the Archdeacon I have officiated two or three Sundays at both places, and met a numerous and respectable auditory. Bishop Inglis, in transmitting this letter to the S.P.G ., added the following words of praise for priest and people: The exertions at Prince Town and New London deserve encouragement and require it. I therefore beg to recom¬ mend the Churches in those places and Mr. Jenkins ' request for books to the favourable regard of the Society. Mr. Jenkins has laboured with zeal and success. June 26, 1828 /. Nova Scotia . Many changes had taken place in the half-century which followed the founding of Robert Clark 's New London at the harbour mouth in 1773. The venture itself had not fulfilled its early promise, but settlers were now to be found on farms on the shores of the bay and its numerous inlets. The 1798 census records the names of twelve heads of families on Lot 20 and fifteen on Lot 21. The total population of the Island was then 4372, but it had swelled to 20,000 by 1819. Although the settlers around had not increased in proportion, yet numbers had grown considerably, judging from Jenkins' estimate of thirty heads of Anglican families in that area. Many of the new settlers were Scottish, but others came from England and Ireland. A post office had been established at New London by 1824. The harbour gave the slowly growing community, as yet with¬ out adequate roads, a window on the larger world. James Townsend built ships at New London as early as 1786, and a Townsend schooner, Brothers, was trading with Miramichi as late as 1827. James Cousins offered the schooner Jane for sale in 1818. In the Register, April 18, 1826, John Morris , Stanley River , New London , advertised for "3 or 4 apprentices to the Shipwright business, from 14 - 16 years of age." Record remains of a few mishaps. The schooner Abigail with passengers from the United States grounded on the bar in May, 1792, but no lives were lost. In 1817 the brig Harriet of Dublin had the same experience. In June, 1820, the schooner Marie Venus, bound from Quebec to Pugwash, was wrecked near the harbour entrance. One dark night in January, 1824, Alexander Anderson Sr. noted a ship in distress seven miles off the harbour. He went out and found the Commerce, Quebec to Liverpool , and decided to take her in nearer shore. But the brig Bacchus from Bideford bound for England came along just then with T. B. Chanter on board, and persuaded the Commerce to go on to Nova Scotia as she had too much draft to enter north shore harbours. Anderson's red sandstone memorial slab, it may be added, still steadily scans the harbour and the gulf beyond, from a mound in a field which once he owned. The inscription briefly tells that he "emigrated from Morayshire Scotland to this Island 30th July 1779 and departed this life 5th June 1847 aged 79." Property changed hands from time to time. James D. Haszard offered a house and lot for sale on "" in 1820. He also