Lennox. Lennox Island was also named after him, and Goodwood River after the Duke’s house, Goodwood.

Captain Holland found that none of the French Islanders had settled in Township Twelve. On Township Thirteen, which he reported as one of the best Townships on the Island, there was a church and 24 houses and barns with 750 acres of cleared land on the shores of the creeks off Richmond Bay. Many years later, traces of dykes could still be found on the tip of Low Point.

On July 23, 1767 the Board of Trade in London supervised the granting of townships by drawing names from a ballot box. The use of this method is how townships on the Island came to be called Lots. On that day almost the entire island was given away to proprietors in England.

Lot 12 was given to Messrs. Mure, Hutchinson, & Cathcart, Merchants. Sir James Montgomery, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, drew Lot 7. By 1775, he and his brothers had bought half of Lot 12. David and Robert Stewart of London bought the remainder of Lot 12 in 1834. By 1864, the Lot had passed into the hands of Robert Bruce Stewart.

Lot 13 had been granted to John Pownall, formerly Secretary to the Board of Trade and Plantations, and later Secretary of State in England. Pownall’s agent was John Butler. In 1772 the Lot was sold to the First Marquis of Hartford who passed it on to his son, Captain Hugh Seymour- Conway of the Royal Navy who passed it on to his eldest son, George Francis Seymour. In 1819 George Seymour’s agent on Lot 13 was J.B. Palmer. In 1824 Thomas Heath Haviland replaced Palmer and by 1834 Sidney Dealey became agent. Many of the tenants of Lot 13 were settled under informal agreements with the agent.

When North America became a British possession in 1763, the land that is now the Maritime Provinces was called Nova Scotia. ST. JOHN’S ISLAND was governed as a part of Nova Scotia until June 28, 1769, when it became a separate British Colony. The British Government appointed Walter Patterson as the first Governor of THE ISLAND. Edmund Fanning was Governor from 1787 until 1805.

In February, 1799 the British Government allowed the name ST. JOHN’S ISLAND to be changed to PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND in recognition of the interest taken in Island affairs by Prince Edward, son of King George 111. Edward became Duke of Kent. He was the father of Queen Victoria.

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