YEAR BOOK 5

1770-3Duport, first Chiefjustice, opened his court for the dispatch of business. Residents of Charlottetown petition for church, courthouse and gaol. Aug. 30, Governor Patterson arrives in Charlottetown. Oct. 25, Patterson reports having con- vened the principal inhabitants, read his commission and ap- pointed Phillips Callbeck, john Russel Spence, Thomas Wright, and Patrick Fergus to be members of Council.

l771—Governor Patterson sends to the Secretary of State draft of ordinance for regulating the sale of spirituous liquors ; also an ordinance to restrain debtors and servants from leaving the Island without the consent of creditors and masters. June 1, Names of the first justices of the peace in the Island were Thomas DesBrisay, Phillips Callbeck, Thomas Wright, George Burns—Road between Charlottetown and Prince- town laid out and partly opened.-At the first court held in the Island, three persons convicted of felony were ordered to be whipped. First Grandjury of P. E. Island assembled in Charlottetown.

i772—Proprietors of the Island of St. John send memorial to Home Government praying for assistance towards making public roads. James Montgomery, Lord Advocate of Scot- land, memorializes Home Government for grant of the Islands of Panmure, Boughton and Lennox, adjacent to his property in St. john’s Island.

i772—First Mass offered by a priest from Great Britain, at Scotch- fort by Rev. james McDonald.

i773—July 7, First Legislature convened at Charlottetown, eight- teen members.

1774—Oct. 1, Rev. Theophilus DesBrisay, arrived to take charge of the Parish of Charlotte, the first church of England Min- ister stationed on the Island.

i775—Aug. 3, Governor Patterson sails for England,-—Callbeck, Senior Councillor, Administrator of the Government—Later, Chief justice Stewart reports arrival of two armed schooners from New England, the crews of which plundered Governor Patterson's house, taking his public and private papers, also seizing Administrator Callbeck and Surveyor General Wright, and carrying them away as prisoners.

i776—Administrator Callbeck, at Halifax, raises recruits for the defence of Quebec; later returns to Charlottetown, while Wright proceeds to London.