26 Early Settlers Sunday morning everybody went to church except the mother who stayed home and cooked a big dinner. They lived in a log house and cooked their food in the fireplace. About 1890, William Creed erected a large frame house. The log house was dismantled but the old fireplace was left intact. William Creed was a good farmer. Sea weed was very plentiful on his shore and he hauled it by horse and cart in the summer time, and he dug river mud with a mud digger in the winter time. This along with stable manure fertilized such crops as potatoes, wheat, oats, barley, vegetables, hay, etc. They also had an apple orchard which still stands. William Creed was a very friendly man and very considerate with young people. In those early days, in winter, people travelled the most direct ways. They took short cuts across river bays and fields and in this case the road from Sturgeon to Georgetown which went across the through Creed's yard across to Wightman's Point and across the Mon¬ tague River to Georgetown . One winter's day about 1830, William Creed and his sister Mary who were infants and had never been baptized got quite sick and their parents fearing they might not survive, saw Father MacEachern coming (later Bishop MacEachern). The good priest was called in and very willingly went about the chore. Asking Creed if he wanted it in Roman Catholic faith or Protestant faith, Creed replied, "Protestant faith". "That it will be", replied the good priest. This man was a hundred and fifty years ahead of his day. William Creed was known as "Bill from the Village" — village was an Indian village. William died May 17,1898 of rheumatic fever, half an hour before he died he sat up in bed and sang one of his favourite hymns, with the full assurance of meeting his great Maker face to face. He was not afraid to die, he was buried in the family plot at Sturgeon and his wife, Martha died in November 1923. James Creed , William's brother, married Jane Chapman from Murray Harbour North , a close relative of William's wife. To this union were born two boys James and William and several girls. They also farmed nearby. Mary the sister of William and James (older) married Capt. Richard West- away also a ship builder and business man. They raised a large family, some were deep sea captains. They owned their own shipyard, built their own ships and sailed their own boats. One of the boys told of being washed overboard and the next wave washed him back again. One of the ships he built was called the "Westaway". The two families of Creeds and Westaways were very close friends. They were always ready