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Scotia, the Acadians had settled without grants, or had expanded upon 

 lands granted to others. Tn these cases the grantees claimed their 

 land, and much trouble with the Acadian settlers ensiued. Ultimately 

 the ^lemranicook Acadiaas compromised with tlio graiiitees and 

 O'btained their lands, partly by possession, and ])artly by purchase; 

 but in Minudie no compromise was effected and the Acadians left 

 their lands and, about 1800, removed to ^iew Brun^swick, founding, 

 or helping to found, the settlements of Shemogue, Dorchester Road 

 and Cap Pelée (Cape Bald). But on the St. John a more serious 

 readjustment of the Acadians was necessary. In 1783 there was a 

 small Acadian village at Hammond Eiver, and over sixty families along 

 the St. John, above St. Annes. The latter lands, however, were needed 

 for, and included within the grants to, the Loyalist regiments, and in 

 1785 or 1786 most of these Acadians were obliged by the New Bruns- 

 wick (lOvernment to remove elsewhere, and at the same time they 

 were offered good lands on the Qpper St. John, below the Madawaska. 

 Accordingly the greater number of them removed to that locality, 

 where, joining with some Canadian French from Quebec they founded, 

 on both sides of the St. John, the Madawaska settlements which hava 

 grown, flourished and expanded to this day. Not all of the Acadians, 

 however, were thus required to remove to Madawaska, for three small 

 groups of them, at Upper and Lower French Villages, and at the 

 "• French location," below the Keswick, were allowed to remain and 

 received grants of their lands, which, in the two former cases, their 

 descendants hold to this day. The Keswick Acadians, however, after- 

 wards left their lands, but at what time and under what circumstances 

 is now unknown, while those at French Village, Hammond Eiver, appear 

 to have exchanged their lands there (granted them in 1787) for grants 

 at ]\ladawaska, to which they removed prior to 1794. 



]i. Acadian expansion and immigration. At the opening of this 

 j^eriod in 1783, groups of Acadians, larger or smaller, were settled, 

 either with grants of their lands or with permission from the govern- 

 ment to occupy them, at Fox Creek, Belliveau and Menuamcook on 

 Fundy waters, and at Sliediac, Cocagne, Bay du Yin, Neguac, Caraquet, 

 Nepisigiiif, and probably some minor points on the North Shore. In 

 the early part of this period the growing Memramcook and Fox Creek 

 settlements began to expand to the North Shore, and at the same 

 time the return of Acadians from Quebec, Isle St. John and especially 

 from St. Pierre and Miquelon, continued. From those various sources 

 as well as from Minudie earlier mentioned, the iVcadian settlements 

 of the North Shore gre\v rapidly and many new ones came into exist- 

 ence, including Biictouche (1785), Tracadie (1781), Richibucto Village, 



