[kaymond] THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW BRUNSWICK 445 



It has been a matter of surprise to the writer of this paper to 

 find so many instances recorded in which the Acadians received 

 compensation for their improvements. Some of these have been 

 already referred to. A few others may be mentioned, but the time 

 at our disposal forbids any attempt at an exhaustive list. 



In a deed of conveyance, dated July 15, 1786, Joseph Thériault 

 and Marie his wife "in consideration of the sum of eighty-seven 

 pounds, ten shillings current money of the province, do grant, bargain 

 and sell unto Frederick de Peyster 1 a certain House and Plantation 

 situated, lying and being on the upper end of Sugar Island, containing 

 by estimation one hundred acres of land more or less." John Murray, 

 Sheriff of York County, and Joshua Upham, Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, were witnesses to the conveyance. 



Another document in the provincial archives shows that on the 

 16th July, 1787, Arthur Nicholson, late a cornet in the Kings American 

 Dragoons, purchased for the sum of twenty-five pounds the improve- 

 ments of Jean Baptiste Cyr at Crock's Point. The lot contained 

 200 acres and the quit claim is signed by Cyr and his wife Judy 

 [Judith]. 



Nicholson also purchased in May, 1786, a lot of 200 acres from 

 Joseph Hébert in the block laid out for the Guides and Pioneers, 

 commencing twenty rods above the Mactuquack Creek on the east 

 side of the River Saint John. He received from Hébert a quit claim 

 in the usual form. 



Daniel Gaudin, whose descendants still live in the parish of 

 Kingsclear, near the ancestral hearthstone, was one of those who 

 received compensation for the improvements which he had made on 

 the lands he occupied. His quaint memorial is quoted in full. 



The Memorial of Daniel Godong humbly sheweth that hee is A Old inhabi- 

 tant in the Loer french Village, that hee Built and Cleard a farm which Colo. 

 Ailing [Allen] toald him that hee should have and Secretary Odell toald that 

 hee should have his farme; this Day Capt. Lee has forworned me not to Do 

 Aneething on the Land more. 



Your memorialist humbly prays that you Will be so Good as to giv mee my 

 Land that I have improved and not to Let anee other man injoy my Labour 

 and shall Rest as in Duty Bound shall ever pray. 



DANIEL GODONG. 

 Loer french Village the 29 April, 1789. 



The Governor in Council ordered that Gaudin should receive 

 one hundred dollars in consideration of the improvements which he 

 had made. The Lower French Village where he lived was nine miles 

 above Fredericton on the west side of the Saint John. The place 



1 Frederick De Peyster was a Captain in the New York Volunteers. For a 

 further account of him see Lawrence's Foot Prints, pp. 60-64. 



