Saint Croix Courier, St. Stephen, NB
March 8, 1894
GLIMPSES OF THE PAST
Contributions to the History of Charlotte County and the Border Towns.
CVI – THE PENOBSCOT ASSOCIATION GRANT.
Excepting the town plot of St. Andrews, the several tracts mentioned on the Schoodic, and a few small reserves for fortification or other public uses, the whole shore line of bay and river, from the Boyd tract at the mouth of the Bocabec to Sprague’s Falls on the Schoodic, with two ranges of lots on Mohannes stream, was granted in the summer of 1784 to ‘Stephen Roberts and others, commonly called the Penobscot Association.’ The lands thus granted consist of 190 lots, of 100 acres each; and are divided into six separate blocks or tracts.
The first of these tracts, containing twenty lots, runs westward from Boyd’s grant to the head of a little inlet between Bocabec and Chamcook. The grantees were:-
| Stephen Roberts | Sarah Kenny |
| John Baldwin | James Collins |
| Jno Andre Sower | Thos. Hailey, Jr. |
| John Roax | Harriett Parr |
| William Lowther | Zebedee Hammond |
| Nehemiah Marks | Silas Cummings |
| William Spencer | James Turner |
| Thomas Haley | David Bailey |
| James Simonds | Andrew Patten |
| Richard Romsay | Francis Welch |
Around Chamcook harbor was a large reserve for glebe and school lands, a part of which was later granted to Wm. Gallop and others, and the rest to the church corporation of St. Andrews. Between this reserve and St. Andrews town plot there are five lots. The grantees were:-
| Chas. Morris, Jr. | Moses Sprague |
| David Shields | James Frost |
| Wm. Cheney |
Thirty-six of the lots in the third tract, Bay Side and Waweig, stretching from the St. Andrews commons to the head of Waweig basin, were granted to-
| Daniel Grant | Andrew Martin |
| Lauch’n McCurdy | David Shields |
| Joseph Smith | Finlay Malcolm |
| Maurice Rinby (?) | Timothy Roax, Jr. |
| Honor Davis | Wm. Lindsay |
| John Navon (?) | Ben’n Bradford |
| Jon’n Greenlaw | John Solomon |
| Alex’r Greenlaw | George Wisely |
| Jane Adams | Mathew Lymburner |
| John Rigby | Joab Bragg |
| Andrew Peters | Alex Linkleter |
| John Dowling | Ebenezer Greenlaw |
| Ben’n Pomeroy | John McIntosh |
| James Stewart | John Bowler |
| Jas. Mullewny | Pat’k Callahan |
| James Russell | Wm. Gommons |
| Samuel Trott | Mich’l Ryan |
| John McNicholl | Edward Ross |
In front of the Mullewny and Russell lots, at Sandy Point, there was a small reserve for fortification; another for the same purpose in front of the Bradford and Solomon lots; and a larger reserve, of two lots, at the mouth of ‘Waweg,’ between the Lymburner and Bragg lots, the object of which is not mentioned. At the head of tide waters on the Waweig, a large block of land was reserved for John Jones.
The fourth tract comprises all the lots on Oak Bay. On the eastern side, from what we now call Hill’s Point, to the head of the bay, the grantees were-
| John Davis | John Dogget |
| James Thompson | Balthasar Stilkey |
| Dun’n McEachern | Dugald Thompson |
| Jno. Chaytor | Wm. Cookson |
| Wm. Redhead | Wm. Stewart |
| Davis Fogo | John Hewey |
| Joseph Crookshanks | Nathan Phillips |
| Jas. Nicholson | Thomas Bell |
| Jas. Stinson | John Lillie |
| Zebedee Liniken | Ralph Taylor |
On the western side, from the head of the bay to the cove still known as Pagan’s Cove-
| Wm. Gallop | John Jones |
| Jeremiah Pote | David Wyer |
| Daniel Leman | Thomas Brown |
| Thomas Wyer | Moses Gerrish |
| David Arnot | William Viall |
| Robt. Munerer | William Towers |
| Amos Hitchins | Colin Campbell |
| Hugh Lemmy | Robt. Pagan |
The names of the grantees in the fifth tract, now the parish of Dufferin, and in the sixth, or Mohannes tract, will be given next week.
Mention has already been made of many of the persons named
above; further notes of some of them are in preparation.