Sources
Some of the sources referred to or cited in the Upper St.John
River Valley website:
- William T. Baird, Seventy Years of New Brunswick
Life (St.John: Geo.E.Day, 1890).
- British Documents on Foreign Affairs:
Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Part I. From
the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the First World War. Series C. North America,
1837-1914, Volume 1, McLeon and Maine, 1837-1842. Kenneth Bourne and D.
Cameron Watt, General Editors. University Publications of America, 1986.
- Burleigh Genealogies, 1880
- Francis M. Carroll, A Good and Wise Measure:
The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 (Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 2001).
- Ava Harriett Chadbourne, Maine Place
Names and the Peopling of Its Towns. Portland: The Bond Wheelright Company,
1955.
- Harrie B. Coe, Maine: A History (NY: Lewis Historical Publishing
Co., Inc, 1928).
- Llewellyn Deane, "John G. Deane. A sketch
of his life," Collections of the Maine Historical Society. Series
II, vol.1 (1890), pp.179-196.
- Definitive Statement,
on the part of the United States, of the Case Referred, in pursuance of the
Convention of the 29th September, 1827, between the said States and Great
Britain, to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, for his decision thereon.
(Washington: Office of the United States' Telegraph, 1829).
- E. B. DeMerchant. From Humble Beginnings:
The Story of Agriculture in New Brunswick. Fredericton NB: Centennial
Print and Litho, Ltd., 1983.
- Dictionnaire généalogique de
Madawaska (DGM): Répertoire des Mariages des paroisses
de la vallée superieure de la rivière Saint Jean au Nouveau
Brunswick--le diocèse d'Edmundston et le comté d'Aroostook,
Maine. Recherche et compilation par le Père Henri Langlois, March
1971. (Compilation of marriages, including dates, churches and parents of
bride and groom, for churches in the upper St.John river valley of New Brunswick
and Maine, mostly churches with predominantly French-speaking population.
Also includes many marriages from Benedicta Plantation, Aroostook County.)
I have used two versions of this source:
- The original, under the title above, of which I have used volume 3.
This is indicated as DGM, vol.3, p.##
- An updated version: Genealogies of the Catholic Families of Maine, New
Brunswick, and the Province of Quebec, 1999, by Diane P. LaVerdière
Voskuhl and Robert K. Voskuhl, on CD. This is an excellent resource which
is a revised and extended version of the original, and is searchable.
I have used the page numbers from the file "Grooms.exe" unless
noted otherwise. This source is indicated by DGM, p.###.
- Lew Dietz, The Allagash. NY: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1968.
- First Statement on the part
of Great Britain, according to the Provisions of The Convention Concluded
Between Great Britain and the United States, on the 29th September, 1827 for
Regulating the Reference to Arbitration of the Disputed Points of Boundary
under the Fifth Article of the Treaty of Ghent (1829)
- Peter Fisher. The First History of New Brunswick.
Originally printed in 1825. Reprinted in 1980 by Non-Entity Press, Woodstock,
NB.
- Abraham Gesner. New Brunswick:
With Notes for Emigrants. London: Simonds & War, 1847.
- Léon Guimond, compiler.Mariages de
Frenchville, Maine (Sainte-Luce), 1843-1970. Sillery, Qué.: B.
Pontbriand, 1987.
- James Hannay, D.C.L. History of New Brunswick.
Saint John, NB, 1909.
- John Jennings. Tending the Flock: Bishop
Joseph-Octave Plessis and Roman Catholics in early 19th century New Brunswick.
Saint John: Diocese of Saint John, 1998.
- Howard Jones. To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty:
A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843. Chapel Hill: Univ. of
North Carolina Press, 1977.
- W.S. MacNutt. New Brunswick A History: 1784-1867.
MacMillan of Canada, 1963.
- Maine Register State Year Book and Legislative
Manual, no.91. Portland: Fred L. Towers Co., 1959.
- Frederick Merk.Fruits of Propaganda in the
Tyler Administration. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
- Joseph-Octave Plessis. Journal
des visites pastorales de 1815 et 1816 par Monseigneur Joseph-Octave Plessis,
évêque de Québec . publié par Mgr Henri
Têtu. Québec : Imprimerie franciscaine missionnaire, 1903. (Entire
text online at link)
- Poitras, NWNB. Jean-Guy Poitras, Repertoire
des marriages au Nord-Ouest du Nouveau Brunswick, Canada, pour les comtés
de Madawaska, Restigouche (partiellement) et Victoria / Marriages of Northwestern
New Brunswick, Canada, for Madawaska, Restigouche (partially), and Victoria
Counties, Edmundston, NB, 2002.
- Poitras, 1851. Jean-Guy Poitras, Recensement
1851 Census, Comté de Victoria (Incluant l'actuel comté de Madawaska),
Province de Nouveau-Brunswick / Victoria County (Including the actual Madawaska
County), Province of New Brunswick. Edmundston, 1998.
- Poitras, 1861. Jean-Guy Poitras, Recensement
1861 Census, Comté de Victoria (Incluant l'actuel comté de Madawaska),
Province de Nouveau-Brunswick / Victoria County (Including the actual Madawaska
County), Province of New Brunswick. Edmundston, 1998.
- Alan Rayburn, Geographical Names of New
Brunswick, Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names. Ottawa,
1975.
- W.O. Raymond, ed., "State of the Madawaska
and Aroostook Settlements in 1831: Report of John G. Dean and Edward Kavanagh
to Samuel E. Smith, Governor of the State of Maine," Collections of
the New Brunswick Historical Society (St.John, N.B.) number 9 (1914),
pp.344-386.
- Report of the Land Agent, 1840,
Accompanying the Governor's Message. Twentieth Legislature, No.3, House
(Smith & Robinson, 1840).
- Annie E. Rideout, History of Bridgewater
Maine. Manchester, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1953.
- Geraldine Tidd Scott, Ties of Common Blood:
A History of Maine's Northeast Boundary Dispute with Great Britain, 1783-1842
(Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1992).
- W. Austin Squires. The 104th Regiment of
Foot (the New Brunswick Regiment) 1803-1817 (Fredericton: Brunswick Press,
1962).
- Peter Thomas, Lost Land of Moses: The Age
of Discovery on New Brunswick's Salmon Rivers. Fredericton: Goose
Lane Editions, 2001.
- Ste-Luce. Mariages de Frenchville, Maine
(Sainte-Luce), 1843-1970, Léon Guimond, compiler. Sillery, Qué.:
B. Pontbriand, 1987.
- George J. Varney, A Gazetteer of the State
of Maine. Boston: B.B. Russell, 1882.
- Stella King White, Early History of Caribou
Maine. 1843-1895. (ca.1945)
- Joseph Williamson, The History of the
City of Belfast, Maine, vol.1. Somersworth, NH: New England History Press,
1982.
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