from bankrupt merchants or from tradesmen who were indebted to him.  Outside of Halifax he owned land in Lunenburg, Annapolis Royal, and Windsor, a 20,000- acre * tract in Cumberland County and an estate on St. John's (Prince Edward) Island. *20,000 acres = 31 square miles = 8,100 hectares = 81 square kilometres Joshua Mauger (1725-1788)