Durant, Margate. They had three sons Athol (deceased) married Miss Pacquet, Borden. Hollis married Miss Brown, St. Eleanors and Keith married Edith Clark.

The farm was later sold to George Semple. He married Muriel Marks, Margate. They had two children, Helen (Mrs. Don Stewart, Hali- fax) and Tyndall married to a girl from England, now deceased. The farm was then sold to Edward Adams (mentioned elsewhere). Lorne later pur- chased the farm from his father. He married Elayne Glover, R.N. Ken- sington. They have two sons Stephen and Bruce. A son Wayne died in in ancy.

Eric Moase

John Smith and family (mentioned elsewhere) were probably the first people to settle in Margate and they settled on this property. They kept a Ten-Mile House, which was a type of hostel for travellers. They were given assistance by Government. There was a private grave-yard behind a spruce hedge, where the Moase granary now is. The farm, con- sisting of two hundred acres, was first rented from Capt. Walter Patter- son, owner of Lot 19. Capt. Patterson was the first Governor of P.E.I. when it became a separate province in 1770. William B. Tuplin with his wife Christian and eight children came from Devonshire, England to this farm after the Smiths. William divided the farm between his two sons, with 140 acres for Thomas and 60 acres and the Mill property for John. Thomas lived on this property. He married Rebecca Inman of Bedeque in 1870. They had one son and three daughters. The son William died aged 21. The daughters were: Minna (Mrs. Nelson Doull) deceased, Lulu (Mrs. Harry Durant, and Selina (Mrs. Melville Baker) deceased. It was not until sometime after, Thomas Tuplin took over the farm, that a clear title was obtained. Thomas Tuplin died in 1913 and his wife aged 90 in 1936. Their daughter Selina married Melville Baker also of Margate in 1903. They had one child, Helen. Melville bought the farm here, after Thomas’ death in 1913, having rented it for the previous two years. Melville died in 1957 aged 78 and his wife in 1960 aged 83. Helen Baker was married to Noy Moase of Kensington in 1932. They bought this farm in 1940. Their son Eric married Gwennyth MacMurdo of Kelvin in 1963 and Eric bought the old homestead. The same year Noy and Helen moved from here to their new home across the highway. The present dwelling was built in 1877 and the barn was moved from across the road to it’s site, and additions made

to it in 1920.

Noy Moase

In 1963, following their son Eric’s marriage. Noy Moase and his wife, the former Helen Baker (mentioned elsewhere) moved from their old home, across the highway, to their new home, here. It is situated on a part of the Moase farm property.

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