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5. The Miramichi District. • 



lOS. 1786. Apr. 1.5. Bonj. Marston and Jolin M. Lt-sdernier, G40 a. on Mirainifhi 

 River. 



109. June 7. William Davidson, 14,540 a., in five tracts, on the Miramichi 



Kiver. 



110. July lii. "Widow Catherine Hendei-son and 7 others, 1,550 a. on Mira- 



miclii Kiver. 



111. Oct. 10. Ja.s. Koy aiul 4 others, 790 a. on N. side Miramichi Kiver. 



As already explained, those grants, though in the Loyalist Period, 

 are hardly on the same basis as the true Loyalist grants on the St. John. 



6. 'The Nepisiguit District. 



There were no Loyalist grants in this district. On February 6th, 

 1787, license was granted sixteen Acadians to occupy lands at Caraquet, 

 and on April 25, 1787, there were granted 2,757 acres to Joseph Landrie 

 and twelve others at Caraquet. 



7. The Restigouche District. 



There were no Loyalist grants in this district, and its modern history 

 began with the arrival of immigrants from Scotland about 1787. 



2. The Loyalist Boundaries. 



The subject of the evolution of New Brunswick boundaries, inter- 

 national, interprovincial, county and parish, is a subject of the greatest 

 interest to our history, and one of no small complexity and difficulty.^ I 

 propose to treat it in the next memoir of this seiies, and will here content 

 myself with a brief reference to the causes of the location of the boundary 

 lines established by the Loyalists, esi^eciallj' the county lines. The accom- 

 panving map No. 46 will show the positions of these lines as established 

 by a law of 1786, together with the new position of the western line of 

 Westmorland, established the next year. It is plain that the main principle 

 used in establishing the county lines was that of making the counties 

 centre around the places of most abundant settlement, which in early Nev^t 

 Brunswick were always the rivers. This necessitated running the county 

 lines in a general way along the water-sheds between the principal rivers. 

 Thus Charlotte was made to include the settlements about Passamaquoddy , 

 and hence its boundaries wore made to run in the wilderness as they do. 

 Westmorland was established to include the settlements around the Petit- 

 codiac and Misseguash system of rivers, and Northumberland to include 



1 A very brief synopsis of the whole subject may be found in tlie Educational 

 Review Supplementary Readings (St. John, N. B.) No. 5, and in Bulletin of the 

 Natural History Society of New Brunswick, No. xviii. 



