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In the last century this was the most important vilhxge on the St. John, 

 much surpassing Meductic after about 1750. Tliere is no reference what- 

 ever to it that I have been able to find before the census of 1733 w^hich men- 

 tions Ecoupay. Pote speaks of it under the name Apog and Apoge, in 1745. 

 Had it existed much earlier it could scarcely have escaped mention in some 

 of the many documents of the preceding century. Pote refers to it as a con- 

 siderable village. Upon Morris' map of the St. John, made originally in 

 17G5 (my copy is about 1774), occurs the following important inscription : 

 " Aughpack is about Seven Miles above St. Anns, and at this place was the 

 Indian Church, and the Residence of the French Missionary, the Church 

 and other Buildings about it are all demolished by the Indians themselves. 

 An Island opposite Aughpack, called Indian Island, is the place where the 

 Indians of St. John make their Anual Rendezvous, on this Island is their 

 Town consisting of about Forty mean Houses or AVigwams built with slender 

 poles, and covered with Bark ; in the Center of this Town is their Grand 

 Council Chamber constructed after the same manner as their other Houses, 

 and here all differences and disputes are settled and Hunting Grounds 

 Allotted to each Family before they begin their Summer Hunts. These 

 Affairs are generally settled about the Beginning of July." 



In 1765, then, Aucpac would appear to have been abandoned. But 

 it was not for long, for, as an entry in the registers of the church at 

 Indian Village shows, in 1767 the bell and other articles of the chapel at 

 Meductic were removed to Aucpac, and in 1777, as proved by the journal of 

 Colonel Allan, the village W'as again occupied and important. It was 

 thenceforth inhabited by the Indians until 1794, when they sold the site of 

 their village, and also Savage Island, and removed in a body to In- 

 dian Village, where they have since lived. The Indian Island on which the 

 council chamber stood was the present Savage Island. Aucpac was also 

 called Saint Amies, a name apparently transferred from St. Annes Point, and 

 it was taken with them when they removed to the present Indian Village. 

 As applied to Aucpac, it persisted for a time as the name of Harts Island, 

 which on old plans is called Sandon (corruption of Sainte Anne) Island. 

 Savage Island is called in Maliseet, N'ca-ne-û-dan, or "Old Town," while 

 Harts Island is Wa-ca-loo-sen, "a fort," and their tradition is that Savage 

 Island was their original stronghold, but it was too large to defend, so they 

 moved to the smaller one. 



Indian bodies have been found at Curries Mountain in excavating for 

 the railroad, showing a burial ground there. 



J. — St. Annes Point. There appears to have been an ancient settlement at St. 

 Annes Point on or near where Government House now stands, and an ancient 

 bui'ial place there. The latter is locally believed to have been in the shrub- 

 bery behind the present carriage-house. In 1765 a grant of four acres here 

 was made to the Indians by the Nova Scotian Government. 



Cadillac in 1692 speaks of a Micmac fort at a place called Naxehouac 

 [Nashwaak], but there is no other evidence of this. 



K. — Indian Camps at St. Marys. This considerable settlement opposite Fred- 

 ericton is comparatively modern. The Indians have had no grantor reserva- 

 tion here, but have held a small tract from early in this century simply by 

 occupation. They were probably attracted to the locality through its prox- 

 imity to Fredericton. 



L. — Oromocto. At the mouth of this river, near the bridge, was an Indian 

 burial ground, mentioned by Ward (p. 40), and probably here was an Indian 



