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These newspaper ads were posted by John Good Murphy advertising Lots For Sale in Wellington.  Evidently Captain JG became a “land agent” for the Crown, promoting land to United Empire Loyalists and selling the “luxuries of life” to be found in the town of Wellington. Note the given address.

I know Captain John’s childhood home in Ireland was burned by Rebels and that he suffered the total Plunder of his father’s land. I wonder if Prince Edward County every felt like home.

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