the settlements at Bedeque and Tryon . The remainder of the estate is indicated as not settled. The Rent Books for the Mann estate supply the names of the tenants and the number of acres they held. (4) According to these sources between 1828 and 1833 forty settlers lived on the estate. The figure is probably inaccurate since it does not include laborers, squatters, women and children. It was the custom on the Mann estate for a tenant to lease land free of rent for the first two years; thereafter he paid six pence currency per acre for twenty years, and then one shilling per acre for the duration of the lease; leases were usually for 999 years. (5) There is evidence that the rent books did not record the names of tenants during the first two free years. That settlers were in the eastern part of the Kann estate in the early 1830's seems evident from the details about the building of the , which connected Bedeque and Charlottetown , and crossed' the eastern part of the Mann estate. In February, 1832 the House of Assembly on Prince Edward Island approved money for "the completion of the part of Anderson's Road lying in Prince bounty." (6) A letter to the editor of the Royal Gazette on October 2, 1832 stated: "the fifteen miles of the west end of the was opened and built partly at the expense of public funds and partly by the gratuitous labour of the inhabitants of Bedeque ." (7) The eastern part of the Mann estate, which includes the present