Visits to the Upper St.John River Valley

Over the course of the 19th century numerous travellers visited the upper St.John Valley. Visitors included soldiers, missionaries, lumbermen, anglers, and economic boosters. Many of these travellers wrote and published descriptions of their visits. I've reproduced here a number of those published descriptions

1686 - The Bishop of Quebec Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier (Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier) goes through the upper St.John River valley on his way to Acadia, May 1686
1790 - Park Holland, visit to the St.John and Madawaska Settlement
1813 - The 104th New Brunswick Regiment goes on foot from Fredericton to Quebec via the upper St.John River valley, by John LeCouteur , March 1815
1815 - Sir George Head, an Assistant Commissary General in the British Army, visits the Madawaska Settlement on his way from Halifax to Canada, January 1815 -- transcribed and submitted by Gary Campbell.
1820 - Major Joseph Treat - Commissioned by Maine governor to survey disputed northeast boundary of the new state of Maine - transcribed and submitted by Gary Campbell.
1826 - New Brunswick Courier on "St Johns Settlement," February 1826
1829 - The Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma on the situation in the Madawaska Settlement, July 1829
1831 - Deane and Kavanagh's impressions of the Madawaska Settlement Part of a report on landholdings in the valley undertaken for the State of Maine by John Deane and Edward Kavanagh, July-August 1831
1836 - Report of geologist Charles T.Jackson on public lands in Maine The Tobique, Grand Falls, and the upper St.John River valley, including Madawaska Settlement, October 1836
1837 - Report of geologist James T. Hodge on the public lands in Maine The Allagash, St.John, St.Francis, Madawaska, and Tobique Rivers, and the St.Lawrence at Rivière-du-Loup, July-August 1837
1838 - Visit of William T. Baird to Madawaska A vacation in Madawaska for this Fredericton young man
1841 - Moses Perley surveys the Maliseet (Wulustukieg) population of the St.John River valley The Commissioner of Indians of New Brunswick visits native settlements in the valley, August 1841
1858 - "Editors' excursion" to the French Settlements at Madawaska, by Edward Elwell. A group of newspaper editors were brought to northern Aroostook in an attempt to induce people to settle in the northern part of the State of Maine
1863 - "Aroostook and Madawaska", by Charles Hallock. A visit in the summer of 1863 to Weston, Houlton, Presque Isle, Grand Falls, and Madawaska

If you know of any other such texts, please let me know! Thanks.

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