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others signed with a mark. This may have been the original Pierre of the census of 1671, for if born in France he would have a better opportunity of learning to write than in Acadia. Two families named Lanoue from Memramcook were at Beausejour in 1752, but no person of that name was deported from Mines by Winslow in 1755. The name is not now to be found. in the Maritime Provinces.

Jean Labathe, aged 33, was a resident of Port Royal in 1671; his wife was Renée Gautherot, aged 19, but they had no children. Labathe was a rich man, for he owned 25 head of horned cattle and 15 sheep, and he tilled 15 arpents of land. The name does not occur again in any Acadian census or other document that I have seen, and there are no persons of that name in the Maritime Provinces today.

Lalloue is another name of which we can find no trace in any census after that of 1671. At that time Armand Lalloue was residing at Cape Negro. He was 58 years old; his wife was Elisabeth Nicolas, and he had five children, three sons and two daughters. The oldest son was James, aged 24.

The first aboideau and dyke at the Marsh Bridge were constructed in 1788, by James Simonds, who soon afterwards built two tide saw mills there, with perhaps a grist mill in connection. The first grist mill in the vicinity, however, was situated at the outlet of Lily Lake, and was built about 1770.

There was a saw mill at the outlet of the old mill pond, near the St. John Railway depot, as early as the year 1767. It was, of course, a tide mill and was built by Simonds and White. Later on, and prior to the