-3~- original site to the noxt farm anal* and. ia today the modern boo©.'of Kenneth I^rne and family. i 'atricfc JSorrissey. a native of County Saterfcrd, Ireland, was. the first catholio settler in Uowtosro, having arrived in 1020, He landed with a wife and large family, sod with five shillings in his pocisat* 2t is said that his -wife invested thi3 sum in the purchase of some- born-door fowl, 3h any oaae, iisrriasey prospered, and his house was one in ahiofa many newcomers to the district found a warm Irish welcoao. He also owned the first horse in Itewtown, which animal wa3 indirectly the cause of Ms .sudden death. While returning from a meeting of the parishioners of Vernon itivor in 1 S 35* he fell from the saddle and was hilled,11 23sese men were shortly followed by others from the same two coun- . ties, together with a few from Kilkenny , About that period a number ■ of Irishmen loft their native land to take «so»Js on the llowfoundlijsid fia:Ung grounds, 'iliey obtained a free passage "cj signing an agreement tJhioh bound them to serve for a term of years the companies who brought them cut. The terra stipulated was usually two years* during which time the bondman received on2y their food, clothing, and lodging. At the expiration of the two years, a number of these men drifted over to Erinee , and some of them settled in the districts of IJowtown end Kbntague "oat. Cthors again who came had paid their owa, way from Ireland and landed at alirioaohi, Jalifax, or Oharlottotown, 11 3Md>