-88- Wm.Lund and family, Robert Lund 7 family Lot 48? Thomas Fawcett and family, Covehead ; Mr* Sigsworth, St. Peter 's Road; Mr. Stead , Covehead ; Vincent Bell, John Hutchinson & family Tracadie ; Thos. Best & family, Thos, Hardy & family; Geo. Hardy & family Mr. Vessey & family? Mr* West & family, Little York ; , Charlottetown . "About the middle of the voyage the ship came across a Scotch brig in a sinking condition and took off 60 passengers and the crew; among the passengers were: Dr. McGregor who settled at St. Peter 's Road. He was afterwards murdered in the gold fields of British Columbia ; Thomas Gor- vat, West River , Thomas Hodgson a local preacher, Robert Morrison, who settled in Sussex, N.B. ; Robert Mitten and family, Coverdale, U.S. Of th© 196 passengers, who sailed on the S.SoValiant Mr. Smith says that he and Mr. Thomas Fawcett of Salisbury, N.B. are the only survivors of which he is aware. Mr. Fawcett is in his 84th year and Mr. Smith in his 85th. The voyage lasted 73 days. Captain Izzard died on his next voyage and is buried in the Old Cemetery in Charlotte- town. The ship Valiant was a floating chapel in 1839» Mr. Smith will have the gratitude of hundreds of the descendants of the parties above mentioned, in thus making public an important event in the history of the Island and welding a link in the chain of circumstances waich connects the earlier day of the province with those of the present generation*"