These were rents reserved by the Crown for the purpose of paying the salaries of such officials as might be found necessary in the due administration of the public affairs of the Island. Every grantee

was bound, by the terms of his grant, to pay to the Crown, yearly, a certain rate per 100 acres on his estate. Three rates of quit-rents were fixed upon to correspond with the estimates then made of the values of the different estates. The quit-rents ranged from six shillings to ten shillings per hundred acres, payable after five years from the date of the grant. The rent for the Stanhope~- Covehead area was six shillings per acre. Each township was to be settled within ten years. One settler for every two hundred acres of land; if one third was not settled in four years, the lot would be forfeited. John Dickson, a British Member of Parliament, drew Lot 34 and sold it to Sir James Montgomery, Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer of Scotland. The area of Lot 34, facing the Gulf of St. Lawrence, con- tained two bays named Stanhope Cove and Harrington Bay (Petersham Cove) by Captain Holland. It appears that these place names were all given by Captain Holland in honour of William Stanhope, Viscount Petersham, 2nd Earl of Harrington. This man, a colonel of the 2nd troop of Horsa Grenadier Guards, was distinguished at the Battle of Fontenoy in the War of the Austrian Succession. He was a British Member of Parliament from 1747 to 1756. Among the descendants of the early settlers in the area, the common belief still holds that Robert Montgomery, a brother of Sir James Montgomery, organized the expedition to Lot 34 and the Robert Montgomery's home in Scotland was called Stanhope. The cut on covert: appears to give more support to the first, and most widely accepted

explanation of the place names.

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