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Hughes, Fort- — The block house at mouth of Oromocto erected about 1780 ; 



doubtless in honour of Sir Richard Hughes, then Governor of Nova Scotia. 

 Huskisson.— P. 1826. No doubt in honour of William Huskisson, in that year 



President of the Board of Trade, and later Colonial Secretary in England. 



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Indian Island. — No doubt descriptive; the Passamaquoddies lived and had a 



burial place there. In the Owen Diary, 1770. 



In Passamaquoddy, Mii^-ig-ne'-goo». Gatchet gives Misik-negus = at the 



Tree Island. Boyd, 1763, gives Jegmiagoose, as does Lorimer; Kilby has 



Mesiginagoske, all evidently forms of the same word. 



By the French it appears to have been called Me La Treille, from a 



French settler of that name mentioned in the census of 1686, and whom 



Church, 1704, calls Lotriel. Mitchell's Field Book. 1764, has Latterell; a 



plan before 1800 has L'Aterail, and other forms occur, as Lutterelle, etc. 



Wright, 1772, has Fish Island; and it appears to be Perkins Island of a 



grant of 1765 to the grantees of Burton. 

 Indian Point. — A descriptive name occurring many times in N. B., though not 



commonly on the maps. 

 Indiantown. — (St. John). A successor of the older " Indian House," a post for 



trading with the Indians, erected in 1779, and so called until the present 



century, w'hen the present form replaced it. 

 Indiantown.— (Northumberland). No doubt descriptive. 

 Indian Village, — Descriptive ; a large Indian settlement exists there. Said to 



have been founded in 1794, after the sale of Aucpaque by the Indians, and 



then named Sainte Anne, the former name of Aucpaque (See Harts Island). 



In Maliseet, See-dahn = Sainte Anne. 

 Inglewood. — A manor of 32,000 acres in St. John and Kings, granted in 1832 to 



Moses Perley, and named by him from Scott's " Rob Roy." He also gave 



the series of names of lakes, mostly from Scott's novels (p. 207). A friend 



of his was Captain Levinge, of Knockdrin Castle, Ireland, author of "Echoes 



from the Backwoods." Now the property of a fishing and game club. 

 Inkermann. — P. 1855. Named, no doubt, in commemoration of the great battle 



fought in 1854. 

 Innishannon Brook - Of course for that place on the Bandon in Ireland ; here 



in New Bandon. 

 Iroquois, River. — Origin ? Perhaps connected with some old incursion of the 



Mohawks. On Bouchette, 1815, as Oroquois; on Greenleaf, map of Me. 1841, 



Wolumkuas (compare also Little Presquile). Pr. loc. Ir-ock^way. 

 In Maliseet, perhaps, Pee-lee-gah-kivay-tay^-gook. 

 IvaflhoB' — Former name for the settlement at -Musquash, suggested no doubt by 



the proximity of the other names from Scott (p. 207). 



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Jack Lake. — Named in 1884 by the surveyors in honour of Edward Jack, of the 

 Crown Land department. 



Jaeksontown. — Said to be for the descendants of \Vm. Jackson, loyalist. Men- 

 tioned in House of Assembly journals, 1817, as a new settlement. 



Jacquet River. — Probably from the Acadian Jacques = James, the name of the 

 first settler, James Doyle, who is known to have been settled there in the 



