chaplain on one of His Majesty's ships of war, and visiting Charlottetown as opportunity offered. Many years later, Mr. Bovyer , a U. E. Loyalist , chanced, in Mr. DesBrisay *s presence, to tell on an incident that occurred before he left his home in Rhode Island , as illustrative of the bitterness felt by revolted colonists against Great Britain. Mr. Bovyer told how his neighbours had taken his oxen to haul a rusty old cannon to the beach, to fire upon an English man-of-war that had anchored in shore. When Mr. Bovyer had finished, Mr. DesBrisay remarked: "I was serving on that ship at the time." He thus spent over two years on shipboard. The British Government decided from 1777 to assume the responsibility of paying the salaries of the principal officials. This, to Reverent Theophilus DesBrisay , meant that he could for the future rely upon receiving a stipend of 150 pounds stg. payable regularly by the Home Government. Under these improved conditions, he took up his residence and entered fully upon his duties. In view of the strained relations existing between the rector, at that time aged twenty-five, took to himself a young wife, he turned his back on Charlottetown and settled at Covehead , where he remained for the next twenty years. Covehead was the point on the north shore that lay nearest to Charlottetown , and midday between Princetown and Malpeque on the west and St. Peter 's and Three Rivers on the east. It was believed at that time that Princetown would out-rival Charlottetown . 28