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Milton Parish

Any history of the Church of England in Milton must rightly begin with the first settlers of the area. The P.E.I. census of 1798 shows that the Myers family and Conrad Younker and his wife Ruth Myers were the only two families recorded in the Milton part of Lot 32. Mr. Younker (or Yonkkers) was a native of Hesse in Germany who had served in the British army and the Myers family had previously settled in New York City where Mrs. Younker was born July 7, 1782. She arrived in Charlotte— town in the summer of 1786 with her parents. She died at the home of her son—in—law, D.R.M. Hooper, at the age of 99 — "well and favourably known" - having raised a family of 12 children, all of whom lived to a ripe old age and contributed greatly to the establishment of the church at Milton.

During the early 19th century other families located in Milton, the Moores in 1805 and the Hoopers in 1808, followed by the Coles‘, Hudsons, Moresides, and Aldridges. The elder Mr. Moore acquired about 600 acres of timber land at the head of the North (Yorke) River and in 1807 he returned to England to purchase equipment for a saw mill. On his return trip from England, Capt. Moore was accompanied by his daughter, Jane, and her husband David Hooper. During the voyage the ship and all their possessions were seized by an American privateer off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. They were set adrift in a boat and rowed to St. John's where they stayed until the next summer when Capt. Moore again returned to England for supplies. He and his party finally arrived in Milton in the summer of l808.

Capt. Moore was both a sawyer and a physician as well as a Freemason and his services were freely given to all for miles around. The Moores located a mill, called