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course, bc best to apply then; to localities near to where the}' oric^inally 

 belonged, and their location may easily be found b}' comparing the 

 accompanying map No. 30 with a good modern map. About Passama- 

 quoddy there are thus available Eazilly, St. Aubin, Chartier and Peri(jny ; 

 on the St. John, are Cliijnancourt (or in its early English form, Cleoncore) 

 Bcllefond, Vilrenard, Soulanjes, Freneuse, St. Denis, Afarson (another title 

 forSoulanges), La Tour, St. Cast in, Valence, Martiijnon, Breuil, Flenne, and 

 Juibert ; at the head of the Bay of Fundy are La Vallitre and Villieu ; 

 on the North Shore, Denys, St. Paul,Linoville, Ihtplcssis and Chauffours ; 

 at Miramichi is Fronsac, and in Gloucester, Enault (or Enaud) and 

 Gobin, and at Restigouche Iberville. Such names are surely vastly to be 

 preferred to the very trivial ones so often given to our new settlements. 



I think it probable the following list contains nearly all, perhaps 

 all, of the seigniorial grants made in New Brunswick, but of many of 

 them the printed records are very scanty, and in others thedifierent 

 versions differ considerably, especially in the spelling of the place-names. 

 Jt is therefore very desirable that a full collection of them should be 

 made from the original documents, and when possible, from the original 

 registers at Quebec. This will be the more profitable since the grants 

 alread}' published in full often contain valuable incidental references to 

 local history, which leads us to believe that those published only in part 

 may in the complete original also contain important items. 



The published descriptions of seigniories occur in the following 

 works : First, in the Memorials of the English and French Commissaries 

 of 1755 (cited in the following list tis, Mem.'), in which some of our most 

 important ones are published in full. Second, in various documents issued 

 by the Quebec Government in 1852-54. The principal one of these is 

 " Titles and Documents relating to the Seigniorial tenure in return to an 

 address of the Legislative Assembly," 1851, Quebec, 1852 (cited as Leg.) 

 The " Return to an address of the Legislaj-ive Assembly for copies of 

 certain Seigniorial Documents 1853,'' contains many confirmations of 

 Acadian Seigniories given in full. There is also a valuable Legislative 

 document of 1807 or 1808 with titles in brief. There are several others 

 in the " Manuscrits relatif à L'histoire de La Nouvelle France" (cited as 

 Does.) published by the Quebec Government; but this work contains 

 many misprints, and the copies in the Bon Perley Poore collection in the 

 Massachusetts State House are more accurate, tliough of course even 

 these are copies of the originals in Paris. Murdoch's Nova Scotia also 

 contains translations of ])art8 of many of the grants. 



In the following list the limits of space allowable have made it neces- 

 sary to give only the description of the location of the grants, in select- 

 ing which from the several versions, often difTering considerably from 

 one another, I have chosen that which seemed to me to be most trust- 

 worthy, i.e. derived most directly and with most care from the original 



