In June 1783, 50 Loyalist families touched at Wood Point (West. Co.) and thence proceeded to Fort Cumberland and after remaining a few days finally settled in various parts of the county - the PALMERS at Dorchester, the KNAPPS at Westmorland, SILLIKARS, CHAPPELS and ALLANS in Botsford Parish. The MILLS and LEWIS at Petitcodiac. .. In 1812, John WOODS and William WOODS and Walter CROWLEY made the first settlement in what is now being designated as Iristown and from that time up to 1818, the FITZSIMMONS, LURINGS, DUNPHYS, KENNEDYS and others followed from Ireland. In 1835-36 another lot of immigrants came from Ireland. The CARROLLS, MAHONEYS, MURPHYS, BARRYS, ROACHS, HARDWICKS and others located themselves in Botsford Parish which is now called the Emigrant Road. James CARROLL was the first settler... I have been furnished by your esteemed townsman, H.A. POWELL, Esq. with the census of Sackville taken January 1st, 1770, a year before Nathan MASON and his flock returned to New England. Names of the master and mistress of each family in the township of Sackville, January 1, 1770: James JINKS, Samuel BALLOU, Amariah LETLAND, Jacob BACON, Joseph COLLINS and Thos. COLLINS, Nathaniel FINNEY, Samuel ROGERS, Amasa KILLAM, Wm ALVASON, John OLNEY, Caleb FINNEY, Jeremiah BROWNELL, Robert FOSTER, Lemuel LETTEMORE, Jedman SMITH, Nathaniel MASON, Nathan SEAMAN, David ALVARSON, Joseph TOWER, Valentine ESTABROOKS, Eliphalet REID, Gilbert SEAMANS, Josiah TINGLEY, John THOMAS, Ephraim EMERSON, Ebenezer SALISBURY, Isaiah THORNTON, Joseph BAKER, Samuel LEWIS, John WOOD, Isreal THORNTON, Wm BAKER, David TIFT, John BARNES, John PECK, Thos. IRONS, George SHEARMAN, Gideon YOUNG, Nathaniel ROUNDS, Wm OLNEY, Joshua SPRAGUE, Robt. SCOTT, Ezekiel FULLER, Wm LAWRENCE, Stephen JOHNSON, Daniel HAWKINS, George Jr. SHEARMAN, David LETTEMORE, Nathan MASON, Samuel EMERSON, Benjamin TOWER, John DAY, Robert LETTEMORE, Seth MERSEY, Jacob FULLER, Job SEAMANS, Benjamin EMERSON, Ebenezer sr. SALISBURY, Jonathan COLE, Benjamin MASON, Samuel EDDY, Samuel IRONS, Nehemiah WARD, Wm SEAMANS. (see original)