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#18 Other Loyalist SettlementsMusquash Head was first settled by Richard Bradley who had fought in the Revolutionary War. Chance Harbor was settled by two Loyalist refugees, J. Price and David Belding. Dipper Harbor was settled by discouraged soldiers, of note were Hugh Campbell and Colonel George Anderson.
In 1783 Joshua Knight with one hundred Quakers came from Philadelphia and landed at Beaver Harbor. They soon had one hundred homes built and a population of eight hundred. Their homes were destroyed by a forest fire in 1787 and most people moved back to Pennfield Ridge.
Many Loyalists made their homes in the older settlements in the southeast of the province such as Sackville, Westcock, Dorchester, and Memramcook. Some who originally settled at Passamaquoddy later moved to Moncton, Hopewell, and Baie Verte. In time these communities expanded and descendants of the original settlers extended along the coast to Cape Tormentime, Shediac, Coverdale, Salisbury and Dover.
From 1761 to 1787 that part of Northumberland County now known as Kent was a wilderness.
In 1787 a Loyalist named Mr. Powell settled on the Richibucto River. At that time there were only four families in the whole county.
In 1786 William Davidson began working two sawmills on one of the tributaries of the north west Miramichi. In 1790 Davidson shipped three cargoes of masts and spars for His Majesty's Dockyards. That same year Davidson died and the mast contract was taken over by Fraser and Thom.
In 1790 at Jacquet River, James Doyle was the only settler between Bathurst and Dalhousie.
background by Cleadie / man with quill graphic by J. O'Donovan
Page mounted: 11 Sep 1999
Updated:Sunday, 01-Apr-2007 11:29:08 MDT