More bits of history
A few years later settlers from
Massachusetts attempted to lay out a township on the site of St Anne but were driven away
by the Indians and moved down river to form the settlement of Maugerville.
In 1768 plans for a town on this same site were drawn in New York by a company who had
received the grant of the best land along the St John but the plans never materialized.
In 1783 the Loyalists who came to the present Maritime Provinces from the
United States selected this region and laid out Fredericton
as the capital. Finally after 1800 some thousands of people from the British Isles came
to New Brunswick.
Early in the 18th Century , the French Acadian village of St Anne took shape on the site
of the present Fredericton and flourished until the middle of the century when it was
burned by English soldiers under a New England officer.