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Deer Island, — C. First settled in 1770 by its owner. Capt. Ferrell. joined 

 later by New England fishermen, members of the Owen Colony on 

 Campobello, Loyalists and some later immigrants. In the midst of 

 rich fisheries it has grown steadily to the present, its population 

 segregating into distinct villages at the harbours. (History in the 

 Courier Series by Vroom. XLII, CXXI-CXXIII; Lorimer, History of 

 Islands, 89; St. John Smi, June 8, August 21, 1885; Hist. Sites, 323, 332; 

 Eastport Sentinel, September 7, 1822). 



Derby, — N. Parish est. 1859. Includes the site of the Acadian town of 

 Boieshébert. Its modern settlement began in 1764, when John Davidson 

 settled at Wilson's Point, and was later joined by other Scotch settlers. 

 It was further settled in 1785 and later along the Miramichi by Scotch 

 immigrants and expansion of the Loyalists from St. John (including 

 some of the disbanded 42nd Highlanders from the Nashwaak), and in 

 the interior by Irish immigrants. 



Dipper Harbour, — J. Fishing village, settled by Loyalists in 1784. (Loc. inf.; 

 C. L. R.). 



Dr-?.ktown, — N. Early Scotch immigrant farming and lumbering settlement, 

 formed about 1800 by families from Ayrshire, led by Robert Doak. 

 Above the village a number of cellars, reputed French, occur; they 

 are probably relics of a settlement formed after 1758 above reach of 

 the English ships. 

 Donegal, — K. Irish immigrant, formed about 1841. (Loc. inf.) 

 Dorchester, — W. Parish est. 1787. Includes two sets of settlements, (1) the 

 important Acadian settlements at Fox Creek, Bellivcau and Memram- 

 cook (with its extension Bonum Gould), and (2) the English settlements 

 at Dover, and on the lower Memramcook, especially about Dorchester 

 Village. The latter includes settlers from a variety of sources, embrac- 

 ing Yorkshiremen, disbanded soldiers from Fort Cumberland, New 

 Englanders expanding from Cumberland and Sackville, Loyalists and 

 later Immigrants. The village of Dorchester was chosen as shire town, 

 to replace Westmoi-land, in 1801. (Loc. inf.; C. L. R.; St. John Sun, 

 August 3, 1904). 



Dorchester Road, — W. Acadian farming settlement, formed about 1803, by 

 settlers from Minudie, " who had been disturbed by their seigniors." 

 (Plessis, 254). 



Dorn Ridge, — Y. An N.B. and N.S. Land Company settlement, formed about 

 1860. (Loc. inf.). 



Dorrington Hill, — Y. Native settlement, an expansion from St. John river. 

 (Loc. inf.). 



Douglas, — Y. Parish est. 1824. Settled along the St. John and lower Keswick 

 in 1784-85 by disbanded Loyalist regiments, the Prince of Wales Amer- 

 ican Regiment (including a French Location), and the New York Volun- 

 teers. Later settlements were formed on the backlands by Irish 

 and Welsh immigrants, notably Birdton, Cardigan, Tay, while after 

 1832 the remaining settlements, in part native and in part immigrant, 

 were formed by the N.B. and N.S. Land Company. (History of the 

 regiments by Raymond, Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, II, 204, 209; locations in 

 Hist. Sites, 342, 343 and Map 46). 



