little New London Mission should never be forgotten, died in Eng- land in 1850. Bishop Medley of Fredericton confirmed on the Island in the summer of that year but did not visit New London.

In the twenty years before Mr. Meek’s coming the communities around the Bay had not stood still. In the early 1830’s a large group of Scottish settlers had taken up land on the east side of the South- West River. George Mackay, in the Royal Gazette, June 8, 1841, called for tenders for the building of St. John’s (Free) Presbyterian Church, New London. In 1850 Isaac Murray was called to the pas- toral charge of the older Presbyterian congregations of Cavendish and New London, vacant since John Geddie’s departure.

Shipping was active around the Bay, 1830-1850. Billing’s enterprise had ended, but others had taken its place. In 1836 the brig Esker, 218 tons, was launched at John Pippy’s shipyard, New London, for Messrs R. and F. Longworth. Newfoundland, Pippy’s home, and Prince Edward Island have always been closely linked economically. The brig Esperahee of Sunderland went on shore three miles east of New London late in the same year, but no lives were lost. The ship was condemned, sold, and later towed into the harbour. The schooner Christy, McKay, master, from New London to Miramichi with a cargo of oats and potatoes, was lost off Richi- bucto Head in December, 1836, and the crew was saved. The schooner Margaret while beating to make the harbour early in September, 1838, “was run foul of by an American schooner which carried away her bowsprit, part of her stem, and otherwise much injured her.” A correspondent in the Colonial Herald de- plored the hit-and-run tactics of the American sailors. The Relief, a schooner of 39 tons 01d measurement, 22 new, was launched at New London for Messrs Graham early in June, 1839. The super- brigantine Herald, 193 tons, built for Captain James, went down the ways at John Morris’s shipyard in the following August. The schooner Eliza, 207 tons old measurement, was built at the ship- yard of Messrs Simpson in the summer of 1840. McKenzie and McKie launched the Theresa Jane, 278 tons, in 1842, and the same yard fitted out the Alpha for the Newfoundland seal fishery two years later. The Examiner printed the following items, the first in the issue of Aug. 28, 1847, and the second in the issue of July

17, 1848:

Launched, at the shipyard of J. C. Sims, Esq., New London, on Friday last, the 13th inst, a very faithfully built handsome model Brig called the Echo of 182 tons.

Launched, from the shipyard of Messrs Pickering, New London Ponds, on the 29th ult., a Brigantine of 110 tons, called the Mary. She was launched at low water, and the next morning, to the surprise of all who had seen her, she was afloat, and shortly after walked out into six fathoms of water. She is clipper built, and for strength and workmanship will Vie with anything on P.E.I. The

greater part of her is juniper. John Sim’s new schooner Jane, 95 tons, was advertised to

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