GEOGRAPHIC BOARD OF CANADA 21 Darnley ; basin and settlement, lot 18, Malpeque bay. Basin named on Holland, 1765. After the Duke of Richmond . Refer to Richmond . Kijeboogwek, meaning "enclosed," is the Micmac 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, 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 . 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 H.M.S. 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 . Returning to England with the news of the capitulation of Quebec, he sailed again for the St. Lawrence on the Lowestoft 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 Capt. Deane played a notable part, though he was unfortunate enough to lose his ship, the Lowestoft, on some unknown rocks. On November 9, 1764, Lord Colyille 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 i n 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 irom October 9 to October 22. ' Captain Deane died, while in command of the Ruby, of sixty-four guns, at Jamaica, m 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 March 20, 1869. Deroche; point, lot 37. Deroche is an Acadian famih name. Census, 1798, shows Jos. Deroche a settler in lot 19. Not pointe de Roche, meaning Rock point 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 m a lifetime of 102 years was a notable figure in the survey and government of the Maritime provinces Born m 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 Woolwich.. Wishing to see active service he embarked in March, 1756, with the rank of lieutenant m the Royal American Regiment, to which he was posted as one of the original twenty engineer officers attached thereto. The object of raising this regiment was to form a body of troops acquainted with bush warfare from the colonists, and as French Swiss Tyrolese and German settlers were expected to enlist, commissions were sanctioned for fatty foreign officers. Provision was also made for twenty foreign «W£* iS^ S 'jM colonel in chief and most of the officers were Scottish. After a period of printing duty m Pennsylvania and Maryland and some fighting against the ™^^Je^neighbourhood of Schenectady, he accompanied Amherst in 1758 to He> wasakc» at the siege of Quebec . In 1764 Admiral Lord Colville of Kinross (refer to Colvilie) secured his services, to undertake a survey of the Nova Scotia coast under the Admiraltj Upon this survey he spent some ten years, 1763-73. Subsequently DesBarres was engaged to Prepare for publication in the " Neptune" the charts of his °™ surveysthose ot Holland