Elliott, Bruce, 2004-2005: Emigrant Recruitment by the New Brunswick Land Company: The Pioneer Settlers of Stanley and Harvey.

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A surveyor was employed to lay out 25 lots with a forty rod frontage either side of the new road to St Andrews, "extending back so as to comprise forty Acres, leaving in the rear sufficient Vacant land to enable each settler to extend his lot so soon as he might be able to purchase the additional quantity."   The 24 heads of family balloted for their lots.⁽⁹⁰⁾  A list of these men in the Surveyor General's records, headed "Names of English Emigrants who have settled on lots of Land containing 40 Acres each in the Harvey settlement", includes Henry Craigs but omits the single men, including brother James Craigs, and it omits also two adult sons of the emigrant families.   These eight appear, however, on the list of lots drawn, but with no lot numbers beside their names.⁽⁹¹⁾

Monument to the first settlers of Harvey, erected in 1940. Source: Tim Patterson, 2004.
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Close-up of plaque on monument to the first settlers of Harvey, erected in 1940. Source: Tim Patterson, 2004.

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List of Persons who Ballott[ed] for Land in the Harvey Settlement

 

Name	Lot no.
BELL Wm	11L
CARMICHAEL John	19L
CESFORD David	8L
COCKBURN John	18L
COWE James	15L
CRAIGS Henry	11R
EMBLETON Wm	17R
GREGG John	9L
GRIEVE William	7L
HAY Alexander	13R
HERBERT Thos	7R
KAY Thomas	15R
MESSER Wm	6L
MONTGOMERY Andrew	14L
MOWET James	6R
MOWET Thomas	12L
NESBIT James	12R
NESBIT John	20L
Name
PIERCY Matthew	14R
PIERCY Thomas	18R
THOMPSON John	9R
WIGHTMAN John	19R
WILSON Robt	10L
Single Men:
BROWN Thomas
COCKBURN James
CRAIGS James   [sic]
MONTGOMERY Andrew Jun r
ROBSON William
SCOTT John*
THOMSON James
THOMSON Thomas
By transfer from Hanwell Settlement:
FALLEN John	8R
McKINNEY	13L

 

 

L refers to the left or east side of the road heading south from Harvey Station; R refers to the right or west side of the road.

* also on original list of heads of families who balloted for lots; here listed as a single man and annotated "see Memorial Ap26/41".

Source :   Alphabetized from PANB, RS 637 26d

 

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(90) PANB, RS 24, Assembly Sessional Papers, 1838, re 1, Report of ... Commissioners appointed in July last for locating sundry English Emigrants, 16 February 1838.

 

(91) PANB, Records of the Surveyor General, RS 637, 26d, contains these two lists plus the detailed list of families alluded to earlier.