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went further than St. John’s. The last voyage see from Philadelphia with a general cargo for Barbadoes in the Brit- ish West Indies. They were wrecked on a reef; the crew was saved but vessel and cargo were a total loss. The black people of Barbadosswere kind to them and took the :3 to Any tigua. From there they got to Charleston, South Carolina, and later to Eew York, thence to Halifax in 1i‘ebrusry 1819. Winter communication at that time with Prince Edward Island was impossible, so they stayed in Halifax all winter.

About that time - 1820, there 133 a lull in ship- building. It picked up again about 1833 when ships were built for trade with the British Isles. In.this project they were joined by their cousin Chas. Gregor, and vessels of some 224 tons we re turned out. Eeil EcCallumrxent to Ireland W1 2 two of these vessels, and deal to load them with. All the boards which covered the first hcuses and barns were sewn over the sanpits common in these days. Shingles for the roofs were made by splitting fir blocks 16 inches long into thin sheets, the end being reversed every time a shingle was taken off. The dwellings were 10g houses, the spaces being stuffed with moss and then covered with clapboards. Shells were gathered fro n the shore and burned to get lime for plaster, but a plentered house was a luxury enjoyed by few.

The first road to the Gulf from Charlettetonn was the Cove Head Road and for many years this one road served for the Brackley faint and Helpeque people. To illustrate: in 1790 when Catherine McKay, moth»? -? Euncan {interrum, died at Oyster Bed Bridge, where 3:; . .’ “.p inelaw, Alex. Anderson who had not yet ezttled in Bedeque), her body had to be moved by canoe across Rustico Bay through the narrows, into the Brackley Point “arbor, out of which the canoe passed into the Gu11’,from the Gulf into Long ?ond. This vas an old burying place wher: the eC-rly French set tlers of that part of the Isl.ni burieri their dead. It ?as not an apimirable place for a cemetery, but at all events it 13 on 3f the oldest burying grounds on Prince Edward Island

111 contained a great number of the bodies of the pioneer

settlers.

(For 1h. foregoing description of pioneer lay: we quote from the Guir_Len's reeert of ‘E7 from historical notes in manuscript left by thy Hubert iizsslium.)

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