same year*, (It is said that Governor Ready , the then Governor, planned it after one he had lived in at Barbados.) When the house was completed9 the furniture, and everything necessary to make it comfortable for the residence of His Excellency, was sent from England at the expense of the British Government;