[GANONG] HISTORIC SITES IN NEW BRUNSWICK 32S 



^Vilsoll was a squatter, but acquired his lands by possession, later con- 

 firmed by a grant. In 1770 Lieutenant Owen arrived from England with 

 some 30 settlers and established the settlement of New Warrington on 

 Campobello, the most important of the pre-Loyalist settlements in this 

 district. The site of this settlement is perfectly well known and shown on a 

 cut on p. 11 of the second Campobello paper. It was on Harbour Delute 

 between Curry's cove and Wilson's Beach. 



There were temporary settlers on Grand Manan at Bonny' s Brook, but 

 for a short time only, as related by Mr. Howe. (Coll. N. B. Hist. Soc, I. 

 340. ) 



There were possibly a few scattered single settlers at other points in 

 this district, and there were others on Cobscook bay, not within our present 

 limits, but these are all that are positively known in the region within the 

 limits of this paper. The sites of these settlements are shown on the accom- 

 panying map No. 40. It is noteworthy with what regularity the settlements 

 of this period occupied the same sites as those of the Acadian period, which 

 in their turn had so frequently occupied the sites of earlier Indian camping- 

 grounds. 



During this period there were no forts in this district. 



2. The St. John District. 



Though no complete history of the settlements of this period on the 

 St. John has yet bejn attempted, there are very satisfactory histories of 

 at least three of the particular settlements by New Brunswick historians, 

 i.e. of the Maugerville Settlement by Hannay, of Kemble Manor by Howe, 

 and of the settlements at the mouth of the river by Eaymond ; and there 

 are many references to other settlements of the period in the writings of 

 these and other local historians. A most valuable document giving a 

 full return of all the settlers in this district before the coming of the 

 Loyalists has been printed in the collections of the New Brunswick 

 Historical Society ; and in the Crown Land office at Fredericton are many 

 maps, grants, etc., relating to the period. The materials, therefore, are 

 faii'ly ample for recovering the locations of the settlements of this period 

 in this district, and a brief account will here suffice. 



The permanent settlement of the district began with the arrival of 

 James Simonds at the mouth of the river in 1762. In the next year the 

 Maugerville colony brought a large number of settlers from New England, 

 and formed the only important single accession received during the 

 period ; for, after that, the settlers, coming from the most diverse sources, 

 arrived singly or in small numbers, so that the}' increased but slowly, 

 though steadily, until the coming of the Loyalists in 1783. The attempt 

 to settle the best lands of the river by large grants on the tenant system, 

 presently to be considered, was almost a complete failure. The settle- 

 ments of this period extended up from the mouth of the river to St. 

 Anne's Point, at which and just above until the end of the period, were 

 some sixty families of Acadian French. The positions of the townships 

 will be described in the next section. 



