Maugerville ( /ˈmeɪdʒərvɪl/) is a community in Sunbury County in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. In 1759, members of the Perley Colony, land-seekers from present-day Maine, settled in the area. A generation later many of them were displaced farther upriver to Carleton County by newly-arrived United Empire Loyalists.
During the American Revolution, in 1776 George Washington sent a letter to the Maliseet of the Saint John River asking for their support in their contest with Britain. Led by Chief Ambroise Saint Aubin, the Maliseet immediately began to plunder the loyalists in the community, burning some of their homes and taking others prisoner back to New England.[1] (Shortly after, the rebellion continued at the near-by Battle of Fort Cumberland.) In 1779, Maugerville was raided again by Maliseet working with John Allan in Machias, Maine. A vessel was captured and two or three residents homes were plundered. In response a blockhouse was built at the mouth of Oromocto River named Fort Hughes (named after the Lt Governor of NS Sir Richard Hughes). [2]