French fortified settlement made in 1672 at head of Cumberland Bay on neck N.S. by Jacques Bourgeois and four other families from Port Royal. The French settlers on approach of English forces in 1750 all moved to Beauséjour. The English then erected Fort Lawrence on east side of Misseguash river, under Major Chas. Lawrence, on or near site of French settlement Beaubassin. It was evacuated and dismantled in 1756.