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Saint Croix Courier, St. Stephen, NB
January 25, 1894

GLIMPSES OF THE PAST

Contributions to the History of Charlotte County and the Border Towns.

CI – THE SEVENTY-FOURTH ASSOCIATION-Continued.

The following is the full list of grantees of the lots on the Digdeguash laid out for the men of the 74th  regiment, according to grant of March 6, 1790:-

Eastern Division.  

Western Division.  

The following list, found on an old plan, seems to be earlier, and perhaps shows the original claimants:-

Eastern Division.  

Western Division.  

Dr. Emerson sold his lots in the eastern division, numbered 36 and 37, to Alex. McLeod, in 1787.

ADDITIONS

Article xxviii.-Extracts from a letter of the famous Jesuit Missionary, Father Pierre Biard, given in the Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society for Oct. 1891, show that in the winter of 1612, in company with M. de Biencourt, he entered the St. John, the St. Croix, the Pentegoet and the Kinibequi; and ‘visited the French who wintered here this year in two places, on the river St. John and on the St. Croix; the men from St. Malo on the St. John, Captain Plastrier on the St. Croix.’  Captain Platrier of Honfleur, (as the name is given further on,) had a little while before been taken prisoner by the English near the mouth of the Kinibequi (Kennebec), and released on promise that he would not trade along the coast.  Biencourt visited the place where Platrier had been seized, and found boats there left by the English; but he did not destroy them because they belonged not to soldiers, but to fishermen.

Article xcix.-The Mowatt MS. spoken of as lost has since been found in Edinburgh, and is published in the same number of the Proceedings.  It contains no reference to the destruction of Falmouth, and adds little of special interest to the account of the siege of Penobscot.