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dwelling. Owen also places French seltleiiicntH near Lubec and on Moose 

 Island at Eastpurt, and ab(jut Cobscook Bay, hut these I liave not attempted 

 to locate exactly. Morris, in hi.s MS. report oi his survey of Pa.ssamaquoddy 

 in 17GÔ, hat! this statement : — "There is not the least Vestages of the French 

 Settlements in any other i)art of the liay, but upon Moose Island, Fish 

 [i. e., Indian] Island, the Island St. Croix, and the Point on the "West side 

 Scoodick River called point Pleasant, where the French had a Fort, and 

 part of the Ditches and Ramparts still appear." This fort, was no doubt 

 that which wa.s being built in 1704 by (iourdan (St. Aubin?) and Sharkee 

 (Chartier), a.'< prisoners taken near Penobscot told Church ; but it nuist have 

 been unfinished, for Church makes no further mention of it. Very probably, 

 as mentioned above, the dwelling of St. Aubin was here. This, of course, 

 would be the French settlement marked at Pleasant Point on the Southack 

 and the Owen niajjs. The location of all these settlements on a modern 

 map is shown on Map No. 40. Morris' Island St. Croix was not the present 

 Dochet Island, but the present Treat Island near Eastport, as his map and 

 report show (see also Map Xo. 10). I know of no otlier reference to a 

 French settlement on this island. 



Traxlition points to some old cellars at Hill's Point between Oak Bay and 

 the Waweig, as French, and to graves and a well at Letite said to be French, 

 and there is a shadowy tradition of an ancient breastwork on the bluff at 

 Sandy Point, found by the earliest settlers. 



Wemaysaj', in summary, that in this region there was a largo settlement 

 on Dochet Island, and small ones at Indian Island, Campobello, St. Andrews, 

 Pleasant Point, St. Stephen, and perhaps othei-s at other points. But it must 

 be remembered that the censuses show that the French population of this 

 region was always extremely small. The settlers at Passamaquoddy were 

 less farmers than fishermen and traders. 



2. The St. John district. 



A. — Settlements. 



The earliest French settlement on the St. John of which we have 

 record was the temporary fishing village at Emenenic, mentioned in 

 Biard's letter of 1612, and elsewhere in the Eclations of that time. This 

 island was one of those near the head of the Long Reach; which are to 

 this day called by the Maliseots Ah-men-hen-nik. 



The next settlement was that of the Recollot Mission. LcClercq tells 

 U8 that the Recollcts had their principal establishment on the St. John in 

 1619, but we have no further clue as to the site of this settlement. lie 

 tells us also that about 1G24 the RccoUct missionaries came to Quebec, 

 and that " They had loft the mission which they had on St. John's River 

 a month before in consequence of orders they had received from their 

 provincial in France." ' 



The next settlement is that of LuTour, about his fort at St. John, a 

 subject to be referred to below. Next after this comes the trading station 



1 In "Premier Ktablissemeut Uela Foi." 



