Donald Campbell settled a hundred acres in l808. This land stayed in the Campbell name for at least 80 years.

William Campbell is another early settler who

perhaps had the largest tract of land. It is re— ported in the Census of l86l that of his total th

acres, 200 was held in fee simple and the remain- ing 240 acres was held under lease. However,

only lOO acres of this land was said to be arable

at that time. From this land he reaped an abundant harvest as the Census shows he produces: th bushels of wheat; 70 bushels barley; 750 bushels oats; 30 bushels buckwheat; 300 bushels potatoes; l20 bushels turnips; 28 tons hay; ho yards of fulled cloth; #0 yards of unfulled cloth; 50 pounds cheese; 250 pounds butter. His livestock included 8 horses;

23 cattle; #0 sheep and 8 hogs. He also owned a threshing machine. Quite a prosperous farmer, wouldn't you say?

This farm was later owned by Daniel Campbell and stayed in the Campbell name until l922. It

has been held in the Barrett name ever since.

HISTORY OF BEL’VDNT

Until the latter part of the l8th Century, the present district of Belmont was almost a wild- erness, occupied by a few French and lndian families who lived along the shore road and existed by fish- ing in Malpeque Bay and by the products of the forest. They had no road or means of travelling except by water. .

A large tract of land of 273 acres, was leased by several French families, from Zavier Gallant, for about fifteen years at the beginning of the 19th Century.

In l8ll Gallant sold his tract of land to Mr. T. Archiblad, a native of Scotland, who occupied it for only two years, and then departed for Port- ugal, after bestowing the name of Rose Hill upon the farm, because of the many wild roses that thrived thereon. The farm he sold to John Ramsay and his wife who settled there in l8l5. They were one of the first English families to come there to

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