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Historic Sites. 



1823, after which it was regranted thus originating the present 

 Toughall settlement. 



331. Belledune. There was here an early fishing establishment, for, as shown 

 by a document in the Canadian Archives (1894, 301), in 1770 George 

 Walker (prominent at this time in the settlement of Nepisiguit), 

 applied for a grant of 1000 acres of land " at Belldown with the beach 

 and pond where the said Walker has carried on his fishery and made 

 great Improvements. " 



331. As noted earlier under Nepisiguit, Walker and Shoolbred were after 1773 



in a kind of partnership, Shoolbred supplying the capital and Walker 

 acting as resident manager. Hence there were not two, but a single 

 establishment, at the mouth of the Restigouche, and even that Is 

 doubtful, for Schoolbred's Memorial of 1775 says there was then no 

 settlement on either side of the Restigouche. Walker, as shown hy 

 the documents just cited under Nepisiguit, had established trading 

 posts at Belledune and Nepisiguit between 1768 and 1770 and the 

 presence of his name in Walker's Brook would suggest that he had also 

 established a post at this place. The afore-mentioned documents 

 show that it was on the ground of the success of the settlement at 

 Nepisiguit that Shoolbred applied for the grant of the 500 acres " on 

 the Nova Scotia side of the River Restigouche and adjoining to the 

 old Indian Church, " as Shoolbred's Memorial puts it. The beginning 

 of the modern settlement of this region is related in the Settlements- 

 origin Monograph, at pages 44 and 121. 



332. Grant 1. On these grantees, see Archives, 1885, 177. 



333. A Township, named Harrington, was laid out on the St. John River in 



1732 (Nova Scotia Archives, II, 175), but apparently was never granted 

 or settled. Its location is not known to me. 



Grant 16. The Ferguson grant was alongside, r\ot identical with 

 the Indian grant. 



333. Add, Oct. 18, 1765, Nathan Frink and others 1975 ac. in Kings County. 



334. Grant 43. On an old plan above Major Lochman's grant is 1000 ac. to 



Peter De Couts, 1769. 



335. Grant 68. There is much on O'Neal and this grant in Nova Scotia Arch- 



ives, II. 



336. Grant 98a. It is said locally this grant was never escheated, and the 



lands were taken up by squatters and are held to-day by possession. 

 Grant 100 should read 500 ac. 



338. The extent and locations of the Loyalist Settlements formed 

 along the St. John soon after 1784 are well shown on Sproule's fine map 

 of the river, made from actual survey and observation in 1787. The 

 part relating to these settlements is reproduced herewith (Map No. 38). 



Sec. II., 1906. 10 



