John Patterson to Edward Allen were : free rent for the first two years and then progressive raises, attaining two shillings per acre after twenty years.

3. Erroneously spelled Fortuine by Allen (see below), it was the home of French-speaking f amilies--Bourques', Peters“, Longaphies, Doucettes, D'Aigles and others--who had settled there during the French regime. Many of them moved across to Rollo Bay being granted land there.

4. This refers to Greenwich, Kings County, on St. Peter's Bay, as is implied in the letter and which i have verified from other sources. Allen's first home at Elizabethtown in Robert Clark's colony on New London Bay was also at times called Greenwich, for instance in Meacham's l880 atlas of Prince Edward island. Possibly it was the name of Clark's estate there. The name was evidently in honour of the port near London, England, from which Allen and the other New London settlers sailed to the new world

5. Possibly Johnathan Coffin, captain of a whaling vessel, who made regular fishing trips to the Gulf of St. Lawrence from his home base at the recently-established Nantucketer Quaker whaling colony at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

6. Probably W, the island's first

regular newspaper.

7. A reference to the Patterson coterie. Mainwaring had established himself as a rabid opponent of the Patterson government and with Edward Allen and others was one of those who signed their names to an address, pointedly welcoming the arrival of Governor Fanning though Patterson at the time was refusing to give up the reins of power. Among other signers of the address were Benjamin Chappell, Uriah Coffin, John Cambridge, Bartholomew Coffin and Peter Rose.

8. Stilbey, perhaps. The reader can try his or her hand at interpreting Allen's writing. Possibly this is the name of another ship's captain expected to make St. Peter's a port of call.

9. Mrs Mainwaring was Elizabeth Juliet Reeves whom Edward married on

August 29, l787. His first wife, who had borne a son, Edward, in l784, had died.