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period about Bathurst harbour are later to be mentioned. In 1775 two 

 men named Fry and Urquhart were carrying on a fishery at Miscou 

 (Archives 1894, 331). The lake at the northern end of the island is to-day 

 called Fry's Lake (Map No. 3-1), which no doubt locates his residence. 



7. The Restigouche District. 



In all this district we know positively of but two settlements belong- 

 ing to this period. One of these was the establishment maintained by 

 Warker as a branch of that on Bathurst harbour. It is said that 

 Walker's Brook takes its name from him, in which case it probably marks 

 the site of this trading post, though its site is locally unknown. Again, 

 it is stated in a document of 1775 (Archives, 1894, 327, 329), that John 

 Shoolbred had a settlement in the Bay Chaleurs, and as his grant in 1776 

 covered Walker's Brook and Smith's Island, it must have been in that 

 vicinit}'. A document of this year speaks of his having carried on the 

 salmon fishery for many yeai's at Eestigouche. 



2. The Township and Other Grants. 



No list of the land grants of this period in New Brunswick, import- 

 ant though they are to our history, has yet been published. In the 

 following list I have given all that are found recorded in the Grant Books 

 at the Crown Land Office in Fredericton, which are supposed to contain 

 all that were made by the Nova Scotia Government prior to 1784 in what is 

 now New Brunswick. There were, however, a few made which are not in 

 the New Brunswick records, but these, when known to me, are' included, 

 and the list must be fairly complete. As one comes to the year 1784, it 

 becomes difficult to distinguish those belonging to this pei-iod from some 

 of those belonging to the Loyalist period, but I have tried to separate 

 them. On the map (No. 45) the scale is so small that it has been 

 impossible to show at all some of the smaller grants, and it has been 

 necessary to apply names only to the townships and some of the larger 

 grants, and for the remainder to use numbers which always correspond 

 to the numbers in the list following. In cases where small grants were 

 made in townships, such as Maugerville, they are not shown on the map, 

 though they stand with a number in the list. Of course, the boundaries 

 of most of the townships, etc., on the map, are only approximate, though 

 I think they are closely so, and where they aftei'wards became parish 

 or county boundaries they are exact. Where I am not sure of boundaries, 

 they are given in dotted lines. The abbreviation esch. after a grant in 

 the list means that it is marked escheated in the Grant Book at Frederic- 

 ton, but far more were really escheated than are thus marked. 



