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Hibernia, — Q. Formerly New Ireland. Native expansion and Irish immigrant 

 settlement, formed about 1810. (Loc. inf.). 



Hibernia Settlement, — Q. Former name for Salmon Creek settlement. 



Hillsborough, — A. Former township, granted in 1765 to a company, which, 

 in its attempt to settle it, brought here as tenants Heinrich Steeves 

 and family of six sons, Pennsylvania Germans. According to tradition 

 these first settlers were landed at Hillsborough in 1765 at the same 

 time the other Pennsylvania Germans were landed at Moncton, but 

 an important document of 1788 (in the Moncton Transcript, December 21, 

 1901) seems to show they resided first for some years at Moncton and 

 came here later. They settled at Hillsborough village, and obtained 

 possession of these lands by suits at law against the proprietors about 

 1780. They were gradually joined by other Germans from Moncton 

 (and possibly from Germantoicn in Hopewell), by the tenants of one Major 

 Gray, who appears to have held the rights of one or more of the 

 grantees, by disbanded soldiers from Fort Cumberland, and by settlers 

 expanding from Sackville and Westmorland, all of whom gradually took 

 up the lands along the coast and expanded early in the nineteenth 

 century to the back lands, as noted under the respective settlements. 

 It was made a parish in 1786. 



Hillsborough village, earlier known as the Dutch Village and the 

 Lower Village, on the site of an earlier Acadian village (see Petitcodiac) , 

 has grown prosperously in part as a farming and distributing centre, 

 and more recently as a shipping port for plaster (gypsum), which occurs 

 near by in large quantities. 



(Ms. History by Steeves; Botsford in Chignecto Post, January 14, 

 1886; Hist. Sites, 328, 335; St. John Sun, March 27, 1883, and September 

 7, 1900, and July 13, 1904). 



Hopewell, — A. Former township, including the old Acadian settlements of 

 Shcpodij, granted in 1765 to a company which in that year or the next 

 introduced Pennsylvania German settlers (at Germantoicn), who, how- 

 ever, later removed. It was made a parish in 1786, and the lands along 

 the Shepody and the coast were granted in 1787-1788, and settled soon 

 after, chiefly by expansion from the older parts of Nova Scotia and 

 Westmorland, by descendants of the old New England settlers and by 

 North of Ireland settlers of Colchester County with a few later immi- 

 grants and occasional settlers from other sources, but with few or 

 no Loyalists. The descendants of these settlers, with some new arrivals 

 from Nova Scotia, have expanded to form the settlements of the back- 

 lands, as noted under their respective names. (Loc. inf. ; see references 

 under Shepody). There is a local tradition that some of the American 

 privateersmen who helped to plunder the Petitcodiac settlements in 

 1776 and later, afterwards settled in this parish. It became the shire 

 town of Albert County in 1845. 



Hopewell Cape, — A. History similar to Hopeicell Hill. 



Hopewell Hill, — A. Prosperous farming settlement besides great salt marshes, 

 formed about 1787 by native settlers from older parts of Nova Scotia. 

 (Loc. inf.). 



