-70- ing from their loyalty to the British cause through the American War" of Independence© They were promised land and many priveleges in Canada ? Nova Scotia and New Brunswick . Whatever differences of opinion may exist about the wisdom of their choice in exiling themselves, the loyalists chal¬ lenge" the admiration of the world for fidelity to their prin¬ ciples* They were mostly people in'easy circumstances from New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , and other states»" We can form but a vague idea of the great change effected in their mode of living! having had everything they needed and darkies to do the heavy work for'them, they now knew hunger, and they had to do their own slavery* Perhaps the hardest feature was the climate, and the lack of "communication with the outside world during the long winter* Pathetic indeed were their stories of how, du r= ing the first few winters, they were able to stay alive• Necessities of life could not be procured for money, even if there were any way of making money« After a time the pine timber trade started, and then shipbuilding received its first impetus* The governor of this Island, then known as Isle sfi*. Jdarjj made strenuous efforts to get some of the Loyalists to come this way* Thinking they would make good citizens, he made rash promises of free landf promises it was difficult to redeem* because of large grants made to parties living in the Old Country * on conditions which were never ful¬ filled© When the Loyalists came, they squatted where they couldf: in some instances in repaired French cabins; in other instances in rude little log houses which were hastily erected,, Then they had to make several trips by boat or around the shore on ice to Charlottetown to establish their claims and to find out where their land was to be* The proprietors of Lot 19 were induced to give a strip of the south side of the Lot, starting from the line of Lot 17 along the road to Read's Corner, containing about 4*200 acresf this land was wilderness! 50 acres was front land, and 250 was known as "back land". The lots were numbered and drawn by ballot, 14 claimants drew for this land? John Chambers , Andrew Eastman , John Robins , William Schurman, Nathan Wetherall , David Stage , Joseph Wood , John Murray, William Scencebaugh , James Waugh , William Wright , Richard Robins , Jonathan Palmer , Laurence Barrett © With two exceptions they did not occupy this land. The first two on the list sold their claims for a trifle and left the country. There is no special day recorded of the landing of the Loyalists, but from old manuscripts and other data