48 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR point of land, supports the opinion that the savages had been surprised and cut off, or F killed in battle, and as no relics of warlike instruments were found at the place, except those of the aborigines, it is probable that the event took place before the advent of the Europeans. r" From an old tradition of the affair among the Indians, the bay has been called Savage r" harbour." Kadotpichk is the Micmac Indian name. Kat (Kad) is Micmac for "eel." Savage; island, lot 5, Cascumpeque bay. Holland, 1765. Schooner; creek, head of Bideford river, lot 12. Plan, 1796. Schooner; pond and creek, lot 40. Schurman; point, lot 25. After Wm. Schurman, loyalist, who bought 3,500 acres in lot 25 from Alex. McDonald. Schurman came from New Rochelle, where he had spent two years in prison, for which he refused compensation from the "rebel government." Scotchfort ; settlement, lot 36. Named by Scottish settlers, 1772. Rev. John C . Macmillan in "Early History of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island ," Quebec , 1905, states that Captain John Macdonald , the Laird of Glenaladale and Glenfinnan , mortgaged his property in Scotland in order to raise the money to aid the needy emigrants and to purchase an estate on Prince Edward Island upon which they might settle. A considerable sum was also raised by private subscriptions. About May, 1772, two hundred and ten emigrants set sail on the Alexander, and after a prosperous voyage of about two months dropped anchor in Charlottetown harbour towards the end of June. Having again weighed anchor, they proceeded up Hillsborough river till they reached the lands purchased the preceding year by Captain Macdonald . Here they landed at a place contiguous to the church of St. Louis , ( Franquet , 1751) to which place they gave the name of Scotchfort . The emigrants, of whom one hundred came fron Uist island and the remainder from the mainland of Scot¬ land, were mostly Macdonalds. Among them, however, could be found a goodly sprinkling of Mackinnons, Macphees, Macraes, Gillises, Maceacherns, Mackenzies and Macintoshes, whose descendants constitute the Scottish Catholic population of Prince Edward Island at the present day. Scott; creek, lot 34, Chart , 1845. After early settlers of the name. Seacow; head, lot 26. Salutation point on Holland, 1765. Sea Cow head or Salutation point in St. Lawrence Pilot, 1916 edition. Seacow; pond, lot 1. Also settlement. Formerly a resort of the walrus or sea- cow. Gesner , writing in 1846 of this part of the coast, says: "Hundreds of these animals were killed on the land by the early inhabitants, among whose descendants pieces of their skin still remain in use. A deep pond near Tignish is said to be filled with their bones and their tusks of ivory are occasionally found on the shore or in the forests. Only a few of those noble animals are now seen." Seal: creek, lot 55. Chart , 1850. Seal; point, lot 7. Seal; river, lot 50. Chart , 1846. Searletown ; settlement, lot 27. After James Searle , who was awarded the northern half of lot 27 in 1767. At his death about 1828, the property descended to his sole surviving child, Isabella, who married Horatio Mann , who died at Halifax , 1845. Records of land trans¬ actions show that Mr. and Mrs. Mann were residents of Philadelphia in 1830 and 1832, and that Mrs. Mann resided there in February, 1856, when she disposed of the property to James Colledge Pope , of Bedeque . There was a post named Searltown (sic) m 1855. Seatrout; point, lot 48. Noted for the sea trout caught here. Sportsmen say the trout are the best "fighters" to be found. Pte a la Framboise (Raspberry point) of French plan, 1749. Seaview; school district, lot 20. Sedgewick; cove, lot 17. Not on Holland, 1765, but named by him. See Can. Arch, Rep. 1905 Vol. 1, p. 14. Sedgwick on map, 1775. May be after " Mr. Sedgewicke ," Clerk of the Reports to the Board of Trade (Wm. Mudford, "Life of Richard Cumberland ," 1812, pp. 146, 148). Miscouche cove of chart. Selkirk ; settlement, lot 42, and point, at the junction of the north and middle branches of Pinette river, lot 58. After Thos. Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (1771-1820); succeeded to the title 1799; died at Pau April 8, 1820; buried at Orthes. Point name on chart, 1846. Lord Selkirk owned land and personally came out and settled 803 persons in lots 57 and 58. Settlement name on Wright and Cundall , 1874. Lord Selkirk has been called "the most remarkable name in the annals of immigration to Canada ." ; settlement, lot 63. Meacham , 1880, which shows Theo. Sentnor living here. Sentner is the present day spelling of the family name. Seven-mile; bay, lot 27. Supposed to refer to the distance between Seacow head and Borden point. Seven Sisters; sandhills, Cascumpeque harbour. Hill map, 1821. They were swept away by storms in the 1850's. Shamrock ; settlement, lot 27. Shepherds; pond, lot 22. Meacham , 1880.