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extent, iiu-asuriii^ said ll' leagiK'H from the hrmndary of Sr. (iobin'e grant 

 on the north west course in part, anil the other part on the east soutli east, 

 the river of Kestigouche inchided, with the point,", islands, islets and flats 

 in the front." (Miirdoeh, I., litS. Doc. II., 4(1 ; Leg. 118.) 



The location of this Seigniory is in the main clear, and as sliowii in 

 Map No. '.i'ih It could hardly, however, have bordered upon the lands of 

 Gobin, a.s the distance from Nepisiguit t« Restigouche is too great. 



This Seigniory Wius ceded by d' Iberville to Richard Denys de Fronsac 

 (Arcliives, 1884,10) and descended througli his wife to Rey-( Jaillard. who 

 iield it in 1753. 



The grant of 17t)7 to Charles Morin on the River Listigouche was in 

 Cloridon and therefore in Quebec, outside of our present limits. 



IV. THE ENGLISH PERIOD. 



This clearly marked and most interesting period of our history, 

 second in importance only to the Loyalist period, has not yet been ti-eated 

 as a whole by any of our historians. Its beginning was really marked by 

 theTreaty of Utrecht in 1713, which transferred Acadiato England, though 

 it was always denied by the French that the Acadia thus ceded included 

 the mainland, or what is now New Brunswick. No attempt was made by 

 the English to settle any part of this Province until after the capture of 

 Fort Beauséjour (Fort Cumberland) and the expulsion of the Acfldians. 

 The first actual English settlement in any part of the present New Bruns- 

 wick, excej)ting a few settlers about Fort Cumberland, was made by 

 a party of New Englanders from Rhode island at Sackville in 1761. 

 The next year James Simonds established himself at the mouth of 

 the St. John, and in 1763 a large colony from New England settled at 

 Maugerville, on the St. John, constituting the largest and most important 

 Immigration to this part of the Province that occurred in this period. 

 About the same time the traders and fishermen from New England, 

 previously migratory, began to settle at Passamaquoddy, and slowly 

 increased in numbers until 1770, when Lieutenant "William Owen settled 

 at Campobello with his^colony of thirty settlers from England, the most 

 important accession to this region in this period. New settlers from New 

 England continued to arrive at the head of the Bay of Fundy, and in 17(53 

 a few families of Crcrman descent from Pennsylvania settled on the west 

 side of the Petitcodiac, Avhilo in 1772 the settlements about the ^lisse- 

 guash district received a most important accession in a number of 

 families from Yorkshire, England. In 1704 Davidson and Cort, from 

 Scotland, settled on the Mirainichi, and from time to time other settlers 

 joined them. At Nepisiguit, about 17G6, Commodore Walker established 

 an important trading i)Ost, with a branch at Restigouche. where also one 

 Shoolbred was established. On the St. John, .settlers continued to arrive 

 from different places, though in no great numbers, and a few came as ten- 



