British Colonial Era
After the Seven Years' War, most of what is now New Brunswick (and parts of Maine) was incorporated as Sunbury County (county seat - Campobello) and was jurisdictionally included as part of the colony of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick's relative location away from the Atlantic coastline hindered new settlement during the immediate post war period; although there were a few notable exceptions such as the founding of "The Bend" (present day Moncton) in 1766 by Pennsylvania Dutch settlers sponsored by Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Land Company.
Other American settlements developed, principally in former Acadian lands in the southeast region, especially around Sackville. An American settlement also developed at Parrtown (Fort la Tour) at the mouth of the St. John River. English settlers from Yorkshire also arrived in the Tantramar region near Sackville prior to the Revolutionary War.
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