two kitchens and lodging rooms, a cellar, stoned, under one half of the house". Life in the town was not easy. When Walter Patterson , the first Governor, arrived in 1770, he had to build himself a small house to "keep out a little of the approaching cold"; officials had to bring their own food, utensils, and furniture from England ; and Chief Justice John Duport died of gout and starvation after four years of living with insufficient provisions. It was not until agriculture had started and until carpenters, blacksmiths, and other artisans arrived that the people could be fed and housed on a sufficient scale. And because what little money that was sent out by the British Government had to be used to pay the salaries of officials, there was nothing with which to carry out desirable works such as the construction of buildings, streets, and roads. As a result public business and worship had to be carried on at first in private dwellings, and prisoners convicted of crime had to be either let go or executed because there was no jail in which to put them. There was a tavern, however, which doubled as a town meeting-house. In it met the first Legis¬ lative Assembly of the colony in 1773. Nevertheless the town's buildings were constructed as the supply of money, material, and labour increased. A com¬ bined Episcopal Church and Court House was built on the west corner of King and Queen Streets by John Cambridge who rented it to the government for thirty pounds a year. This was replaced in 1802 by a combined Court House, Legislative Chamber, and post office erected where the city scales now stand, and by a separate Epis¬ copal Church placed nearby in on . A small one-storey jail, called "Harvey's Brig", was put up on . A market house was built on what is now the Royal Bank corner, to be replac¬ ed later by a more convenient 13