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said rivir, opposite to each other, the said two leagues of land in front and two. 

 leagues in depth to be taken in the unconci'ileil lands at a distance of about 

 five le;igues below Pesnioucady, running towards the north-east." (Leg. 

 121'. ) 



This grant, not a grant in seigniory, but an ordinary grant " en censive," 

 cannot Vx' located more definitely than that it probably included the month of 

 the >higaguadavic. Tlie grant mentions that his former property had been 

 plundered and burnt by the British, and anew grant is made to enable him 

 to settle in a safer place. The ba«in at the Falls, at St. Geoi^e, where there 

 is fertile land, grand fishing, and the liead of navigation, would be a most 

 likely ]>l:u'(' fur his residence. 

 1693— Grand Manan. To Paul Dailleboust, Ecuyer, Sieur de Terigny (or 

 Persigny). (April 14.) 



"The said island of Grand Mennnr, together with the islands, islets and 

 beaches which may be found lying around and near the same." (Leg. 134.) 



The location of this Seigniory is perfectly clear (see map No. 39). 

 1695— Scoodic. To Sieur Michel Chartier, habitant de I'Acadie. (July 8, con- 

 firmed May 19, 1696. ) 



"D'une demy lieue de front de chaque costé de la rivière d'Escoudet 

 sur une lieue et demye de profoundeur à commencer du costé du sud ouest à 

 la terre du dit Sieur St. Aubin en descendant la dite rivière, et du costé du 

 N. E. aux terres non concédez, vis-a-vis la concession du Sr. de Bourchemin, 

 sur la rivière de la Oumasca. (Does. II., 224. Also Leg. 154, Murdoch, I., 

 224.) 



The location of this seigniory is fairly plain. Church, in 1704, found 

 one Sharkee, of course Chartier, settled on or near the site of St. Stephen, 

 on the Scoodic, which was doubtless the centre of his Seigniory. 



In 1696 Michel Chartier leased the Seigniory of Freneuse from its owner, 

 Mathieu D'Amours. (See later.) 



The Seigniories of Thibaudeau, 1695, and of Yilleclaire, 1697, and 

 Kouésanoukek (Lefebvre), 1703, and Grand Champ, 1708, were in Maine, 

 towards Mount Desert. 



2. The St. John District. 



No systematic account of the Seigniories of the St. John has yet been 

 published, though many references to theni occur scattered through the 

 writings of Ha'nnay, Raymond and others. Most prominent of the 

 Seigniors of this valley were the brothers D'Amours, of whom an account 

 is given by ilannay in the Now Brunswick Magazine, I., 25. 



1635— Mouth of the St. John. To Charles de Saint- Etienne, Sieur de la Tour, 

 (Jan. 15, by La Compagnie de la Nouvelle France.) 



" Le fort & habitîition de la Tour, situé en la Rivière Sainte Jean en la 

 Nouvelle-France, entre les 45 & 46, degrés de latitude, ensemble des terres 

 prochainement adjacentes il icelui dans l'ét^'ndue de cinq lieiies au dessous le 

 long de ladite rivière, sur dix lieiies de profondeur dans les ti'rres." (Mem. ) 



The location of this grant is fairly plain. It probably covered both 

 sides of the mouth of the river. It was, of course, lat^»r superseded by other 

 grants. It is no doubt that mentioned by Murdoch (I., 79), as obtained 

 from the French King in 1627. 



