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Fort Gaspcreau was re-named Monckton, but was soon abandoned. In 

 front of its silo is a small burial-ground (map No. .30), the oldest in New 

 Brunswick cnntaininfr monuments, and of great historic inteiest. 



4. The Richibucto District. 



In all this district, from Bayo Vcrtc to Capo Kscuminac, there is not 

 u siniijlcsoltlenicnt of this periotl known tome. Thei'o were some exten- 

 sive grants, later to be referred to, but these were not settled. There 

 were of course Acadian settlements, alread}'' mentioned. 



5. The Miraiaichi District. 



No histor}' of the settlements of this period has been attempted be- 

 yond the references in Coone}'', but in any case they were not important. 

 The whole North Shore was geographically too remote to be atlected by 

 the New England immigration, audit appears to have received absolutely 

 none of it, and such settlement as it did receive came directly from 

 K I) gland. 



In lîGl AYilliam Davidson and John Curt came to ^liramichi from 

 Scotland, and the next year obtained a large grant on this river, and with 

 the aid of a few others who came later, of whom an account, ])robably 

 accurate, is given by Cooney, carried on an extensive salmon fishery and 

 trade with the Indians. The Blake3 and Murdochs are also said to 

 bo pre-Loyalist settlers, and Ctoney mentions otheis, some of whom 

 came from St. Johns, now Prince Edward, Island. There is in the 

 Public Pecord office a valuable map (soe Archives, 1895, N. E., 3), whieh 

 shows the Miramichi on a lai-go scale, with the exact sites of the houses 

 of the settlors, apparently uninfluenced by the Loj-alist period, and this 

 map is of the greatest value for the local historian of Miramichi. Matter 

 of interest in this connection is given also by Eaymond in his " The 

 North Shore." 



6. The Nepisigxiit District. 



In all this district, aside of course from Acadian settlers, wo know of 

 but a single attempt at settlement, that of Commodore "Walker, of which 

 an account is given by Coonej', which is apparently trustworthy. Walker 

 settled on Bathurst harbour about HGU, at Alston Point, whore ho had an 

 oxton.sivc trading eslablishment, with a branch at Hestigouche. Ilo was 

 ruined, however, by the attacks of American privateers during the early 

 part of the revolution, and later returned to England. The site of his 

 establishment is well Unown and is shown on map No. 35.' There are 

 references to him in Archives 1804, 301, 304.' The several grants of this 



1 See also Hayniond, Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc, II., liiC. 



- Cooney .says he liad a residence also at YouKliidl, and a plan of Lhe harbour of 

 1784, given (with, however, several additions of later daU) in Coll. X. 13. Hist. Soc, 

 II., 120, shows houses here as well as at Alston Point. 



