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                  CALLBECK, PHILLIPS, office-holder and administrator of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island; b
                   
                   John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Details of Robert Clark’s early life are unknown. He became a Quaker some time before 1753 and was active in
                   
                  fishing trade as a ship captain, particularly along the northern coasts of the island. He may have been born in St John’s and was certainly living there in 1758, when he joined with other merchants in
                   
                  off the northern tip of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Other cargoes reached Europe safely, but the American revolution was to curtail Davidson’s shipping activities
                   
                  Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). In the early 1740s he commanded at Port-Dauphin (Englishtown, N.S.), and in 1744 he participated in the Canso and Annapolis Royal raids led by his cousin, François
                   
                  and Philippe-Michel Du Pont de Renon either served or commanded there at various times in these years. Outposts of Louisbourg such as Port-Dauphin and those on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island
                   
                  at Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and others which were consumed at his Miré properties during the siege. Duvivier retired from
                   
                  Du Pont Duchambon on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). On 6 Aug. 1744, along with two cousins (Duchambon’s sons), another ensign, and 18
                   
                  was commanding the Nouveau Commerçant in the coasting trade between Louisbourg and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). Working with his father until the latter’s death in 1733 and then on
                   
                  expected, Eagleson was sent first to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island and then to Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia. He was back in Cumberland in 1770, the first permanent Church of England clergyman in
                  London, Francklin expended the entire Nova Scotia contingency fund on the establishment of townships and of government offices on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island and attempted to grant property to
                   June 1783 Louise-Éléonore Broudou in Paris; they had no children; d. in June 1788, at Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands
                   
                  bishop’s order, he crossed to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). The bishop’s decision to send him there reflected the French government’s policy of attracting to the island the Acadians living under
                   
                  . 6 June 1773 Elizabeth Prince at Boston, Massachusetts; d. April 1783 at Charlottetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island
                   
                  (Prince Edward Island). He escaped to Acadia and was charged with conducting some English prisoners from Miramichi (N.B.) to Quebec. Arriving there in September, he later became aide-de-camp to Lévis. He
                  from Cacouna to Rimouski on the south side of the St Lawrence, as well as to Acadia, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and Cape Breton Island. In 1773, however, Joseph-Mathurin Bourg took over
                   
                   Acadians across to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) [see Gabriel
                  discussions in Paris, the French attempted to reinforce their claims to the region north of the Missaguash and to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) by using the Indians to harass the British and restrict
                   
                  minister to about 15 Acadian families at Havre-Aubert on the Îles de la Madeleine. His services were divided between this outpost and the Acadian settlements on Cape Breton and St John’s (Prince Edward
                   
                   John’s (Prince Edward) Island, whose Catholic inhabitants had been without the services of a priest since the death of James
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