sentences:  Shortly after, the two bought Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour’s patent as baronet of Nova Scotia.By this purchase, Crowne and Temple agreed to pay la Tour’s debt of £3,379 to the widow of Maj.-Gen. Edward Gibbons of Boston, and Temple assumed the cost of the English that which had earlier captured the fort on the Saint John River.According to his statement of losses in about 1668, Crowne supplied the money and security for the purchases.