MUNCY HOME — OVER 100 YEARS OLD

The Muncey house, much altered in 1903 by the addition of Bay windows was erected probably about 1852-56. The original front door faced on the road with a fan light over the front door porch. The house was built by William Brow who was married in 1853 to Elizabeth Ann, the eldest daughter of John Muttart and Elizabeth Bell, early residents of Carleton. William Brow bought the corner property from John D. Muttart and built his store apparently as a part of the house. It is believed it was later moved back to become the Muncey barn. William Brow’s first wife died after sixteen days of measles on April 29th 1859, leav- ing him with not only the store to keep but the post office and

three small children. He married again in January of 1860 to

Margaret Jelly of St. Eleanor’s. .. His son, the late E. R. Brow, well known insurance broker of

Charlottetown was Carleton-born and raised.

THE MUTTART’S OF CARLETON

The first Muttart’s came to Carleton in the year 1831, when John Muttart (1810-1889) married Elizabeth Bell (1813-1886) and settled; near her folks, the Bells, on land that skirted the main road of what later became known as Doull’s Corner. John Muttart has dropped from the community memory and only a very few of the oldsters will remember that he ever existed. He should be remembered however as the father of an interesting family who will be mentioned later and the descendant of one of

the very earliest of the Lot 28 Pioneers.

John Muttart was born at Cape Traverse, the son of George Muttart and Elizabeth Morley, and the grandson of Balthazar Muttart, the soldier. This first Muttart, after fighting under Wolfe at Quebec, came to the Island with Surveyor Holland and had a part in the Island survey of 1764-1765, later settling his family at Tryon where his farm was north of the United Church of today. He was drowned in 1782 and his oldest son, George, moved to Cape Traverse in the early part of the next century,

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