26 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Freetown; settlement, with post office, lot 25. A post oflice in 1855. Lower Freetown is also a settlement.

French; creek, lot. 37. French; creek, lot 65. Chart, 1846. French; river, lot 58. Meacham, 1880.

French; river, lot 21. Also French River settlement with post office. Benjamin Chappell uses the name French river in 1775.

French; point, Montagu river, lot 59. Chart, 1850.

French Fort; creek and settlement, lot 35. Creek name on chart, 1845. After a fort built during the French regime.

French; point, lot 63. Chart, 1849. French Village; settlement with post office, lot 37. Freshwater; river, lots 10 and 13. Meacham, 1880.

Fullerton; creek, lot 48. Fullerton’s cove and creek on plan, 1780. Probably riviere de 1’119 aux Foins (Hay Island river) of Franquet, 1751.

Gage; cape, lot 2. Holland, 1765. After General Thomas Gage (1721—87). The second son of Thos. first Viscount Gage, in the peerage of Ireland and Benedicta Hall of High Meadow, Gloucestershire, he was born in 1721. On January 30, 174], he received a commission as lieutenant in Cholmondely’s regiment (afterwards the 48th foot). In 1745 he was captain of an Irish regiment which fought at Culloden and in 1748 major of the 55th regiment, which after the reduction to a peace footing in that year became the 44th. On March 2, 1751, he became lieutenant colonel of his regiment, which be accompanied to America under Braddock in 1754. He served with gallantry in the unsuccessful expedition against Fort Duquesne and was wounded. He took part in Abercromby’s campaign of 1758, succeeded Sir Wm. Johnson at Niagara in 1759 and accompanied Amherst to Montreal in 1760. After the capitulation he was made lieutenant governor of Montreal. In 1761 he was made major general and in 1763 succeeded Amherst as commander in chief in North America, an office which he held until 1772. In 1770 .he became a lieutenant general. In 1774 he succeeded Hutchinson as governor of Massachusetts Bay, where he had the difficult task of attempting to curb the growing revolutionary sentiment. His administration saw the battles of Lexington and Bunkers Hill and the siege of Boston. In 1775 he was appointed commander in chief in North America, but soon resigned and returned to England. In April, 1782, the rank of general was conferred upon him. He died April 2, 1787. Ballingall map, 1920, misspells Gauge.

Gain; creek, lot 11. Gains creek in Meacham, 1880, which shows Phillip Gain, settler here.

Gairloch; settlement, lot 60. Meacham, 1880, which gives Selkirk Road as the post office name. The latter is the only name on Wright and Cundall, 1874. Now Garfield, but still called Gairloch by the old people. Gairloch is a parish in Rossshire, Scotland.

Gallows; point, lot 50. Orwell point of Holland, 1765. The origin of the name Gallows is obscure. In April, 1831, the legislature was petitioned for a grant for a road “from Cherry Valley to Gallows point.” In February, 1833, the legislature was again asked for aid to complete the road “from Orwell point to Cherry Valley.” The history of the island furnishes no reason why anyone should have been hanged at this out—of—the-way place. The majority of island names are personal ones and probably Gallows is a corruption of some such family name aslGalland, Galloa, Gallet (de la Roque, 1752) or Gillis. A John Gillis was one of the Se.kirk settlers on the “Polly” and built a small church near the landing place in Belfast cove, lot 57 inside the corner of the by road on the east side of Belfast creek next to the old Frenzh burial grOund. In 1806 Gillies purchased 200 acres from the Earl of Selkirk at the bottom of the big cove in Orwell bay. The map history of the name is as follows: Gallows, chart, 1846; Gallas, Cundall, 185]; Gallows, Wright, 1852; Gallas, Lake, 1863; Gallas, Wright and Cundall, 1874; Gallas, Meacham atlas, 1880. The first reference to Gallas point is in a volume entitled “The Progress and Prospect of PEI.” published by Bagster at Charlottetown in 1861. Musik is the Micmac name.

Gambles Corner; settlement, lot 28. A post oflice July 1, 1896, to December 15, 1913. The name commemorates a resident. Lady Fane school is here.

Garfield; settlement, lot 58. Probably after James Abraham Garfield (1831—81), 20th president of the United States. Named about 1881. Earlier Gairloch, which see.

Gascoyne; cove, lot 60. Holland, 1765. After Bamber Gascoyne (1725-91), Lord Commis— sioner of Trade and Plantations, 1763-1779. Misspelled Gascoigne on later maps- Tulesipkee is the Micmac name. Bamber Gascoyne was the eldest son of Sir Crisp Gascoyne (1700—1761), lord mayor of London. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford (1743); was barrister of Lincoln’s Inn (1750); was MP. for Malden 1761—3, Midhurst 1765—70, Weobly 1770—4, Truro 1774—84 and Bossiney 1784—6, and was also receiver general of customs and a lord of the Admiralty. His son’s daughter married the 2nd Marquis of Salisbury, who took the name of Gascoyne before that of Cecil. (Dictionary of National Biography.)

Gaspereaux; pond, lot 63. Wright and Cundall, 1874. The Micmac nameuiésig‘l‘éudaskooch,

meaning “little pond.”