During all these years Theophilus Desbrisay was the only An¬ glican parson on the Island of Saint John, a name which, regret¬ tably, was changed to Prince Edward Island after 1799. About 1800 Desbrisay finally succeeded in getting built in Charlottetown a church which was shared by the established Churches of England and Scotland . At the same time he and his family moved from Covehead to the little Capital where a parsonage was completed with Governor Fanning 's assistance. The Church of England was not entirely neglected on the Island in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bishop Charles Inglis visited Charlottetown in 1789, but his brief call led to no immediate progress. In 1805 the S.P.G . was persuaded by Chief Justice Robert Thorpe to make a donation to Mr. Desbrisay , but it was not until 1819 that the Society adopted the Rector of Charlotte as one of their missionaries, and Church prospects began to brighten. The population of the Island had doubled since the turn of the century, hence it was felt that another missionary should be appointed. But when the new clergyman arrived, Cornelius Griffin by name, he was stationed at Georgetown , not at New London . What appears to be pure chance led to the coming of Louis Charles Jenkins , a young deacon who was to be instrumental in founding the parish of New London . While on his way from London to Quebec , where an appointment awaited him, his ship was forced by adverse winds to winter at Charlottetown . That Mr. Jenkins was not idle during this delay is testified by a letter which he wrote to the Secretary of the S.P.G . from Charlotte Town , January 28, 1821: Yesterday I returned from a visit to Malpeque , New London , Bedeque and other Settlements in the N 'West'n part of the Island, where I occasionally preached to a crowded attentive auditory, and baptized one adult and twenty-seven children. After his marriage to Margaret Desbrisay , daughter of the Rector of Charlotte he naturally wished to remain on the Island but his duty called him unwillingly to Quebec . Here he remained a year, but with the permission of the Society, and of of Quebec who had just ordained him to the priesthood, he returned to Charlottetown about the time of his father-in-law's death in 1823. To his disappointment the vacancy at St . Paul's was filled by another S.P.G . appointee, the Reverend Thomas Adin . The Reverend John Burneyat of Pictou who was visiting the Island on behalf of Bishop Stanser's Commissary, John Inglis , in June, 1823, and who was in Charlottetown when Jenkins arrived from Quebec , informed Dr. Inglis of the circumstance and suggested Bedeque as a place in which Jenkins might settle. In October, 1823, the inhabitants of the parishes of Richmond and . David, in which Bedque was situated, did in fact appeal to the S.P.G . for Jenkins to be appointed as their missionary, and the appeal was answered favourably. In the fall and early winter of 1823 Louis Charles Jenkins lived at Bedeque , but as he could not obtain a suitable lodging he returned to Charlottetown , giving occasional services in 4