Geddie Memorial Church We know from records also, that there was a small, Roman Catholic Chapel in Park Corner in 1828, but it was only used by travelling priests. Headstones erected to the departed in connection with the chapel were still there within living memory. People of the R.C . faith in Long River in later years worshiped at Indian River . The first church at Indian River was down by the shore near Harry E asters, a cemetery is still there. When a new church was built on the present location, the old one was hauled across the ice to Summerside . The English speaking Protestant people who supplanted the French, received some spiritual leadership from Benjamin Chappel who came to this country in 1774. It was he who named the bay, ' New London ', and to the little village of sixteen homes he gave the name Elizabeth- town in honor of his wife, Elizabeth. Chappell was a machinist by trade but he was a convert of John Wesley , and for four years he ministered to the people, and a rock from which he preached to them, was for years known as Chappell's pulpit. This was the beginning of the Methodist Church in Prince Edward Island. Chappell kept a diary in which he recorded the hardships of the early settlers. In 1778 he moved to Charlottetown , where he became the first Post Master. For a number of years after Chappells departure there is no record of any spiritual leadership in this area, but in 1800 the Rev. John 11