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Footnotes
[A] The Rev. Mr. Sutherland, in his Geography, estimates the
population at about four thousand, which corresponds with the estimate
of the writer. See History of Nova Scotia, page 143.
[B] The writer has obtained his information from manuscript copies
of the original minutes of the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations.
[C] The method of granting the lots was the following:—The Board of
Trade ordered all petitioners for grants to appear before them
personally or by deputy on the 17th and 24th June, and 1st July, 1767,
in support of their respective claims. During these days, after hearing
parties, they selected those whose claims seemed preferable, and on the
8th of July the list was completed, and finally adopted. The balloting
took place on the 23rd of July, 1707, in presence of the Board. The name
of each applicant was written on a slip of paper or ticket, and put in
the balloting box,—the lots being granted in running numbers as they
were drawn.
[D] See manuscript minute of meeting of Commissioners of Trade and
Plantations, dated eighth July, 1767.
[E] This gentleman was not John Stewart, of Mount Stewart. The
latter was only twenty-three years of age when John Stuart was appointed
by the assembly their agent in London, and he had been only three years
on the island at the time of the appointment. His Honor Sir Robert
Hodgson, the Lieutenant Governor, has taken the trouble to peruse the
correspondence which passed between Governor Patterson and John Stuart,
and in a note addressed to the writer, says: “I feel convinced that John
Stuart was the person whose name appears on the Island Statute of 30
George III, cap. 5, of the year 1790, as the owner of ten thousand acres
of land; and who, I have always understood, was a personal friend of
Governor Patterson, and if not an original grantee, must have acquired
his land by the instrumentality of his friend the governor, under the
sale of the lands for the non-payment of quitrents, so frequently
alluded to in the correspondence.” The writer has carefully gone over
the list of original grantees, in which there is one named John Stewart,
but not one who spelt his name Stuart.
[F] The following is a copy of the despatch addressed to Fanning:—
“Whitehall,
5th April, 1787.
“Sir,—Your
despatch, number one, of the
fourteenth of
October last, in answer to my letter of
the thirtieth
of June last, was duly received, and I
have since
been favored with your letters, numbered
two, three,
and four, giving an account of your
arrival in
the Island of Saint John, and of certain
proceedings
which have taken place subsequent to that
time.
“His Majesty,
from the very extraordinary conduct of
Lieutenant-Governor Patterson, has thought it
advisable to
dismiss him at once from office, and has
been
graciously pleased to fix you in the government
of that
island, persuaded, from the proofs you have
given of your
zeal for his service, as well as of
your prudence
and discretion, that you will make a
suitable
return for the confidence which has been
placed in you
by a faithful and diligent discharge of
your duty.
“I am, sir,
your obedient servant,
“Sydney.
“To
lieutenant-governor Fanning.”
The following is the letter of Lord Sydney,
formally
intimating to Patterson his dismissal, as
well as the
reply to the communication of Patterson to
his lordship,
already given:—
“Whitehall,
5th April, 1787.
“Sir,—I have
received your letter, number
thirty-one,
of the fifth November last, in answer to
one from me
of the thirtieth of June preceding,
wherein you
have stated certain reasons which have
induced you
to delay the carrying into execution His
Majesty’s
commands, which were sent to you by me, for
delivering
over the charge of the Island of Saint
John to
Colonel Fanning, and for your returning to
England to
answer certain complaints which have been
exhibited
against you.
“Without,
however, entering into the grounds upon
which you
have proceeded to justify disobedience of
His Majesty’s
orders, I must acquaint you that I have
received his
royal commands to inform you that His
Majesty has
no further occasion for your services as
Lieutenant-Governor of Saint John.
“Colonel
Fanning, who has been appointed your
successor,
will receive from you all the public
documents in
your custody, and such orders and
instructions
as have been transmitted to you which
have not been
fully executed.
“I am, sir,
your obedient, humble servant,
“Sydney.
“Lieutenant-Governor Patterson.”
[G] In Dr. Patterson’s memoir of the late Rev. Dr. James Macgregor,
there is an interesting reference to an interview which the latter
eminent missionary had with Mr. DesBrisay. “I afterwards,” wrote Dr.
Macgregor, “became acquainted with him, and was always welcome to preach
in his church, which I uniformly did when I could make it convenient.
His kindness ended not but with his life.” Dr. Macgregor states
incidentally that at this period Charlottetown was a wicked place. We
may safely affirm that it was not more wicked than any other seaport of
its population.
[H] The Honorable Mr. Brecken and the Honorable Mr. Davies were
favorable to union, on what they conceived equitable principles, but
opposed to what was termed the Quebec Scheme.
[I] The author is indebted for this graphic sketch to the kindness
of Mr. John T. Mellish, M. A., who was personally acquainted with Mr.
McDonald.
[J] The island having entered the confederation with the Dominion
on the first July, 1873, Canadian manufactured goods since then have not
come under the head of “imports,” which explains the apparent decrease.
The same remark applies to exports, because all island products sent to
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Magdalen Islands, and Canada, which were
formerly “exports,” are not so reckoned now. In the value of exports is
included the price of the tonnage sold or transferred to other parts.
[K] The orthography of this list is strictly according to the
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