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Freneuse,— S. Early French seigniorial settlement in Maugerville, opposite 

 the Oromocto, founded about 1684; later the most important seigniorial 

 establishment on the St. John, and apparently abandoned after 1700. 

 (Hist. Sites, 171, 312; Acadiensis, I, 121, which gives an important 

 descriptive lease). 



Fronsac, — N. Early seignorial settlement and fortified trading post, founded 

 about 1685 by Richard Denys de Fronsac, on the north shore of Mirami- 

 chi Bay, probably at or near Burnt Church; later fate unknown. (Hist. 

 Sites, 292, 317; Canadian History Readings. 271: Le Clercq. Gaspesie, 

 as cited in preceding; St. Valier Estât présent de l'Eglise, Paris, 1683, 

 page 32 of the Quebec 1856 edition). 



Gagetown, — Q. Early township in Queens, granted in 1765 to a company, but 

 only partially settled by them and afterwards escheated. (Hist. Sites, 

 326, 333; Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, I, 100); its pre-Loyalist settlers, some 

 37 families, were partly New Englanders, partly from Great Britain, 

 and partly from exposed settlements plundered by privateers in Nova 

 Scotia. It was established as a parish in 1786, and was settled along 

 the St. John in 1784, and later, by Loyalists; while in the interior it is 

 occupied by later immigrant settlements, as noted under their respective 

 names. 



Gagetown Village. On the site of the Acadian village of Grimross; was settled 

 scantily in the English period, but chiefly by Loyalists in 1784 and 

 later. It has been the shire town of Queens since 1786. 



Galloway, — Kt. Also New Galloway, and (erroneously) Galway. Early Scotch 

 immigrant settlement, formed in 1820 or 1821, on the Richibucto- 

 Buctouche highway road by some 18 families from Wigton and Kirk- 

 cudbright. Long a flourishing Scotch settlement, it is now being largely 

 occupied by Acadians. (Johnston, N. A. II, 60, and Report, 85; Cooney, 

 152; S. P. G. Report for 1S25; Trueman, 50; C. R.). 



Gardner's Creek, — J. Assigned originally in 1784 to disbanded Loyalist set- 

 tlers, but apparently settled later by various immigrants. (Loc. inf.). 



Garnet, — J. Early native expansion settlement. 



Gary, — S. Old form of Geary. 



Gaspereau, Fort, — ^W. Former French fort, built 1751 on a well-known site 

 south of the mouth of the Gaspereau river, to protect the communication 

 between the Chignecto region and Quebec and Louisburg. (Hist. Sites, 

 289 ; a full account of the fort is in E. T. P. Shewen's " Notes of Fort 

 Monckton," St. John, 1892, 10 pp.). 



Gaspereau,— Q. Farming and lumbering settlement along this river, settled 

 about 1828 by some Scotch immigrant and native settlers. (Loc. inf.). 



Geary, — S. Early Loyalist expansion settlement, formed about 1806 (granted 

 1810), by some 9 families of Loyalists who came to New Brunswick by 

 way of Niagara ; one of the earliest settlements formed In New Bruns- 

 wick away from navigable waters. (Loc. inf.; C. L. R.). 



