"From the accounts I hear from home you still have need of doctors, for people continue to be sick and die.
"Think you there will be any patronage for me? But your answer will probably depend upon my worthiness of it.
"But I must hasten to close.I shall be happy to hear from you whenever you are disposed to write.
"Kind regards to your mother, sisters and brothers.
"Very sincerely yours, "WILLIAM F.HUMPHREY.
"To:
"MISS RUTH TRUEMAN, "Point de Bute."
The Humphreys have not increased rapidly in this country.There were three brothers in the first family, William, John and Christopher.John never married.Christopher married, but had no family.William had four sons, and these, with their father and uncles, made seven of the name then living in the provinces.Since then these four boys have married, and two of their sons, yet the males of the name just number seven to-day; and, strange to say, have remained at that figure the most of the time for the last seventy years.At present there are living four great-grandsons, and three great-great-grandsons of the first William.
Dr.Humphrey graduated in regular course, received his medical degree, and settled in St.John, New Brunswick, where he worked up a good practice.His health, however, gave way, and he died a comparatively young man.
Mrs.Bishop, a daughter of William Humphrey, writes:--"I do not remember hearing my parents say much about their early life.