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Maugerville Parish
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Sunbury County: first established in 1765 as a township in Nova Scotia: named for Joshua Mauger (1725-1788), originally from Jersey, a local land grantee as well as a Halifax merchant and a colonial agent in England: in 1763 he helped settlers secure formal title to their lands: established as a New Brunswick parish in 1786.

County : Sunbury

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