Rev. Peter Gordon died on April 2, 1809, and was so lovingly held in remembrance that he was called the Aposde of Prince Edward Island . There being no stone in this Province suited for monuments, a young man who revered his memory, erected one of wood at the back of the pulpit of the church in which he ministered. In 1840 a stone monument was placed over his grave, a plain free stone slab, which commemo¬ rates his memory. (Carr papers.) Fortune. He came from Scodand in 1806 and spent six Sundays in Halifax before preaching one day each in Windsor, and Shubenacadie. Rev. Gordon was then setded on the Island. He occasionally travelled to Princetown to conduct a service prior to the arrival of Rev. Keir . Rev. Gordon died in 1809. Rev. John Keir was born in Bucklyvie, Stirling¬ shire, Scodand on February 2, 1780. He was edu¬ cated at Glasgow University and Whitburn. He had medical training as well as theological training. His wife was Mary Burnet of Glasgow. In June of 1810, Rev. Keir was ordained and inducted into the Princetown- Pastoral Charge. He was called by sixty-four people of the first Presbyterian Church.47 Since this was the first ordi¬ nation of a minister on the Island, "nearly the whole population of , Bedeque , Cavendish, New London , and Princetown were present."48 The ministers who took part in the ordi¬ nation were Rev. James MacGregor , Rev. Thomas McCulloch , Professor of Theology, Rev. Duncan Ross , and Rev. John Mitchell . They represented the Presbytery of Pictou, Nova Scotia under whose jurisdiction the entire Island fell. The service was conducted partly in Gaelic and partly in English. While Rev. Keir was inducted into the Princetown- Charge, he served all of and a portion of Queen's County. He served the Princetown- Charge until 1819 at which time the charge was divided into Princetown , and . Rev. John Keir stayed with Princetown where he served for a total of fifty-one years until his death in 1858. During an impressive career in the min¬ istry, he was a founding member of the P.E.I. Presbytery and its first moderator; he also assumed duties as a professor at the School of Theology for the in 1844: Students trav¬ elled to Princetown to study with Keir. In addition, he travelled to West River and in Nova Scotia to teach. It was while teaching at Truro , September 22, 1858 that he died.49 36 United Church and Its People