‘_ Then many are the tries of wrong and hardship from which these people fled. In the parish of Tyholland for instance, the tenants were obliged to pay two pound sterling an acre for their land, and ten shillings. county assessment, ~und although Catholics, they were obliged to giVe one tenth of every strike of grain towards the support of the English church Minister. and in some places there was on annual tax of five pence an acre on their farms, which money went to provide the Anglican Church with light. The most prominent public man among the dwellers on Baldwin's Road was Hon. Robert Mooney a native of the parish of Donagh, County Monaghan, who emigrated to this country in 1831 and first settled at Mill Cove. The Charlottetown Herald of September 1,1886 contains the following notice of Mr. Rooney‘s public career:- ' a On the 5th. ult, another old landmark was removed-— Hon. Robert Mooney died at the residence of his son-in—taw W. Daniel Mulligan, Baldwin's Road in the Skth year of his age. He was born in Donagh. County Monaghan, Ireland, and emigrated to this Island in 1831. His social qualities, combined with his native talent, and his love for popular liberty soon brough him prominently before the oppressed tenantry of his adopted country. In recognition of his fearless and independant advocacy of thtbr rights. they returned him to Parliament in 1836, es their representative for the Fort Augustus and West hiver district. 8 position which he honourably sustained for upwards of twelve years. during which Lb took part in the great reforms of responsible government. universal Siffrfige, Ehee education. he Land Purchase Bill, Reciprocity, as well as other reform measures. introduced by the old Literal party. led by Coles and Whelan, of which he was 9 staunch supporter. As a menher of the government the iecevsed was arguinted Register of Deed and

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, in the year 185“, which honourable position he held until the

general election in 135 .