kind, and there were also Scotch and Irish at Princetown. On June 7 at 5 am. set off for Stanhope with a fair wind and anchored off at 7 p. m., Mr. Higgins having coming on board on the way (David Higgins was Sir James Montgomery’s agent at Three Rivers). The next day, June 8, was spent in landing the people and provisions. Thus ended the two month voyage of the Falmouth (the last two quotations are also from Drummond’s diary).

Early Days at Stanhope

David Lawson and his fforty or ffifty servants now had to get down to the basics of clearing land, planting crops, and building shelter. They had provisions landed from the Falmouth, and there was apparently another ship besides, chartered by Montgomery for supplies. Was this

.Captain Hedley’ s schooner? David Higgins was supposed to supply them from Three Rivers with provisions, and also with farm animals, implements and seed grain; but there were evidently problems in getting these requirements. Conditions were not quite as expected; it must have been a big shock to find the Island almost completely covered with forest, and there were no buildings (though Samuel Holland mentions 10 houses in Lot 34, there were only the two Acadian homes near Long Pond here, and both occupied). As men- tioned above, seed. implements and farm animals for stocking Stanhope Farm did not arrive, everything having to be sent round by water from Three Rivers; and David Lawson had difficulty feeding his people, a number of whom left. Found the people all in health, but some of them mutinous, so that David Lawson on Sunday carried six of them to Three Rivers. (William Drummond, 20 July 1770) The people still discontented and mutinous (ibid. 25 August 1770). And on the 3 September next“ .Will Denar with his family set off for Three Rivers having parted with David Lawson, and later the Taylor brothers and

..Alex McNale, his wife and four others of our company left Stanhope. Since the men were indentured servants under contract for four years, this amounted technically to mutiny. The winter weather must have been a contributing factor: it was so much colder than the Scottish winters to which they had been accustomed. William Drummond mentions too the typical P. E. I. cold, long, late spring— Excessively cold this day such as I never saw in May.

David Lawson’ s A Coppy of the Misfortunes I met with since my Landing the 8th. of June I 770 tells it all. I landed on this Island... with a numorus family, not a covered house to put my head in, without on (one) pound of meat, without milk or any subsistance for ten days, accept some oat meall, no salt accept salt water As all our provisions was landed at Three Rivers you may easily judge what sort of a life I

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