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HISTORIC SITES IN NEW BRUNSWICK 



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when Fort Howe w;is built. Its ground plan is shown on the accompanying 

 map No. 41. 

 B. — Fort Howe. This fort was built in 177S for the protection of the harbour 



and river against 

 the New England 

 privateers, which 

 were particularly- 

 destructive to the 

 settlers here in the 

 early part of the 

 Revolution. Its 

 site is perfectly 

 ■well know'n. It 

 stood on the ridge 

 back of Portland, 

 and its name is 

 still applied to the 

 place. A picture 

 of it made in 1781, 

 is extant and has 

 been published 

 (in Coll. N. B. Hist. Soc, I, .312, and N. B. Mag. II, 81). 

 Ground plans of it are shown on the accompanying maps Nos. 



41 and 42, the first made prob- 

 bably by Robert Morse in 

 1784 to accompany his well- 

 known Report, and the second 

 from the Cunningham map 

 of the harbour of 1835. Its 

 position in relation to the 



Map No. 42. From Cunningham's "Plan 

 OF THE City and Harbour of St. 

 John," 1835 ; x ?. 



other forts is shown on map Map No. 41. From 



No. 37. 



A "Plan of the 

 City and Har- 

 bour OP Saint 

 John," 1784. By 

 Robt. Morse (?) ; 



Map No. 4;-!. Site of Fort 

 Hughes. From old plans ; 



C— Fort Hughe?. This 

 was but a block-house, built in 

 1780. Its site is well known 

 locally, and is shown on the a. Vort Howe, 

 accompanying map No. 43, g. Block House, 

 copied from old plans in the f. Navy Island. 

 Crown Land office. G. Fort Frederick 



S. The Petitcodiac-Missetjuash District. 



The history of the settlements of this period in this district, though 

 of the very gi'eatcst interest and importance, has not j-et been sufficiently 

 treated . Mr. W. C. Milner has publislind newspaper articles upon the sub- 

 ject, and there is a small pamphlet by Charles Dixon treating of the York- 

 shire settlers, with other fugitive newspaper articles, of which indeed a 

 great number have appeared in the columns of the "Chignecto Post." 

 On the settlement of the Pctitcodiac I know of nothing published, aside 



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