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farms, he resolved to find a home of his own. Accordingly, in April, 1821, he started for the Island with his family and landed at Malpeque in May. From here he went to Cascumpeque, but finding no suitable land for farming, he went on to Wil— mot and there purchased a farm now oc- cupied by his son, Peter. As he had al— ways followed the occupation of a shepherd in Scotland, he was somewhat ignorant of raising crops and cutting timber and he had often told his sons of how he cut down his first tree, cutting it all around instead of notching it on each side. To the subject and his wife were born the following chil- phreys, of Kelvin Grove; Walter and Wil- liam, who also resides at Kelvin Grove; James, of North Bedeque; Robert and George 5., of Summerside; Thomas and Peter, of Wilmot; and Mrs. Archibald Mc- Murdo, Mrs. Samuel Waugh, John, Betsy and Mrs. Margaret Green, deceased. All of the Staverts now residing on the Island are descended from this Thomas Stavert.

These sons selected partners who were indeed helpmates to them. all having raised large families except one, John, who re- mained single. In those days high school education was hard to get, thus the boys all followed the line of famiing except Robert, who became a very successful banker. At the time of writing there are seven brothers and one sister still living, the eldest being eighty-five and the .youngest sixty-four. These men were a power for good in the community in which they lived. Their lives were a success both spiritually and financial- ly, as their sons occupy some of the most beautiful farms on the Island. These were strong men, God-fearing men, men of worth, such as God honoureth when he says “Thy seed shall inherit the Earth.”

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The Presbyterian Record of August, 1869, contains the following on Mr. Sta- vert’s death: “Died on the 8th of June, at Wilmot Creek, Prince Edward Island, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, Mr. Thomas Stavert. He was a native of Ha- wich, Roxburgshire, Scotland. At eight years of age he had been deprived of both of his parents by death. When fourteen years of age he went to reside at Ettrick in the parish which had once been under the pas- toral charge of the Rev. Thomas Boston, so well known by his authorship of the “four-fold state,” and Mr. Stavert was one of those employed in assisting to convey to the appointed place the material of the mon- ument erected to that distinguished minis- ter. Mr. Stavert had carefully read many of the writings of Mr. Boston and was famil- iar with their contents. At twenty-seven years of age he became a member of the Kirk of Scotland. In 1821, having just previously married, he left Scotland and came to Prince Edward Island and after re- siding for one year at Cascumpeque he re- moved to Bedeque, where he continued un— til his death. Immediately after his arrival in Prince Edward Island he became a mem— _ ber of the Presbyterian church, in connec- tion with the Presbyterian church of Nova Scotia, and soon after was elected a ruler elder in the congregation at Bedeque, the oflice of which he continued faithfully to discharge for more than forty years. Mr. Stavert has left a large family, all well in- structed in the doctrine of our holy religion. It was his regular practice, especially of a Sabbath evening, to instruct his children in the knowledge of our standards or the short- er catechism, an example worthy of imita- tionz The happy results of this practice are apparent. One son, Walter, has been chosen