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Darnley; basin and'settlement, lot 18, Malpeque bay. Basin named on Holland, 1765. After che Duke of Richmond. Refer to Richmond. Kijeboogwek, meaning “enclosed,” is the icmac name.

Davies; point, lot 50. The grandfather and father of the late Chief Justice Sir Louis Davies had a shipyard here. The grandfather, Nathan Davies came to Charlottetown from Narbath, Pembrokeshire, South Wales in 1807, at the age of 20. He died in 1837. His wife Amelia McNutt died in 1863. Of their twelve children, the oldest son Benjamin, born is 1813, developed the shipping industry and his ships carried cargo to and from England. He died in 1906, his wife Kezia Attwood having predeceased him in 1852. They had four children, the eldest of whom Louis Henry Davies became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Misspelled Davis on chart, 1864.

Deane; point, lot 46 and cove, lot 48. Holland, 1765. After Captain Joseph Deane, dis- tinguished naval officer who visited the island in 1764 and 1765 in HWMS Mermaid. Capt. Deane, representing the navy, and Major Barre, representing the army, were sent to England in 1760 with the despatches announcing the capture of Quebec. In England each was presented with £500 wherewith to buy a sword. On June 26, 1759, Captain Deane was put in charge of the landing of troops from the transports on the island of Orleans. Returning to England with the news of the capitulation of Quebec, he sailed again for the St. Lawrence on the Lowesioft on March 9, 1760, with ships of the line and other frigates under the command of Commodore Swanton. Parting from Swanton at sea and not being able to rejoin him, he kept his course and his ship, being a good sailer, reached Quebec in May ahead of everyone and saluted the besieged garrison with 21 guns to the great satis- faction of General Murray whom he informed that a British fleet was master of the river St. Lawrence and nigh at hand. On his way he had taken a 26-gun letter of marque off Gaspe bay laden with stores and provisions and sent her to Halifax. In subsequent fighting above Quebec Capt. Deane played a notable part, though he was unfortunate enough to lose his ship, the Lowestofl, on some unknown rocks. On November 9, 1764, Lord Colville writes to the secretary to the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty: “Captain Deane in his way from the Gulph of St. Lawrence having put into Port la Joye in the Island of St. John brought me letters from Lieut. Mowat of the Canceaux and Capt. Holland informing me of their arrival at that place the 8 of October.” Again under date July 14, 1765, he reports: “Capt. Deane with the Mermaid, Guarland and Diligence cruized in different parts of the gulph during the summer and was at the Island of St. John from October 9 to October 22.” Captain Deane died, while in command of the Ruby, of sixty-four guns, at Jamaica, in 1779,

DeBlois; railway station, lot 2. After George W. DeBlois, Charlottetown, land agent for the locality about 1885. Meacham, 1880, has Du Blois.

De Gros Marsh; settlement, lot 55. There was a post office of the. name in 1855. De Gros’ Marsh on chart of Cardigan bay, 1839. De Gross Marsh on Wright, 1852.

Deep Ravine Mill; brook, lots 60, 62 and 64. Name applied in Meacham, 1880, to upper waters of Murray river.

Derby; settlement, lot 9. Name selected at a meeting of the people of the southern section of Brae March 20, 1869.

Deroche; point, lot 37. Deroche is an Acadian family name. Census, 1798, shows Jos. Deroche a settler in lot 19. Not pointe de Roche, meaning Rock pomt, as on chart, nor point de Rouge, as on Wright, 1852, nor pointe des Roches as in Bagster, 1861, and on Department of Interior map, 1914.

De Sable; settlement, lot 29.

DesBarres; point, lot 63. Holland, 1765. Reid point on chart and Department of Interior map, 1914. After Joseph Frederick Wallett DesBarres, who in _a lifetime of 102 years Was a notable figure in the survey and government of the Maritime provmcesu Born in 1722, the descendant of a Huguenot who had come to England after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he was sent to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwmh.‘ Wishing to see active service he embarked in March, 1756, with the rank of lieutenant in the Royal American Regiment, to which he was posted as one. of the original twenty engineer oflicers attached thereto. The object of raising this regiment was to form a body of troops acquainted with bush warfare from the North American colonists, and as French, SWiss, Tyrolese and German settlers were expected to enlist, commissmns were sanctioned for fifty foreign officers. Provision was also made for twenty foreign engineers. However, the colonel in chief and most of the officers were Scottish. After a period. of recruiting duty in Pennsylvania and Maryland and some fighting against the Indians in the neighbourhood of Schenectady, he accompanied Amherst in 1758 to Louisbourg. He was also at the siege 0f Quebec. In 1764 Admiral Lord Colville of Kinross (refer to ColVJlle) secured his serVices, to undertake a survey of the Nova Scotia coast under the Admiralty Upon this survey he Spent some ten years, 1763—73. Subsequently DesBarres was engaged to prepare for publication in the “Atlantic Neptune” the charts of his own surveys, those of Holland (refer to Holland) surveys of the St. Lawrence gulf and river, including Prince Edward Island, and those of the surveys of Charles Blascow1tz, Thos. Wright, afterwards surveyor general of Prince Edward Island, and George Sproule of the Atlantic coast south of P.issamquoddy. An interesting account of DesBarres’ transference to survey work is given