.
During the American Revolutionary War Hill had also become involved with St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, initially in partnership with Edward Lewis, mp, one of the
May) and Prince Edward Island (30 June); in the same year his father-in-law and some business associates purchased a large amount of land on Prince Edward Island and made him their solicitor. On 8
*’s Prince Edward Island Register.
Whatever motivated his move, it was Palmer who provided White with one of his first known printing
embarrassments,” Peter Magowan immigrated in 1789 to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where he was immediately admitted an attorney by the Supreme Court. The following year he was elected to the House of
.
John Brecken’s grandfather was a loyalist of the same name who had come to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island from Shelburne, N.S. in 1784. He soon prospered as a merchant, and took John’s
Maclean was “a new member of little ability, but infinitely rancorous.”
The political universe of Prince Edward Island had been convulsed throughout the
near Muthill, Scotland; m. Ellen –, and they had five children; d. after 1803 on Prince Edward Island.
A Perthshire flax farmer, David Lawson
, daughter of Alexander M’Donald of Glenaladale and Margaret MacDonell of Scothouse (Scotus); d. c. 1803 on Prince Edward Island.
Little
Chatham, England, Thomas Heath Haviland immigrated in 1816 to Prince Edward Island. There he became provost marshal, a post he later described as “a sinecure.” In August 1817 he was appointed naval officer
built at Georgetown. As the age of the wooden sailing-ship drew to a close, he was one of the last to launch a ship in Prince Edward Island when he built the Lady Napier in
other opportunities. Possibly drawn by the fact that Prince Edward Island urgently needed public buildings he immigrated there in 1807 with his wife Mary, her sister Betsy Ball, and nephew Joseph Ball. As
, and at Waterloo. In 1840, several years after his retirement from the army, Swabey and his family immigrated to Prince Edward Island. He took up residence in Charlottetown Royalty, and leased two farms
Elizabeth, bound for the north shore of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Chappell has left no record of his reasons for emigrating, but unemployment was heavy in 1774 among artisans, and the newly
of Cape Breton the restive McDonald, then 44, moved to Prince Edward Island which was in a period of rapid growth and change owing to a heavy influx of immigrants, mostly from Scotland. On the Island
Prince Edward Island in 1821 after wandering extensively in America. A hardworking Presbyterian Scot and trained apothecary, he opened a “Cheap Medicine Store” in Charlottetown and married the daughter of
, financial, and charitable organizations. He served for many years as president of the Merchants’ Bank of Prince Edward Island and of the Charlottetown Club, and in 1898 he was appointed an honorary lieutenant
record was still in use.
St John’s (Prince Edward) Island
Wise most likely left Nova Scotia
infantry; d. 10 Dec. 1867 in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
More than that of any other major figure in Prince Edward Island history, the early life of
NA, MG 26, A: 145221–24. PARO, Ace. 2334/2–3; Ace. 3147/1, 4; Ace. 3156/5; Ace. 3271/1; RG 19, marriage licences; RG 20, 7–8, 224–33; Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island, Estates Div. records, liber
governor of Prince Edward Island on 20 Oct. 1847. Following a brief stint in the cavalry as a young man and after succeeding his uncle in 1829 as 16th captain of Dunstaffnage, Campbell appears to have