and upset the bulwarks, and made a good road of it. And the road has been good ever since. Old Mr. Smith built a large log house on his farm. It is standing on the farm today. Mr. Smith flied in his fifties. He left a widow who lived to a good old age on the farm, a good Church of England lady. And now who are the owners of the farm ? Old Mr. Trowsdale built the first house on his farm. He was my great-grandfather. He had four sons and three daughters, all born in England . Joseph was the eldest. George died a young man. Barnaby and Isaac lived on the homestead and Joe settled on the , at the back of the homestead, on one hundred acres of land, with a mill site on it. Joe was a good scholar and he had to build the mills. He was a young man, single, without money. He didn't feel able, so he sold the mill site to Mr. Platts and he built a grist and saw mill. He got tired of the mills and sold them to Mr. Stordy , senior. He died a middle-aged man, and his oldest son took the mills at the age of nineteen and built new mills, a grist, saw, and shingle mills. Now old Mr. Trowsdale died very sudden. He intended to walk to Tryon chapel one Sunday morning to hear a great preacher, and he told his wife to get up early and get the breakfast for him. She went to his bedside to call him, and he was dead. His spirit had gone to a higher Church above. Joseph Trowsdale , my great uncle, left the farm and went into the employ of the Honourable William W. Lord , marking timber for him He had a little machine for cutting the knots in the timber. He booked it to Mr Lord and gave the owner a bill to give to Mr. Lord for his money. Mr Lord was a great ship builder; he built ships in town and m Crapaud . His vessels went to the Old Country, bringing out goods and Irish im¬ migrants, the best laboring people in Ireland. They settled at Kelly s MY MEMORIES OF METHODISM ^ Christopher Smith laid the foundations of Methodism in Crapaud When he settled here at this time, there was no church or building of any kind. Mr. Smith gave half an acre of land on the south corner of his farm, on the Post road, for a public burying ground, and George Wigginton , a young Methodist man from England , wanted a chapel built on the ground. Mr. Smith was quite willing, and he gave 150 square feet to build the chapel on. The neighbors all helped to build it They built a little log chapel large enough to seat thirty people. Mr. Wigginton was the r local preacher and class leader. After a while, the log chapel was too small and the settlement built a larger one. And now they hired an ordained preacher, the Rev. Mr Pulpit * the first ordained preached in Crapaud . I think he^preached one or two years. He didn't please them, and he left them and went to live with his son, James, in Crapaud . He turned over to the Church of England, but never preached for them. He lived to be 84 years old and was buried by Parson Reid in St. John's churchyard m Crapaud . Then Matthew Smith took up preaching and the Methodists ordain¬ ed him for their preacher in Crapaud . He preached for them two years Thev disagreed and he left them and joined the Baptist church, and went to S Brunswick and made his home there. He lived to the good old age of 90 years, preaching all the time. On his last visit to Crapaud, he preached in the corner church. I knew Robert Percival well in Town He had a son, William a Methodist preacher, and his first church was Tryon and Crapaud . A good -4 34 )§►»