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In his remarkable book on Newfoundland published in 1878<ref name=Foot03/>, Phillip Tocque describes Random Sound as "a beautiful lake of water, the shores of which are well adapted for cultivation". In his chapter on Trinity Bay, Tocque includes a verbatim description by Rev Henry Petley, a Missionary for the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, of Petley's voyage around Random Island in 1859. Petley notes passing the headland Foster's Point, "a dangerous shallow with a rock", on his way from Heart's Content to Shoal Harbour, but does not mention a settlement where Elliott's Cove is located. This is consistent with other accounts<ref name=Foot01/> that the first permanent settlers arrived in Elliott's Cove in the 1860s. | In his remarkable book on Newfoundland published in 1878<ref name=Foot03/>, Phillip Tocque describes Random Sound as "a beautiful lake of water, the shores of which are well adapted for cultivation". In his chapter on Trinity Bay, Tocque includes a verbatim description by Rev Henry Petley, a Missionary for the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, of Petley's voyage around Random Island in 1859. Petley notes passing the headland Foster's Point, "a dangerous shallow with a rock", on his way from Heart's Content to Shoal Harbour, but does not mention a settlement where Elliott's Cove is located. This is consistent with other accounts<ref name=Foot01/> that the first permanent settlers arrived in Elliott's Cove in the 1860s. | ||
Another notable aspect of Tocque's and Petley's accounts is their highly complimentary description of John William Tilley who Petley visited in Lower Shoal Harbour. Tilley, often referred to as John "The Scholar"<ref name=Foot04/>, had moved across the Bay from Old Perlican via Hant's Harbour to become the first permanent settler in Shoal Harbour in 1845<ref name=Foot05/>. Tocque described Tilley as one "who by indomitable energy and perseverance rose from obscurity to eminence as a man of learning, taught himself to read and write at 26 years of age, and was the first to commence brick-making and preserving salmon in tins in Newfoundland". Petley noted "I had no time to visit his saw-mill, or to take a walk into the country to see the large pines…But I saw his farm, a good extent of land for these parts, bearing fine crops of potatoes, oats and grass". Tilley's connection to Elliott's Cove is that his daughter Martha Tilley, born in Hant's Harbour and having married Thomas Smith Sr of there in 1828<ref name=Foot06/>, was the matriarch of the Smith family who settled in Elliott's Cove. | |||
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