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Douglastown, — N. Early Scotch immigrant farming and mill village, settled 

 originally by scattered Scotch immigrants, and later, probably prior 

 to 1825, by Scotch from Dumfriesshire and parts of the Clyde; at first 

 called Gretna Green. (Cooney, 108). 



Dover, — W. Apparently an early expansion from Hillsborough, with Aca- 

 dians above and below it. 



Dow Settlement, — Cn. Native farming settlement, an expansion from the 

 river St. John, formed prior to 1824. (Sketches of N. B.). 



Doyle, — R. Native fanning settlement, formed about 1840, by expansion 

 from Jacquet river and vicinity. (Loc. inf.). 



Drummond, — V. Parish est. 1872. Settled first along the St. John in 1819 

 by the disbanded regiment, The West India Rangers (see Ranger Settle- 

 ment), and in the interior by Danish and by Irish immigrants, and by 

 native expansion as considered under the respective settlements. 



Dufferin, — C. Parish est. 1873. Settled originally in 1784, by a part of the 

 Penobscot Association of Loyalists. At the height of the lumber indus- 

 try of the St. Croix, 1830-1850, a considerable village grew up at The 

 Ledge as a shipping port for lumber in sea-going vessels, but this trade 

 has disappeared, and the village has nearly vanished. (Vroom, Courier, 

 CVI; Loc. inf.). 



Dumbarton, — C. Parish est. 1856. Apparently first settled about 1S08 at 

 Pleasant Ridge on the old Fredericton-St. Andrews road, and later 

 along the Digdeguash and vicinity by expansion from the older settle- 

 ments of Charlotte. The other settlements are of later immigrants, 

 as considered under their respective names. 



Dumfries, — G. Apparently Scotch immigrant, settled with Dunlop about 1841. 

 (C. L. R.). 



Dumfries, — Y. Parish est. 1833. Settled in part along the St. John, in 1784, 

 by disbanded Loyalist regiments, The King's American Dragoons, and 

 a part of the King's American Regiment, and by various native settlers 

 at the Barony. (History of these regiments by Raymond, in Coll. N.B. 

 Hist. Soc, II, 203,211; locations in Hist. Sites, 343 and Map 46). 



Dundas, — Kt. Parish est. 1826. Includes the important old (1767) Acadian 

 settlements from CI rand ig tie to Cocagne and thence northward to Bac- 

 touche, the early native expansion settlements on the Cocagne river, 

 and the early Scotch immigrant settlements considered under their 

 respective names. 



Dundee, — R. Native settlement formed by expansion of the Scotch settle- 

 ments along the Restigouche prior to 1849. (Johnston, N. A., I, 409). 



Dunlop, — G. Scotch immigrant, formed about 1841. (C. L. R.). 



Dunlop, — S. A temporary name for the settlement north of Geary. 



Dunnviile,— Kt. Est. 1899, under the Free Grants Act. 



