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known as Eddy's stream (Map No. 35), and he adds further that the 

 stones of the mill were found not long ago on this stream. A fact 

 which has an important bearing upon the site of Enaud's settlement is, 

 however, tliis, that a point on the harbour is still called, locally, by his 

 name, Point Enand, though on the chart it is called Daly's Point. This 

 persistence of his name must indicate very close connection between him and 

 this locality. 



Enault is mentioned by LeClercq with much praise. They went 

 together in winter from Nepisiguit to Richard Denys' settlement at Mira- 

 michi, nearly perishing on the road. 



It is probable that from the time of Denys onward there were Acadian 

 settlers about this harbour in small numbers, and that in common with other 

 desirable locations on the north shore it received large additions to their 

 numbers after 1750, and still more after the expulsion. In 1761 Captain 

 Mackenzie was sent to remove them, and took prisoners there, no less than 

 787 (Archives, 189-4, 229). ^ The registers at Caraquette, according to Mr. 

 Gaudet, show there was a number of settlers here in 1772, and these settlers 

 no doubt took up lands which were afterwards granted to them. It is thus 

 hardly possible to assign any date to the foundation of St. Peters, as it was 

 called until 1826, when it was named Bathurst by Sir Howard Douglas. 



The later history of Acadian settlements in this region was no doubt 

 very similar. Thus, Caraquette was granted in 1784 to 34 Acadians who had 

 doubtless been some time on the lands. Tracadie was first settled, according 

 to M. Gaudet in 1785, and Pokemouche and Petit Rocher both in 1797. 



7. Besiigouche District. 



So far as I have been able to find, there are in this district no records 

 of French settlements, other than the French mission to the Indians, before 

 1*700. The EecoUet Mission was at Old Mission Point, as already 

 discussed. After 1750 the settlers came to this region in considerable 

 numbers and founded the town of Petit Rochelle, on the Quebec 

 side, protected by batteries at Point LeGarde and Battery Point. It 

 was in the basin above Mission Point that the battle was fought between 

 an English squadron, under Captain Byron, and a French squadron, 

 which resulted in the destruction of the latter and of Petit Rochelle and 

 the batteries. A very interesting memorial of this event is on the French 

 chart of Restigouche of 1779, copied from an earlier English one, which 

 gives the names of all Byron's ships to difterent points and shoals along 

 the river. Cooney gives the ofl&cial accounts of this battle, and it has 



1 Dionne thus speaks of him, " Quant à Phillippe Enault de Barbaucannes, qui après la révoca- 

 tion de la concession faite à Denys en 1054, obtint le fief de la rivière de Nipisiguit, contenant six milles 

 carrés, il se construit une maison du côté sud du havre vis-à-vis la Pointe-aux-Péres. L'emplacement 

 de cette résidence se trouvait environ cinq cents pas de la côte sur la terre qui a autrefois appartenu à. 

 Andrew Ramesay un peu plus d'un mille à l'est des scieries à vapeur du St. Lawrence Lumber Co. 

 Enault avait un moulin à farine près de la côte sur le ruisseau qui traverse la terre de John Miller i 

 un quart de mille des susdites scieries." Dr, Dionne considers tliat Cooney was mistaken in locating 

 the settlement where he does. I do not think Enaud had a seigniory at Nepisiguit, as there is no men- 

 tion of it in the documents of the time, but lie liad one at Pokemouche, (See later under Seigniories. 



- Also mentioned in Smethurst's Narrative. 



