not severe in the northern counties, and that tenants who

had a reasonably secure tenure on some land were in "a comfortable position." (13) It may be more accurate to describe these emigrants as members of that class of nine— teenth century Irish Catholic farmers who acquired middle— class goals and a conservative Catholic training that placed high value on upward mobility through such virtues as sobriety, discipline and saving. (14) America was advertised as a land )f opportunities; immigration was simply an answer to the self—motivated search for the good life. On the Mann Estate they were paying relatively low rent, six pence per acre; and they had farms of between fifty and one hundred acres, which they would eventually own. There are no records of any one of them being evicted for non—payment of rent; nor was any one of them identified as a squatter. It would seem then that these early settlers from two northern counties in Ireland, emigrating a full decade before the beginning of

the great Irish Famine,at their own expense, cannot be accurately

described as poverty—stricken.

The Island agent for Mr. and Mrs. Mann was the Honorable Joseph Pope, from Bedeque. Mr. POpe appears to have had the respect and cooperation of the Irish tenants. He had several factors working in his favor. He owned land on the Mann estate. Me was the elected member of the House of Assembly for the Third electoral District, which included Lot 27, from 1830 to 1853. (15) He was Commissioner of Roads for the district that also included

Lot 279between 1832 and 1844. (16) He was a humanitarian; the