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LOT 6 l 0 YEARS AGOa

’About the year 1800 it is said the whole of Lot 6S'was sold for the quit rents for the sum of thirty nine pounds. It has also been said that the sale took place at Charlottetown before the advertised time, so that some of the would-be purchasers were too late. It was bought

by Governor Fanning and Mr. Cambridge, one-half each. This Lot was the landing place of the British at

the time of the capitulation of the Island (then called St. John‘s) by the French. They landed from a manpof-war at Canoe Cove, and out a road through the woods, about the centre of the penninsula bounded by the West River and Hillsboro Bay until they reached Port LaJoie on Warren Farm. Here they built Fort Amherst. The road can still be located in places, especially at the crossing of Fergu» son’s Creek, where the remains of the old bridge built by the soldiers may still be seen.

' Another place of early note is Holland Cove, near the block-house, formerly oWned by Capt. Holland who was sent here by the British Government in 1764 to survey the

Island and subdivide it into counties and townships. Governor Fanning was a Loyalist who came to the

Island in 1785 after the American revolution, and settled on Warren Farm. With him also came Sergeant mntch, who lived with him for several years afterwards. He was the foreafather of the several families who bear his name, most of whom live on East River, Lot 48. Another man, named Leaner, also came to the Island with Fanning, and settled at Nine Mile Creek; he afterwards built mills known by his name, but they have long since gone to decaya

Another of the early pioneers was Surveyor Fox,

who settled about a mile from Rocky Point. Many of the pioneers who settled in this locality

were American Loyalistsx Another class came from Scotlande Among the latter, who arrived in 1806, was the McNeil family of three brothers, Alexander, Dougald, and Charles. They all took farms at New Dominion, which are still occupied

by some of their descendants. About the year 1818 wm. White came from England,

and shortLy afterwards settled on the farm formerly owned by