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meiits in Ilampstcad, Wickham, Gagetown, including Gagetown Village, 

 and Canning; the Washademoak Lake settlements in Camhridg",, 

 Wiclhham and Johnston; the Grand Lake settlements in Canning, and 

 \Yaterhorougli; the Little Eiver settlements in Sheffield; the river settle- 

 ments in Burton, including Oromocto Village, in part of Lincoln, Upper 

 Rusiagonis, and up the Oromocto to the Forks; the river settlements of 

 Fredencion, including Fredericton City, in St. Mary's, with the Nash- 

 waak settlements to Cross Creek; the river settlements in Douglas, 

 Bright, and on the lower Keswick; the river settlements in Kingsclear, 

 Prince William, Queenshury, part of Dumfries, Canterbury, Southamp- 

 ton, Woodstock and Northampton. Outside of Passamaquoddy and the 

 St. John no lands were laid out especially for Loyalists, though latetr, 

 as will be noticed under the next section, many -of them individually 

 received grants in various other parts of the province. Many families 

 chose to settle in the older settlements in Portland, Maugerville, 

 Sackville (including Westcock), Westmorland, and on the lower Mem- 

 ramcook, in the present Dorchester, and in these places they either pur- 

 chased lands or ultimately secured grants either of lots abandoned by 

 older granitées or of new lands. Those who settled in Kemble^s Manor, 

 Portland, and in some of the large blocks of land granted along the St. 

 John in the preceding period and not forfeited by the proprietors, had, 

 of course, to purchase their lands from the grantees. 



With the Loyalists came many negroes, former servants of masters 

 no longer able to maintain them, and efforts were made to settle these 

 negroes in settlements of their own. Three blocks were laid out for 

 them on the back lands on each side of the Nerepis grants, and near 

 the lower end of Kingston Peninsula, and some beginnings of settle- 

 ments were made, but they were soon abandoned and most of the 

 negroes returned to live in the towns, with the exception, apparently of 

 a group who settled, about 1812, at Otnahog, founding the present 

 flourishing negro settlement of that place. The negro settlement at 

 Willow Grove is of later origin as will be described below. 



h. Foundation of the Province of New Brunswick. In 1021 the 

 Province of Nova Scotia was established, including all of the peninsula 

 of that name, with New Brunswick and Quebec north of it to the St. 

 Lawrence. It retained these limits through all changes down to 17G3, 

 when the St. Lawrence slope was added to Quebec. The Loyalists, 

 therefore, found upon their arrival the Province of Nova Scotia undi- 

 vided, with tlie capital at Halifax. Owing to the great distance of that 

 capital from the new centre of Loyalist population in New Brunswick, 

 and owing also to governmental inefficiency there, the intentions of the 

 British Government to settle the Loyalists rapidly on the best vacant 



