PROPERTY OF U.P.E.I.

I5REFACE

This little booklet contains a copy of letter written by Edward Allen in l787 and also a note about Uriah Coffin, Allen's father-in law. These pioneer islanders were ancestors of many Aliens, Kings, Johnsons, Mairs and others who still live on the Island. l thought it might be interesting to some of these to hear some echoes of their ancestors.

The Allen letter is among the colonial records stored in the British Archives. A copy is to be found in microfilm in the Prince Edward Island Archives. The MacDonald letter about Uriah Coffin is in the supreme court papers in the P.E.l. Archives in its orginal state. The illustrations are from British magazines of the last century.

Finding these letters told me that these ancestors of ours are not gone forever; they still speak, if we pause to hear.

Christmas 1995 Nathan H. Mair