previous inhabitants. The first road on the Island in the British era ran from Charlotte Town , the capital, to Stanhope , and this community sent three members to the first Assembly of the new colony in 1773. Except for the government and garrison at Charlotte Town , and some persons connected with the fisheries, and some disbanded soldiers settled near Tryon , Stanhope was the first area of P.E.I , to receive any sizeable number of British settlers; the Annabella with Scottish colonists arrived at Malpeque three months later; and from then on emigrant ships continued to land their human cargoes. Our reasons for compiling a history of Stanhope were given in the statement we made when applying for the New Horizons grant which has enabled us to produce this book: we feel it is very important to get this community's story in print before any more time passes, and we think our book will be of value to persons interested in local history in general, to anyone connected with Stanhope in particular, and to members of younger generations looking for their roots. Like the sandhills on our North Shore , which are continually changing, blowing away here, and being laid down anew there, so the life of this community has been one of continued change, at some periods speedier than at others, but never static. Over the past 200 years, Stanhope has seen the forests cleared and the land brought under cultivation, roads made, houses and ships built; and then the change from the era of agriculture and fishing, to that of summer cottages and tourism, the , sub-divisions and commuters: the story of the adapta?? tion of a small district and its people to the changing world around. We have decided to confine our research to Stanhope only, as defined in the Stanhope School District (No. 30) in 1884: ??? Beginning at the head of at Duncan MacLauchlan 's west line and running thence south-easterly to the rear of his land, thence along the rear lines of Stanhope farms to , thence south to 's south line of Land, thence east, to the east line of Lot 34, thence north on said line to Duck Creek , thence due west to John McAulay 's west line of land, thence north to Shore and thence along the shore to Duncan MacLauchlan 's west line, the place of commencement. Similarly, in the family history section, we have confined our research only to those persons who have actually lived here; we have stated where the first settler in any family came from, and we have traced descendants no further than their first location after moving from Stanhope . This has been prompted by considerations of space and cost, and we apologise to any persons who feel their family histories have been less than adequately dealt with, and would suggest that they consult the Stanhope Community History research files, where extra material is stored.