HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

THE ROSE AND BAKER FAMILIES We are indebted to Dr. W. 0. Rose for facts of their early settle-

ment on Prince Edward Island. In answer to my inquiries he wrote me that the Rose and Baker families came from Dorsetshire, England. The first to come was Peter Rose, who being of an adventurous spirit ran away to sea as a lad, and got in touch with Capt. Minwarren, a retired officer in the service of King George III. He became the captain’s body servant. The captain received a grant of land. in lieu of pay in

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what was then named ”Isle St. Jean." Peter Rose accompanied him and

his housekeeper, Martha Potts, to the grant which'comprised several hundred acres of land at North Lake. They arrived there 1790 and built their house on the north side of the Lake, on property owned, in our time, by John Campbell (tailor); afterwards by William lVIorrow, and at present by Lewis Rose. After a few years the captain desired to return to England and not wishing to take his housekeeper with him, he made a proposition to Peter Rose that if he would marry her he would transfer all the grant to him. This our grand uncle consented to do and in 1796 came into possession of the property. Later he wrote to England asking his younger brother to come to him. The result was that our common grandfather, Sampson Rose and his wife, Elizabeth Baker, came out in 1804; accompanying them was James Baker, a cousin of our grandmother, and my maternal grandfather. My grandfather built his house just below our present home and nearer the Lake. Peter Rose was killed by a kick from a horse in 1816. His widow married \Villiam Anderson. He was drowned in the Lake in 1826. The old lady after- wards went to live with grandfather and survived many years. Grand— father Rose died of pneumonia 1847, aged sixty-five years. He is buried at \West River Church. Grandmother Rose lived to 1867, aged eighty-two. She is buried beside her husband. All the family, except one, who died in infancy in England, were born on Prince Edward Island. They were de- vout Anglicans. Grandfather was a lay reader. Grandmother took all her children, on horseback, to Charlottetown to have them christened. The first census report of Lot 47, Isle St. Jean, 1797, gives the names: Peter Rose and wife, John Morrow and family; James Baker (died 1834), Charles Baker, William Anderson, John Morrow (died 1840), and the first two of his wives, Eunice and Hepsebah Coffin are buried in the cemetery near the Lake below our old house. The Rose family tree runs-——Sampson Rose and Elizabeth Baker, married January 22, 1803. Their family—Stephen Rose, born 1805; married Phoebe lVlorrow.

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