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Durham, — R. Parish est. 1839. Settled first in 1790 at Jacquet li'wcr, and along 

 the coast of Bay Chaleur, after 1830, chiefly by Scotch immigrants 

 from the Island of Arran. The settlements on the backhands are 

 expansions from these, in part recent Free Grants settlements, as noted 

 under their respective names. (Cooney, 203). 



Durham, — Y. Native settlement, laid out about 1860 as the " Wesleyan 

 Tract," and settled under the Labour Act by expansion from peigh- 

 bouring settlements. (C. L. R.). 



Dutch Valley, — K. Loyalist settlement, formed soon after 1786 by disbanded 

 soldiers from New Jersey, probably a part of the fourth battalion of 

 the New Jersey Volunteers, which was temporarily assigned lands here. 

 (History of this regiment by Raymond, in Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, II, 209). 



East Scotch Settlement, — K. Scotch immigrant settlement, formed about 

 1823, by families from Perthshire. (Loc. inf.). 



Edmundston, — M. Earlier called Petit Sault, or Little Falls. Modern lum- 

 bering and railway town. Apparently settled first on the east side of 

 the Madawaska about 1821 by Simon Hébert, and on the site of the present: 

 town about 1840; it became of considerable importance on the building. 

 of the Block House in connection with the boundary disputes in 1842,. 

 grew slowly with the development of the lumber trade until the com- 

 pletion of the railroad to Fredericton in 1876, since which it has grown 

 steadily to the present. Shiretown of the county since 1873. (C. R., 

 Alexander, L'Acadie, II, 64. Its first English settler appears to have 

 been John Hartt, who settled on the Indian land south of the Mada- 

 waska in 1840, on whom there is interesting material in the Select 

 Committee Report, 77.) 



Eel Ground, — N. Important (Micmac) Indian reserve of 2,682 acres, estab- 

 lished Jan. 10, 1789, and now including an important permanent village, 

 (Perley, Ind., XCVIII, CX). 



Eel River, — R. Acadian settlement of unknown date and mode of origin; 

 it was in existence in 1812, and grants were made in 1822. (Plessis, 

 C.L. R.; Cooney, 205; Winslow Papers, 501). The French have gradually 

 mixed with the Scotch and other settlers in the vicinity. 



Eel River, — R. Small Indian (Micmac) reserve of 220 acres, with a permanent 

 village. (Perley, Ind., CIII). 



Eel River, — Kt. Established recently under the Free Grants Act. 



Eel River, — N. Recent Acadian farming settlement, formed 1879 under the 

 Free Grants Act by expansion from Kent. (Adams, 20; loc. inf.). 



Eel River, — T. and C. Settled entirely by native expansion from the St John 

 river and from St. John city, as noted under the respective settlements. 



Eldon,— R. Parish est. 1826 (united with Addington 1876. but restored 1896); 

 settled only along the Restigouche and a few miles up the Upsalquitch 

 by native settlers, an expansion from the lower Restigouche. (Loc. inf.). 

 See. II., I'JUl. 1). 



