[raymond] THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW BRI NSWICK 425 



I can say little of the Country as yet but on my return I think I shall be a 

 tolerable judge when I will give you every information I can collect — till then 

 believe me to be with affectionate and sincere regard and esteem. 



Your obliged and most H_'ble Serv't 



AlC. PREVOST. 

 Ward Chipman Esq'r. 



By direction of Governor Parr the Surveyor-general of Nova 

 Scotia laid out (on paper) a succession of blocks of land, on both 

 sides of the River Saint John, beginning at Saint Anne and extending 

 upward. Each block had a frontage of about twelve miles on the river. 

 They were numbered in order and were drawn by lot. The draft 

 resulted in placing the regiments in the following order ascending the 

 river. 



West Side of River. East Side of River. 



2nd New Jersey Volunteers. Maryland Loyalists. 



Kings American Dragoons. Royal Guides and Pioneers. 



Kings American Regiment. Queens Rangers. 



De Lancey's 1st battalion. Pennsylvania Loyalists. 



New York Volunteers. De Lancey's 2d battalion. 



Loyal American Legion. Prince of Wales Amer n. Regt. 



3d. New Jersey Volunteers. Loyal American Regiment. 

 1st. New Jersey Volunteers. 



Some of the officers and men spent a calamitous winter in huts 

 or canvas tents at St. Anne. The majority, however, remained at 

 the mouth of the river, or were sheltered in the homes of the older 

 inhabitants at Maugerville and Sheffield. There was much delay in 

 surveying the lands that had been assigned to the several corps, and 

 the dissatisfaction consequent on this was one of the causes of the divi- 

 sion of the Province of Nova Scotia. 



When the disbanded troops began to take up the lands allotted 

 them, it was found that a good many of the best locations above 

 St. Anne were in possession of the Acadians who had, in some instances, 

 made considerable improvements. These improvements were chiefly 

 in the blocks granted to the 2nd New Jersey Volunteers, the Maryland 

 Loyalists and the Royal Guides and Pioneers. The Acadians, unfor- 

 tunately, were settled without any title to the lands they occupied, 

 except that of possession, and their claim to consideration was lessened 

 by the fact that they had been notified on more than one occasion 

 that it was not the intention of government that they should settle 



