Properties and People LONGWORTH TO FOBES (Nl) The earliest occupant of this property was Francis Longworth . A native of Ireland and resident of P.E.I , for upwards of fifty-two years, Francis was born circa 1766 to Francis Longworth and Mary Fitzgerald in County Westmeath , Ireland. He married Agnes Auld . A daughter of Robert and Jean Fissett on March 29, 1797, and they had thirteen children. Francis held many titles and offices such as: Rank of Major in the Prince Edward Island Volunteers (Commissioned April 23, 1813); The sheriff of (circa 1815 - 1830s); Justice of the Peace for Queen's County (Commissioned April 5, 1826); Captain of the Militia (Appointed May 1830); Fire Warden (1834); President of the Benevolent Irish Society; Small Debts Commissioner; Lieutenant Colonel of the first Queens Co. Regiment (Appointed in 1839); as well as a Judge in the 1830s. He bought two tracts of land in the Marshfield area from James and Robert Montgomery. The first totaled 222 acres and the second was 50 acres, amounting to 272 acres total.1 In 1832, Longworth made a petition to the government of the day regarding a new road that had just opened up from the St. Peters Road to the northern boundary of the East Royalty of Charlottetown , wanting remuneration for lands claimed by the road.2 Francis Longworth died in 1843, and is buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery on in Charlottetown .3 Francis Longworth 's will, filed the March 20, 1843 states: "/ give and devise to my said sons John, William, and Henry Longworth all that my farm or estate of land situate(d) on township number thirty-four containing one hundred and fifty acres or there about to have and to hold.. .as tenants in common and not as joint tenants, and to their several heirs, I order and direct the said tract of land to be divided evenly, each third having a front as near as may be equal with one another on the Saint - of which part my son John shall have the first choice, then Henry and William - theirs according to priority of life.* Each of Francis's sons had 50 acres of land in Marshfield . In August of 1855, Henry conveyed his 50 acres of land to his brother John, thus giving John a total of 100 acres in Marshfield .5 John, born on September 19, 1814, had married Elizabeth White Tremaine in Halifax on August 31, 1847.6 After articling with Robert Hodgson for four years, John was admitted to the Bar on October 31, 1837.7 Like his father, John Longworth had many titles; One of the seven directors of the Bank of Prince Edward Island (1860's); Controller of Customs (1861); A member of the House of Assembly and Executive Council for second Queens; Masters and Examiners of the Court of Chancery; Justice of the Peace; Queen's Council/ ; On the executive committee for the Diocesan Church Society; Trustee and Governor of Prince of Wales College; Provincial aides-de-camp; as well as one of nineteen Principal Public Officers on PEL John Longworth owned land in Georgetown , Souris , and Alberton as well as in Charlottetown and Marshfield . John and Agnes's house was located on the St. Peters Road but his law office was located at the corner of Water and Great George Streets in Charlottetown .8 John and Elizabeth had four children, Constance Mary , Brenton, Richard John Augustus , and Isabella Cogswell who all lived to adulthood, as well as three children, Emily Louisa , Arthur George , and John who died in childhood. When John died in April of 1885, he died without a will.9 The division of his estate occurred three years later on June 19, 1888.10 The estate, which consisted of thirty-one items, was divided between his children Brenton, Richard, Isabella, and the heirs of his deceased daughter Constance Mary . Item number twenty-four on the list was "one-hundred acres of land on the St. Peters Road , Lot 34, adjoining the farm of William Miller , known as the five-mile house property."11 This land became the property of his daughter Isabella. Isabella Cogswell Longworth was born on July 11, 1859. Four years after inheriting her father's land in Marshfield , Isabella married Alexander Bannerman Warburton , son of James Warburton and Martha Compton Green , on October 26, 1889. Alexander was a Barrister, Judge of Probate from 1920-1929, and Premier of PEI from -274-