1792 
     
    
   
   
    
     Appendix 3. Background information on the recorders (continued). 
     
    
   
   
    
     RECORDER 
     
    
   
   
    
     [Clark] (1779) 
     
     (proprietor and settler) 
     
    
   
   
    
     [Ritter] (1780) 
     
     (an overvvintering soldier) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Heyden et al. (1782) 
     
     (military officers stationed on the 
     
     island) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Stewart (1783) 
     
     (resident and government official) 
     
    
   
   
    
     MacDonald (1784) 
     
     (resident proprietor. temporarily 
     
     absent) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hollingsworth (1787) 
     
     (traveller and author) 
     
     Inglis (1789) 
     
    

    
     (visiting bishop) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Anon. (1789) 
     
     (absentee proprietors) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cambridge (0. 1793) 
     
     (resident agent and proprietor) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Gray (1793) 
     
     (resident agent and office- -holder) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Shuttleworth (1793) 
     
     (resident proprietor) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Length of time spent on Length of time spent Parts of the island Type of forest or tree 
     
     the island prior to the elsewhere in North visited/seen prior to the record 
     
     record America urior to record record 
     
    
   
   
    
     a single summer ' the New London Bay area. - partial tree species list 
     
     - timber resource comment 
     
     - forest game comment 
     
    
   
   
    
     six months almost four years the Charlottetown area, and - forest resource comment 
     
     perhaps more. - forest animal comment 
     
    
   
   
    
     six months or so unknown but probably certainly the Charlottetown - timber resource comment 
     
     lengthy area; probably much more. 
     
    
   
   
    
     seven and a half years certainly the Covehead and Lot - timber resources at a specific 
     
     34 areas, plus Charlottetown area 
     
     and the Hillsborough River and - timber exploitation comment 
     
     probably much more. . specific tree species 
     
    
   
   
    
     two years 9 years certainly the Tracadie area; - timber resource comment at 
     
     evidently much more along the specific areas 
     
     north shore. - forest exploitation comment 
     
     - tree utilization comment 
     
    
   
   
    
     nil ? unknown certainly the Charlottetown and o timber resource comment 
     
     St. Peters Bay areas; and 
     
     probably elsewhere as well. 
     
    

    
     nine years nil certainly the Charlottetown and - general forest comment 
     
     Murray Harbour areas. 
     
    

    
     six years 16 years certainly the Charlottetown - partial tree species list for a 
     
     area; probably much more. specific area 
     
    

    
     - ecological comments 
     
    

    
     about 4 months unknown certainly the Charlottetown and . forest animals comment 
     
    

    
     St. Peters Bay areas. - ecological comments