The ferry between Fredericton and the Nashwaak was called in early times Monkton ferry.
“The sloop Bachellor is now ready to sail; the contents of cargo 251 quintles Cod and Pollock of her crew’s catching, 30 do. of Hunt’s. The great sloop arrived ten days ago; has made but an ordinary fare, said to be 300 quintles. Will sail with dry fish in about a fortnight. * * Pollock will sell best in the country, pray sell as many that sort as is possible.” [Letter of James Simonds written from “Passamaquada,” 18th August, 1764.]
“Leavitt in the Polly has just arrived from Annapolis; he says he has lost a fare of fish for want of sufficient length of cable to ride at anchor, and that he must have one by the middle of August or he shall lose one or two fares more at Grand Manan.” [Letter of James Simonds of 22nd June, 1768]
“We have put Lovitt in skipper of the schooner Polly and have given Stickney the schooner Eunice. We have sent down four fishermen for the whale boats. (Mr. Marble and three labourers.) * * Mr. Marble does not chuse to have any connection with the delivery of stores [rum, etc.] to the men at Passamaquada, and indeed we think with you that his discipline is too moderate for such a sett of men as fishermen for the most part are.” [Letter of Hazen & Jarvis of 5th April, 1766.]
The last of the conditions above quoted was a somewhat variable one, and is sometimes found in this form, “The grantees shall settle one-fourth part within one year, in the proportion of one family of Protestants (to consist at least of four persons) to every thousand acres, one-fourth part within two years, another fourth part within three years, and the remaining fourth part within four years, otherwise the lands remaining unsettled to revert to the crown.”
It was after the same English secretary of state that the city of Halifax was named in 1749.