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Maugerville, — S. Important early farming settlement, founded in 1763 on 

 the site of the French Freneuse, by an association of some 50 families 

 from Essex County, Massachusetts, who received a grant of Mauger- 

 ville township in 1765; next to Portland it is the oldest English settle- 

 ment in the St. John valley. With rich intervale lands and good com- 

 munication, it has grown steadily to the present, sending many settlers 

 to various parts of the province, notably to St. John and Fredericton 

 and to the uplands of Carleton County. (History by Perley, in Edu- 

 cational Review, IV, 154; Hathevvay, History of New Brunswick, 

 Fredericton, 1864; Hannay, Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, I, 63, 119; Coulston, 

 St. John Sun, September 1, 1898 and later numbers; Raymond, St. John 

 River). 



Maxwell, — T and Cn. Native settlement, formed in 1842 by an association 

 of mechanics from St. John under the auspices of Dr. Gesner. Appa- 

 rently includes the present Monument Settlement, Dinnens Mills and 

 Kirkland? (C. L. R.; Gesner, 17Ï). 



Maxwell, — Y and S. Temporary name for Carlow. 



McAdam, — Y. Parish est. 1894 to include McAdam Junction, almost its only 

 settlement. 



McAdam Junction, — Y. Temporarily City Camp. Modern railway village, 

 est. in 1869 in a barren environment by the intersection of two main 

 lines of the C. P. railway, and prospering greatly through the estab- 

 lishment here of railway machine shops, etc. (Loc. inf.). 



McFarlane Settlement, — Q. Irish immigrant settlement, formed about 1825. 

 (Loc. inf.; Ward, 23). 



^cKenzie Corner, — Cn. Formed about 1822, by Capt. Wm. McKenzie, a 

 Scotch immigrant, joined later by various native settlers. 



Mechanics Settlement, — K. Native settlement, formed in 1842 by an asso- 

 ciation of mechanics from St. John, who were led to this step by the 

 prevailing depression in business. It included some 237 members of 

 the St. John Association, with others from Sussex, and some 24 

 squatters found on the tract when it was surveyed. On the revival 

 of business many returned to the city, but apparently the majority 

 remained and formed the settlement. (Its full history is given in 

 letters, now in my possession, to the Lieutenant-Governor from M. 

 H. Perley and A. Gesner,, under whose auspices it was formed; Gesner, 

 N.B., 144). 



Medisco, — G. One of the tracts laid out for settlement in 1856 (surveyed 

 1853), but settled much later under other names by expansion of native 

 and Acadian settlers. (C. L. R.). 



Meductic, — Cn. Former important Indian (Maliseet) fortified village, doubt- 

 less long pre-historic, on an intervale at Lower Woodstock, located 

 near good fishing grounds in a charming situation at the junction 

 of the great Penobscot portage with the St. John; the principal Indian 

 village of the St. John in the later 17th and earlier 18th centuries. 

 It was occupied by the Indians, though simply by sufferance of the 

 grantees, down to 1851, in which year the Woodstock reserve was pur- 



