terms as proposed by the consequential Mr. Patterson, therefore we are all looking toward another quarter. l have three situations in view, two on this Island and the other off. The Fortuine People have returned from theire survey of a part of Cape Breton & another is intended to be made this fall or in the Spring early, as they all to a man seem now determined to quit the Island, for the Board of Agents and Proprietors have ruin'd all prospects of their ever geting settlers on the terms propos'd, as the termes of one, is supposed to be the intention of the others. Its a shame that some able hand don't publish in the Publish'd Papers6 some critical remarks on those paragraphs lately publish‘d. However, we may not expect to have any good from a certain set of People whose principles we are so well acquainted with.7 I think the Farmers such as have not Purchas‘d Lands or Leas't for a Number of Years [shouIdI appoint a Board of Members to fix what price they will take Lands at from any Agent or Proprietor and to abide by the same under certain . . . fix't on from time to time say to meet . . . in the Year. Something of this nature I intend to propose to some of our particular Friends that are not under Bond
I presume to heare from you by the returne of Stilbey.8 I shall be very impatient till then. I have been expecting you at St. Peters ere this. Now I
give you & Mrs. I’lainwaring9 over for this Season.
I am Dr Sir Yours Edw. AIIen
I. Edward Mainwaring,(d.l803) of Chester, England, joined the King's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War and after the disbandment of the corps, settled with his family in Prince Edward Island. He was granted Iand at East Point in I784 under the entitlements accorded United Empire Loyalists and also a town and water lot in Georgetown. He built a house and other buildings at the former place. In I787 he appealed for more land and in August that year was granted 700 acres at East Point. He was then a member of the House of Assembly representing Kings County but resigned this position on Jan. 29, I787 after being accused of election irregularities. He left the Island sometime after that, bequeathing his property at East Point to his servants Peter Rose and Martha Potts on condition that they marry one another, which they did.
2. The terms of the Board of Resident Proprietors and Agents as quoted by