[ganong] origins of SETTLEMENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK 115 



settlement appears to have begun with an Acadian refugee settlement 

 on the west side around the harbour soon after the expulsion in 1755; 

 these settlers numbered several hundred in 1761, (Smethurst, 9; Ar- 

 chives, 1894, 229; Murdoch, II, 408). and they probably lingered there 

 until 1772, when the ancestors of the present Acadian families were 

 certainly resident there, (Gaudet, Le Courrier des Provinces Maritimes, 

 May and June, 1889; May 31, 1894). Plessis in 1811 refers to it as 

 one of the oldest settlements in Bay Chaleur (Plessis, 119). In 1768 

 Commodore Walker had a trading establishment at Alston Point, and 

 after its destruction some of his men seem to have lingered here 

 engaged in fishing until 1784, when all the southeast part of the harbour 

 was granted Colonel Goold, under whom certain fishermen were set- 

 tled here (Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc. II, 125), and under whose grant these 

 lands are still held. In 1789 James Sutherland from England settled 

 on the northeastei-n part of the harbour with some others (Biggar, 

 St. John K»», May IS, 1894, and Canadian Magazine, May, 1894; errors 

 in this article shown by Gaudet, above cited); and in 1794 Hugh Munro, 

 a Loyalist from Gaspé, settled at the mouth of the Tetagouche, while 

 in 1825 the Allan grant was escheated and regranted as Youghall to 

 English speaking settlers, apparently native expansion of other parts 

 of the Province. It is locally said that the site of the present town 

 of Bathurst was not settled until 1820, (St. John t^un, November 4, 

 1887) and was at first called Indian Point, while the Acadians from 

 early times have occupied Bathurst village, doubtless the place origin- 

 ally called St. Peters. It subsequently grew rapidly under the stimulus 

 of the Nepislguit timber trade and reached its culmination in the 50's. 

 Has been the shire town of Gloucester since 1826. 



Bay du Vin, — N. Included earlier French settlements considered under Baie 

 des Ouines. Settled in 1786 and later at Bay du Vin River and along 

 Vin Harbour by Loyalists. (Loc. inf.; Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, II, 101). 



Bayfield, — J. A tract laid out for settlement in 1856, but never occupied. 



Bayfield, — W. Village at the intersection of the Emigrant and Coast Roads, 

 and later a railway terminus, formed amongst the native expansion 

 settlements of this part of Botsford. (Loc. inf.). 



Beaconsfield, — C. Recent native settlement, formed in 1878 under the Free 

 Grants Act by expansion from Charlotte. (Adams, 24; loc. inf.). 



Beaubassin, — (Nova Scotia). Also Chignecto. Former important Acadian 

 settlement, founded in 1671 on the marshes of Cumberland Basin, prin- 

 cipally near the present Amherst and Fort Lawrence. In 1750 it was 

 burnt and abandoned by its inhabitants, who later settled on the St. 

 John and along the North Shore. The New Brunswick portion is 

 considered under Beauséjour. (General Histories of the Region). 



Beaufort, — Cn. Modern native settlement formed under the Free Grants Act 

 in 1877 by expansion from St. John and elsewhere (including some 

 who had lost their homes in the great fire), under the auspices of 

 Beaufort Mills, of St. John. (Loc. inf.; Adams, 24). 



Beausejour, — W. Former important Acadian village, founded probably soon 

 after 1671 as a part of Beaubassin, around the present Fort Cumberland, 



