;,Dd i ey are living in Augustine Cove . To Myrtle and Michael Peters nuere >orn four children: Vernon, Lois, Willis and Buddy . (See Peters liv isto ') . WEBSTER 'S ' J-el olle The first Webster to settle on Prince Edward Island was a native Bf Ei fland. At an early age he enlisted in the Navy, and became a Com- '• ™* I on * man-of-war. He took part in the capture of Louisburg in 758. brom Louisburg he was dispatched with others by General Amherst p tp. i Prince Edward Island , then called Isle St . Jean. The expedition S at a place called Canoe Cove , and proceeded to Joie now . ttetown. Taking possession, they erected a fort at the entrance to rbour and called it "." Here the Commissar, with his e > ho had accompanied him, resided. When the War of Independence Wt out m U.S.A . in 1773, he was put in charge of all provisions and )-op. ated with Governor Patterson in the distribution of same. In 1784 he was elected to the Island House of Assembly, and was ted in 1786. In the election of 1786 there were only 130 votes h h ™ IsIand- Webster was a supporter of the Callbeck Govern¬ or [h<Lsaid Webster, whose Christian name was John, had four sons- •i! Mm r., Thomas and twins William and Robert. / John Jr ., the eldest was born at October 21, 1760, Mc iims to be the first child of English parents to be born on the uaric there being no schools on the Island, John Jr . while very young, mu /en m charge of a sea-captain who Webster was acquainted with,' $ V ?seThome was in Providence, Rhode Island , U.S.A. It was planned w„ hn Jr. would stay at his home and attend school. In the meantime i# ^Ptain's wife had left him a"d the home was deserted when he £|t- • The captain must, of necessity, continue his voyage, so he left ' with one Terrance O'Riley , a merchant. At this time the War «io pendence broke out, consequently all communications with Canada , * iecially the Island, were cut off. John Webster , Sr. had no knowledge of the captain's marital situa- ,o.' the whereabouts of his son, or captain . The boy grew up in the Idir»-ime' attended school and helped in the store. Eventually he itlh' +• s dau8'hter, Elizabeth, were married on October 24th, i781. r Jn'1 i John Jr- had reached the ase of twenty-one, he had little ■!*nowledge of what part of Canada he came from. However, he ir so iai i his name- A11 the while his father was in constant search Wf ™owled«e of his lost son. Eventually John Sr. fell in with a Kl-f- P-S-A- Possibly a sailor who had been in or about Providence Ore Wi? 6d seeing a y°ung man called John Webster , probably at the Wnen John heard this he was not long in locating his lost son- Bad 17s]111 Jr" with his wife' Elizabeth, returned to the Island in the »e of S and settled in Charlottetown . They had a family of fourteen, Austin p Wa? 01iver' who was born May 17> 1976 and came to settle in :res frn a Ve in 1813' havinS obtained a lease of one hundred and three lughter f i n Callbeck in Township 28. He married Margaret Howatt , tyce pi i Peter Howatt and settled on the property now owned by ^elv- r .on the "". To them were born five children teter WfTenjamin' Catherine ( Mrs. Henry Wadman ), Elizabeth (Mrs. 'ho r]\aAi?n)' Jonn O'Riley who was drowned at age 29, and George Uled at four months. le b !I id 87