"A Mrs. Graham, who died in Alma,
Prince Edward Island about the year 1885, reported just prior to her death at
one hundred and eleven years of age, that when she was a small girl living with
her parents in a log cabin some little distance outside of Charlottetown, she
saw this tall, good-looking, blond blue-eyed man and his beautiful young wife
as they travelled from the boat landing past her mother’s cabin. With their
dog-team they headed through the portage in the general direction of New London
Bay. (A portage on P.E.I. is a narrow road or path through a thick wood and was
used by the Indians to portage their canoe from one body of water to another.
The portage here referred to may have been only an Indian trail.) At any rate
Mrs. Graham said she knew the family in after years, and that his name was
Simpson, his first name she could not be sure of and that his wife’s name was
Helen Winchester.
cf. Chapter 5, THE
FOUNDING OF CAVENDISH, 1790
This account is taken from the book "Cavendish - Its
History, Its People, Its Founding Families - Simpsons McNeills Clarks and their
Kin" by Harold H. Simpson. I have taken the liberty of taking Chapters 5
and 6 from this book to enable me to show something of settlement life on
Prince Edward Island. We have now added the complete book in pdf format to the
foot of this page.
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