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Historical Descriptions
Posted 28 Jan 2001
Dictionary Entry (
Ganong,
1896, p 270):
Saint Patrick.-P., 1786. Suggested, no doubt, by the
names of the other saints
in the vicinity (see p. 204).
Description of Saint
Patrick Parish, 1803
"Statement of the Population of the several Parishes in the County
of Charlotte, with the principal Exports of each, &c, A. D. 1803"
From the report of Donald McDonald to Edward Winslow, circa June 1803,
Winslow Papers (p 489), also
Davis,
p 88:
Saint Patrick's Parish.
Men 50 - Women 46 - Children 133 - Total
229. In this Parish
there is a Single and Double Saw Mill which have hitherto cut about
400,000 feet of Boards. Additional improvements making this year pro-
mise large increase in the exports from this Parish. Mr. Osborne, an
English Gentleman, has this Spring erected a mill on the Russian plan,
now going, which works fifteen saws in a frame, for the purpose of
cutting
Deals for the English market.
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Description of Saint
Patrick Parish, 1842
From
The Emigrant's Guide to New Brunswick, (
Atkinson,
1842, pp 53-54):
ST. PATRICK'S
joins the above parish [St. David] and is about
the same in population, but exceeds it in superficial
extent. The first settlers of this place were soldiers
from some Scottish Highland Regiments, disbanded
after the close of the American revolutionary war. It
it [sic] more rocky and hilly than the other parishes, but
the soil in most places is good, and in the upper part
of the parish inferior to none in the country. It is
intersected by the Digdegnash [sic] and Moannexo streams.
There are 294 inhabited houses, and 303 families, with
5206 acres of cleared land. There is a Presbyterian
and Wesleyan Methodist Church in the parish.
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