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     A SETTLEMENT TAKES ROOT 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Holland survey was completed in 1765 and by this survey the 
     
     Island was divided into 67 Townships or Lots of about 20,000 acres each, a 
     
     division that has lasted to the present day. The means of settling the Island 
     
     was planned by the British Government and the whole Island was balloted 
     
     away to favorites of the Crown in July, 1767. Lot 19 was drawn by Captain 
     
     Walter Patterson (who became Governor in 1769) and John Patterson (his 
     
     brother). Lot 25 was drawn by Archibald Kennedy and James Campbell. 
     
    
   
   
    
     These grantees or proprietors were required to bring out settlers and to 
     
     pay quit rents to the Crown. The fixed yearly rate for Lots 19 and 25 was six 
     
     shillings sterling per one hundred acres. These quit rents were for the 
     
     purpose of paying the salaries of such officials as might be found necessary 
     
     in carrying out the public affairs of the Island. Meanwhile the first people 
     
     on Prince Edward Island, the Indians and the French, were ekeing out a 
     
     living by fishing and farming; clearing land and establishing settlements. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wilmot Valley has no record of any well established Indian or French 
     
     families. It is known that Indians moved through the area and at least one 
     
     family spent several winters in a camp in the woods in nearby Kelvin Grove. 
     
     Bedeque, another bordering community, had an early French settlement 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Loyalist Map 
     
     This map shows the Refugee shares drawn for in Council on the 19th day 0/ 
     
     September, I784. Two other shares that extended eastward were alotted to Lawrence 
     
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