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checked carefully from other sources. It is particularly inaccurate m 

 dates, and I have observed, curiously enough, where other means of 

 checking the correctness of the dates is available, an almost constant ten- 

 dency to make them too recent. AU information, therefore, givsn 

 in this work, which is marked by the letters he. inf. (local information) 

 is to be received with some caution, though I have only used eu'îh 

 information when I am assured of its substantial correctness; and I 

 have either rejected or expressed by appropriate words or symbols that 

 which is doubtful. In addition to the circular letters, I have sent re- 

 quests to various persons prominent in their localities for information 

 about particular settlements, and I have received in some cases detailed 

 manuscript histories of very considerable value. For such contribu- 

 tions I wish to express particularly my indebtedness and my grateful 

 acknowledgments; to Judge Hanington for an account of Shediac, to 

 Mr. H, A. Powell foT Eichibucto, to Mr. Oscar Hanson (some years 

 ago) for the coast of Charlotte and St. John, Mr. W. A. Hoyt for 

 Andover, Mr. W. A. Colpitts for Elgin, Hon. A. E. McClelan for 

 material on Albert County, Eev. A. B. Murray for Stanley and vicinity, 

 Mr. G. D. Steeves for Hillsborough, Mr. Murray Burtt for Jacksontown, 

 Dr. Eobert Nicholson for the Miramichi, Mr. A. J. Bourgeois for Cap 

 Pelée and vicinity, and to M. Placide P. Gaudet for information about 

 many Acadian settlements. There are many others also who have aided 

 in but little less degree than these. In addition I wish to acknowledge 

 also the kind aid extended always by Mr. Thomas G. Loggia of '♦"he 

 Crown Land Office, who had made the invaluable records under his 

 charge freely available to me, and has sent me information from them 

 on numerous occasions. 



The various printed works of value in this study are sufficiently 

 noted in their proper places, but two deserve special mention here. 

 First, of particular value for such purposes are the large ecale 

 county maps, of which those for Kings-St. John, Westmorland-Albert, 

 Northumberland, York, and Carleton were published betw^een. the years 

 1862 and 1878. These give the names of every settler then in those 

 counties, thus allowing migrations, etc., to be accurately traced. Second, 

 there are the various series of articles on local history published in local 

 newspapers, of which the most valuable are Vroom's on Charlotte 

 County, in the St. Croix Courier; Eaymond's on Carleton County, in 

 th,e AVoodstock Despatch; and Herdman's on Eestigouche, in the St. 

 John Sun; all of which are worthy of republication in more permanent 

 form. Complete sets of these, of the maps above mentioned, and of 

 the books in the Bibliography ought to be accessible to investigators 

 in the Legislative Library of the Province, but alas ! they are not. 



