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     a dependency of Cape Breton, subject to military rule. Sub- 
     
     sequently a new battery was erected at la-Joie which received 
     
     the appellation of Fort Amherst, by which name the settlement 
     
     was afterwards known. 
     
    
   
   
    
     and his wife, being the first birth of British parents on St. 
     
     John’s Island; this child arriving at the years of manhood, 
     
     became a citizen of Charlottetown, where he was well and 
     
     favorably known, and where he died at an advanced age. At 
     
     his death Mr. Webster left a large family of sons and daughters, 
     
     all of whom became settlers of the country. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Shortly after the surrender of Quebec, in 1759. a number of 
     
     settlers arrived from Canada and made homes for themselves 
     
     in the forest, on the southern side of the Tryon River. Among 
     
     them were a Mr. Clark and his wife, who sometime after their 
     
     arrival were blessed by the birth of a son, whom they named 
     
     William; he was the second child born of British parents on 
     
     the Island. Tryon, too, was the first English settlement of 
     
     importance and soon became a thriving farming district. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Many toilsome years elapsed during which William Clark 
     
     witnessed Tryon Settlement emerge from a state of wilderness 
     
     into miles of well tilled farms and comfortable homes. He lived 
     
     to see his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren grow 
     
     to manhood before he died, which was in the year 1856, in the 
     
     97th year of his age. 
     
    

    
     Many disbanded soldiers of the army of Louisburg and Que~ 
     
     bec came and settled in the Province and became tillers of the 
     
     soil in different localities. The first to land was a band of 
     
     Colonel Fraser’s Highland Regiment, who encouraged others 
     
     to follow, when their description of the country was published 
     
     in Scotland and in other places. 
     
    

    
     Meanwhile the war between France and England continued, 
     
     in which the arms of England were victorious in almost every 
     
     engagement. 
     
    

    
     His Majesty George the Second died at Kensington, October 
     
     25th, 1760, and the next day H. R. H. the Prince of Wales 
     
     was proclaimed King as George the Third, with the usual pomp 
     
     and splendor becoming such an auspicious occasron. The