Georgetown Stories : 1786-1844 2

nspected at Brudenell Point, Three Rivers on the 23rd inst. by Col. Holland, Adjutant-General of Militia. The battalion mustered strong and made a good appearance. (Register, Mar. 27, 1824) In 1824 the polling station for election of the Georgetown representatives to the House of Assembly was held at the home Mr. Alley.

Bartlett Allen’s Transactions

The register of a merchantship visiting the isolated inhabitants of Eastern Kings County, P.E.l. in 1827-1829 includes the transactions of Bartlett Allen of Boughton Island. He received salt, cotton, sugar, tea, black stockings, slippers, a bed tick, 6 yards of fustian, a waist coat, etc. for his codfish, mackeral, geese, feathers, washjing tub, 5 fowls and 8 tons of hardwood. (Book available in P.E.l. Archives)

Llewellin- Macdonald Controversy (1 830)

The Register , April 20, 1830, reporting on the proceeding of the House of Assembly included the following: “Mr. Lewellin called the attention of the House to a question of Privilege and laid before it a letter addressed to him by Mr. Colin Macdonald of Three Rivers, containing aspersions on the House as a body and accusing Mr. Lewellin individually of having made an attack on the private character of a relation of the writers’ in certain remarks said to have been made by Mr.Llewellin in his place when the House was in committee on a petition from the Inhabitants of Kings County and Others, praying the house to devise some measure to render valid titles of lands obtained through the medium of sales made by the Sherriff and taken on execution at the suitof the Crown. . . The House voted Mr. Macdonald guilty of a Breach of Privilege and the speaker issued a warrant for his apprehension.”

Macdonald responded with a communication to the Register on May 4, 1830 in which he included the letter in question. The attack, he said, was on an aged relative, 85 years of age, [and was] an aspersion re some lands acquired by the relative some years previously and was surely unjustifed.

Lewellin replied to this in a suceeding issue of the Register claiming that one of his aims since becoming a member was to clear up questionable land titles and cited his own unquestioned public reputation as guarantee of his integrity. There was an inference that the quarrel had been long— standing and that henceforth any relations beteen the two must cease.

William Cobbett’s Opinion of P.E.l.

Cobbett, the English social reformer was opposed to immigration of the poor from Britain and was reported in the Register ofJuly 2, 1830 to have made these remarks about P.E.l.:“From Glasgow the sensible Scots are pouring out amain. Those that are poor and cannot pay their passage are going to a rascally heap of sand and rock and swamp in the horrible Gulph of St Lawrence.” [Prince Edwrad Island]

Three Rivers Man Sentenced

Edward Wilson of Three Rivers [was sentenced] for an assault on Isabella Stewart. He was fined 40 shillings and “ordered to find sureties for the peace for 12 months and to stand committed until the fine be paid and surety given.” (Register, May 7 1830)

Caution Against Cholera

“80 soon as a person feels any symptoms of bowel complaint or purging, heought to apply for medical aid, but before the surgeon arrives, he is recommended to take a tablespoonful of mustard water and to avoid the use of ardent spirits, which

are highly prejudicial.” (Royal Gazette, Apr. 17, 1832 during the cholera scare of that year)

Liquor License

Jane Edwards, alias Hadley, Georgetown, was given a license to sell spiritous liquors in her tavern, also licensed: John Kearney. (ngal Gazette, Jan. 1832)