to sell everything and go out west. He became a policeman in British Columbia, married and had a family. Many years later his bags were packed, all ready to return to P.E.I., when he suddenly died.

BOVYER

By tradition, this family traces its origin to Huguenot refugees who fled from France to England in 1685; the name was said to be originally Boyer and for some reason (camouflage or disguise?) the “v” was added at the time of the move to England. However, there is no mention of this in the Journal of John Bovyer (17 88-1857 ); it is also possible that Bovyer is a corruption of the name Bowyer, = bow maker (compare sawyer, lawyer, etc.)

In England, the family traces back to one Stephen Bovyer, son of a Kentish mason and bricklayer, who moved to Cheshire and married Dorothea Lowe some time in the 1740s. She was the daughter of the Rev. Samuel Lowe, who was Vicar of Bunbury, near Tarporley, from 1717 to 1742; she was reputed to have brought considerable wealth to the marriage.

Stephen and Dorothea, with five children, emigrated to Massachusetts some years before the American Revolution, later moving to Providence, Rhode Island; it is also possible that North Kingston, R.I., was the home of the Bovyers. They had four sons: John, Stephen Jr., Samuel and Robert; and two daughters: Dorothea and Mary; only Robert was born in America. Dorothea Lowe Bovyer died in Rhode Island in 1786 of cancer, and one year later Stephen Bovyer, his 3 sons, and the wife and five children of one of them (Stephen Jr.) moved to St. John’s Island as “Loyalists from the American States" and settled in Stanhope. Stephen Bovyer Sr. died in 1788, the year after they arrived here, and is buried in the Long Pond cemetery in Stanhope. One of his sons, John, the eldest, moved to Lot 48 some time before 1798, and bought 2,300 acres of land there (Fullerton’s Marsh). He named his estate Bunbury after the village in Cheshire. In 1801 he married Mary, daughter of Robert Auld of Cove Head, they had five children, and their descendants are living in Bunbury today.

In October, 1788 David Lawson was dismissed as agent to Sir James Montgomery, the proprietor of Lot 34, and evicted from the latter’s Stanhope Farm, which was re-rented to Stephen Bovyer Jr. and John Bovyer on the 7th of November, 1788 for 1000 years; the rent was £50 per annum for 2 years and £60 per annum for the fol- lowing 6 years. This farm, projected as a 1000 acre flax farm (modelled on one of Sir James’ estates in Scotland), then consisted of 100 cleared ' acres, a 70 x 20 foot dwelling house, a large barn and bytes combined,

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