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Windsor, — Cn. Native settlement, formed apparently before 1840 by expansion 

 from the neighbouring parts of the St. John. (Ward, 73). 



Woodlands, — T. Native settlement, formed before 1849 and apparently an 

 expansion from Cardigan. (Johnston, Report, 85). 



Woodstock, — Cn. Parish est. 1786. Settled first along the St. John in 1784 

 by disbanded Loyalist regiments, the King's American regiment below 

 Meductic, and Delancey's Brigade above it, and in the interior by expan- 

 sion from these and other Loyalist settlements of the St. John. (His- 

 tory of the regiments by Raymond, in Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, II, 203, 212; 

 locations in Hist. Sites, 342, 343 and Map 46). 



The present town of Woodstock, shire town of the county, has grown 

 up with the lumbering industry on the Meduxnekeag since 1817, and 

 as a farming and lumbering centre has gi-own to a prosperous town; 

 incorporated 1856. It has been the shire town of Carleton since 1831. 

 (Its history has been fully written by Raymond, in his Articles in the 

 Woodstock Despatch, 1895 and 1896, and in St. John Telegraph, September 

 27, 1887; important matter in Baird's Seventy Years, 116, 355; Smith's, 

 History of Methodism, II, 91; Winslow Papers, 484; Fredericton Sentinel, 

 September 12, 1840; St. John Sun, September 21, 1904). 



A small Indian (Maliseet) reserve of 200 acres, purchased by the 

 Government, May 22, 1851, for the Indians of Meductic, and occupied 

 as a permanent settlement by their descendants. 



Wooler Settlement, — Y. An expansion of Harvey, formed about 1849. 



Yoho, — Y. Settlement at the lake (Erina), founded prior to 1847 by one 

 Chassey, a Canadian, and others. (Ward, 46). 



Youghall, — G. Immigrant settlement, formed about 1830, in part by Irish 

 Protestant and in part by Scotch settlers, on land thrown open for the 

 purpose in 1825 by the escheat of the earlier grant to Allen of 1770. 

 (Loo. inf.; Johnston, II, 14). 



Zealand, — Y. N.B. and N.S. Land Company settlement, settled between 1845 

 and 1850 by settlers of Dutch descent from the United States, (Loc. 

 inf.). 



