Hudson Homestead built ca. 1843 Margaret Taylor coll.

where, with various of his sisters, he occupied the home built by Robert Senior. This fine old house, the HudsonHomestead, later lived in by the youngest son, Robert Junior, and still later used as a summer home by Hudson descendants, was eventually bought by Parks Canada; falling into disrepair and becoming dangerous, it was burned by them on March 5, 1980. The second son, Matthew, moved to West Covehead where he farmed 1 13 acres across the bay from Stanhope.

The youngest son, Robert Junior, had 133 acres of land mainly on the east side of Stanhope Lane. He married Sarah Jane MacKinnon of New Glasgow Road, on July 7, 1880, and they had five children: Mary, Rachel, Victor, Annie and Roberta. They lived in a house originally built by the Bovyer family and later used as a summer home by Admiral Bayfield of Charlottetown, the naval cartographer. Tradition has it that Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) was entertained here on his visit to P.E.I. in 1860; and some of the Fathers of Confederation who met in Charlottetown in 1864 also visited here, for North Shore sea-bathing and to shoot plover and partridge. This house was reputed to be haunted, by the ghost of a Negro slave, named Caesar, and valued at £45, brought here from the States by Stephen Bovyer in 1787; he later disappeared mysteriously and was said to have been murdered.

Robert Jr. died on November 14, 1889, of erysipelas, and shortly after, his house burned to the ground; the cellar depression and the deposits of ash along the lines of the walls could still be seen in the 1960s, overgrown with thick woods. Robert’s widow and children (the

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