Jouett's Island (also called Thrumcap Island) is located off the southern coast of Indian Island, between the larger Campobello Island and Deer Island in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 490, 497, 500, and 501 at same site.
Jouett's Island is four acres consisting of soil over conglomerate, with a former mansion belonging to Captain Moses.Gesner, Abraham. "First Geological Survey of the Province of New Brunswick", 1839 - https://ia801307.us.archive.org/1/items/cihm_44810/Report on the Geological Survey of the Province of New Brunswick
C.H. Jouett had been reimbursed by the government for his construction of a "Bye Road" on Deer Island, in 1839.
In 1853, Comptroller and Customs Inspector Fitzgerald petitioned the government for reimbursement as he'd been required to move his Customs Office from Jouett's Island to Campobello.Journal of the House of Assembly of ... New Brunswick from ... February to ... May, 1853 ... : 1853
In 1929, author Frances Gillmor published "Thumbcap Weir" which was set on a West Isles Parish, New Brunswick island titled "Deadman's Island" which was connected at low tide to a "Thumbcap" which held a herring weir. The island appears to have been modeled off Jouett's Island and Hospital Island and situated impossibly north of Spectacle Islands but south of White Horse Island.https://archive.org/details/thumbcapweir0000gill/page/206/mode/2up "Gillmor, Frances. "Thumbcap Weir", 1929. Especially pages 44 and 206
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