Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Island of St. John. [ARTICLE]

Island of St. John.

The Island of St. John, now Prince Edward, was English from Its early settlement, the method being a quasifeudal system, which was not finally extinguished until the middle 70’s of the nineteenth centpry. In 1769 it became a British province through a commission Issued to Governor Patterson, and it became similarly autonomous. The United Empire Loyalists, who settled in the valley of the St. John river after the asked and obtained for their "plantation” in 1784 a provincial status ihat carried with it a local legislature.