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Newhaven; settlement, lot 31. From a shipping port established here a few years previous to 1873, when a post office was established. Earlier known as Brian’s Cross.

New London; settlement withpost office, lot 21. Name in use 1775 (Benjamin Chappell’s diary).

New London; bay, lots 21 and 22. After the settlement. Grenville bay on Holland map, 1765. Kijeboogwek or Kijeboogwek—booktaba, meaning “enclosed,” is the Micmac name. “Quiquibougat” is the spelling on Bellin map, 1744.

New Perth; settlement, lot 52. Settled 1803. Name in use 1861. Perth is now the railway station name, but formerly it was New Perth.

Newport; settlement with post office, lot 54. Previous to 1872hknown as Lower Cardigan. Name Newport selected at a public meeting at the suggestion of Roderick McDonald, who had been on a visit to Newport, Rhode island, U.S.

Newton; settlement, lot 27 . Wright and Cundall, 1874. Newtown; settlement, lot 57. There was a Newtown settlement in 1818.

New Wiltshire; settlement, lot 31. The marriage of John Easton to Hannah Molyneaux at New Wiltshire is announced in “The Palladium” October 12, 1844.

New Zealand; settlement, lot 44. After the dominion of New Zealand. Named 1858 when there was emigration from Prince Edward Island to New Zealand. The brig Prince Edward left for New Zealand November 30, 1858.

Nicholas; point, lot 62. Wright and Cundall, 1874. Ninemile; creek, lot 65. Also Ninemile Creek settlement with post office.

Nixon; creek, Eliot river, lot 31. Map, 1775, applies the name Nixon’s river to the second highest tributary to Eliot river in lot 31.

Norborough; settlement, lot 25. The name originally suggested was Brooklyn, but this was found to be already in use on the island. Named when a post office was established about 1872. Post office closed September 1, 1915. Earlier known as Bowness, after Robert and

.William Bowness, settlers in 1835 from Kirkmahoe, near Dumfries, Scotland, 1835. Norboro is the school district name.

North; parish, Prince county. Holland, 1765. The north parish of the island.

North; point, lot 1. The north extremity of the island. North cape on Holland, 1765. “Cap dez Sauvaiges” (cap des Sauvages) of Jacques Cartier, 1534. Cartier relates that here- abouts a man beckoned to them from the shore, but did not wait for them to land. They left him a knife and woollen girdle. Setunook, meaning “where the sea water flows back,” is the Micmac Indian name.

North Lake; settlement, lot 47.

North; point, Charlottetown, lot 32. North entrance point to Eliot river. The Micmac ,.

name is Okoonaleet, meaning “covered over here and there as though by snow in spots.” North River; school district, lot 32. Refer to Yorke river.

Northam; settlement, with post office, lot 13. Named by Wm. Gorrell and John Lock, settlers

from Northam, Devonshire, England. Lake, 1863.

North Carleton; settlement, lot 27. Earlier known as Seven-mile Bay, as seven miles from ‘

Seacow head light. Chart, 1851. Northport; settlement, Cascumpeque harbour, lot 5. Chart, 1851. Hillstown on Hill map,

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1821. Refer to Hill river. Hereabouts was Lewiston, or Lewistown, of map, 1798, after ‘1

Ed. Lewis, M.P., proprietor of the lot in 1775. ,

Northumberland; strait, between Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Named by DesBarres after HWMS Northumberland, 70 guns, flagship of Admiral Lord Colville of Culross, at whose request DesBarres was seconded in 1764 from the 60th Royal American Regiment of Foot to undertake the survey of the Nova Scotia coast under the Admiralty. Refer to Desbarres.

Norway; settlement, lot 1. Nail Pond (Norway) was a school district name in 1864. O’Brien Road; school district, lot 4.

Ocean View; settlement with post oflice, lot 58.‘ Post oflice opened December 1, 1906. Old Mill; river, lot 21.

Old Store; point, lot 64. Name in Bay field “Sailing Directions,” 1847, and on chart, 1849. The reference is to a store erected here, 1805, by Lemuel Cambridge. Refer to Cambridge Road. Beach point is a later name. Here was Beach Point post office. Department of Interior map, 1914, has Beech point.

O’Leary; settlement with post office, lot 6. After Michael O’Leary, who lived at the west end of the road on the shore about 12 miles from the settlement. When he settled is not known. He returned to Ireland about 1858, but not finding any of his people sailed again for America Report says that he was accidentally pushed off the wharf at Halifax and drowned. He was then a very old man. No one remembers his wife, but when he lived at West point there were four children, Timothy, Henry, Mary and Jane with him. Evidently his wife

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