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Studholme, Gilfred, at Fort Frederick, 233;
at Fort Howe, 248, 262, 270, 274, 278, 279, 281, 283, 295, 316,
321, 336, 345, 350.
Sunbury County, 206, etc., 258, 259, 348.
Sunbury Township, 175, 208, 212, 364.
Tablet, Medoctec, 73, 74, 300.
Tapley, Alexander, 167, 168, 174.
Tapley, Samuel, 174.
Taxous, 42.
Temiscouata, 111, 121.
Temple, Sir Thomas, 30.
Thoma, Chief, 143.
Thoma, Pierre, 183, 263, 275, 285, 288, 290, 293, 298, 299, 300, 301.
Thompson, Lieut.-Colonel, Benjamin, 345, 361.
Thury, Missionary, 43, 44, 46, 52.
Tidmarsh, Giles, 168, 174, 180, 325.
Tilley, Sir S. L., 351.
Tinker, Captain William, 351.
Tory's Soliloquy, 359.
Townships, 208, 211, 212, 309, 364.
Transport Ships, 348, 351, 353.
Treaties, 77, 89, 90, 94, 143.
Truck-houses, 141, 143, 144, 161, 196.
"Two Sisters," Transport Ship, 355.
"Ulysees," Sloop, 126.
"Union," Transport Ship, 348, 349, 350.
Upper Cove, 180.
Upham, Joshua, 346, 360.
Upton, Samuel, 168.
Van Buskirk, Colonel Abraham, 362, 368.
Vaudreuil, 33, 64, 73, 75, 93, 112, 117, 121, 135.
Vergor, Sieur de, 101.
Vessels of Simonds, Hazen & White, 202-204, 222.
Vienneau Family, 250.
Villebon, Sieur de, 38, 40-54, 61, 63, 251, 300.
Villieu, 44, 47, 53, 57, 133.
Wade, Philip, 308, 366.
Wages, 174, 193, 205, 239, 260.
Waldron, Major, 38.
Walnut (see Butternut).
Ward, Clarence, 366.
Ward, Major John, 366.
Washademoak, 82, 94, 111.
Washington, George, 263.
Wasson, John, 174.
Watson, Brook, 354.
Webster, Mr., 171.
Webster, Samuel, 181.
Wellman, Mr., 171.
Wentworth, Governor, 302.
West, Captain, 272, 275.
White, James, 149, 152, 193, 201, 245, 261, 311, 321, 343;
arrival at St. John, 178, 179, 239;
at Crown Point, 192;
second contract, 229, 230;
dealings with Indians, 182, 272, 273, 283, 289, 295.
Whitney, Samuel, 170, 174.
Willard, Captain, 325, 358, 359.
Wilmot, Governor Montagu, 175, 177, 218, 219.
Winslow, Edward, 346, 360, 364, 365.
Winslow, Lieut.-Colonel John, 116.
Winthrop, Governor, 26.
Wood, Rev. Thomas, 171, 254, 255, 299.
Woodboats, First, 313.
Woodman, James, 164, 205, 244, 272, 280, 290, 324, 352.
Woolastook, 18.
Woodstock, 69, 73.
Wordens, Fort at, 91, 118.
Xavier, Francois, 77, 183, 286, 287.
Young Royal Highland Emigrants, 336.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page
Samuel de Champlain Frontispiece
Indian Encampment and Chief 15
Champlain's Plan of St. John Harbor 18
Title Page Bp. St. Vallier's Book 35
Fort Nachouac 50
Signature of Sieur de Freneuse 58
Signature of John Gyles 63
Plan of Old Medoctec Village 66
Medoctec Tablet 74
Bell of Old Medoctec Chapel 76
Signature of Jean Loyard 78
Paul Mascarene 88
Old Fort at Worden's 91
Woodman's Point--site of Fort Boishebert 104
Colonel Robert Monckton 125
Sketch Map of River St. John in 1758 129
Isle au Garce, or Emenenic 130
Inscription on Medoctec Stone 141
Plan--Aukpaque and Surroundings 146
Bruce's Plan of St. John Harbor 151
Signature of Peter Fisher 155
Plan of Maugerville 163
The Congregational Church at Maugerville 172
A Cottage of Today 185
Signatures 188
Ice-jam, 1902 197
Plan of Townships 212
Plan of Grants to Simonds & White 231
Old Hazen House and Grounds 242
Signature Joseph Mathurin Bourg 253
Fort Howe in 1781 278
Signature of Major G. Studholme 281
Fort Howe in 1818 282
St. John Harbor, showing Mast Dock 304
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Transcriber's Note:
Author's archaic and variable spelling, hyphenation, and quoting
practices are preserved.
Author's punctuation style is preserved.
Illustrations have been moved closer to their relevant paragraphs,
but page numbers in the list of illustrations have not been
changed.
Footnotes moved to below relevant paragraphs.
Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.
Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=.
Typographical problems have been changed and are listed below.
Transcriber's Changes:
Page 7: Was 'a lowed' (Bessabez, the sagamore of the Penobscot
Indians, =allowed= the body of the dead chief to be taken
home)
Page 8: Was 'o' (One =of= the islands in that vicinity the early
English settlers afterwards called "Isle of Vines,")
Page 12: Was 'Baird' (=Biard= relates that a certain sagamore on
hearing that the young King of France was unmarried,)
Page 14: Was 'therr' (This fact should be remembered to their credit
by those who most abhor =their= bloodthirstiness and
cruelty.)
Page 19: Was 'villiage' (Chkoudun lived at "Menagoueche" in his
fortified =village= on Navy Island when Champlain invited
him to go with the Sieur de Poutrincourt)
Page 19: Was 'Cahmplain' (Chkoudun lived at "Menagoueche" in his
fortified village on Navy Island when =Champlain= invited
him to go with the Sieur de Poutrincourt)
Page 20: Was 'Baird' (was the scene of an exciting incident of which
=Biard= has left us a picturesque description.)
Page 27: Was 'beseigers' (For three days Madame la Tour bravely
repelled the =besiegers= and obliged them to retire beyond
the reach of her guns.)
Page 36: as per errata note: Was 'bllier afterwards became the
mission of' (The islands which the bishop mentions are the
well known and =beautiful islands below the mouth of= the
Keswick stream.)
Page 40: Was 'commissioned' (Villebon was favorably received and
returned with a =commission= from the king to command in
Acadia.)
Page 43: Was 'ingrediants' (At this time they presented the
Indians with a bag or two of flour with some prunes as
=ingredients= for a feast.)
Page 43: Added closing double quote ("July 10, 1696. M. Thury,
missionary, having arrived with Taxous, chief of the
Canibas and other savages from Pentagouet; brandy, 1
gallon; tobacco, 2 =lbs."=)
Page 48: Added closing double-quote (whereby they will be greatly
strengthened and the reducing of them rendered more
=difficult."=)
Page 49: Was 'the the' (Villebon assigned to Baptiste and Rene
d'Amours the duty of heading =the= Indians and opposing the
landing of the English.)
Page 51: Was 'opertion' (the English again got their guns into
=operation=, but la Cote,)
Page 52: Was 'rendevous' (with ammunition and supplies and sent on
to the =rendezvous= at Penobscot.)
Page 55: Was 'the the' (Mathieu's seigniory included all =the= land
"between Gemisik and Nachouac,")
Page 63: Was 'Mademe (Some days after he took an affecting leave of
=Madame= d'Amours and his master went down to)
Page 63: Was 'fourtunes' (The next year France and England were
again at war and in the course of the conflict the
=fortunes= of the d'Amours)
Page 71: Was 'in in' (However, early =in= the morning we took our
loads of moose flesh)
Page 77: Was 'sterness' (His disposition had nothing of =sternness=,
yet he was equally beloved)
Page 79: Added closing double quote (to induce Mr. Shirley to allow
them to settle again in their villages, and to leave their
missionaries undisturbed as they were before the =war."=)
Page 83: Removed closing double quote (we Incamped this Night at
this afforsaid Indian Village =Apog.= (Aukpaque.)")
Page 83: Added closing double quote (or Bread, we Incamped
this Night at this afforsaid Indian Village Apog.
=(Aukpaque.)"=)
Page 89: Was 'Mascaerne' (Annapolis early in 1744, which
attack failed on account of the energy and bravery of
=Mascarene=.)
Page 98: Added closing double quote ("It is =desirable,"= he writes,
"that the savages should unite in opposing the English)
Page 101: Was 'main-maist' (Vergor had a new =main-mast= cut and
drawn from the woods by the crew of the St. Francis)
Page 101: Was 'illict' (St. Francis was confiscated for engaging in
=illicit= commerce in the province of his Britannic
Majesty.)
Page 102: Was 'warike' (she was engaged in furnishing =warlike=
munitions to the Indian enemy)
Page 102: Was 'anticipatd' (The Marquis de la Jonquiere
=anticipated= great advantages from the overland route of
communication.)
Page 111: Was 'benfits' (It was claimed that many =benefits= would
follow, chiefly that the lumbermen)
Page 115: Was 'removel' (about the =removal= of the Acadians from
Chignecto and the River St. John.)
Page 124: Added closing double quote (and the Micmacs he would be
able to form a camp of 600 or 700 men, and Drucour could
frequently place the besiegers between two =fires."=)
Page 133: Was 'Menagoeche' (the English were engaged in rebuilding
the old Fort at =Menagoueche=; the Indians of the River
St. John had retired with the Rev. Father Germain,)
Page 141: original spelling: Guidry ... Guirdy ("At Menagoueck, the
year of grace 1681, the 2 June, have baptized according to
the forms of the Church, Jeanne =Guidry, child of Claude
Guirdy= dit la Verdure and of Keskoua)
Page 144: Was 'arrranged' (Gerrish agreed to buy goods and sell them
to on furs sold, and the prices to be so =arranged= that
the Indians)
Page 144: Was 'skin skin' (the same standard: Moose skin, 1-1/2
"beavers"; bear =skin=, 1-1/3 "beavers"; 3 sable skins, 1
"beaver"; 6 mink skins, 1 "beaver"; 10 ermine skins, 1
"beaver";)
Page 144: Was '1 1-3' (the same standard: Moose skin, 1-1/2
"beavers"; bear skin, =1-1/3= "beavers"; 3 sable skins, 1
"beaver"; 6 mink skins, 1 "beaver"; 10 ermine skins, 1
"beaver";)
Page 146: Was 'Goverment' (the vicinity of their village was early
recognized by the =Government= of Nova Scotia)
Page 147: Was 'rendevous' (The island opposite Aukpaque, called
Indian Island, was the place where the Indians of the
river made their annual =rendezvous=.)
Page 148: Was 'river' (However, very shortly after Monckton's
occupation of the St. John =River= Lawrence issued the
first of his celebrated proclamations)
Page 165: Was 'and and' (Grog was at that time freely dispensed in
the army =and= navy, and Mauger erected a distillery)
Page 165: Was 'inculding' (As the business was lucrative he soon
accumulated much property in and around Halifax,
=including= the well known Mauger's Beach)
Page 175: Added closing double quote (M. WILMOT. RICH'D BULKELEY,
=Secretary."= })
Page 190: Was 'Phippin (land was first described by Judith
=Phippen=, which proved to be the headland now called
"Point Judith.")
Page 190: Was 'Parley' (the ancestors of many well known families in
America, bearing the familiar names of Peabody, =Perley=,
Beardsley)
Page 190: Was 'Ticonderga' (with his cousin Captain John Hazen in
the campaign against Fort =Ticonderoga=.)
Page 198: Was 'ilustration' (See =illustration= on preceding page of
a recent ice-jam at this place.)
Page 203: Was 'rom' (She made occasional voyages =from= St. John to
St. Croix in the West Indies. )
Page 219: Was 'and and' ("consigned to Richard Barlow storekeeper at
St. John's =and= passenger on board for the use of the St.
John's society.")
Page 222: Was 'o' (The avidity manifested by the agent =of= the St.
John's River Society in seeking favors at the hands of
government would seems to countenance the idea)
Page 222: Added closing double-quote (to the express condition of
the Grant will absolutely be declared =forfeited."=)
Page 224: Added closing double-quote (Proprietors, agent with whom
you will please correspond on any occurrence regarding the
=settlement."=)
Page 247: Was 'Bailey' (In the summer of 1767, Father Charles
Francois =Bailly= came to the River St. John)
Page 255: Was 'here' (but up to this time =there= had been no
opportunity for church-going.)
Page 255: Was 'pslams' (with the exception of a copy of Watt's
=psalms= and hymns owned by James White.)
Page 261: Was 'rooom' (but alas for them the force of events left no
=room= for neutrality.)
Page 265: Was 'and, and' (The people of Machias were particularly
fond of plundering their neighbors, =and= that place was
termed)
Page 267: Was 'commissiary' (The =commissary= general there was
directed to deliver them one barrel of gunpowder)
Page 267: Was 'of of' (one barrel of gunpowder, 350 flints and 250
weight =of= lead from the colony's stores;)
Page 273: Was 'Aukaque' (John Allan and his party arrived at the
Indian village of =Aukpaque= where forty or fifty
Indians)
Page 279: Added closing double-quote (Capt. Benjamin Marston on
board his vessel the ="Brittania"=, which was then lying
at anchor)
Page 280: Was 'Passamoquoddy' (He came to =Passamaquoddy= about
1770, settled there and was appointed a justice of the
peace in 1774.)
Page 298: Was 'Perre' (We may therefore conclude that =Pierre= Thoma
did not long survive his old friend and Patron Michael
Francklin.)
Page 305: Was 'Franklin's' (=Francklin's= political influence at
Halifax and the personal friendship of Sir Andrew Snape
Hamond,)
Page 307: Was 'Franklin' (Col. =Francklin= procured at Halifax many
articles needed for the mast cutters, such as chains,
blocks and tackle, camp supplies, etc.)
Page 309: Was 'Frankcklin' (as we expected when Col. =Francklin=
left this place.)
Page 311: Changed single to double closing-quote (he has raised the
price of provision and men and Ox labour--oxen to 7s. 6d.
pr. pair pr. day and men in =proportion."=)
Page 311: Was 'renumerative' (The masting business seems to have
been =remunerative=, and was the means of putting in
circulation a considerable amount of specie, which was
greatly appreciated)
Page 315: Was 'jealously' (This election helped to intensify the
ill-will and =jealousy= already existing between the "old"
and "new" inhabitants.)
Page 320: Moved onto new line ("=County of Sunbury=:--Be it
Remembered that on the Seventh Day of July, 1774,
Nathaniel Barker of Maugerville in the County of)
Page 324: Was 'the the' (Item, to my daughter Heprabeth I give three
hundred dollars to be paid by my two eldest sons in
household goods on =the= day of her marriage.)
Page 326: Was 'Gearge' ((Witnesses.) Daniel Palmer, Fran's Peabody,
Sam'l Whitney, Richard Estey, =George= Hayward, David
Palmer, Edw'd Coy.")
Page 326: Was 'caol' (Joseph Garrison is said to have been the first
of the settlers to engage in mining =coal= at Grand
Lake.)
Page 327: Was 'vacciantion' (Inoculation, it may be observed, was
regarded as the best preventative of small-pox before
=vaccination= was introduced by Dr. Jenner.)
Page 333: Was 'Baubiers' ("At the entrance of a small river called
=Baubier's= River or narrow Piece [Nerepis] the land a
considerable distance back is good upland but no
Interval.)
Page 338: Added comma (One son, George Frederick Street, was a judge
of the supreme court, =another,= John Ambrose Street, was
attorney general of the province and leader of the
government)
Page 346: Was 'Bostford' (The agents chosen were Messrs. Amos
=Botsford=, Samuel Cummings and Frederick Hauser.)
Page 348: Was 'Bridgwater' ("Ann," Capt. Clark; "=Bridgewater=,"
Capt. Adnet; "Favorite," Capt. Ellis;)
Page 358: Was 'Bridgwater' (The =Bridgewater=, one of the Spring
fleet, came again in June, and made a third voyage in
October.)
Page 365: Was 'glimse' (We get a =glimpse= of the distress and
perplexity of the men of the loyal regiments in one of
Edward Winslow's letters to Ward Chipman.)
Page 369: Was 'perserverance' (their courage, their =perseverance=,
their clear prevision of the immense importance of race
unity.)
Page 370: Was 'severly' (And still we say--all honor to the brave
hearts that sacrificed so much and suffered so =severely=
for the preservation)
Index: Unclear in original (Acadians, encouraged to leave N. S.
Peninsula, 96, 101; settled on River St. John, 107, 114,
117, 120, 122, 133, 145, 234, =248=, 249, 255, 309;)
Index: Was 'Zephamiah' (Briggs, =Zephaniah=, 171.)
Index: Was 'Dierville' (=Diereville=, 40, 54.)
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