Alex Blue

e Blues were some of the earliest settlers of Little

I Sands, but I cannot go further back in their his-

tory than Angus Blue who was a first cousin of my grandmother Bell. The only story I recall of Angus was when he was called to a murder trial in Wood Islands. Two young fellows had been pulling a bed tick out the window of the accused, who was a shoemaker. The boys always made a game of teasing him as he would get so cross. When asked by the lawyer what he thought, An- gus Blue said, “I would have shot them long ago. No one is pulling my tick out my window.” They said this clinched the trial and the man got cleared.

Angus had two boys and a girl. I understand that he died without a will and the property was undivided. However, it was valuable in that all three as well as his Widow were considered property owners, and thus all could vote on that property. In those days there were two candidates - one for all and one for those with prop- erty worth $300.

‘Alex Blue was a farmer and a fisherman. He hired a man to put in the crops and a man to help him lobster fishing.

Alex was one of the better fishermen. He kept his boat anchored below his property tied to a killock (a long tree with the roots still present, and a large stone with a manufactured hole in the centre, put over the top of the

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