YEAR BOOK 7

r784—Loyalists arrive from United States.

I786—Governor Patterson recalled after an administration of sev- enteen years—Nov. 4, Lieut. Governor F anning arrives. Patterson, whom he supersedes, refuses to give up the Gov- ernorship, and holds it till the following year.

r787—April IO, Lieut Governor Fanning issues proclamation, publishing his Commission and requiring His Maiesty's sub- jects to govern themselves accordingly. But Patterson re- fuses to give up the Great Seal. June IO, Patterson goes to Quebec, leaving the Great Seal for delivery after the ship had sailed. Sept. 12, Lieut Governor Fanning reports on the probable effect of establishing distilleries for the produc- tion of rum, inferior in quality to that of the West Indies, and suggests that a premium be given to the West Indian exporters on all rum sent to the King's American colonies, that all distilleries be prohibited, and that a duty, equal to

prohibition, be laid by the Island Legislature on all American distilled rum.

r788—Dec. 6, James Robertson, printer, comes to Charlottetown from Halifax. Previous to this the laws and public doc- uments were not printed.——Robertson publishes first news- paper.

r789—Barracks erected and guns mounted in Charlottetown.

t794—Feb. 5, Governor Fanning raises corps of 200 men and a troop of horses, and contracts for victualling the corps at the rate of five pence half penny per ration.

l798—Feb. 4, King confirms change of the Island's name from St. john’s Island to Prince Edward Island.

l799—An Ordnance Ground, as laid off by Captain Holland, was completed on the south western point of Charlottetown, and such troops as then formed the garrison at Charlotte- town occupied the building erected thereon. Sept. 2, Abbe de Callonne and Mr. de Callonne arrive and are given lease of the Fort Lot, Cumberland Farm, as tenant at will. Nov. 20, Governor Fanning recommends that each settler at Georgetown receive two town lots and two pasture lots in the Royalty and that Georgetown Common be divided into fifty lots of an acre each to be given to fishermen as an en- couragement, and states that should this plan be approved of he will be disappointed if the town does not in a few years become of more consequence than any other town on the sea coast, Halifax excepted.