PROPERTY OF up EL Chapter I. Beginnings The Island of Saint John, now Prince , came into British possession at the fall of Louisburg, 1758. It was annexed to Nova Scotia in 1763, but was made a separate province six years later. Captain Samuel Holland surveyed the Island in 1765, dividing it into counties, parishes, and lots or townships. In each of the fourteen parishes, which contained acreages varying from 63,000 to 124,000, one glebe of thirty acres was to be set apart for a school¬ master, and another of one hundred acres for the site of a church and the support of a minister of the Church of England. The pres¬ ent parish of New London , containing Lots 19, 20 and 21, lies within the old parish divisions of Grenville , St . David's and Richmond . In 1767 most of the lots were apportioned to persons having claims against the British government, on condition that the pro¬ prietors would bring out settlers and pay to the government a small rental to meet the expenses of the civil establishment of the prov¬ ince. Lot 19 fell to Walter Patterson , later governor of the Island, and to his brother John; Lot 20 to Theodore Haltain , and to Cap¬ tain Thomas Bassett afterwards a Lieutenant Colonel in the Corps of the Royal Engineers ; Lot 21 to Lauchlin McLaine and Lieutenant H. McLaine . Eight years later the Pattersons still owned Lot 19, but Robert Campbell now shared with Bassett the ownership of Lot 20, and Robert Clark , Merchant, had bought Lot 21. The proprietor¬ ship of most of the Island Lots changed frequently before the settlement of the "Land Question" a century later. On the map on the inside cover A. T. Todd is shown as owner of Lot 19 in 1859, but E. J. Hodgson had bought the Lot before its final sale in 1871. Lot 21 and one half of Lot 20 made up part of the huge estate of Sir Samuel Cunard , but these lands had been acquired by govern¬ ment by 1866. The eastern half of Lot 20, comprising Park Corner , Long River , and lands south of the , remained in the hands of the heirs of Thomas Bassett , the Cundalls. In the 1860's the estate consisted of 2844 acres, with forty tenants. In 1769 a government stipend of one hundred pounds a year was allotted for the support of a clergyman on the Island of Saint John. The Reverend John Caulfield was appointed first Rector of the Parish of Charlotte, in which the capital of the colony was situ¬ ated, but he never resided on the Island. Governor Walter Patter ¬ son, who entered upon his duties in 1770, commented sharply on Caulfield 's absence in a dispatch to the Colonial Secretary, Septem¬ ber 2, 1773, and helped to bring about his dismissal. The Reverend Theophilus Desbrisay received the appointment in 1774, but because of the fortunes of war he did not take up his post until 1777. For over forty years he was the only Anglican priest on the Island, Before Desbrisay's arrival, in response to a plea of Governor Patterson , the Reverend John Eagleson of Cumberland , Nova Scotia , had visited the Island of Saint John, the first non-Roman