Surveying the Island in 1765 and producing a marvel grid of 67 twenty-thousand-acre townships to be filled with hopeful and vigorous English settlers to create farms and fish the sea, was the most wonderful project imaginable. It was the only attempt to establish a traditional feudal colony in a discrete territory in all British North America. It was an Island in a perfect location. We are all very familiar by now with this geometric marvel of planning and execution, and indeed nearly all of us who live on the Island today, are living in enclaves contained within those boundaries aligned to the Magnetic North of 1764 created by Samuel Holland.…