Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784

by W. O. Raymond

ST. JOHN, N. B.
1905.

---

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.
Discoverer of the River St. John. The Father of New France. Born at Brouage in 1567. Died at Quebec, Dec. 25, 1635.

---

CONTENTS.

	Preface	[3]
	Errata	[4]
I	The Maliseets	[5]
II	The Coming of the White Man	[16]
III	The Rival Feudal Chiefs	[24]
IV	French Commanders of Acadia	[30]
V	King William’s War	[38]
VI	Nachouac and Menagoueche	[47]
VII	The Brothers D’Amours	[55]
VIII	The Old Medoctec Fort	[66]
IX	Incidents in King Georges War	[79]
X	Rival Claims to the St. John River	[93]
XI	The French anxious to hold possession of the River St. John	[106]
XII	The Acadians become the Football of Fortune	[115]
XIII	The English take possession of the River St. John	[125]
XIV	Aukpaque, the Village at the Head of the Tide	[140]
XV	The First English Settlers	[148]
XVI	Progress of the Maugerville Settlement	[158]
XVII	At Portland Point	[176]
XVIII	St. John and its Business One Hundred and Forty Years Ago	[188]
XIX	The Old County of Sunbury and its Townships	[206]
XX	The St. John’s River Society	[214]
XXI	The Firm of Hazen, Jarvis, Simonds & White	[229]
XXII	Some Early Religious Teachers on the River St. John	[247]
XXIII	On the Eve of the American Revolution	[258]
XXIV	Affairs on the St. John During the Revolution	[265]
XXV	The Great Indian Pow-wow at Fort Howe, and its Consequences	[284]
XXVI	White Chiefs and Indian Chiefs	[293]
XXVII	Masts for the Royal Navy	[301]
XXVIII	Pioneers on the St. John River in Pre-loyalist Days	[314]
XXIX	At the Close of the Revolution—Affairs Civil and Religious	[335]
XXX	The Coming of the Loyalists	[345]
	Index	[371]

---

ILLUSTRATIONS.