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signed into the hands of commissaries ap- pointed for that purpose, in order to be de- livered up to His Britannic Majesty.”

(3) “The Governor shall give orders to the troops in St. John (now Prince Edward Island), to surrender to such ships of war

as the admiral shall please to send to take-

them on board.”

'By this treaty Prince Edward Island be- came a British possession, and General Am- herst sent Lieutenant Colonel Lord Rollo, with a detachment of troops, to take pos- session.

The French garrison, consisting of about sixty men, and inhabitants, submitted. All arms were handed over to Lord Rollo.

In the taking of Quebec, next year, sev- enty—eighth Fraser Highlanders greatly dis- tinguished themselves, and the government, wishing to reward their officers, granted four of the Lots of the Island to them, viz.: Colonel Simon Fraser, Lot 38; Lieutenant- Colonel James Abercrombie, Lot 39; John Campbell, Lot 4I; J. M. McDonell, and others, Lot 42.

The French had never erected any forti- fications on the Island. A few guns were mounted at Fort la Joie, near the mouth of the harbour of Charlottetown. A small re- doubt or breastwork was thrown up on the north side of the Hillsborough, about nine miles from Charlottetown, and known as French Fort. This small work commanded the access by water, to their settlements which lay at the head of the river, and at St. Peter's and Tracadie, on the north side of the Island. There was then no road from Char— lottetown to this part of the Island. An Indian trail, running along the south side of the river through the forest, was the only way to reach the head of the river by land.

Fort Amherst, which had been erected immediately after the conquest of the Is-

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land, and which stood upon an elevated spot on the western side of the harbour, was dis- mantled and destroyed by Patterson, soon after his appointment as Lieutenant Gov- ernor. This fort was a square redoubt, mounting eighteen guns, and containing handsome barracks. The reason for its de- struction was, that higher ground in the vi- cinity commanded it.

Very little information can be obtained regarding military affairs on the Island un- til the American Revolution.

In I 775 Philip Callbeck, Attorney Gen- eral of the Island, then acting administrator in the absence of Governor Patterson, raised and fitted out a body of recruits, and sent them up to Quebec to aid in the defense of that place. Shortly after this, some Amer- ican privateers, that were acting under or- ders from General \Vashington to cruise at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, for the pur- pose of intercepting vessels with supplies for the army at Boston, sailed into Charlotte- town and carried away Mr. Callbeck and Mr. Wright, a member of the Council. and Su- veyor General of the Island, as prisoners, having plundered everything they thought worth taking.

Mr. Callbeck and Mr. Wright were taken to the headquarters of the American Army, then at Cambridge, in New England. General Washington did not approve of the conduct of his officers who acted in the af- fair. They had committed this act without his orders, and were dismissed from their commands. They were told by \Vashing— ton that “They had done those things which they ought not to have done, and left un- done those things which it was their duty to have done.” The prisoners were dis- charged, and the plundered property all honourably restored.

Mr. \Vright, in a letter to Lord Dart-