[ganong] origins of SETTLEMENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK 179 



in Courier Series; Winslow Papers, 490; valuable Ms. notes by McDonald, 

 in C. L. office). 



Westmorland, — W. Parish est. 1786, to include that part of the earlier town- 

 ship of Cumberland which fell in New Brunswick, for the settlement 

 of which see Cumberland. It was the shire town of the county until 1801. 



Whitehead Settlement, — T. Established 1901 under the Free Grants Act. 



White Settlement,— Kt. Also Le Blanc Village (?). Acadian settlement, 

 formed before 1815 by expansion from older settlements in the vicinity. 

 (Loc. inf.; C. R.). 



White's Mountain, — K. Irish immigrant settlement. (Newspaper item). 



Wickham,— Q. Parish est. 1786. Settled first along the St. John and Wash- 

 demoak in 1784-85 by Loyalists, and in the interior mostly by later 

 Irish immigrants, as noted under the respective settlements. 



Wicklow, — Cn. Parish est. 1833. Settled first along the St. John by a few 

 scattered settlers from the lower St. John, between 1803 and 1815, and 

 by disbanded soldiers of the Military Settlement, after 1817. The interior 

 settlements were formed by expansion of these or by native settlers 

 from the lower St. John. 



Williamsburg, — T. English immigrant settlement of the N.B. and N.S. Land 

 Company, formed 1870 by a family from Yorkshire, who had first settled 

 at Stanley. (Loc. inf.). 



Williamstown, — N. Another name for Ellenstoton. 



Williamstown, — Cn. Native farming settlement, formed by expansion from 

 the lower St. John before 1841. (Ward, 71). 



Willow Grove, — J. A negro settlement, formed in 1817 by some 41 negroes, 

 former Virginian slaves, who, during the war of 1812 had escaped to 

 the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay, and were brought to St. John in 

 1815. They were assigned lots of 50 acres each at this location, but 

 they have not prospered, preferring city life, and the settlement is in 

 decline. (Journals House of Assembly, February 14, 1817, " Mr. Peters 

 presented a petition of William Flood, on behalf of himself and 40 

 other black people, brought into this province by order of His Majesty's 

 Government in the year 1815, praying aid to assist them in forming a 

 settlement at Loch Lomond"; Johnston, N. A., II, 138; S. P. G. Report, 

 1826; Raymond, in " Neith," St. John, I, 27). 



Wilmot, — Cn. Parish est. 1867. Settled entirely by expansion from the 

 neighbouring settlements of the St. John and of the lower part of that 

 river, after 1830. Its population is probably as purely of native Loyalist 

 and New England descent as that of any parish in the province. 



Wilson's Beach, — C. Early fishing settlement, founded in 1766 by Robert 

 Wilson and other New Englanders, who settled here as squatters and 

 ultimately acquired their lands by possession. It has grown and pros- 

 pered to the present. (History by Vroom, in Courier, in XXXVIII; Coll. 

 N.B. Hist. Soc. I, ^11, 217). 



Wilson's Point, — N. Site of the first English-speaking settlement of the 

 Miramichi. 



