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settlement on the river. The exact site of the church is not known, but a 

 later grant implies it was near Government House. 



The census of 1695 gives fourteen settlers at Nashwaak, doubtless living 

 near the fort. 



C.— Freneuse. This settlement, mentioned in the early censuses as having several 

 settlers (36 in 1698), was of course the residence of Sieur de Freneuse. It 

 is represented on several early maps as situated on the east bank of the St. 

 John, exactly opposite the mouth of the Oromocto, no doubt at the bend of 

 the river at Upper Maugerville, but no trace is now known of its presence. 

 In 1696 Freneuse had there a house, barns, etc., as a lease of that date shows 

 (mentioned later). 



Probably there were also Acadian settlers around the mouth of the 

 Oromocto ; Bruce's report of 1762 mentions three hundred acres of cleared 

 land here. 



D.— Jemseg. It is possible that settlers lived near the fort at Jemseg, which site 

 will be discussed below. It was somewhere in this vicinity that Sieur de 

 Chauffours resided, with w'hom John Gyles lived, as he relates in his narra- 

 tive. Monckton, who burnt some houses there, states in his report of 1758 : 

 "This settlement had been abandon' d some Years past, by most of the In- 

 habitants On account of its being overfiow'd in the Spring by the Freshes." 

 A document of 1756 in the Parkman Ms. [New France, I, 265], speaks of 

 Jemseg, a French village of thirty or forty houses, a little below the mouth 

 of the Jemseg river. Possibly Lower Grimross is here meant. 



E.— Grimross. This was an important settlement at the time of the expedition of 

 Monckton in 1758. IMonckton states that there were here some fifty houses 

 and barns, which he burnt, and the Morris map of that year [published in 

 the preceding Monograph, 390] shows numerous buildings exactly on the 

 site of the modern Gagetown. Of this village, Monckton says: "This 

 Village was settled by the Inhabitants of Beausejour, when drove off from 

 thence in 1755." Some of the Acadians must have returned to Grimross, 

 for in 1761 a few were living there [Murdoch II, 403]. This must have 

 been at one time the principal settlement on the river. Morris, 1765, says : 

 "Grimross is the most considerable settlement that the French had upon 

 St. Johns ; but their Houses are now all demoHshed and their improvements 

 laid waste." Monckton speaks also of houses above the head of Grimross 

 River. 



F.— Chofour. A few houses just below Gagetown shown on the Morris map of 1758. 

 Connected no doubt with Sieur de Chauffours. 



G.— Villeray. A few houses at the present Lower Gagetown, about opposite the 

 middle of Musquash Island ; on the Morris map 1758. Monckton says he 

 burnt houses there. 



H.— Hobicheau. A settlement of four houses on the Morris map of 1758 just 

 above Tennants cove. The possible connection of this with an earlier 

 settlement or fort here I have discussed fully in my Place-nomenclature 

 [p. 257]. Monckton speaks of " a few Houses that were some time past 

 Inhabited by the Robicheaus," which he burnt. 



There was perhaps a small settlement at the mouth of Nerepis about 

 the fort (see later), for Bruce, 1762, tells us there were 12 or 15 acres of 

 clear land here. 



I.— St. John. At the mouth of the river St. John in the census of 1733 are given 

 eighteen settlers. The site of this settlement is unknown, but it was possibly 



