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Stewart came with his wife and family in 1846 and built a house which he named Strathgartney, living .as landlord till the Land Purchase Act, 1875. As his mail was large he had a private bag made up in Charlottetown. David Stewart’s diary is in the possession of his great grandson, Alan Stewart, a resident of Strathgartney.

Strawberry point and hill, Charlottetown royalty. Point name on chart of Hillsborough bay, 1839. Hill name on plan, 1831.

Stuart; creek, lot 65. Chart, 1846.

Stukeley; pond, lot 39. Britain pond on Holland, 1765. On map, 1775, and on Wright, 1852, Stukely Town is shown east of the pond. Britain or Stukely pond on Wright and Cundall 1874. Meacham, 1880, has St. Peters or Stukely lake with Brittian (sic) creek flowing into it. The chart name is Stukely. Department of the Interior map, 1914, has Stukeley. Stukele3 is a village in Huntingdonshire, England. It is also a family name. Wm. Stukeley (1687—1765) was a well—known writer on antiquarian subjects and first secretary of the society of antiquaries.

Sturgeon; river, bay and settlement, lot 61. Bay name on Holland, 1765. From the sturgeon found in the river. '

Suffolk; settlement with post oflice, lot 34. Named by settlers from Suffolk, England, who arrived 1824—1840. Suflolk Road in Meacham, 1880.

Summerside; town, lot 17. The county town of Prince county. At first called Green’s shore, after the first settler, Daniel Green, a Quaker loyalist from Pennsylvania who received from Governor Fanning a grant ‘Of 500 acres on the site of the present town. With his wife and four children he arrived in 1780 in the ship Spencer from St. John, N.B., and spent the first Winter in a deserted French house on Phelan point, later building a log house on the site r of the present Presbyterian Hall. Daniel Green died in 1825. The youngest son, Joseph, inherited the land between Central and Duke streets, running back for a mile and three- quarters. His homestead, built in 1840 (now owned by Mr. H. Stavert), was licensed as an inn in that year and styled “Summerside House.” This designation is said to have been due to Major Compton, who commented on its sunny situation. In the same year, or the next, Pat Power, the first postmaster, put the name on the mail-bags for the settle— ment heretofore known as Green’s shore. Summerside was incorporated as a town in 1875 and became the capital of the county, Vice St. Eleanors in 1876.

Summerville; settlement with post office, lot 66. Name selected by the residents, 1867.

Sunbury; cove and point, lot 17. Sunbury cove on Holland, 1765. St. Lawrence Pilot, 1916. has Sandbury cove. Probably after George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax, Viscount Sunbury and Baron Halifax (1716—71). Refer to Halifax. Meacham, 1880, calls the point New Workington. Seskook-wolna, meaning “muddy cove,” is the Micmac Indian name of Sunbury cove.

Surrey; settlement, lot 58. Name antedates 1862.

Surveyor; creek, point and inlet, lot 47. Holland, 1765 has Surveyors. The French name for the inlet and creek was riviére Tranchemontagne, a family name used by Denis de la Ronde, 1721. Surveyors pond and Surveyor point on chart, Surveyor point and inlet on Department of Interior map, 1914. North lake in Meacham, 1880, in contradistinction to South lake, called East lake on Holland, 1765. Meacham calls Surveyors point Black point and applies the names Beaton’s or Surveyors to the next point east.

Swallow; point, lot 42. Chart.

Swanton; point, lot 45. Name in Bayfield’s “Sailing Directions,” 1847. May be after Com- modore Swanton of the Vanguard, at Quebec, 1760. Refer to Deane. Misspelled Swanson on Department of Interior map, 1914.

Sylvester; point, lot 47. Holland, 1765. Sylvester point and Campbell point were the first points on the island sighted by Jacques Cartier. “Nous vysmes terre aparoissante comme deux illes.” May be after Eusebius Silvester, solicitor and clerk of the reports, Board of Trade and Plantations, 1765. Refer to Campbell point.

Tarantum; settlement, lot 35. A post office March 1, 1894, to April 1, 1915. Lot_35 was settled by Macdonalds in 1772. A branch of the Macdonalds settled in France in 1746 and Alexandre Macdonald born at Sedan, 1765, was created 1806, Due de Tarente (Taranto, Italy, Latin, Tarentum). This title is said to have suggested the present name. Compare Kenloch, Keppoch and Kingsborough.

Taylor; point, lot 18. Census, 1798, mentions Donald Taylor junior as head of a family in this lot.

Tea; hill, lot 48. Variously explained as due to a load of tea spilled here, the gathering of the leaves of the Labrador tea plant here, and the fact that the post road from Charlottetown to Georgetown over the summit of this hill is cut at the highestpomt by a road running at right angles, southwardly to the Bellevue property, about a mile, forming With the post road a T at the summit. .

Tenmile House; settlement, lot 35. Originally name of a tavern, so called because ten miles from Charlottetown.