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only ten lots settled on the Island that complied with the terms of settlement with respect to population.

During these years, the settlers in the St. Peters area began to make homes for themselves using “the trunks of the conifers for log cabins." (60) Land had to be cleared and presented itself to be a ‘magnificent obstacle’ for the settlers. Fortunate to own a saw, most cleared their land with the use of an axe. After trees were taken down, they had to be junked, followed by the worst job, which was to remove the stumps. Making the land was tedious; especially when clearing three to four acres of land a year was considered a great achievement. [61) During these years, however, the settlers did clear the land and began working it, engaging in a “mixed and markedly subsistence kind of cropping-herding economy.” (62)

By 1797, Lots 40, 41, and 56 were settled by their landowners in agreement with the terms of the grants. Lot 42, however, still lagged behind with only eight families settled on its land. In 1798, the first British census was taken of St. J ohn’s Island. It showed St. Peters as one of the main areas of settlement. as it had been during the French Regime. In this Census return, it is interesting to note that in Lot 42, the only last names that appear are “MacKinnon and MacDonald," identifying the prevalence of Scottish Immigrants in this area. In one case, the head of the family is listed as “Little John MacKinnon,” to distinguish him from another John MacKinnon listed in the census. (63) This habit of attaching a nickname, or the father and grandfather’s name to a son’s name, is a Scottish tradition that prevails to this day.

In the summer months of 1821, a shoemaker from Dumfriesshire,

Scotland, Walter Johnson, traveled around the Island and kept a journal

of his travels. His accounts of St. Peters focused on the entrance to the 1. harbor, which had become narrow and difficult since the Acadians had ;; last fished out of St. Peter’s harbor sixty—three years previously.

Johnson’s travels took him all across the Island, and he came into

contact with many of the Island’s population along the way. He

11‘ described the Islanders as “hospitable in the extreme" (64) and indicated , that an individual could very well travel from one end of the Island to the Other without spending a cent.

THE WORRELL ESTATE

It was around this time, during the early 1800s, that the Worrell

3 Family began to establish their estate that would encompass most of the 1 land in the present day St. Peter’s area. John Worrell, a wealthy I Barbados planter, began acquiring a large estate through land

Purchases, inheritances, and other transactions for his son Charles. (65)

3 In 1814, Messr. Worrell was listed as proprietor for Lot 40, which had 27

settlers, and Lot 41 with 33 settlers. Lot 42 had “Presland and Worrell” listed as the Proprietor with 30 families living there. (66) In 1854, the

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