Properties and People LINDEN ACRES FARM (Nil) James Robertson was born in Blair Athol , Perthshire, Scotland circa 1775. He married Jean Millar of Methuen on May 29, 1795. In 1818 James and his son Alexander emigrated to St. John's Island and landed in Charlottetown on the 15th of August.1 The following year, Jean arrived with the rest of their children: James, Peter, Margaret and Jessie. Oral tradition tells us that Jean had stayed behind due to the illness of their son John who died before they emigrated. James and Jean had one more child, Jane Ann , who was their only child to be born on PEL Although James was on the Island in 1818 and may have settled in Marshfield at that time, he did not lease land from James and Robert Montgomery until 1823. The first lease for 100 acres is dated May 1, 1823 another lease, for 21 acres, is dated May 20, 1845.2 In 1839, James Robertson of St. Peters Road is listed in a local newspaper as a fence viewer. The 1841 census documents the occupation of James Robertson as a shoemaker. Jean died in 1837 and James died in 1842 while on a visit to his daughter Jessie, who was married to Conrad Vickerson of Vernon River . Both are buried in the Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery . The land was then passed onto James Jr . He married his cousin Elizabeth Ferguson of Craggan Farm and they had four children: James, John, Alexander, and Elizabeth. In addition to his farm, the 1863 shows that James also had a tannery on his property. The 1861 census lists James as both a tanner and a shoemaker, in addition to being a farmer. Hutchinson's 1864 Directory also lists a J. Robertson from Lot 34 as a Justice of the Peace and owning a general store on the St. Peters Road .3 James Jr . died on the 2 November 1867. A few days later The Islander newspaper reported that "On Saturday, 2 November, at Roslyn Cottage, St. Peters Road , James Robertson , Esquire, in the 7ffh year of his age. The deceased was a highly respected inhabitant of that locality and leaves a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn their loss."4 Elizabeth Robertson lived for another sixteen years and died at Roslyn Cottage on January 22, 1882 in her seventy-ninth year. Meacham's 1880 Atlas lists the heirs of James Robertson still owning the 121 acres of farmland in Marshfield . In James' will, he left his farm to his spouse Elizabeth, as well as the heirs of his late son John, Colin Campbell Robertson and his sister Elizabeth.5 James further specified that he left everything to his "said spouse during her natural lifetime or until the said Colin Campbell will have attained the age of twenty-one years at which time he shall be put into possession of my freehold farm. If Colin Campbell decides to follow another occupation, the trustees/executors shall advertise, between the time when Colin is twenty and twenty-one, and dispose at fair value all my freehold farm."6 This is exactly what happened. In 1881, one year before Elizabeth Robertson died, Colin was to turn twenty-one years old. A document entitled the "Legal Counsel regarding the bequest to Colin Campbell in the will of James Robertson ," signed by J. Longworth on May 21, 1881. In this document he states: "The question has been submitted to me as to whether Colin Campbell , who has now attained the age of twenty-one years and become entitled to the farm, subject to the rights of his grandmother and sisters, is entitled legally to claim the money so received by the said executors7 or whether the said monies are net assets in the hands of the executors for payment of legalities and other purposes under the will. I have carefully examined the will referred to and given a good deal consideration to the question and although the manner is not entirely free from doubt, I am of the opinion from the peculiar manner in which the farm is devised that Colin Campbell Robertson is not entitled to the money in question."8 The 121 acres instead went to James' two sisters, Elizabeth Brett (Robertson), wife of Thomas E. Brett , and Jane Miller Robertson . Elizabeth assigned her rights to the property to Jane. In Jane's will she appointed William Miller her executor. In June of 1889, William conveyed the land to John F. Simmonds .9 From 1889 until 1941, this property passed through the hands of other well known property owners in Lot 34. In 1909 Enoch Dennis purchased the property and remained here for six years.10 John Stetson took over the property in 1915. In 1941, his son Cecil and Cecil's wife Helen -290-