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     Mott’s Broma for the Sick. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     from the ordinary kind. In 1807 while the first ship they 
     
     had chartered was loading, a sloop of war arrived from 
     
     Halifax and pressed the crew for the king’s service, no men 
     
     could be had to replace them, and the ship and cargo was 
     
     detained for a long time, other ship owners bearing the 
     
     same fate would not accept colonial charters, and provincial 
     
     trade was at a stand still, but Mr. MacDonald represented 
     
     the matter, so well to the government that the practice was 
     
     soon discontinued and business went on. At another time 
     
     as the old man and one of his sons were taking passage to 
     
     Britain in the Autumn, by a timber laden ship, she was 
     
     captured by an American privateer and taken as a prize to 
     
     Philadelphia, where he and his son were confined in jail for 
     
     some months, as prisoners. In the following spring he 
     
     managed to acquaint his friends with his situation, and the 
     
     attention of the Provincial Government being called to the 
     
     case, they obtained his liberation and he returned home. 
     
     In 1817 the house at Panmure with every thing it contained 
     
     including valuable family papers, was destroyed by fire, 
     
     the inmates barely escaping with their lives, but undaunted 
     
     still be imported brick and material from Britain and 
     
     erected the first brick dwelling house and stables ever seen 
     
     in that part of the Province. His original purchase of 
     
     township lands had proved a very unfortunate one and 
     
     involved'him in a Chancery suit which continued up to the 
     
     time of his death. His son Hugh succeeded to the property 
     
     and continued the suit for almost another generation, with 
     
     the usual result in the Chancery suits of that period, the 
     
     litigants were ruined and the whole estate swallowed up in 
     
     costs. Hugh MacDonald of Panmure Island was one of ' 
     
     the first Roman Catholics appointed to any oflice of import- 
     
     ance after the passage of Catholic emancipatiOn. He was 
     
     high Sheriff of the Province in 1834, and held many other 
     
     ‘ Important offices, and represented Georgetown in the House 
     
     Of Assembly for some time, he died in 1857. He was 
     
     Succeeded by his eldest son, Andrew Archibald MacDonald, 
     
     the subject of this sketch, who’was educated at the public 
     
     schools of the county and by private tutors. He first 
     
     entered as a clerk in a general store, opened in Georgetown 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Pure Spices from John P. Mott (it Go, Halifax, N .S.