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Nepisiguit in 1768 and established there (evidently on the well-known 

 situation on and near Alston Point) a fishing and trading establish- 

 ment. While absent in England in 1770 trying to obtain a grant ol 

 these lands, a Captain Allan, who had been in Bay Chaleur for two 

 preceding years on a man-of-war, obtained from the Nova Scotia 

 Government the 2000 acres well known as the Allan grant (shown 

 on the map in Collections N.B. Hist. Soc. II, 126), and Walker had 

 no alternative but to buy out his rights, which, by the aid of one^ 

 Hugh Baillie of London, he did for the sum of £600. Walker and 

 Baillie then proceeded, the latter supplying apparently the capital 

 and the former acting as manager, to promote the settlement with 

 great vigour, sending out between 1770 and 1773 no less than £10,000 



Map No. 37. From a Flan of 1785 ; x J. 



worth of goods for trade. In 1773 all of Baillie's rights were bought 

 out by John Shoolbred of Dondon, and the settlement continued to 

 grow, so that in 1775 Walker was resident there in charge of a well- 

 equipped establishment, employing twenty British subjects, engaged 

 in fishing, trading, ship-building, lumbering and, to some extent, farm- 

 ing. Nepisiguit at this time had a population of 70 souls, apparently 

 inclusive of Acadians but not Indians. No further information occurs 

 in this document, but as is well known, (related by Cooney, 172) 

 the establishment was plundered and ruined in 1776 or 1777 by priva- 

 teers from American colonies. No attempt was ever made, apparently, 

 to restablish the settlement. The Allen grant was not escheated until 



