•94- LOT 65 150 YEARS AGO. About the year 1800 It is said the whole of Lot 65 was sold for the quit rents for the sum of thirty nine pounds. It has also been said that the sale took place at Charlottetown before the advertised time? so that some of the would-be purchasers were too late. It was bought by Governor Fanning and Mr. Cambridge , one«half each. This Lot was the landing place of the British at the time of the capitulation of the Island (then called St. John's) by the French. They landed from a man-of-war at Canoe Cove , and cut a road through the woods, about the centre of the penninsula bounded by the West River and until they reached Port LaJoie on Warren Farm. Here they built . The road can still be located in places, especially at the crossing of Fergu¬ son's Creek, where the remains of the old bridge built by the soldiers may still be seen. Another place of early note is Holland Cove , near the block-house, formerly owned by Capt. Holland who was sent here by the British Government in I764 to survey the Island and subdivide it into counties and townships. Governor Fanning was a Loyalist who came to the Island in 1785 after the American revolution, and settled on Warren Farm , With him also came Sergeant Mutch , who lived with him for several years afterwards. He was the fore-father of the several families who bear his name, most of whom live on Ea3t River, Lot 48* Another man, named Ladner, also came to the Island with Fanning , and settled at Nine Mile Creek ; he afterwards built mills known by his name, hut they have long since gone to decay* Another of the early pioneers was Surveyor Fox, who settled about a mile from Rocky Point . Many of the pioneers who settled in this locality were American Loyalists. Another class came from Scotland ,. Among the latter, who arrived in 1806, was the McNeil family of three brothers, Alexander, Bougald, and Charles. They all took farms at New Dominion , which are still occupied by some of their descendants. About the year 1818 Wm. White came from England , and shortly afterwards settled on the farm formerly owned by