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Island settled SackviUe, including Westcock, Upper Sachville aivl Four 

 Corners, and Cumlerland (now Westmorland), including Jolicœur, 

 Point de Bute and Baie Verte, while an association from Essex County, 

 Massachusetts, settled Maugerville. It is noteworthy that all settle- 

 ments founded in this way have persisted and grown to the present day. 

 h. Immigration from Great Britain. In the meantime, but mani- 

 festing itself somewhat inorc slowly, under the inspiration of similar 

 motives, supplemented by bad economic conditions at home, a similar 

 emigration began from Great Britain which sent into Nova Scotia a few 

 thousands of English and (especially) of Scotch settlers, of which a fev/ 

 hundreus settled in the present New Brunswick. Most important of 

 all of these immigrants were the Yorkshiremen, who, encouraged by 

 inducements similar to those held out to the New England settlers, came 

 in groups to Nova Scotia in 1772-177-1, and settled to the number of 

 some forty families or more in Cumberland (Westniorlatid), and Sack- 

 mile, where they bought farms from the earlier grantees, while a few 

 of them later settled in the present Dorchester. A few immigrants 

 from other parts of England settled on the St. John at Gagctown and 

 other scattered points. Another important feature of this immigration 

 was the first settlement of Miramichi and Restigouche by Scotch. In 

 1764 William Davidson, from the north of Scotland, settled at Wilson's 

 Point, obtained a large grant and started a salmon fishery, in which 

 he was soon joined by others of his fellow countrymen. A little later, 

 about 1775, began the movement of the Scotch from St. John's (Prince 

 Edward) Island, to the Miramichi, which continued through the period 

 until at its close some thirty or more families, mostly Scotch, were 

 scattered along {he river l)elo\v Wilson's Point. St. John's Island had 

 been granted to a few proprietors who brought out numerous Scotch 

 settlers to people their lands as tenants, but these, finding the conditions 

 there intolerable, removed to Miramichi and Restigouche, especially 

 in the early part of the next .period. The settlement of Restigouche 

 began about 1775, when Shoolbred and Smith, two English traders, 

 established a salmoai fishery at the head of tide and brought out eight 

 skilled Aberdeen fishermen, who settled at and above the present Camp- 

 bellton, and some of whom remained to found the settlement of that 

 river. Trading posts were established at Nepisiguit (Alston Point) and 

 Walkers Brook by the English Commodore Walker, but were soon (in 

 177G) destroyed by American privateers, though some of his employees 

 appear to have lingered at Nepisiguit as fishermen until the close of 

 the period. All of the immigrants of this period, although unaccus- 

 tomed to new world conditions, soon adapted themselves to their sur- 

 roundings, and, being industrious, moral, and loyal, became a most 



