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Madawaska, the others seem in nearly every instance to have gone 

 to Eastern New Brunswick. 



Jean Baptiste Gaudin, Alexandre Gaudin, François Gaudin, 

 Antoine Gaudin, Joseph Theriault and Pierre Pinet went to Caraquet, 

 in the County of Gloucester, where a grant of 2,757 acres was made 

 to them on April 25, 1787. 



Jean Baptiste Daigle, Baptiste Vienneau, Louis Lejeune, Joseph 

 Lejeune and Joseph Roy, settled at what is now Bathurst Village. 

 Mathurin Gautreau settled at Tracadie. 



To Baie des Ouines (now called Baie du Vin) in Northumberland 

 County, there went Joseph Hébert, Jean Hébert, Pierre Mazerolle, 

 Paul Mazerolle, Etienne Quessy, Alexis Thibodeau, Jean Denoyer, 

 Amand Martin, Joseph Doucet and Joseph Martin 1 . 



To Memramcook in Westmoreland County, went Augustin Le 

 Blanc, Amand Landry, Pierre Cormier, Sr., Pierre Cormier, Jr., 

 Joseph Cormier, François Cormier, Sr., François Cormier, Jr., and 

 Amand Cormier. 



Jacques Cormier, Benoit Roy and Francis Hébert settled in Kent 

 County — Hébert at Cocagne, the others at Bouctouche. 



The majority of the Acadians who lived on the west side of 

 the Saint John, at the Upper and Lower French villages and else- 

 where, in Kingsclear, went to Madawaska. Among the early Mada- 

 waska grantees we find the following persons, whose names are men- 

 tioned in the report of Major Studholme's exploration Committee in 

 1783: — Alexandre Ayotte, Jean Baptiste Cyr, François Cyr, Jacques 

 Cyr, Joseph Cyr, Olivier Cyr, Paul Cyr, Pierre Cyr, Jean Baptiste 

 Cormier, François Cormier, Pierre Cormier, Joseph Daigle, Jean 

 Baptiste Daigle, Jean Baptiste Fournier, Joseph Hébert, Jean Martin, 

 Joseph Mazerolle, Louis Mercure, Michel Mercure, Paul Potier, 

 Louis Sausfaçon, Olivier Thibodeau. At least an equal number of 

 the grown-up sons of those named are included among the first grantees 

 at Madawaska. There were in addition about ten grantees who 

 came from French Village, near the Kennebecasis, in Kings County, 

 also seventeen grantees who came from Canada. 2 



1 Joseph Doucet and Joseph Martin previously lived above Saint Anne on the 

 west side of the Saint John. 



2 The first grant at Madawaska comprised 16,000 acres situated on both sides cf 

 the River St. John. There were about 38 Acadian grantees and 12 Canadian grantees. 

 A few of the grantees seem to have had two lots. In the second grant of 5,253 acres, 

 made to Joseph Soucy and twenty-three others on August 2, 1794, there were 19 

 grantees of Acadian origin and 5 of Canadian origin. In the beginning therefore 

 the Acadians formed rather more than three-fourths of the population. This was 

 afterwards changed by the large immigration which came from Canada, so that 

 to-day the Acadian and the Canadian elements are about equally represented. 



