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Methodist Church in Bideford, for the purchase of the Pope residence. The description of the property was followed with. . .thas described in the Deed thereof from the Commissioner of Public Lands to the said Grantor, bearing date the 17th day of April, 1878.

No further information about him has been found except that after living briefly in Pictou, Nova Scotia, apparently he went to Vermont and died there. His wife, Susan, married again, and she too died in Vermont.

The building at the left in the picture is believed to be the warehouse which Thomas H. Pope had built in Northam for storing grain and other produce for shipment by rail. It is not known what the buildings on the other side of the track were used for. or who owned them—FROM PAULINE MILLAR COLLECTION

On the 1816 map the only settler on the north bank of Trout River in Lot I 3 was Neil McArthur. He is mentioned on the earliest surviving doc- ument concerning the Bideford men in Prince Edward Island described in connection with William Ellis who hired McArthur with a team of oxen for four days in October, 1818.

Written on a small piece of paper is the following: Wm. Ellis to Neel McArthur Dr To One Man and Two Oxen 4 days at IO/pr Day - £ 2.0.0 Octr. 29th 1818 Settled the above Neele Mcarthur

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