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Passamaquoddy, — C. Settled first at St. Croix Island, but temporarily, in 

 1604 by DeMonts' colony. It was next occupied by the seigniorial estab- 

 lishments or residences of St. Atihin, Chartier and La Treille, with other 

 scattered French who were expelled by Church in 1704. It was next 

 occupied, after 1763, by New England fishermen and traders at Indian 

 Island, Scoodic, Deer Island and Wilsoji's Beach, by English immigrants at 

 i\few Warrington, Campobello, in 1770, but it received its greatest acces- 

 sion of population through the coming of the Loyalists, who settled 

 all the best parts of the bay, the larger islands and the St. Croix river, 

 as noted under their respective settlements. 



Patrieviile, — M. Acadian settlement est. 1878 under the Free Grants Act, 

 and settled by expansion from the neighbouring Madawaska settle- 

 ments. It has also some Irish settlers from Silver Stream and Claire. 

 (Adams, 31; loo. inf.). 



Paterson Settlement, — S. Irish immigrant, formed before 1839. (Ward, 37; 

 C. L. R.). 



Peel, — Cn. Parish est. 1859. Settled first along the St. John, about 1800 to 

 1810, by native settlers from the lower St. John, descendants of Loyal- 

 ists and New Englanders, with some disbanded soldiers after 1817 in 

 the upper part; settled in the interior by expansion of these settlements. 



Pèlerin Settlement, — Kt. Acadian, formed about 1830 by expansion from 

 neighbouring settlements. (Loc. inf.). 



Peltoma, — Y. and S. One of the tracts laid out for settlement in 1856, but 

 settled apparently after 1872 under the Free Grants Act, and occupied 

 by native settlers from various sources. (Adams, 33). 



Pennfield, — C. Parish est. 1786. First settled in 1783 by an association of 

 Loyalists from Pennsylvania, for whom a town called BeUeview (con- 

 taining some 200 houses in 1787 and devastated by fire in that year) 

 was laid out at Beaver Harbour. Few of the settlers, however, remained 

 here, some removing to Pennfield Ridge, others to Mace's Bay, and 

 others elsewhere. Later, various immigrants and native settlers joined 

 those at Pennfield Ridge thus settling that locality, while other Loyal- 

 ists, and their expansion, settled the various harbours along the coast. 

 (Vroom, Courier, LXXII and Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, II, 73; a full history 

 of the parish in later times is given by J. G. Lorimer, in the St. Croix 

 Courier, July 27, 1893; Winslow Papers, 490). 



Perth,— V. Parish est. 1833. Settled first, after 1800, along the St. John by 

 scattered native settlers from the lower river, with a large accession 

 when the disbanded regiments were settled here in 1817 and later, 

 forming the Military Settlements. Settled along the Tobique by native 

 expansion, as noted under the respective settlement names. An early 

 post house, kept by one Larlee, was situated a mile or two below Perth 

 village, and his descendants, the Larleys, are numerous in the vicinity. 

 (Loc. inf.). 



