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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. | 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. | ||
It is believed that Thomas Sr and Martha Smith's son Thomas Jr (1839-1906) and wife Deborah (nee Hopkins) were the first to settle in Elliott's Cove in the 1860s<ref name=Foot01/> [also [[ Smith|Smith Family]]]. Thomas Jr's parents and most of his 8 siblings moved to Elliott's Cove shortly thereafter. Thomas Jr's older brother William Smith (1836-1925) and wife Lydia (nee Hopkins) and their children became the first settlers in [[Apsey Brook]] about 5 km away on the northern side of Random Island in the mid 1870s, and his younger sister Jane Tilley Smith (1851-1937) and husband John Loder (1850-1916) of Ireland's Eye and their two oldest sons became the first settlers in [[Snook's Harbour]] proper about 3 km away on the Island's northern side in 1876 or 1877 [see [[ Loder|Loder Family]]]. Thus, all of the descendants of the Smiths of Elliott's Cove and Apsey Brook, and of the Loders of Snook's Harbour are descended from the esteemed John "The Scholar" Tilley. | |||
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