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:t>5l01\'AL PAPER No. 18 ' .
The land on which thcv nrc Kctt.ed was granted to them by Mcssieurs Duchambon .1111] D11l111i~\0n fl1~-_1 l1211c1na-lc :1 rle 1ring 011 it “here they ordinarily sow forty bushels of grain yearly, and will sow that quantity next spring if they are 'Iivui the seed.
—\.1: toine Dcchc1011 fisherman and plounlmmn, nati1e of Bayonne, aged 10 years; he has been ‘23 years in the colony. Married to Marie Pinet, nati1e of Canada, aged 30 ycars
'lhey have six children the sens and one daughter:
Denis l‘cchevery, ag ed 11 years. '
Antoine, aged 10 years
Francois, 221311 8 years.
Pierre, .1ng 5 years.
Jean, aged 2 years.
Marie, aged 6 months. - - .
In stock they ha1e six oxen, one cow, one heifer, two calves, one _tnare, six l: ewes, four [.i 's and three hens. -
The land on which they are settled was g11 en to them by Noel Pinet, their father. They have made a clearing where they could sow 36 bushels of grain in the coming spring.
Jean Baptiste Pinet, fisherman and ploughman, native of Quebec, aged 41 years. \[arricd to Jeanne Pillot nati1e of La Rochelle, aged 24years. -
They hmo three sons: '
Charles Pinet, aged 4 years. ' i
_ Bazille, aged 3 years.
Jean Baptiste, aged 2 years ' V ' -
In stock they have: two oxen, one cow, one calf and four pigs.
The land on which they are settled 15 part of the homestead of their father. They ' ha1a nude a clearing where they could sow t11cnty bushels of grain if it were given to them.‘
Pierre Pinet, ploughmnn,nati1'o of Petit Degrat, aged 24 years. Married to ._Geneviéve Trnhant, nativo of l’ Acadia, aged? 2years.
They have three sons: ' . . -
Jean Pinet, aged 3 years. _ ' ‘ '~ ‘
Pienc, aged 2 years. - . '. - ' _
Paul, ag God 6 weeks. ' ' ' ~ , '
They have 11: live stock too oxen, two cows onoc alf, one \vethcr and one pig.
They are so tled on the homestead of Noel Pinet, their father. They have made a clearing where they could stw thirty bushels of grain if they had it.
\Ve left on the 13th and took the route for l‘ Etang clu Noflmge, following the sea shore cont1n111ll‘1f61' the SYtFa’gues at; which the distance fmn1°tho Post at Poiuté >W: do 1’ Est to l' Etang du Noffrage IS estimated.
In this distance 119. met 11 ith nothing worthy of notice. The land is a desert owing to the occurrence of the the, but a short distance inland the country is covered with hard11oocl and the soil wzh good for the production of all kinds of grain and roots; everything coming up in abundance. Owing to the lack of seed grain the settler here was unnbic to seed his land this year, but the small quantity of wheat which he was able to sow is amongst. the finest in the island. The cars are long, large and well filled. The Etang du Nofi'rage runanuarter ofa leagua inland to the south- west The breadth averages 80 toiscs. At the extremity (11 the étang, a long brook, which never dries up, discharges its water. This brook 13 supplied from W 0 large springs lying at a distance of two leagzms and a half inland to the west south-11' est. The brook contains sufficient 11 Mar to run flour and saw mills, but as regaids the latter they are considered useless as there 18 no timbc. suitable for sawing, all the hardwood, growing in the sur- rounding district heing "00d at the best for the building of boats. /
“'6 left on the 14th for St. P1e1ra du Nord. “7&0 counted the distance between ' tho two points as six leagues by the road. \Ve saw nothing on the way that calls‘ for description. '
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