New Brunswick -- Description and travel; New Brunswick -- History
Several of the officers and men of the King's American Dragoons were
formerly settled here, very few of whom are at present alive. Some of
their descendants are occupying their lands and doing well.
The Parish of Kingsclear, which adjoins Prince William, has nothing
peculiar, the soil being much the same as the latter. The face of the
country is hilly, interspersed with several streams well adapted for
mill seats. Many individuals of the reduced Battalion of the New Jersey
Volunteers settled in this Parish, some of whom are still living and
doing well. A Baptist Chapel has lately been erected here, in which
worship is occasionally performed. Opposite this Parish on the eastern
side of the river is the Parish of Douglas, so called in honor of the
present Lieutenant-Governor of the Province. It adjoins Queensbury, and
extends down nearly to the Nashwaack. The Madam Keswick, a considerable
stream, intersects this Parish. This is an extensive settlement, and
was formed by the York Volunteers and some of the Royal Guides and
Pioneers. The settlements on the Keswick Ridge and Mactuquask lie
between this stream and the main river, and are in a flourishing state.
It has a back settlement on the Nashwacksis and another one still
farther in the wilderness, called Cardigan, formed by a number of Welsh
families from Cardigan in Wales, who came to this Province in 1819, and
were located here by Government. Being very destitute, they were
enabled to commence settling by a subscription of the inhabitants of
Fredericton, aided by the Emigrant Society. This Parish has a Church
near the mouth of the Madam Keswick, and two Chapels belonging to the
Methodists and Baptists.
The Parish of St. Mary's, which formerly included the Parish just
mentioned, extends to the County line, and joins Maugerville on the
eastern side of the river. The river Nashwaack runs through this
Parish, and falls into the St. John opposite Fredericton. This stream
was settled by part of the 42d Regiment and some of the disbanded corps
that had been raised in America during the war. It is settled for more
than thirty miles along its banks, having a mixture of good intervale
and high land along its course. About five miles from its confluence
with the St. John, it receives the waters of the Peniack, a
considerable stream with a settlement along its banks, and about twelve
miles further up, the river Tay falls into it. There are two Chapels in
this settlement, one belonging to the Methodists and the other to the
Baptists. They have no stated Ministers, but are visited occasionally.
The road from Fredericton to Miramichi in the County of Northumberland
leads through this settlement.
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