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truck wagon pulled by a white horse and loaded with their possessions. Their two cows were led behind the rig. The trip was long and hard. Mrs Inman has been quoted as say- ing that by the time they arrived in Belmont “they didn’t have a looking glass left.” There were no bridges over the brooks; each brook had to be forded. As the Inmans neared Lot 16, they were approached by a small group who tried to dissuade the family from continuing on because of the land dispute. They settled in Belmont in spite of this.

The couple moved into an old log cabin situated on the land that Inman had quit-rented. This land, covered mostly in woods, was just west of land taken up by Jane Ann’s brother, John T. Best, who had moved to Belmont a few years earlier. The Inmans built a new house, the one recently known as the Harry Best house.

After living in Belmont for a few years, they received the following letter from Mark Inman,_]ohn’s father:

1887, Hampton, PEI

Dear Son

I was thinking of letting this farm to Albert Sherron and

had the agreement wrote (a copy of which I send you)

but I have changed my mind. You can look over the agreement and if you think well of it on the same terms you can come right away. If you do you better not part with your horse and cows till you see me. If you intend to come or whether you come or not for one year you had better telegraph to me at once. I have no woman at

present and I am very bad off. So that if you come I

want you to come as soon as possible. If not as I said

before telegraph at once. Mark Inman.5

John andjane decided to respond to his father’s request, packed up their belongings and stock, and returned to Hampton. The new situation in Hampton did not work out well, as old Mark decided to remarry and John’s hopes of getting the father’s land at a reasonable rate evaporated. They moved back to Belmont.

Things had changed in Belmont. Jane Ann’s nephew,

FAMILIES ASSOCIATED WITH LOT 16 UNITED