Hi Tom, Check map # 138 at the site below and you find all the names you mentioned, Low Pt to New Waterford. http://novascotia.ca/natr/land/grantmap.asp Maureeen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NS-CB] The Flag Staff- Cape Breton Date: 17 Apr 2016 19:45 From: Ron McDougall via <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com> To: Thom McCabe <thommccabe@eastlink.ca> Cc: NS-CAPE-BRETON-List <NS-CAPE-BRETON-L@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: Ron McDougall <ronaldmcdougall@prodigy.net> Thom, From the description of these 3 areas of enumeration (especially number 4. below) in the 1838 census, I'd say that Flagstaff is "at Low Point". 2. Eastside Sydney River. Muggahs's to Ellison's Bar. 29 November, 1838. Taken by Mr. Edmund Peters. 3. From Ellison's Bar to Flagstaff. 14 October, 1838. Taken by George Petrie. 4. From Flagstaff at Low Point to north head of Lingan. 25 November, 1838. Taken by Mr. Barthm Connors. -- Ron _____________ Thom McCabe via wrote: >In the 1838 census one area I am working in defines the census was > taken >from " Ellison's Bar to the Flag Staff". I know at that time > Ellison's Bar >was what is now known as South Bar sand bar (or the south bar of > Sydney >river) but have no idea where Flag Staff would have been. I believe > it >encompassed the New Victoria/Lingan area by some of the names listed. > > > >Has anyone ever come across the name/place Flag Staff in relation to > an >area between Sydney and Dominion ( I am making it a large area > intentionally >as I have no idea where it was) but know it was at least to Lingan. > > > >Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > > >Thom > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NS-CAPE-BRETON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NS-CAPE-BRETON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message