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Lot 62 is a township in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is part of St. John's Parish. Lot 62 was awarded to Richard Spry, Esquire in the 1767 Land Lottery. Richard Spry, Esquire, was then Commodore, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Mediterranean (Gibraltar 1766-1769).〔http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_appointment&appointmentid=32&locationid=767〕 Becoming an owner, he would be familiar with St John’s Island, having come out to North America in 1754, blockading Ile Royal and Louisbourg in 1756, seeing its reduction in 1758, and serving off Quebec and in the St. Lawrence in 1759.〔https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati019312mbp#page/n439/mode/2up〕 In 1762, he returned to Halifax as Commander-in-Chief at North American (1762-1763),〔http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_appointment&appointmentid=32&locationid=770〕 and after a full thirty-five years on active service, as then Sir Richard Spry, Rear-Admiral of The Red, he died unmarried, on 25 Nov 1775, at Place House, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall. His estate passed to his sister Mary and her son Thomas Davy, (Captain RN), they, as coheirs assuming proprietorship of Lot 62. As an estate heir, he became Captain Thomas Spry, in April 1779, taking on the surname and arms of Spry,〔''London Gazette'' 10 April 1779 Issue number: 11969, p1〕 and remained in active service until 1783.〔The Gentleman's Magazine 1829, Volume 99, Part 1; Volume 145, Pg87〕 While serving as a county magistrate and standing as a reserved list Vice-Admiral of the Blue, in 1799,〔http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=2490〕 their Lot 62, amongst many, was noted, for the third time, as the subject of no effort to satisfy the 1767 Lottery conditions of settlement: "nothing done, not one settler thereon". ==Lot 62 Settlement== The first documented European visitor to Lot 62 was Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk who observed on his ‘visits’ in his extensive and detailed diary. He suggests, in his first visit, of Monday, 8 August 1803, that he had perhaps been over-sold on Lot 62. "At one place, I went a little into the wood, & saw large stumps – I learnt on arriving at Charlotte Town, that all this coast had been laid waste by a great fire 30 or 40 years ago: – The soil however appears very poor sand. This is Lot 62, & does not seem to answer the high description J: S: gave of this quarter of the Island – perhaps the inland part might be better:" Preparing to leave the Island, making his way to Nova Scotia, he reflects more positively, of Lot 62, in his entry of 18 September 1803. "Day light found us very near the spot where I first landed on the Island, we continued with the Ebb along shore toward Wood Islands, under a high shore apparently much better land than we landed upon further west. ... The land is good above the Bank – beech maple & birch with a few very Spruce, as on the North on Point Prim – This high ridge seems to continue all the way from Wood Islands inland to Belfast behind the low swampy ground which forms the coast towards Flat River –" Lot 62 came to be owned by Lord Selkirk, who started to settle it in 1803, as his chartered ships: The Polly (7 August 1803), The Dykes (9th August 1803) and The Oughton (27 August 1803) brought Scottish Highlanders, to PEI, some of whom found their way to Lot 62. Lot 62 - Belle Creek.〔http://www.linneberg.com/skye/polly.html〕〔http://www540.pair.com/buchanan/genes/docs/polly.htm〕〔http://www.islandregister.com/selkirk_settlers.html〕 Angus Bell, of Isle Colonsay, with wife, settled Belle River, PEI. Donald McDougall, a native of the Isle of Skye, with wife, settled Belle River, PEI. Alex Martin, of Isle of Skye, settled in Belle River, a petitioner for Dr. Macaulay in 1811. Alexander Stewart settled in Belle River, PEI. Alexander Nicholson, of the Isle of Skye, settling at Belle Creek. Charles Stewart, of Skye, with wife Mary McMillan, and children, settled in Belle River, PEI. Donald Stewart, of Skye, with wife Catherine Morrison, settled in Belle River,PEI.〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~peistewart/Charles_Stewart.html〕〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~peistewart/Donald_Stewart.html〕 Lot 62 - Wood Islands.〔http://www.linneberg.com/skye/polly.html List Compiled: Karen Linneberg〕〔http://www540.pair.com/buchanan/genes/docs/polly.htm List Compiled: 1903 Malcolm A. Macqueen〕〔http://www.islandregister.com/selkirk_settlers.html List Updated: 2007 Dave Hunter〕 Donald Gillis, a petitioner for Dr. Macaulay in 1811, settled on Wood Islands Road. Malcolm McIsaac, from Uist, Isle of Skye, located at Wood Islands. Mrs Mackenzie (Elizabeth) settled on Wood Islands Road.〔http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CLAN-MACKENZIE/1999-01/0915637879〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lot 62, Prince Edward Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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