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probably tu this st-ttloiiii'iit tliat Abbé Builly Tvivm, iii a letter of 17G8 from 

 Aucpac, in speaking of eleven Acadian families living near Aucpac who had 

 been confirmed at Sainte Annes (Casgrain). It is said locally that some of 

 these settlers founded the Masrol, or Myshrall, settlement Ix'tween Kingsclear 

 and Uanweli. 



A])i)ariiitly there were other French settlers Ixtwecn the Keswick and 

 Nashwaaksis, for wlien those lands were laid out and granted in 178G several 

 lots were granted to Acadiaiis, and the reconls of tiie time speak of a " French 

 location " there. 



St. Valier, in 1(388, tells us the region about tlie present Springhill was 

 named Sainte Marie, and he thought it a good place for settlers. 

 -St. Annes Point. This is witliout doubt tlie " colony below the village of 



Eeoupay (Aucpac)" of the cen- 

 "^ ti { I sus of 173.3, with S2 inhabitants, 



and the settlement of 20 families 

 30 leagues up the river of a 

 document of 1749 (Murdoch, 

 II., 135). In 175G there was 

 here a French officer with 20 

 men (Murdoch, II., 304), and 

 there are several other refer- 

 ences in documents of the time 

 to this important village of St. 

 Annes. Bruce, 1762, says there 

 were 600 or 700 acres of land 

 cleared here, and Morris, 1765, 

 states that the French had set- 

 tlements all the way from St. 

 Annes to Aucpac. It was per- 

 haps settled jiLst before 1732, 

 for a document of that year 

 (Murdoch, I., 479) speaks of a 

 small colony of French having 

 settled on the River St. Jolin. 

 It stood on the present site of 

 Fredericton, scattered along the 

 river as the Morris map of 1765 



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Map No. 17. St. Annes Point and 

 INGS. From Morris, 1765 ; x 



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(Map No. 17) states, from opposite the mouth of the Tsa.«hwaak upwards. 

 It is here too that tradition places it, and the remains of an old French 

 road were discovered here by the fii-st si-ttlei-s.' Munro, in 1783, speaks 

 of land here cleared by the French, about two miles in extent. This 

 settlement was destroyed by expeditions from the mouth of the river made 

 in the winter of 1758-59. Yet the Acadians evidently returned to it, for 

 in 1701 some forty of thorn were there, and a few were there in 1783 

 (Murdoch II, 402, 403). It was the second most important Acadian 



1 "The only considerable relic of the French at the point is a portion of corduroy road dug up by 

 city workmen on the corner of Regent and Georg.> itrects. The plan of the town surveyed by Dougald 

 Campbell in 178C sliOWB this road, which crossed tlie point in a sweeping curve, passing through tli.' blocks 

 facing on CJiarlotte, George and Brunswick streets. At the corner of R. gent and Charlotte the land 

 was marshy and so the road was corduroyed there." MaeFarlano's " Fredericton," (St. John Sun, 

 1892). 



