settling on the farm which in 1960 would be owned and occupied by his great-great-great grandson, Wallace Muttart. John Muttart had eight children. His daughters, including two Emilys who died young, are remembered as Elizabeth Ann (1833-1859) who married William Brow , an early merchant of Carleton, and Mary Jane and Sophia who married respectively William Artemas Leard of Bedeque and Charles S. Leard of Sea Cow Head in a double ceremony in 1862. The three daughters who married all had large families. The three sons were school teachers. The eldest, George Mor- ley Muttart (1836-1871) taught for a time in Carleton School. He married Minnie M. Weatherbie and was the father of three children. The second son, Ephraim Bell Muttart , after teaching for several years, went on to Harvard where he received his M.D. in 1860, (not many country districts had Harvard graduates at that time) and later spent forty years as physician and surgeon in Souris , with time out for several years as King's County Mem¬ ber in the House of Commons. Dr. Muttart was married to Han¬ nah MacDonald and had several children, including Dr. George Muttart of Boston, The youngest son of the John Mut ¬ tart family, Norman L ., (1858-1875) died before he made his mark in the world. None of the John Muttart and Elizabeth Bell descendants re¬ side in Carleton, in fact only a few remain on the Island any¬ where and none with the Muttart name survive, but long before the family had been dispersed a nephew of John Muttart came to Carleton to make a more enduring mark on the countryside and to keep the name alive in the succeeding generations. He was John Duncan Muttart (1829-1904) the, son of George Muttart (1806-1863) and his wife, Ann Duncan (1804-1896) who lived in Augustine Cove on the present Vernon Webster Farm . His friends expressed mild concern for his welfare in 1857 when he went to Carleton to live near his uncle John Muttart and among the Bells . However, they need not have worried. John D. Muttart who at this time married Mary Jane Leard (1838- 1904) did very nicely on the farm bought from his uncle John which is now the Hedley and Harold Muttart property. From his mother's people, the Duncans, he inherited a Scotch strain of thrift, which combined with the English and Irish energy of the Morleys, and the stolid perseverance of his Muttart grand¬ father, to make a very successful farmer. His grandfather, George Muttart , who started with only an axe and a hoe, was credited with acquiring and helping clear six farms for his sons. John D., starting with a little more, did similarly well for his four sons. John D. Muttart lived first in a log house which his uncle had erected on the east side of the road leading from Carleton to Cape Traverse , near the site of Mrs. Leigh Lowther 's garden. The second house on the John D. Muttart farm was put up in 1864. It was built on a style advocated by an American named Kankin. The walls, were of battens one by three solid lumber built in log house style. -63-