[ganong] origins of SETTLEMENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK IBS 



Newmarket Settlement, — Y. Irish immigrant settlement, formed about 1839 

 by settlers from the north of Ireland. Smithfield is an extension of 

 this. (Loc. inf.). 



New Maryland,— T. Parish est. 1846. Settled first, about 1817, by Loyalist 

 descendants and (1818) by early Scotch immigrants at Maryland, and 

 somewhat later by native expansion at Beaver Dam and Yoho. 



New Mills, — R. Founded as a mill village before 1814, but settled in the 

 vicinity lafer, probably after 1830, by Scotch from the Island of Arran. 

 (Cooney, 204). 



New Scotland, — W. Scotch Immigrant settlement, formed about 1866. (Loc. 

 inf.). 



Newton, — Y. Former township in York at mouth of the Nashwaak, granted 

 to a company in 1765, but afterwards escheated. It had some eight 

 families, mostly driven from Nova Scotia by privateers, in 1783. (Hist. 

 Sites, 326, 334; Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, I, 109). 



Newtown, — K. Native farming centre, settled before 1812, by Loyalist expan- 

 sion from the lower part of Smith's Creek. (St. John Sun, April 7, 1892; 

 loc. inf.). 



New Warrington, — C. Early English immigrant colony of some forty tenant 

 settlers brought from Liverpool to Campobello in 1770 by Captain Wil- 

 liam Owen, grantee (in 1767) of the Island, and settled at Curry's Cove. 

 Many of the settlers left for England, but some remained and, joined 

 by various New Englanders and later immigrants, they founded the 

 present settlements of Campobello. (Its history is fully given in the 

 "Journal of Captain William Owen," Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, I, 193; II, 

 S: Hist. Sites, 325, 332). 



New Yorkshire, — Q. Settlement in 1826, twenty miles from Gagetown, identity 

 unknown. (S. P. G. Reports, 1826). 



New Zion, — S. Native settlement, formed about 1860, by expansion from the 

 neighbouring parts of the province. (Loc. inf.). 



Nid d'Aigle,— K. Early French establishment, dating from before 1749, at or 

 near Wordens, below Spoon Island, perhaps a battery erected to pro- 

 tect the Acadian settlements above it. On this site the English erected 

 a battery, still to be seen, in 1812. (Hist. Sites, 275 ; N.B. Magazine, 

 III, 228; Raymond, .St. John River, 91). 



Northampton, — Cn. Parish est. 1786. Originally settled along the St. John 

 by a disbanded Loyalist regiment, the Pennsylvania Loyalists, and in 

 the interior by later immigrant settlers, as noted under the settlement 

 names. (History of the regiment, by Raymond, in Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, 

 II, 209; location in Hist. Sites, 343 and Map 46; also Raymond, Carle- 

 ton County, 37,78). 



North Branch Settlement, — Q. Formed about 1820 by North of Ireland immi- 

 grants. (Loc. inf.). 



North Branch Settlement, — Q. Irish immigrant settlement, formed after 1820 

 by families from the north of Ireland. (Loc. inf.). 



