This word was designed to exclude the Acadians as settlers.
It was perhaps at the suggestion of William Hazen or James Simonds that in the grant of the Township of Burton, of which they were grantees, there was included the “island in Passamaquody bay called Perkins Island,” now known as Indian Island, where the fishing station of Simonds & White had been for several years established.
The date of this document is probably May, 1745. The Island Battery was one of the most formidable defences in Louisburg.
Mispeck Point on the east and Negro Head on the west.
A few giant elms of the primeval forest are yet to be found on the bank of the St. John. The author not long since examined the stump of a large elm that grew a few miles below the town of Woodstock. It was four feet in diameter and the number of concentric rings 325, so that it must have been a sapling in the days of Queen Elizabeth.