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k'rin concession would inijily, wi" do not know. Curiously enough, the 

 Morris Map of 175S marks Chofour as a villai^c just Ik'Iow tho prosont Oago- 

 town. Lo Sit'ur de Soulanges liad for four years been commander of this fort 

 and that " of the Kiver St. John." In 1()74 the fort, whicli he had repaired, 

 liad been destroyed by the Hollanders, and wiis repaired by him at his own 

 expense. As a recompense, the proprietors! up of the fort was given to him. 

 8ee his grants of 1072. 



He afti>rwards, in 1702, was granted the Seigniory of Soulanges in 

 Quebec. (Archives, 1884, 20). In one document Soulanges is spoken of as 

 " Lieutenant of the Company of Infantry of (irand Fontaine, in the regiment 

 of I'oitou, and INIajor of Acadia ; lias rendered good and praiseworthy ser^^ces 

 in divers places both in Old and New France." 



In 1082 the King granted to Sieurs Bergier, Gautier, Boucher, and De 



I\hmtes lands on the St. John for a fishery, but they appear not to have 



been taken up. It is, however, to be noted that on the Morris Map of 1758 



the Belleisle is called /?. ait Gautier. 



1684— The St. John, near Meductic. René d'Amours, Ecuyer, Sieur de Clig- 



nancourt. (Sept. 20, confirmed May 27, 1089). 



" Ce qui se rencontre de terre non concédée ni habituée le long de la- 

 dite rivière Saint Jean, depuis ledit lieu de IMedoctet, icellui comprise, 

 jusques au long sault qui se trouve en remontrant ladite rivière Saint Jean, 

 icelle comprise, avec les isles & islets qui se rencontreront dans cet espace, 

 ■& deux lieues de profondeur de chaque côté de ladite rivière Saint Jean. 

 lequel fief & seigneurie portera le nom de Clignancourt." (Mem.) 



The description does not make the location of the Seigniory plain, though 

 it evidently extended from Fort Meductic either down the river to the 

 IMeductic Falls, or else upwards to Grand Falls. Several students liave 

 taken the former view, including Rev. AV. O. Raymond, but I have inclined 

 to the latter, chiefly because the description seems to imply that it ran up 

 the river from Meductic, and also because the expression "long sault" 

 sei'ras to apply much better to Grand Falls than to the Meductic Falls, 

 which are really but a rapid. Moreover, the stretch of river from INIeductic 

 Falls to Meductic contains mucli poor land, which Clignancourt, well ac- 

 quainted with the river, would be unlikely to choose. Against my view is 

 only tlie inunense extent of tlie seigniory, which would thus be much the 

 largest on the river, but not after all much larger than that granted his 

 brother at Richibucto. The authorities may, however, well have bet'U ignor- 

 ant of its extent. Early maps place the Meductic River wrongly emptying 

 into the Long Reach, and Perley lias supposed this seigniory extended 

 tlience to the Falls at St. John, but this is impossible for many reasons. 



Though his seigniory was near INIeductic, and he occasionally visited 

 Meductic as Gyles' narrative shows, liis residence appears to have been on 

 Eccles Island below Springhill (See Map No. 38), for the census of IfiOO 

 returns him iis living at Aucpac, and this island on all early maps is called 

 CInincorc, wliicli seems ])lainly enougli a corruption of his name. 

 1684. — Nashwaak to Jeraseg. 7o Mathieu d'Atuours, Ecuijir, Sieur de Preneuse. 

 (Sept. 20, confirmed ^hirch 1, 1003). 



" Des terres non concédées ni habituées le long de la rivière de Saint- 

 Jean, entre les lieux de (iemisik & de Xaehouac, sur deux lieues de prof<tn- 

 (h'ur de chaque côté de la rivière Saint-Jean, icelle comprise, avec les isles 

 «Se islets qui se rencontrent dans cet espace, ensemble la rivière du Kamouc- 



