72 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Rolls and Vice Chancellor; Court of Divorce, of which the Lieutenant Governor and members of the Executive Council are Judges; County Courts, of which there is one in each County, presided over by a Judge,—each of these, which are for civil suits only, has five circuits distributed over the County. Court of Probate of Wills, with one Judge. Stipendiary Magistrates and Justices of the Peace.

Georgetown, the chief town of King’s County, distant thirty miles from the metropolis, is situated on a promontory lying between the rivers Cardigan and Brudenell. The harbor is one of the best in the colony, can accommodate vessels of any reasonable size. The town and country round were celebrated for its ship-building and timber trade, but as the forest became in the course of time exhausted of its heavy growth, these lines of industry were consequently doomed to become, as it were, affairs of the past.

Princetown, a small village and farming district, is situated thirty-eight miles west of Charlottetown. It was originally intended by Captain Holland to be the county town of that section, but appears never to have been the choice of the people as such, the village of St. Eleanors having been selected in preference. Here the Court House and Jail were erected and the Supreme Court of Prince County established. St. Eleanors is situated on Lot No. I7, distant forty miles from Charlottetown and three miles from the Bedeque Shore.

Among the early English speaking pioneers that made homes in the wilderness was a Mr. Joseph Green, who settled on the northern banks of Bedeque Harbor, and who by his diligence and perseverance became surrounded by every comfort that a well cultivated farm could afford. The wilderness at that time consisted of large forest trees, suitable to the then leading industry of the Island, that of ship—building, in which the sons of Mr. Green resolved to try their fortune, and in 1818 the keel ofa vessel was laid down at the foot of the homestead farm, near the harbor’s banks, and as year followed year, the sound of the builder’s axe and the scraping noise of the whip- saw were almost constantly heard, attracting in the course'of time a considerable traffic to that part of the settlement, then known as “Green’s Shore.” The year 1833 witnessed the opening of a store there for the sale of such goods as the country required. As time rolled on business increased so as