Craswell, James & Alexander Anderson (c. 1856) Report of the commissioners appointed by the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor in Council to inspect and value certain lands on Township 11. P.E.l. PARO: microfilm of Lot 1 1 
     
     leases and related documents. [Re—printed 1998 (with introduction by W. M. Glen and E. A. Glen) in the 
     
     Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society Newsletter, # 87, Vol. 22, No.4, pp. 25-27.] 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     This report, discovered by William and Elizabeth Glen in the Prince Edward Island Archives among the land records 
     
     relating to Lot 7 7, is undated but must have been written during or shortly before 7856 when the two authors were 
     
     paid the considerable sum of f 32, 70 shillings and 10 pence by the government for their inspection of the township. 
     
     Alexander Anderson (b. 7795, d. 7884) was for much of the mid-nineteenth century employed by the government 
     
     as a surveyor for the western half of the island, while James Craswel/ (b. 7793, d. 1865) was a member of the 
     
     Legislative Council and had his home in St. Eleanors. The survey relates to attempts by the island’s first responsible 
     
     government under the premiership of George Co/es to assist small tenant farmers in acquiring ownership of their 
     
     farms. To this end a Land Purchase Act was passed in 7853 authorizing the government to purchase land from 
     
     those landlords who were willing to sell, so that it could be resold to tenants and new settlers. Lot 77 was 
     
     purchased by the government in 1856. The area referred to in the report as ’commonly called Hardys Island’ is, as 
     
     the report explains, not an island but ’the northernmost part of the Township ’ ~ it is now called Hardys Point. All 
     
     of the other wood/and descriptions can be roughly located in relation to the township ’3 western and southern 
     
     boundary lines and the Western Road. 
     
    
   
   
    
     REFERENCES: 
     
    

    
     Jones, 0. and Haslam, D, (1983) An Island Refuge: Loyalist and Disbanded Troops on the Island of St, John. 
     
     Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada. pp. 20-2. 
     
    

    
     Morrison, J. C. (1983) Along the North Shore: A Social History of Township 77, P.E.I., Volume 7. Crescent Isle 
     
     Publishers, Summerside, p. 13. 
     
    

    
     Rayburn, A. (1973) Geographical Names of Prince Edward Island. Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. p. 60. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Report of the Commissioners appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to 
     
     inspect and value certain lands on Township No. 1 1 and are as follows. 
     
    
   
   
    
     According to instructions we commenced inspecting the land and farms leading to 
     
    

    
     ’Hardys ,s/andg Welch Town, bordering on the east side of Foxley River, Welch Town, and the 
     
     northernmost point of the Township, fronting on Cascampec Harbour commonly 
     
    

    
     called Hardys Island, also the extensive marsh attached thereto, This Island contains 
     
    

    
     about forty acres of good dry land fit for cultivation, covered with hard and softwood. 
     
    

    
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     The boundary line between Lots Eleven and Twelve, from Barlow road to Western 
     
     The boundary . . . 
     
     between Lots road, IS studed wrth small tracks of hardwood, spruce, mixed wood, and spots of 
     
    
   
   
    
     71 and 72. swamp- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ln travelling through the Township, east side of the western road by four different 
     
    

    
     directions, we found the land to consist of sections very fine hardwood, small hills 
     
     Some good fine growth of spruce, spots of mixed hard and soft, large dry spaces of hemlock, 
     
     timber. pine, spruce and the stumpage of which may be considerable / with here and there 
     
     a narrow swale of superior ash, the soil of which is rich and fertilizing, there is also 
     
     some fine cedar swamps, where the Western Boundary line crosses the western road 
     
     there is a large track of burnt land running along the line to the head of the Rivers, at 
     
    
   
   
    
     Burnt land. 
     
     the north boundary stake and across to Alexander MacDonalds at the head of the 
     
     Raphael River [now MacDonalds River] . 
     
     A cede, gmve The land on the west side of the Western road, is part damp, the greatest portion is 
     
     covered with hardwood, skirted on the back line with a fine grove of cedar poles 
     
     (p. 26] 
     
    
   
   
    
     [P. E. /. Genealogical Society Newsletter, 87, Vol. 22, No.4 pp. 25-27] 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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