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Winslow in 1755. There were twelve families of the name among the refugees at Beausejour in 1752, eleven of them being from Minoudy. The Acadian name of De Forest has practically dissappeared from the Maritime Provinces, the few families of that name now in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia not being connected with the Acadians.

Oliver Daigre was married to Marie Gaudet and they had three little children, all sons. When the census of 1686 was taken the name of Oliver Daigre does not appear either at Port Royal, Mines or Chignecto. He was probably dead, and his sons were then too young to be heads of families. The name reappears in the census of 1714 in the form of D'Aigre, and it would seem that all of the name in Acadia were then residing at Mines. No person of that name was living at Port Royal in 1730, but among the families deported from Mines by Winslow in 1755, were twelve named Daigre. When the Loyalists came to St. John in 1783 there were two families named Daigle residing on the River, and this appears to be the same name as Daigre, with the change of a letter. There are upwards of two hundred familes named Daigle in the Maritime Provinces of whom one hundred and forty reside in the county of Kent and forty in Madawaska.

The pilot schooner "Rechab," of St. John, had many a lively cruise in the days when wooden ships were plenty and the Bay of Fundy was one of their great resorts. In the quarter of a century of the "Rechab's" career, from the day in June, 1845, when she was launched, to that wild night in October, 1869, when she was broken to pieces by the force of the