No. 38.—Mr. Samuel Manson.

Mr. Samuel Manson was another passenger by the schooner Richmond in 1843. Like Mr. Gebbie he remained at Riccarton about two years, when be bought property adjoining Mr. Gebbie's, He had a large family of seventeen children—tea sons and seven daughters, all of whom were alive in 1910, except) one. Mr. Manson's life, like Mr. Gebbie's life was an uneventful one, that of an industrious and successful farmer. He and his family were renowned as excellent chessemakers. The property is now in the occupation of the younger members of the family.