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ever, rinully located the settlers. Many were dissatisfied, and sold or 

 abandoned their lots, and often considerable areas Avere thus abandoned 

 altogether, and after some time were regranted. It often happened, too, 

 that, cjwing to the abandonment of a number of lots in a large grant, there 

 was s tme redistribution of the remainder, and addition of new settlere, 

 and a new grant was then issued for the tract, with diliercnt boundaries. 

 These various movements, regrants, etc., make it very difficult to trace 

 out the earl}' locations and to say positively which was the actual location 

 of a given association. Moi-eover, as to these block grants, while some 

 were settled b}' disbanded legimcnts, such as the King's American 

 Dragoons, in a single block containing only members of that particular 

 Association, in other cases other Loyalists were admitted ; in yet 

 otl.ers, such as at IIam])sted, disbanded soldiers and civilians from the 

 f-ame localit}- settled together, while in others the 7nembers of a given 

 Mgiiuent became distributed through diflerent settlements. 



Of the disl?anded regiments and other associations the more import- 

 ant wore as follows: In Charlotte, the Royal Fencible Americans settled 

 on the Magaguadavic, the Stveniy-fourth Highlander s orxiha Digdcguash, 

 the Port Matoon Association near and at St. Stephen, the Penobscot 

 Association at several points near the St. Croix, the Cape Ann Associa- 

 tion in what is now St. David, and the Pennfield Association at Beaver 

 Harbour. 



On the St. John, the King's American Dragoons settled at Prince 

 William, Delancey's Brigade above them, near the present Woodstock, 

 the King» American Regiment between the two, the Pennsyloania Loyal- 

 ists on the cast bank of the river from below Woodstock to liear 

 !Nacawicac, the New Jersey Volunteers above Fredericton at Kings- 

 clear, the QueerCs Rangers in Queensbnry, the Royal Guides and Pio- 

 neers above the Keswick, the New York Volunteers east of the Kes- 

 wick, the Prince of Wales American Regiment between Keswick and 

 Xashwaaksis, the Maryland Loyalists near the mouth of the NashAvaak, 

 the Forty second Highlanders higher up the Nashwaak, and the 

 King's Orange Rangers at Quaco. A given regiment did not always 

 have all its land in one block, but often in two or more, and in such 

 cascsthedifTerent blocks may bo recognized by the similar number on the 

 accompanying map No. 4G. These are about all the associations that can 

 be tr.iced, though many other Loyali.st Regiments were disbanded in Now 

 Brunswick, as shown by the list given by Mr. Howe in the Archives 

 Report for 1883 (page 1 1) ; but notai! in that list wore disbanded in New 

 Biunswick, but some in Nova Scotia and in Prince Edward Island. In 

 addition to these associations, there were manj' cases in which large blocks 

 were granted to a large number of individuals where there is nothing 

 to show why thej' were associated in this wa}', and of course thei-e were 

 numerous grants to single individuals and to groups of a few. On the 



