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F lace-nomenclature. 



for the former homes of the settlers. It is, perhaps, only a coincidence 

 that the names of the four parishes established in Kings County in 

 1786, namely, Sussex, Springfield, Westfield, and Kingston, all occur 

 in New Jersey, and further, that Hampton and Norton, established in 

 1795, also occur in that State. 



Tabusintac. — This name is pronounced locally, especially by elderly unlet- 

 tered people, Tabasimtac, a form almost exactly like the Indian pro- 

 nunciation, thus affording another example (with Madawaska, Jemseg, 

 etc.) of how much closer the local pronunciation keeps to the original 

 form than does the map or literary form. The accent is strongly 

 on the last syllable. 



The three principal branches of this river bear Indian names 

 which appear (apparently for the first time) upon Davidson's plan of 

 the river of 1830, with the spellings Maliaget, Eskedelock, Pisiguit, which 

 are exactly the local pronunciations used by lumbermen and others. I 

 am told by Joe Prisk, the intelligent old Indian of Bathurst, that 

 Mal-e-a'-git (g hard) means married, referring to two of something 

 near together, while Os-ka-dil'-lik (as he pronounces it) means (though 

 doubtfully) " a good shot." Also the branch Cowassaget Brook (which 

 see) is still so called locally. (On Batkwedngunitchk, on Tabusintac 

 Beach, see Rand, Legends of the Micmacs, 212). 



Tantramar. — Occurs on a map of D. Campbell of 1799 as Tantaramar, per- 

 haps the earliest appearance of the first r. 



Tanty-wanty. — This old name is locally said to be of Indian origin. I think 

 it highly probable it is an imported Indian name, like Poodiac. The 

 settlement Geary, as shown under that name, is a shortened corrup- 

 tion of Niagara, and was so named by settlers from that place. Now, 

 a few miles from Niagara is a place called Tonawanda, but fprmerly 

 called by variants of that name such as Tonawanta. Now, Tanty- 

 wanty in New Brunswick is about as far from Geary as Tonawanda 

 from Niagara, and hence I think it very probable the name was given 

 to this stream by the early settlers of Geary. It occurs first on the 

 map of the Queens-Sunbury County line in 183^, in its present form. 

 Ward in 1841 (St. John River, 30) speaks of it (Tante Wante) as a 

 place not a stream. 



Taxes. — Both the older and better form is Taxes, not Taxis, since it was 

 named, no doubt, for the Indian Tax. 



Tedish. — In this form in 1803 in Land Memorials. 



Telegraph Hill. — A more correct account of these places is in Historic Sites, 

 348, and also later in the present work. 



Terreo Lake, r\ings. — Undoubtedly for Therriault one of the Acadians for- 

 merly living at French Village. See later, in Historic Sites Addenda, 

 and Map No. 22. 



