Properties and People

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS FOR THE ALEXANDER ROBERTSON FARM & A PORTION OF THE HAYTHORNE ESTATE (S9)

m Name and Notes of Interest Liber & Folio

Circa 1850 Alexander Robertson 68 acres leasehold

April 15, 1889 Peter McNair Robertson to John Robertson, 75% acres L29 F741 March 4, 1890 John Robertson to George Foster, 75% acres L331 F204 October 31, 1893 Albert C. Foster to Lemuel H. D. Foster, 75% acres L36 F273 October 15, 1917 L. H. D. & Erena Foster to Heath Foster, 35 acres L71 F458 February 20, 1945 Erena Foster (widow) & Heath Foster (executors) of Lemuel

Foster to Erena during her life afterwards equally to Heath

and Talmage, 45% acres L110 F547 August 9, 1946 J. A. McMurdo to Heath E. Foster, 50% acres. This was a

portion of the Haythorne 257 acres. F158 L222

October 27, 1969 Heath E. & Edith Foster & Talmage Foster to Preston and

Pauline Scott, 35 acres + 45% acres + 50% acres except for 1.99 acres.

MACDONALD TO JENKINS (811)

This property was a 100-acre farm running Hector and Helen Jenkins as newlyweds drove northward from the Hillsborough River to the St. from Jamaica Plain, Mass., where Hector had Peters Road. Today the Jenkins Road forms the worked as a streetcar conductor, to the Island in western boundary on the northern part of the their automobile during October 1930. This raised property. eyebrows and caused tongues to cluck as there was

Refer to the chapter The MacDonald Families still a lot of controversy here concerning automotive of Marshfield for information about James vehicles, and more so because Helen herself was a MacDonald who leased this property in 1829. licenced driver!

Ludlow Jenkins married Katie MacLean and in Helen was the daughter of Robert W. and 1918 settled on the 100-acre farm, previously leased Helen Symon (nee Aitken) Sharp, also of Jamaica by James MacDonald. They were affiliated with the Plain, who had been lighthouse keepers when St. Peter’s Rd. Baptist Church and for a few years Helen was a young child. Hector was returning to had a church camp on their property. Ludlow was his parents’ farm in Marshfield to farm with his well known for articles he wrote for The Guardian father Ludlow. Eventually, Hector and Helen built newspaper, titled Old Times South of the a new home to the northwest of their old home by Hillsborough. He, being a very careful farmer, was the western property line and sold the older farm concerned about the use of pesticides as early as the house which was then moved elsewhere. Later 1920’s. The children of Ludlow and Katie were Hector obtained a portion of the Mill farm along Jessie and Hector. Ludlow’s second wife was Alice the southern portion of his western property line. Owen. The new home is now used as a summer home by

Jessie Kathlene married Harold Carver and their daughter Barbara and her family. had one child Kenneth Ludlow. Hector and Helen were keenly involved in the

Hector married Helen Lois Sharp. Both are social life of the community as noted in the buried at Floral Hills Memorial Gardens. Their chapters Hockey Night in Marshfield, Girl Guides children are Norman Robert who died at two months, and The Women ’s Institute. Also, there were times Arthur, Barbara and Donald who died in 1998. at the annual Christmas Concert when Santa looked

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