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     his work -- 1/6 of the wheat, rye. barley, oats, buckwheat. or 
     
    
   
   
    
     Indian corn. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In P.E.I. Magazine of 1900, John Fletcher's son describes 
     
     how the mill operated by his father had 3 to 5 men employed. 
     
     chiefly for sawing ship's planks for the then thriving ship- 
     
     building industry. Two main shipbuilders he supplied were 
     
     Benjamin Davies, a Welsh Charlottetownian whose shipyard was 
     
     at Orwell Point, and Charles Walsh, another Charlottetown ship~ 
     
     builder working at Vernon River Bridge. In the spring two of 
     
     the millhands worked in the mill, the others in the woods cute 
     
    
   
   
    
     ting and hauling logs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     After the famine in Ireland in 1845—47. many Irish fami- 
     
    
   
   
    
     lies came to P.E.I., a number of who settled in the area around 
     
     Orwell -- Clarke, Coady, McKenna, Murphy. McLennan, Bradley, 
     
     Valley, Hynes. Doyle, Young, McInnis, Morrissey, Heron. Gleason. 
     
    
   
   
    
     McIsaac. Grant. and Hughes were some of those families (Orwell 
     
    
   
   
    
     Guide). 
     
    
   
   
    
     Work was available at this time, although not well paying, 
     
     at the mills. in the shipyards, or an the farms. Sir Andrew 
     
     MacPhall in The Master's Wife describes how much industry could 
     
     be centered around a 100 acre farm, much of it not cultivated. 
     
     The wobl from the sheep was carded, spun and woven. Oattle 
     
     were killed. and their hides tanned. the hides giving employment 
     
    
   
   
    
     to local shoemakers and harness makers. The geese werewlightly