Outline Map of Present Parish. 1 i i tw p> py\d A * LOTS AND LANDLORDS In 1767, just after the British Conquest, P.E.I , was divided into 67 townships or lots in P.E.I , vernacular. They were given out in a Lottery to friends of the Government and as rewards for war efforts. Lot I, at the Western end of P.E.I. , was not settled until 1799 and Lot II later. It was these Lots in which the Catholic parishes of Tignish and developed. By this time Lot I was owned by a Liverpool shipbuilder, John Marsh , who was only interested in lumber, but went bankrupt in 1807. Two claimants against his estate were the Cunard family, who also owned Lot II , and James B. Palmer , Marsh's agent in Charlottetown . 1