Report of John G. Deane and Edward Kavanagh to the governor of Maine "to ascertain the number of persons settled on the public lands, North of the line running east from the Monument, the manner in which they respectively hold the same lands" as published in Raymond, pp.386-426
Go to Deane and Kavanagh's survey of the north
bank of the St.John (now New Brunswick)
Up to this point the report recounts Deane and Kavanagh's voyage to the St.John. On July 24 they reached the St.John and began gathering information on settlers. These are the very first lots that Deane and Kavanagh survey, and show the style they used to gather the info. I have excerpted the information and put it into a table format for ease of use:
July 24, 1831. Sunday
We descended the river and entered the St.John and descended that river to the mouth of the St. Francis. Opposite the mouth of the St. Francis on the South bank of the St.John there is a small tract of land partially cleared. Crops have been raised upon it, and there is also on it the walls of a timber house. We landed on it and cooked our dinner. We found growing on the land, weeds, raspberry bushes, Timothy, oats, oat-grass, worm-wood, nettles, parsnips, and potatoes all growing wild and promsicuously.
David and Reuben Essensa cut down about three lots in 1826. Joseph Wild claimed the lot in 1827. Cyrus Cannon cleared and took the first crop in 1828, and James McPherson took the crops in 1829 and 1830 and now claims it; but nothing has been done on the lot this year.
"Next lot -- Thomas Ketch felled two acres of trees in 1828, David Pollard planted potatoes on it last year, and it is now unoccupied"
"On the next lot some trees were cut four years ago by Franklin Hale, but he never cleared or planted it.
"Some way below Owen Fitgerald in 1829 cut down some trees but did not clear the land.
"Near this place and probably on the same lot Jesse Wheelock and Walter Powers began cutting in August 1830, built a log house where they lived last winter, and now have crops growing on the land.. . ."
I have formatted the text into table format. This table covers the South Bank of the St. John River, in what is today Aroostook County, Maine. For the North Bank, in what is today Madawaska County, New Brunswick, click here.
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South Bank of the St. John River, now Aroostook County, Maine
Name of owner or occupant | Date bought or settled | A d u l t s |
B o y s |
G i r l s |
Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order, most recent to earliest | Remarks |
July 24, 1831: St. John River at the mouth of the St. Francis River [now St. Francis] |
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James McPherson | 1829 | about 3 lots | - Cyrus Cannon,
1828 - Joseph Wild, 1827 - David and Reuben Essensa, 1826 |
took crops in 1829 and 1830; nothing done on lot this year | |||
unoccupied | - David Pollard,
1830 - Thomas Ketch, 1828 |
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Franklin Hale | 1827 | cut down some trees but did never cleared or planted it | |||||
Jesse
Wheelock and Walter Powers |
Aug 1830 | 2 | - in 1829 Owen Fitzgerald cut down some trees but did not clear the land. (Wheelock and Powers are near this place and probably on the same lot) | built a log house,
where they lived last winter, now have crops on lot. Small stream on which
they propose building mills, and are making some preparations for that
purpose. The Stream is too small to be valuable |
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Charles McPherson | winter 1829 | 2 | 6 | - Phinehas R. Harford, fall 1827 | born in Portland; bought lot for 2 months 8 days labor; lot is opposite Webster & Harford's; resides on lot | ||
forest | |||||||
unoccupied | - Owen Fitzgerald, 1828 or 1829 | Fitzgerald sold lot and left the country | |||||
John Harford, Jr. | 3 Aug 1827 | 2 | 7 | 100 rods front | occupies lot | ||
Electus Oakes | July 1827 | 2 | 7 | born in Canaan; lot is opposite E. end of Churchill Island | |||
Abraham Chamberlain | fall 1828 | 2 | 5 | born in Baie des Chaleurs | |||
Pierre Marquis | "possessory cutting"; "lives below" | ||||||
Phirmain Cyr | 1811 | 60 rods front, 600 rods back | - Phirmain Cyr, deed from the British | 53 yrs. old, b. in N. Brunswick; lives opposite St.Basile Church; has deed | |||
next to Marquis's cuttings unoccupied for 2 miles | |||||||
Isaac Yearnton | Aug. 1828 | 1 | Englishman | ||||
Joseph Wilds | Aug. 1828 | 2 | 2 | born in Fredericton | |||
2 miles unoccupied [end of which is today Fort Kent] |
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Joseph Michaud | 1829 | 40 rods front | - Miles Emery 1824 | paid $20; lives below | |||
Sifroy Nadeau | 1821 | 1 | 60 rods front | on west point formed by St.John & Fish Rivers [today city of Ft.Kent]; b. in Madawaska, 25 yrs. old, lives with father-in-law [step-father] Jos. Michaud | |||
Jean Baptiste Daigle | 1819 | on east point formed by St.John & Fish Rivers | |||||
Daniel Savage |
1826 or 27 | 2 | 9 | 2 miles by land up the Fish River [today Fort Kent Mills]; lives in framed house, on lot with mill | |||
Benoni Albert | 1829 | 2 | 2 miles below mouth of Fish River | ||||
Hypolite Couffre | 1 Jun 1824 | 2 | 7 | 100 rods front | born at Baie des Chaleurs | ||
Sylvan D'Aigle | 1819 | 1 | 60 rods front | planted on lot 1829; said to be only 25 years old | |||
Joseph D'Aigle | 1819 | 60 rods front | - Basil Garnier | "1½ years ago" bought 20 rods front from Basil Garnier for $20; said to be 30 years old | |||
Larion D'Aigle | 20 rods front | - Basil Garnier
- Joseph Michaud - 1827 |
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Thomas Barnabé | - Christophe Marquis | ||||||
Thomas Ready | 1829 | born in Canada | |||||
Antoine Garnier | Apr 1831 | from New Brunswick | |||||
[July 26: South Bank] | Date bought or settled | A d u l t s |
B o y s |
G i r l s |
Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order (recent to earliest) | Remarks |
Baptiste Boucher | 1826 | 2 | 8 | 50 rods front | from Canada; 30 acres in cultivation, house, barn; lives on land | ||
Pierre Landrie | 60 rods front | - Benoni Nadeau | a chopping; paid $15 | ||||
Nathaniel Bartlett | Jul 1831 | 1 acre | |||||
Barnabus Hunnewell | 1830 | 4 acres | chopping | ||||
Dominic D'Aigle | 1828 | of Madawaska; barn and 10 acres cleared and in grain; lives below and has other possessions | |||||
Benoni Nadeau | 1824 | 2 | 2 | 1 | of Canada; has lived 24 years in the country, sometimes as a tenant on the Priest's land; 25 acres cleared, house and barn; lives on land | ||
François Gendreau | 1 | 60 rods front | - Desire Nadeau - 1826 | of Canada; 20 years old; lives with Dominic D'Aigle | |||
Lareon D'Aigle | 1827 | 60 rods front | of Madawaska; built framed barn, cleared 60 acres; lives on D'Aigle Island | ||||
Lareon D'Aigle | 1810 | lives on and occupies 1/3 of D'Aigle Island; has cleared all his part | |||||
Phirmain D'Aigle | 1810 | lives on and occupies middle part of D'Aigle's Island; cleared all his part | |||||
Dominic D'Aigle | 1810 | 2 | 9 | claims East 1/3 of D'Aigle's Island; resided on Island until a few years ago. | |||
Dominic D'Aigle | 1816 | possessory cutting; 1823 planted; 1829 built house; lives on land; 20 acres cleared, 2 barns | |||||
Chrysostome Martin | 1815 | 2 | 6 | 50 rods front | - Simon Beaulieu | of Madawaska; cleared 50 acres; has house and 2 barns; claims another lot on North Bank, 60 rods front | |
Jean Baptiste D'Aigle | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Joseph Pelletier | 1813 | 2 | 4 | 30 rods front | has lived on lot since 1813; has hous, barn, 40 acres cleared | ||
Michael Pelletier | 1812 | 60 rods | died 1816 leaving 5 children; widow married Christophe Marquis; land now owned by daughters DesAnges, m. Pierre Marquis; and Locade, m. Desir Nadeau; house, barn, 40 acres cleared | ||||
Michel Morin | 1815 | 2 | 3 | 60 rods front | house, barn, large tract of land cleared;also possession on Fish R. bought from Nath'l Bartlett | ||
Rafael Michaud | 1827 | 2 | 30 rods front | - Joseph Michaud | house, barn, 40 acres cleared; claims 7/8 of Pine Island, where planted 50 bushels wheat; has barn, 4 years possession | ||
Joseph D'Aigle | 1826 | 2 | 1 | 90 rods front | - Charles Beaupré | paid $100; house, barn, 10 acres cleared; also claims 8 acres on Pine Island, not cleared | |
[July 28] | Date bought or settled | A d u l t s |
B o y s |
G i r l s |
Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order (recent to earliest) | Remarks |
Alexandre Giraud | 1830 | 30 rods front | - Charles Beaupré | from Canada; lives 1 mile below on N. bank, has farm; has 5-6 acres cleared | |||
Germain Saussiers | 1816 | 120 rods front | - Vincent Albert & John Peltier (60 rods from each) | paid $75; has house and barn, 40 acres cleared | |||
Vincent Albert | 1816 | 2 | 9 | 60 rods front | - Benjamin Boucher - 1814 | from Canada; house, barn, 20 acres cleared | |
Germain Saussiers | 1813 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 60 rods front | house, barn, 30 acres cleared | |
Jean Baptiste Saussiers | 1818 | 60 rods front | - Germain Saussiers ( J.B.'s brother) | house, barn, 8 acres cleared | |||
Herbert Carron | 1823 | 2 | 9 | 50 rods front | - Paul Marquis | paid $20; house, barn, 50 acres cleared | |
Chapel, Parish of St. Lucie [now Upper Frenchville] |
30 rods front | - Benjamin Boucher (20 rods front) - 1823 | |||||
Benjamin Boucher | 1823 | 2 | 4 | 40 rods front | - Jean Baptiste LeClerc | from Canada; paid $30; lives at Grand Ruisseau brook; house, barn, thirty acres cleared; sold 20 rods front to Church | |
Jean Rafael Roi | 1829 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20 rods front | - Herbert Carron | paid $60; house, barn, 12 acres cleared |
Germain Michaud | 1824 | 2 | 8 | 45 rods front | - Paul Marquis | from Canada; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | |
Elie Lagassé | 1813 | 2 | 3 | 60 rods front | - Benjamin Boucher | house, barn, 40 acres cleared. Also claims lot up Fish R., W. side, took up with his brother Basil 1827; each claim 20 rods front | |
Clement Saussiers | 1808 | 4 | 6 | 105 rods front | - Simon Herbert
- Jacques Mattelot |
paid $10; house, 2 barns, 60 acres cleared; also claims lot up river between Jos. Pelletier Jr. and Jean Vasseurs | |
Ferdinand Ouellette | 1829 | 50 rods front | - 40 rods Clement
Saussiers - Simon Herbert - 10 rods Jean Baptiste Aiotte - Jean Baptiste Babin |
house, barn, 40 acres cleared | |||
Jean Baptiste Aiotte | 1826 | 40 rods front | - Jean Baptiste Babin | from Madawaska; paid $100, by deed; house, barn, 10 acres cleared | |||
Charles Aiotte | 20 rods front | - Jean Baptiste Aiotte | from Madawaska; house, barn, 4-5 acres cleared | ||||
Joseph Albert | 8 Feb 1830 | 30 rods front | - Pierre Gendreau | paid $72, with deed; from Canada; house and barn | |||
Joseph Lagassé | 1824 | 40 rods front | - Joseph Joubert | of Canada; paid $25; 8 acres cleared; claims island in front which is cleared and in grass | |||
Rafael Martin | 1824 | 70 rods front | - Simonet Hebert | of Madawaska; house, barn, 25 acres cleared; also claims 1/10 of island in front on which has barn | |||
Christophe Martin | 1819 | 70 rods front | of Madawaska; house, barn, 20 acres cleared; also claims 1/10 of island in front | ||||
Paschal Michaud | 1819 | 30 rods front | his father began on lot in 1819; has barn, 24 acres cleared; lives with his brother-in-law on adjoining lot; claims 1/20 of island | ||||
Alexandre Ouellette | 30 rods front | on same lot with his brother-in-law P.Michaud and is bound with him to support his father-in-law and mother-in-law; has house, barn and 24 acres cleared; claims one twentieth of the Island | |||||
Benjamin Burgoyne | 1812 | 60 rods front | - Benoni Terrieau | of Canada; house, barn 15 acres cleared; claims 1/20 of island | |||
Joseph Michaud | 1827 | 25 rods front | - Francis Michaud (his brother) | bought by deed, paid $300; house, barn, 30 acres of land | |||
François Michaud | 1823 or 1824 | 25 rods front | - Germain Michaud
(his brother) - Paul Marquis - Benj. Michaud - Pierre Baudrie |
of Canada; paid $150; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | |||
Louis Bellefleure | 1821 | 20 rods front | - Germain Michaud | from Canada; paid $150, by deed; house, barn; 12 acres cleared | |||
Benoni Manuel | 1823 | 10 rods front | - Germain Michaud | from Canada; paid $$30, by deed; house, barn, six acres cleared | |||
Jean Baptiste Boutin | 1829 | 60 rods front | - Clement Saussiers
- J.B. Saussiers (brother) - Joseph Marquis |
paid $8; 10 acres cleared, no buildings; lives below St. Basile Church on north bank of St. John R.; also claims back lot, began 4 yrs. ago, 20 acres in crops, 60 rods width | |||
Joseph Ouellette | 1828 | 60 rods width | in back of Boutin's lot, on path to Simonet Hebert's; from Canada; house, barn, 20 acres in crops | ||||
Joseph Chassé | 1827 | from Canada; "here is a bend in the river and the lot terminated in a point on the bank"; no buildings; 8-10 acres cleared; lives with his father-in-law Eli Janette | |||||
Germain Chassé | 1821 | from Canada; house, walls of a barn, 15-16 acres cleared | |||||
Edward Eclaire | 60 rods front | - Paul Marquis | from Canada; exchanged possession on N. bank of river with Marquis, who had marked this place three years before; Marquis, by agreement, to build Eclaire a house and barn | ||||
François Boulanger | "recently" | 40 rods front | from Canada; lives on N. bank, "has taken up this lot for speculation"; "cleared and sown 7 bushels of grain this year" | ||||
Etienne Gagnon |
1831 |
20 rods front ----------- 30 rods front |
- Aristobule Gouvain,
1827 or 1828 ------------------------------------ -Joseph Beaulieu |
from Canada; paid $25 to Gouvain, $50 to Beaulieu; has his family on the place, has wall of a house; "family is sheltered by a few boards laid over their hea | |||
[July 29] | Date bought or settled | A d u l t s |
B o y s |
G i r l s |
Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order (recent to earliest) | Remarks |
Benjamin Lebel | 1828 | 30 rods front | - Simon Barnabé | from Canada; paid $12; no buildings, lives on North bank | |||
Oliver Lagassé | 1829 | 30 rods front | - Jacques Boulet,
1826 -Abraham Couturier, 1825 |
from Canada, single man; 4 bushels of wheat sown; no buildings; hired with Joseph Hebert | |||
Jean Suerette | 1823 | 60 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 20 bushels of wheat sown | ||||
Widow Simonet Barnabé | 1824 | 30 rods front | from Madawaska; no buildings, 8 bushels of wheat sown; lives on north bank of river | ||||
Francis Picard | 1828 | 30 rods front | - Joseph Label | from Canada; paid $150; house, land is in pasture; lives down the river | |||
Joseph Lagassé | 1824 | 30 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 15 acres cleared | ||||
Eugene De Sirois | 1829 | 30 rods front | - Regis Terrieau | from Canada; paid $50; no buildings; brother of the priest, lives with the priest | |||
Leon Albert | 1824 | 60 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 3 acres cleared | ||||
Charlemagne Beurnache | 1828 | 30 rods front | - Leon Albert, 1824 | from Canada; house, barn, enough cleared to sow 4 bushels of grain | |||
Ignace Cleoette | 1826 | 30 rods front | from Canada; house, enough cleared to sow 2 bushels of grain | ||||
Paul Picard | from Canada; lot is marked by Picard | ||||||
Charles Bouchard | 60 rods front | - Phirmain Nadeau | from Canada; paid $50; house, barn, enough cleared to sow 10 or 12 bushels of grain | ||||
Antoine Sirois | abt 1827 | 30 rods front | - Francis Boulanger | from Canada; house, barn, 4 acres cleared | |||
Vincent Pelletier | 1823 | 80 rods front | from Canada; barn, enough cleared to sow 10 or 12 bushels grain; lives at Alexandre Albert's, his father-in-law, on N. bank | ||||
Pierre Ouellette | 1823 | 80 rods front | from Canada; house, enough cleared to sow 18 or 20 bushels of grain | ||||
Simonet Hebert | 20 rods front | from Madawaska; house, 2 acres cleared | |||||
Jacques Beaulieu | 30 rods | - ? - Joseph Beaulier, abt 1825 |
from Canada; exchanged land in Canada for lot; old barn, 15 or 20 acres "very imperfectly cleared" | ||||
Justin Boulanger | 15 rods front | - François Boulanger | from Canada | ||||
André L'Eveque | 15 rods front | from Canada | |||||
Alexandre Albert | "lately" | 60 rods front | from Canada; building a small barn, 8-10 acres partially cleared | ||||
Cassimir Albert | from Canada; "lot little more than marked" | ||||||
David Dufour | - Paul Morichaud (his father-in-law), many years ago | from Canada; received as gift; formerly a few acres cleared and grist-mill built on it, which was burnt down; now, mill on lot out of repair, not ground for 12 years; lives below | |||||
[claimant refused to give account] | "a posession of which the claimant refused to give any account: may have been cautioned by their neighbors the Heberts or by magistrates to keep clear of entanglement with American agents." | ||||||
Anselem Albert | 1811 | 60 rods front | from Canada; 18 acres cleared; lives below | ||||
David Nadeau | 60 rods front | - Simon Hebert | from Madawaska; brought up by Simon Hebert, who gave him the lot; moved onto lot 1825; house, barn, 20 acres cleared | ||||
Joseph Bealieu | 40 rods wide | from Canada; back lot, 1-1/2 miles back, cut down 4 acres and burned it | |||||
Elie Gagnon | 1831 | from Canada; has begun just west of and adjoining Beaulieu; cut one acre; lives with his father Etienne Gagnon | |||||
[2 claimants refused to give account] | next 2 lots claimants refused to give any account | ||||||
Anselm Albert | 1786 | 50 rods front, 670 rods back | - Augustin Dubez
- "the British" (grant made by Province of New Brunswick) |
from Canada; came here with his father who bought land from Dubez;house, barn, 40 acres cleared; saw mill and grist mill on small stream, "Simon Hebert owned it once but refused to give any account or let us know whether he still claimed it"; this is the first lot on the S. side of the St.John in the grant made by Prov. of NB in 1790 | |||
? [inhabitant refused to give any account] | - Pierre Du Perré
(Lizotte's half-brother) - Pierre Lizotte - Prov. of New Brunswick |
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? [next 2 lots inhabitant refused to give any account | |||||||
Simon Hebert | refused to give any information | ||||||
David Dufour | 30 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 40 acres cleared, lives on land; also has other claims | |||||
Guilleaume Fourniers | 30 rods front | - François Albert | from Canada; house, barn, 60 acres cleared | ||||
David Dufour | 30 rods front | 40 acres cleared, no buildings | |||||
David Durepos | 1819 | 60 rods front | from Canada; thinks lot was granted by the British; good house and barn; 40 acres cleared; son-in-law of Simon Hebert | ||||
François Picard | 1827 | 35 rods front, 560 rods back | - Jean Baptiste
Fournier, 1819 - Joseph Dufour - possibly the British |
from Canada; house, barn and blacksmiths shop; 40 acres cleared | |||
Chrysostome Cyr | 45 rods front, 560 rods back | - Phirmain Cyr
(his father) - Francis Cyr (now alive, 80 yrs old, among the first settlers) |
- from Madawaska; house, barn not quite finished, 15 acres cleared | ||||
[July 30] nearly opposite the old Church in the Parish of St. Basil, a path leads South to a back settlement [Today near St. David] |
Date bought or settled | A d u l t s |
B o y s |
G i r l s |
Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order (recent to earliest) | Remarks |
Charles Ouillette | "last spring" | 60 rods width | from Canada; claim starts 500 rods south of the St.John, and is on east side of path; house, 1 acre sown, 15 acres cut down; his father lives at Kamouraska and served 7 years in the American Revolution | ||||
Antoine Malte | "last spring" | - Pierre Genet, 1829 | from Canada; claim on east side of road; paid $15; house, 4 acres planted, 6 acres cut down | ||||
Joseph Mercure | 1826 or 1827 | 60 rods width | - Paschal Michaud | from Bay of Chaleur; east side of road; paid $50; house, barn, 36 acres cleared | |||
Garcon L'Eveque Des Coignnette | 1826 or 1827 | 15 rods width | from Canada; west side of road; house, 6 acres cleared | ||||
Phirmain Dumont | 1823 or 1824 | 60 rods width | from Canada; west side of road; house, barn, 12 acres cleared | ||||
Quintin Yan | 1819 | 60 rods width | from Canada; west side of road; house, barn, 12 acres cleared | ||||
Edward McKay | 1825 or 1826 | 60 rods width | from Canada; west side of road; about 20 years old, lives with brother-in-law Phirmain Dumont and supports his mother; is building a house, 4 acres sown, 12 acres cut down | ||||
Marcel Collin | 1826 | 60 rods width | from Canada; east side of road; 4 acres cut down; house | ||||
François Cluquier | 1826 or 1827 | from Canada; east side of road; house, 3-4 acres cleared; 4-5 acres cut down | |||||
Joseph Mercure | 1830 | 60 rods width | from Madawaska; east side of road; lives on N. bank of St.John; 4-5 bushels grain sown; 50 acres cut down, is building saw mill, has house or camp on land | ||||
Joseph Cyr | from Madawaska; land uncultivated | ||||||
François D'Aigle | 30 rods front | - François
D'Aigle (his father) - deed from British |
from Madawaska; house, barn, 20 acres cleared | ||||
Jean Baptiste Fournier | 30 rods front | - his father got his deed from the British | from Madawaska; lives with his father; his wife declined to give any information | ||||
Joseph Dufour | 1816 | 25 rods front | - Benoni Terrieau
- Oliver Cyr, who got deed from the British |
from Canada; house, barn, 60 acres cleared | |||
Sylvain D'Aigle | 66 rods front | - his father Joseph got his deed from the British | from Madawaska; house, barn, 60 acres cleared; lives with his father | ||||
Xavier Cyr | 30 rods front | - his father Jacques got his deed from the British | from Madawaska; son of Jacques Cyr; house, barn, 60 acres cleared | ||||
Chrysostome Cyr | 30 rods front | - his father Jacques got his deed from the British | from Madawaska; brother of Xavier; not at home, wife declined to give any account | ||||
Jean Baptiste D'Aigle | 30 rods front | - deeded by the British | from French Village (9 miles above Fredericton, NB); house, barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Joseph Cyr | - given to him by François Cyr | from Madawaska; houe, barn, 30 acres cleared | |||||
Menin Cyr | "15 years ago or more" | 60 rods front | - 30 rods bought
from Phirmain - 30 rods bouth from Michael Michaud |
from Acadia; house, barn, 80-100 acres cleared | |||
Jean Baptiste Cyr | 60 rods front | - deed from British | from Acadia; house, barn, 200 acres cleared; one of his sons lives with him, the other on the back part of the lot | ||||
Louis Gotté Bellefleure | 70 rods front | - Peter Frasier
- Pierre Duperré, deeded by British |
from Canada; paid $1000; has laid out $2000 on the place, has 3 houses, a grist and saw-mill; small stream, 70 acres cleared | ||||
" | 120 rods front | - Charles Bernabé | lot on the Green River, purchased by exchange with Bernabé by deed; barn, enough cleared to sow 12 bushels grain | ||||
Simon Beaulieu | 60 rods front | - Paul and Joseph Marquis | from Acadia; house, barn, 70 acres cleared; his son Simon, Jr.; Simon Sr. tends grist mill behind Anselm Albert's | ||||
Augustin Cyr | "8 to 10 years ago" | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; house, barn, 15-20 acres cleared | ||||
Antoine Cyr, Jr. | 10 rods front | - Thomas Beaulier
- Simon Hebert |
from Bay of Chaleur; came from Bay of Chaleur 1821; was turned off other land by Simon Herbert; has wife and 9 children; is a constable; house, 3 acres cleared, has begun a barn | ||||
Thomas Beaulier | 1822 | 50 rods front | - Simon Hebert | from Bay of Chaleur; has house and 10 acres planted | |||
Charles Patterson | lives in house built by and on farm cleared by Antoine Cyr, Jr., under lease from Simon Hebert; pays $10/year rent | ||||||
Antoine Cyr, Sr. | 70 rods front | - grant from the British | had 70 rods, sold 20 to Simon Hebert in 1816 during crop failure; has house, barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Pierre Lisotte | 60 rods front | - Pierre Duperré (his half-brother), granted by British 1790 | house, 2 barns, 80 acres; his son Antoine lives on same lot | ||||
[August 1] | Date bought or settled | A d u l t s |
B o y s |
G i r l s |
Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order (recent to earliest) | Remarks |
Joseph Cyr | 60 rods front | - Joseph Cyr (deceased), who received deed from British | son of Paul Cyr; house, barn, 50 acres cleared; lives on lot; | ||||
Joseph Cyr | 10 rods front | - Thomas Ouellette
- Joseph Souci (Saussiers), received deed from British |
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Phirmain Thibedeau | 30 rods front | - Jean Baptiste
Souci - Paul Cyr, deed from British |
30 acres cleared, no buildings | ||||
Joseph Aiotte | 1801 | 60 rods front | - François Charette, deed from British | house, barn, 50 acres cleared | |||
Joseph Aiotte | 56 rods front | ||||||
John Martin | 40 rods front | - children of Zacharie
Aiotte - Zacharie Aiotte, deed from British |
from Acadia; house, barn, 20 acres cleared | ||||
François Lisotte, Jr. | 20 rods front | - children of Zacharie
Aiotte - Zacharie Aiotte, deed from British |
from Madawaska | ||||
François Lisotte, Jr. | 20 rods front | - François Lisotte, Sr., deed from British | house, barn, 20 acres cleared | ||||
Jean B. Lisotte | 30 rods front | - François Lisotte, Sr., deed from British | house, barn, 18 acres cleared | ||||
Germaine Cyr, Jr. | 30 rods front | - Germaine Cyr,
Sr. - Jean Baptiste Souci, deed from British |
house, barn, 20 acres cleared | ||||
Charles Lisotte | 30 rods front | - "Michel Cyr, father of Germaine" | house, barn, blacksmith's shop, 40 acres cleared | ||||
Charles Aiotte | 30 rods front | - deed from the British | house, barn, 40 acres cleared; his son Ignace lives with him | ||||
Bonaventure Lissotte | 60 rods front | - 30 rods from
Charles Aiotte - 30 rods from Pierre Lisotte (his father) |
from Madawaska; son of Pierre; house, barn, 40 acres cleared | ||||
Xavier Martin | 60 rods front | - Phirmain Thibedeau
- Maturin Beaulier, deed from British |
from Madawaska; son-in-law of Phirmain Thibedeau, who gave lot to his daughter; house, barn, 60 acres cleared | ||||
François Thibedeau, Jr. | 70 rods front | - Phirmain Thibedeau
- Sausfacon |
from Madawaska; son of Phirmain, who gave him the lot; house, barn, store, 12 acres cleared | ||||
Germaine Cyr, Sr. | 82 rods front | - lot deeded to his father by the British | from Acadia; got lot through his father's will; house, 2 barns, 51 acres cleared | ||||
François Thibedeau, Sr. | 60 rods front | - lot deeded to him by British | from Acadia; house, barn, 42 acres cleared | ||||
At this point begins the grant made by the Govt.
of New Brunswick in 1794, which extends from Green River down the St.John
to Van Buren, about 8 miles [today Grand Isle to Van Buren] |
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Jean Baptiste Souci | "18 or 19 years ago" | 120 rods front
30 rods front |
- Joseph Souci, his father, deed from British - Oliver Souci |
from Madawaska; house, store, 2 barns, a grist mill on a very small stream; 120 acres cleraed, sown this year 55 bushels of wheat, oats, peas; also claims other lots | |||
Louis Thibodeau | 30 rods front | - Phirmain Thibedeau
- heirs of Germain Souci, deed from the British |
from Madawaska; son of Phirmain Thibedeau; 3 acres cleared; lives on N. bank next above mouth of Green River | ||||
Romaine Michaud | 30 rods front | - François Gooding | house, barn, 10 acres cleared | ||||
Baptiste Olivier Thibedeau | - Joseph Duplessis, 1811 | lives on north bank at mouth of Green River; 4 acres cleared | |||||
George Thibedeau | 60 rods front | - Etienne Thibedeau | from Acadia; livs on north bank; has given lot to his sons Laurent and Michel Thibedeau; Laurent has house and is building a barn on his part; Michel is clearing on his part | ||||
Xavier Parrault | 1829 | 20 rods front | - Henri Vasseur,
1816 or '17 - Guillaume Terrieau, 1786 |
from Canada; new house, 4 acres cleared | |||
Henri Vasseur | 1816 or 1817 | 40 rods front | - Guillaume Terrieau, 1786 | lives on North bank; barn, 15 acres cleared | |||
Laurent Terrieau | 120 rods | - his father, who received deed from British | from Acadia; his father lives on North bank; Laurent is building barn and has cleared 6 acres; 1/2 of claim is supposed to have been given to Laurent's brother Thaddé | ||||
François Michaud | 1829 | - Phirmain Thibedeau
- Germain Dubez, 1811 |
from Canada; house, barn, 4-5 acres cleared | ||||
Benoni Terrieau | 1830 | 30 rods front | - Joseph Sausfaçon
- Augustin Gagnier - Joseph Lagassé - François Thibedeau, 1805 |
from Madawaska; house, 3 acres cleared; lives on North bank; tenant living on land named Joseph Tardif | |||
Joseph Sausfaçon | 30 rods front | - Augustin Gagnier
- Joseph Lagassé - François Thibedeau, 1805 |
from Madawaska; house, barn, 50 acres cleared | ||||
Pierre Ringuette | 30 rods front | - Charles Fournier | from Canada; lives below on the south bank, no buildings, 17 acres cleared | ||||
Phirmain Thibedeau, Jr. | 30 rods front | - Charles Fournier | house, barn, 10 acres cleared | ||||
Paul Cyr | 60 rods front | - Phirmain Thibedeau
- Toussaint Thibedeau, " more than 30 years ago |
from Madawaska; son-in-law of Phirmain Thibedeau, who gave lot to his daughter; house, barn and stable, 15 acres cleared | ||||
Paul Thibedeau | 1801 | from Acadia; house, barn, 50 acres cleared | |||||
Gregoire Thibedeau | 60 rods front | - deed from British | from Acadia; house, barn, 40-50 acres cleared | ||||
Jean Baptiste Vasseur | 60 rods front | - Louis LeBlond, deed from British | from Madawaska; house, barn, 50 acres cleared | ||||
Paul Thibedeau | - Louis LeBlond, deed from British | ||||||
Augustin Violette | 40 rods front | - Olivier Thibedeau
- François Cormier, "who is dead" but had deed from British |
from Acadia; house and 50 acres cleared | ||||
Julien Thibedeau | 40 rods front | - Olivier Thibedeau (his father), deed from British | from Madawaska; house and 50 acres cleared | ||||
Heirs of François Cormier | 30 rods front | his oldest son is in possession; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | |||||
Benjamin Thibedeau | 20 rods front | lives 20 rods below; claims in right of his wife, daughter of Alexis Cormier; 24 acres cleared | |||||
Henri Souci | 20 rods front | - Alexandre Aiotte,
who married a daughter of Alexis Cormier - Alexis Cormier |
lives on North bank; barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Benjamin Thibedeau | 20 rods front | - Phirmain Thibedeau
- Alexis Boniface, who married a daughter of Alexis Cormier |
"homestead"; house, barn, 24 acres cleared | ||||
Pierre Cormier | 'more than 30 years ago' | 60 rods front | - deed from British | from Acadia; house, barn, 50 acres cleared | |||
Edouard LeBlanc | 60 rods front | - Simon Terrieau, "more than 25 years ago" | from Acadia; married the widow of Simon Terrieau; house, barn, 25 acres cleared | ||||
Frederic Terrieau | 60 rods front | - Germain Terrieau, his brother, "more than 25 years ago" | from Canada; house, barn, stable, 40 acres cleared | ||||
Francis Cormier | 1801 | 120 rods front | barn and 60 acres cleared; died last spring; sold to Phirmain Thibedeau a mill privilege, who has a gist and saw-mill on it | ||||
Samuel Romain Dendric | 1828 | 60 rods front
665 rods back |
- Francis Cormier | from Bay of Chaleur, came 3 years ago; paid $600; house, barn, 40 acres cleared; also in same purchase claims 12 acres or 2 lots on Grand Isle; his son Simon Dendric bought lot above his next to Thibedeau's mill from Fr. Cormier, $50. | |||
Cyprian Cormier | 60 rods front | - François Cormier, his father | from Madawaska; house, barn, 15 acres cleared | ||||
Damien Cormier | 60 rods front | - François Cormier, his father | from Madawaska; house, is building a barn, 8 acres cleared | ||||
Henri Souci | 60 rods front | lives on the North bank;claims possession by purchase; 12-14 acres cleared | |||||
Widow of Simon Thibedeau | 60 rods front | Simon left 5 children; they live on lot; house, barn, 50 acres cleared | |||||
Larion Violette | 35 rods front
75 rods front |
- Simon Thibedeau - Pierre Vasseur, late husband of his wife |
from Madawaska; Pierre Vasseur left one son, Jean, who is 18 yrs. old; house, barn, 50 acres cleared | ||||
Benoni Bernabé | lives on North bank | ||||||
Louis Bellefleure | 1819 | 20 rods front | - Henri Tardif | lot on the south bank, opposite the mouth of the Quisabus river; paid $50; 6 acres cleared, no buildings | |||
"we suppose there is a lot of which we did not obtain a particular account" | spent the evening at David Cyr's, a publican; "we obtained no account of his claims" | ||||||
[Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1831] | Date bought or settled | Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order (recent to earliest) | Remarks | |||
Germain D'Aigle | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; son of Jean Baptiste D' Aigle; is building a house, 12 acres cleared | |||||
David Cyr | - Mercure | ||||||
Jean Parent | 1827 | 70 or 80 rods front | - Olivier Thibedeau
- Legassé |
from Canada; paid $30; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | |||
Etienne Parent | 1827 | 90 or 100 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Gabriel Parent | 1827 | 90 or 100 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Alexandre Violette | 1819 | 30 rods front | from Madawaska | ||||
Alexandre Violette | 60 rods front | - Germain Pelletier, 1819, sold by his father Nicholas to Violette | paid $20; says 10 acres cleared "but we could not see much clearing" | ||||
Etienne Parent | 40 rods front | - Anselm Francoeur, 1828 | from Canada; 2 acres chopped down, non cleared | ||||
François Parent | 1828 | 50 rods front | son of Gabriel; cut down 5 acres, has planted 2 acres | ||||
Jean Parent | 1827 | 60 rods front | son of Gabriel; barn and 3-4 acres cleared and in grass | ||||
Jean Baptiste Olivier Thibedeau | 60 rods front | - Jean Marie Cyr,
- Louis Lagassé, "13 or 14 years ago" |
son of Olivier Thibedeau; bought lot from widow of Jean Marie Cyr; "no one ever lived on it"; also claims an Island in front, which is in grass | ||||
Alexandre Violette | 60 rods front | - Justin Pelletier, "12 or 13 years before" | 12 acres chopped down, some cleared | ||||
Alexandre Violette | 1810 | 90 rods front | lives on lot; built on it 18 years ago; 50 acres cleared | ||||
Dominique Violette | 1819 | 60 rods front | - Joseph Mercure | from Madawaska | |||
Dominique Violette | 1805 | 60 rods front | house, barn, 70 acres cleared | ||||
Jean Baptiste Violette | 60 rods front | - Benoni Violette, his father, 1806 | from Madawaska; his mother and father are dead, he's the only surviving child; lives on lot they occupied; house, barn, 18 acres cleared | ||||
Isaac Violette | 1826 | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; 25 acres cleared | ||||
Richard Violette | 1827 | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; lives up the river; 6 acres cleared | ||||
[Wednesday Aug. 3, 1831] | Date bought or settled | Amount of land claimed | Previous owners and dates of settlement or purchase in chronological order (recent to earliest)` | Remarks | |||
Jean Parent | 1831 | 40 rods front | has sown 3 bushels of grain | ||||
Henri Cyr | fall 1830 | 60 rods front | - Celestin Souci
- Joseph Cyr, deed from British |
from Madawaska; paid $50; 12 acres cleared, buildings have decayed | |||
Henri Cyr | 50 rods front | - Joseph Cyr (his brother-in-law) | his homestead; inherited two shares and bought the other from his brother-in-law; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Thomas Cyr | 60 rods front | - Jean Marie, deed from British | from Madawaska; lives on North bank; improves the lot, which is claimed by the heir of Jean Marie, who left 9 children; Cyr married the widow; 40 acres cleared | ||||
Jacques Violette | 120 rods front | - Augustin Violette
- François Violette (who is dead) |
from Madawaska; house, barn, 10 acres cleared | ||||
Augustin Violette | 10 rods front | - Joseph Violette (his father) | no buildings | ||||
Celeste Violette | 10 rods front | - Joseph Violette (his father) | 10 acres cleared, no buildings | ||||
Augustin Violette | 90 rods front | - inherited from his father | lives on North bank near the church; barn and 30 acres cleared | ||||
Phirmain Nadeau | 1816 | 60 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 9 acres cleared | ||||
Chapel in the Parish of St. Bruneau [Van Buren] |
30 rods front | - Eli Thibedeau,
who lives on North bank - Clement Cyr - François Violette |
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Cyprian Grace | 1826 or 1827 | 40 or 60 rods front | Irish; lives on North bank; 4 acres cleared, no buildings | ||||
Isidore Dubez | 30 rods front | - Abraham Chappé
- Joseph Gooding |
from Madawaska; house, hovel, 10 acres cleared | ||||
Dedie Morin | 40 rods front | - François
Thibedeau, 1824 or 1825 - Augustin Dubez |
from Canada; lives on North bank; no buildings; cleared land now pasturage and bushes | ||||
Phirmain Nadeau | 60 rods front | - Henri Tardif
- Augustin Dubez, 1821 |
from Canada; no buildings, 12 acres cleared | ||||
Germain Dubez | 1821 | 40 rods front | - Henri Tardif | from Canada; house, barn, 10-12 acres cleared | |||
William McRea and John Keaton |
Feb 1828 | 40 rods front | - George Mansur
- Abraham Dubez |
McCrea is Irish, Keaton from Nova Scotia; exchanged a farm on the Aroostook for it; house, distil-house, malt-house, 30 acres cleared | |||
François Violette | 1801 | - François Violette (his father), 1791 | from Acadia; his father built a mill on lot, on Violet Brook, but is long since worn out; began to improve lot 4 years ago, house, barn, grist-mill; moved onto lot 3 years ago; Also claims lot on N. bank on both sides of mouth of Grand river, deed from British May 16, 1826, 90 rods front, 300 acres, two of his sons have a house and live on the lot | ||||
Michael Farrell | 1821 | 80 rods front | - Joseph Sausfaçon | Irish; paid $8; house, barn, 50 acres poorly cleared | |||
Dennis Douglass | 60 rods front | went away 6 years ago and put the possession in the hands of Michael Farrell | |||||
forest for 80 or 100 rods | |||||||
James Hagan | 1827 or 1828 | 60 rods front | Irish; new house, 8-10 acres cleared | ||||
Louis Violette | "a few years ago" | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; son of Fran'cois Violette; new house, barn, 10-20 acres cleared; lot adjoins small stream coming from south; Louis was said to be at work on our Military road near the forks of the Madawumkeag | ||||
Michel Thibedeau | 90 rods front | - Toussaint Thibedeau (his father), 1818 | from Madawaska; his father lived their until his discease, leaving his children there. Michel has supported his brothers and sisters until they have become of age and left; some of them with his mother are with him; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Leonard Coombs | "within 2 years" | 70 rods front | - one part from
Michel Thibedeau - one part from Louis Ouellette, 1814 |
from New Brunswick; holds commission under the British; zealous in his support of their usurpations; lives a little above on the North bank; paid Ouellette $120, Thibedeau $180; no buildings, 16 acres cleared | |||
Joseph Ouellette | 1824 or 1825 | 60 rods front | from Madawaska, house, barn, 15 or 16 acres cleared | ||||
Benoni Nadeau | 1828 | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; house, 6 acres cleared | ||||
Edouard Duplessis | 1825 | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; house, 10 acres cleared | ||||
Michel Duplessis | 1824 | 120 rods front | from Canada; house, barn, 20 acres cleared | ||||
Jean Baptiste Govain | "last fall" | 60 rods front | from Canada; lives on North bank, where he has a farm, and has been in the country 20 years | ||||
Abraham Giraud [Genet?] | 1828 | 60 rods front | from Canada; lives opposite Boutote's Island; house, barn, 10 acres cleared | ||||
Germain Nadeau | 90 rods front | - David Mercure, 1825 | from Canada; lives opposite Boutote's Island; house, 16 acres cleared | ||||
Gabriel Moreau | 60 rods front | - Joseph Mercure, 1824 | from Canada; house, barn, 15 acres cleared | ||||
Michel Remont | 1827 | 60 rods front | from Canada; 12 acres cleared | ||||
Olivier Cormier | 120 rods front | - Jean Marie Ouellette, 1824 | from Acadia; house, barn, 30 acres cleared | ||||
Jean Bourgoyne | 1825 | 60 rods front | from Acadia; house, barn, 16 acres cleared | ||||
Moyse Bourgoyne | summer 1830 | 60 rods front | - Jeremie Tardif
- Elie Thibedeau |
from Acadia; Thibedeau's wife's son marked the lot 1824; Tardif planted year before last; house, 12 acres cleared | |||
Alexandre Aiotte | fall 1829 | 100 rods front | - Joseph Sausfacon, 1824 | - from Madawaska; house, barn, 25 acres cleared | |||
Samuel and Raphael Christopher | 1824 | 70 rods front | from Bay of Chaleur; 2 houses, barn, 40 acres cleared | ||||
Augustin Violette | 1826 or 1827 | 60 rods front | from Madawaska; cut down some, but none is cleared | ||||
Isaac Michaud | 60 rods front | - Fitzgerald
- Joseph Violette, 1824 |
from Acadia; house, 12 acres cleared; moved onto lot last year | ||||
Augustin Dubez | 60 rods front | - Zebedee Squires | from Madawaska; moved on 4 or 5 years ago; house, barn, 10 acres cleared | ||||
Samuel and Raphael Christopher | 60 rods front | - a brother of theirs, 4 or 5 years ago | their brother drowned, leaving no children; new house, 12 acres cleared | ||||
John Emerson | 1828 | 60 rods front | English; house, 30 acres cleared | ||||
François Roi or King | 60 rods front | - Louis Lapoint, 1826 | lives in New Brunswick, intends moving here; 4-5 acres cleared, no buildings | ||||
John Emerson and his brothers | "last season" | cut down some | |||||
Zebedee Squires | has begun, and has cleared 4 acres, is building a house | ||||||
Thomas Nugent | 1827 | 60 rods front | Irish; improvements small | ||||
Thomas Nugent | 60 rods front | - James Malone, 1827 | improvements small | ||||
Thomas Nugent | 60 rods front | - William Cartwell, 1828 | house, barn, 20 acres cleared | ||||
small cutting made last year, possessory marking | |||||||
Nadeau | this season | small cutting | |||||
Edward O'Neal | 1827 | 60 rods front | Irish, lives opposite North bank; cuts 10 tons of hay; stream comes in here, he says is sufficient for a mill | ||||
claimant unknown | in bushes and weeds | ||||||
Benjamin Weeks | 1829 | 62 rods front | - John McGuire, 1826 | paid $60; small house, 5-6 acres cleared; Weeks is moving and says he is going to the Tobique, has a woman and 2 children with him and all his effects, and is probably running away | |||
John Pendergrass | cut down and cleared a few acres, which appears to be abandoned |
"Forest to the line due North from the source of the river St. Croix as determined under Jay's Treaty [where the St. John River meets the border coming due north from the source of the St. Croix River]
[At this point Deane and Kavanagh have an encounter with James A. MacLauchlan, Warden of the Disputed Territory for New Brunswick. For their description of this encounter, go to "Deane and Kavanagh meet J.A. Maclauchlan." Maclauchlan also conducted the 1833 New Brunswick census of Madawaska; see also the biographical information on J.A. Maclauchlan elsewhere on this website]
"It commenced raining and we descended the river about two and a half or three miles below the line to the Grand Falls, and put up at Pierre Michaud's. From the line, and indeed some way above it, to the home of Pierre Michaud's at the Grand Falls, there is no one settled. Below on the St. John it is seven miles to the first settlement [this was at the mouth of Salmon River], and below, to the mouth of the Aroostook, there are very few settled. At the Grand Falls is a place where much business is carried on, and the village will grow up, unless it is prevented by the laws and regulations of the Province."
On the following day, August 4, Deane and Kavanagh continued on the North bank of the St. John River.
Information on these grants is from "Report by Messrs. Deane and Kavanagh," edited by W.O. Raymond, in Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society (St.John, N.B.) number 9 (1914), 386-462.
Last revised 2 Apr 2008
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