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doned their land there and settled in the present Nelson and Derby. 

 These Loyalist settlers either located themselves among the older 

 residents in the present Newcastle and Chatham, or else formed new 

 settlements along the lower parts of both branches of the Miramichi 

 in Derhj, Nelson, Blacl-vUlc, Nortliesh and Southesk, and they also 

 settled Bay du Vin. 



d. Resumption of European immigration. During the Eevoliition, 

 immigration from Great Britain to the presenit New Brunswick ceased, 

 but after 1783 it began again, slowly and sporadically at first, but later 

 more actively. This was encouraged by the Legislature of New 

 Brunswick. Thus in 1793, a select committee was appointed to draw- 

 up and report to the House ''' some plan proper to be adopted for 

 introducing settlers into the province,^' and in 1802 eleven emigration 

 commissioners were appointed by the House. I have not been able 

 to trace the results of these two movements. The new settlers who 

 came to the Pro'vince whether singly or in small groups appear for 

 the most part to have settled in or near the older settlements, or in 

 the towus, especially in the city of St. John. Thus, the Journals of 

 the House of 'Assembly for 1805 mention that the commissioners for 

 encouraging settlers paid £164 for the passage of seven families (40 

 individuals) who had settled at Sussex Vale and St. John. An impor- 

 tant early immigration into the Province was that to the Eestigouche 

 valley, to which there came in 1783 and the following years a few 

 settlers from Scotland, who settled at Athol Point and thereabouts, 

 and were gradually joined by others both from Scotland and from 

 Prince Edward Island. A more considerable immigration oa Scotch, 

 in part directly from Scotland and in part from Prince Edward Island, 

 came in this period to the Miramichi. In part the new settlers dis- 

 tributed themselves among the older settlers along the lower river, 

 but about 1801 a few families from Ayrshire settled on the Main South 

 West ]\Tiraniiehi, founding lloaliown and the settlements above and 

 below it, while Major McDonald and a few soldiers of the disbanded 

 78th Kegimcnt settled at Black Fiver near Bay du Vin about 17510. Some 

 time prior to 1812 a group of Scotch Eoiman Catholics had settled on 

 the Bartihog, but these came probably not directly, but from Prince 

 Edward Island. H is probaljle that some Scotch came during this 

 period also to the Bichibucto and perhaps to other scattered points. 

 One reason for this immigration of Scotch to the North Shore at this 

 time was the convenience of passage in the vessels going out to these 

 rivers for timber, which was now being exported in some -quantity. 



Another important early immigration was that of the English 

 settlers at Shediac, of Avhom the first, in 1785, was a London merchant. 



