[ganong] origins of SETTLEMENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK 151 



M. H. Perley, in his Fisheries, 32, 232 ; the earlier history of the island 

 is fully treated by Dionne, " Miscou, Hommes de Mer et Hommes de 

 Dieu," in Le Canada Français, II, 433, 514 : Gaudet, Le Moniteur Acadten, 

 Autumn of 1882). 



Mitchell Settlement, — R. Native settlement, formed before 1879 under the 

 Free Grants Act, and settled by expansion from the neighbouring older 

 districts. (Adams, 14). 



Moannes, — C. Loyalist settlement, formed in 1784 by a part of the Penobscot 

 association of Loyalists. (Vroom, Courier, CVII). 



Monckton, — T. Former name for the village now called (lihunn, apparently 

 applied first to the trading post founded there by John Anderson in 

 1767, and used as late as 1822. 



Monckton, Fort, — W. Name applied by the English to Fort Gaspereau when 

 taken from the French in 1755. 



Moncton, — W. Early township, including early Acadian settlements, granted 

 in 1765 to a company which in that year brought some dozen families 

 of Pennsylvania Germans as tenants and settled them on the present 

 site of Moncton City, some of whom soon removed to Hillsborough. The 

 proprietors failed to keep their agreements and the tenants in 1780 

 obtained possession of their lands by action of law against them, and 

 the township was afterwards escheated. The settlement prospered 

 from the first, and, joined by some settlers from Saekvillc and West- 

 morland and some Loyalists after the Revolution, together with some 

 later immigrants from Great Britain, it has spread up the Petitcodiac 

 and to the backlands, where also are some later immigrant settle- 

 ments, as noted under their respective names. It was made a parish 

 in 1786. 



At the Bend of the Petitcodiac, there grew up early in the last 

 century a prosperous village, which grew more rapidly after the 

 building of the European and North American railroad in 1860, and 

 the Intercolonial in 1874, so that it was incorporated as a town in 

 1875, and a city in 1890, the third in New Brunswick. (A very impor- 

 tant document on its early history is in Moncton Transeript, December 

 21, 1901; also its history is sketched in a special number of the same 

 journal, December 11, 1889, and in a special Moncton number of the 

 St. John Sun, September 3, 1892 ; Botsford, in Chignecto Post, January 

 14, 1886; Hist. Sites, 335; St. John Sun, July 27, 1904). 



Monteagle, — W. One of the tracts laid out for settlement in 1856, but not 



taken up. 

 Monument Settlement, — T. An extension, apparently, of Maxwell. 



Moore's Mills,— C. Early mill village, formed about 1790 by William Moore, 

 of St. David's. (Stevens, Charlotte County, 17). 



Morrisania, — S. Large estate of the English period in Lincoln, granted in 

 1767 to Charles Morris and partially settled by New Englanders, who 

 purchased from him; but mainly settled along the St. John by Loyal- 

 ists after 1783. (Hist. Sites, 334; Raymond, in Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, 

 II, 158). . .--J 



