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Historic Sites. 



■ road called " Cumberland Road " and leading from Fort Cumberland 

 in "Westmorland County to St. John, cut out by the returning forces 

 after the fall of the said fort. " There is evidently some confusion 

 in the history here, since this fort never fell after 1755 and certainly 

 the troops did not then traverse the woods to St. John. It seems to 

 be the road between Campbell settlement and Wards Creek Settle- 

 ment, but it is not a part of any old road that I can discover. 



326A. Fort Frederick. A very interesting plan of the Fort and its surround- 

 ings, unknown to me when the original monograph was written, is 

 contained in " A set of plans and forts in America reduced from 

 actual survey, 1763. By J. Rocque " a copy of which is in the Library 

 of Congress, and is reproduced herewith (Map No. 36). Compare also 

 the Sproule plan of Map No. 23. The various projected works were 

 of course never carried out. Of the two blockhouses (C) marked aô 

 " already made," the northernmost occupied the high land on water 

 street where various military relics have been found, as noted earlier. 

 The second blockhouse " already made," which must have stood 

 about on the site of the Carleton Methodist Church, seemingly iden- 

 tical with the one at D, is, I believe, locally unknown. 



In a St. John newspaper of Oct. 5, 1889, (apparently the Globe), 

 there is an account of considerable value of the early appearance of 

 Fort Frederick as remembered by an old resident. Another early 

 newspaper scrap (undated) I have seen, gives a traditional account 

 of the occupation of this fort in 1758. by the English. A very inter- 

 esting diary of Sergeant John Burrell, stationed at this fort in 1759 

 is reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Reg- 

 ister for Oct. 1905, in Acadiensis, V, 291. 



328. Mr. H. A. O'Leary informs me that about 1889 the Moncton Transcript 

 reprinted from a Philadelphia newspaper an article descriptive of 

 somewhat elaborate plans for the settlement by Pennsylvanians, in 

 1765, of the Petitcodiac, including a design for a city at the Bend (now 

 the site of Moncton), the original map for which is still in existence. 

 I have not been able by correspondence to gain further information 

 on the subject. 



330. The valuable map, showing the settlement of the Miramichi valley at the 

 beginning of the Loyalist period, and before the arrival of any Loyal- 

 ists, is reproduced herewith (Map No. 37). Though my copy is dated 

 1765, this is, of course, an error for 1785. 



330. Much new and authoritative information about the settlement of Nepisig- 

 uit by Commodore Walker in this period is contained in the Docu- 

 ments noted in the Canadian Archives for 1894, pp. 300 et seq. for the 

 use of copies of which I am greatly indebted to our Acadian historian, 

 M. P. P. Gaudet. In synopsis the points important to our present 

 purpose are these. A Memorial to the Lords of Trade by Walker 

 himself seems to show that he had visited Bay Chaleur as early as 

 1763 to promote there, on his own account, a fishery trade. A docu- 

 ment by John Shoolbred of 1775 shows that Walker had settled at 



