166 The French in Prince Edward Island

Thomas, aged 6 years; Marie, aged 15 years.

They have no live stock.

The land on which she is settled is situated on the north bank of the said Riviére du Nord-Est. It was given to her verbally by M. de Bonnaventure and he resumes possession as they have made no improvements.

Nor does the census reveal any widespread comfort on the part of the older settlers. Less than a dozen could boast of fifty acres of cleared land or of any considerable stock. They are rich in children but not otherwise, and the widow with her large brood can look for little help from her almost equally indigent neighbors:

Marie Genty, widow, very poor, of Jean Baptiste Haché Galland, native of l’Acadie, aged 48 years, and she has been 29 years in the country.

She has seven children, five sons and two daughters:

Antonine Haché, aged 18 years; Michel, aged 16 years;

Joseph, aged 14 years;

Louis, aged 12 years;

Georges, aged 10 years;

Marie Joseph, aged 25 years; Margueritte Louise, aged 23 years.

Of live stock they have two oxen, one cow, one horse, one wether, two ewes, two sows, four pigs, five geese and ten fowls.

The land on which they are settled is held by grant from M. Duvivier. They have made a clearing for the sowing of thirty-two bushels, but have sown only seven