airing. At DeLancey’s request, Joseph Aplin, former attorney general of Prince Edward Island, prepared an extensive legal defence of slavery. Aplin’s brief had no effect upon the case, however, and the

acres of land in New York and the Canadas, as well as property in Prince Edward Island, Britain, and elsewhere, shares in the London and Montreal companies, ships, stock holdings, and mortgages. The

Regulation in North-Carolina). There is thus a disparity between his earlier notoriety and assessments of his subsequent career in St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where, it has often been claimed

, Finlay was granted Lot 55 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Finlay’s

, P.E.I. When the Acadians living on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) were deported in 1758, Louis Gallant and his family took refuge at

Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), where he died in 1752. Joseph-Nicolas had been an adept pilot, and this knowledge, as well as his anti-British

(Ogdensburg, N.Y.) and Cataraqui (Kingston, Ont.) in search of a suitable site for a supply depot which Haldimand hoped to establish at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. Once Twiss had decided upon Buck Island

pretence. According to an anecdote often related by his contemporaries, on being introduced to Prince Edward Augustus

provisioners of the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. By July 1779 Hamilton was in the province of Quebec where he served an apprenticeship as a clerk at Montreal and at Carleton Island

archives at Warwick, England, from the Nova Scotia surveyor Charles Morris to one John Butler, agent for John Pownall, at that time proprietor of Lot 13 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. The previous

in 1773, and that of another group of Scots, who had initially established themselves on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, in 1774, added to the stability of the community

England; m. 8 June 1797 Rebecca Robinson in Charlottetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and they had at least one son; d. there 5 Jan. 1811

with St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, the Îles de la Madeleine, and Cape Breton Island, which were important because of the fisheries

, Duke of Kent, secured him an appointment in 1802 as assistant commissary and storekeeper in Prince Edward Island; his regiment disbanded the same year. He was also named to the Council that year by

cruised with some of them to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, the St Lawrence, and Quebec, while the rest patrolled the fishing grounds. Because large warships ran the risk of being wrecked if

Newfoundland, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, the old province of Quebec, and Bermuda. In 1793 this vast sphere of jurisdiction was narrowed with the appointment of Jacob

know him.” On his recommendation, Jones secured appointment in October 1787 as superior of the missions of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Îles de la Madeleine, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and part

near Muthill, Scotland; m. Ellen –, and they had five children; d. after 1803 on Prince Edward Island. A Perthshire flax farmer, David Lawson

. 16 April 1736 in Queens County, Long Island, N.Y., son of Gabriel Ludlow and Frances Duncan; m. 3 Sept. 1760 Ann Ver