PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

hill. The latter sold Rosehill to his nephew, John Ramsay, Esq., and went to Lisbon, Portugal, where he died. The other daugh- ter died young. ‘

Donald Montgomery married Nancy Penman, oldest daughter of George Pen- man, paymaster of the garrisbn, who under Colonel Rollo took possession of this Is- land (then named St. Jean) after the fall of Louisburg in 1758. He afterwards moved to Port Hill, where he continued to reside till the time of his death. Donald Montgom— ery was renowned as the first magistrate ap- pointed in Prince county and represented the county for over thirty-five consecutive years in the House of Assembly of the col— ony. He always resided in the ancestral home, at Fox Point, a home famed far and wide for its unbounded hospitality. Gover- nor Fanning during his term of office made Fox Point his summer resort, and during one of his visits the inhabitants built a new school and called it the “Fanning Grammar , School,” in honour of the Governor. He made the district a present of two valuable lots of land and his daughter, Lady Cum- berland, in her will bequeathed the school district of Princetown several valuable prop— erties in Charlottetown, from which a com- fortable revenue is received annually, the bequest having been made on account of naming the school after her father. To Donald and Nancy (Penman) Montgomery were born seventeen children, nine sons and eight daughters, sixteen of whom grew to maturity, and they had one hundred and eighteen grandchildren. Of their children, Archibald married Mary Ramsay and set- tled in Port Hill, where his grandson re- sides on the old homestead, an intelligent and prosperous farmer. Hugh married Miss Ann Owen, and John married Miss Eliza

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Hamilton, of Scotland. These two brothers moved to Dalhousie, New Brunswick, where they established a large shipbuilding and lumber business. John represented Res- tigouche county in the New Brunswick Legislature for a great number of years, and his son after him. George married Miss Ramsey and removed to Mirimachi, , New Brunswick, where he died soon after the great fire of 1825. James Townsend married Rose McCary, third daughter of the Rev. John McCary, the first missionary to Newfoundland, having been sent there by John Wesley. After seven years spent in Newfoundland he returned to Ireland and was there married. He with his family sailed from Dublin on board the ship “Hannah,” bound for Quebec. The ship was cast ashore in a gale on Cape Rosier, Gaspe Peninsula, and became a total wreck. The captain chartered a schooner and put the passengers and their luggage On board and again started for their destination, but en- countering another storm in the gulf, was again stranded at the Ponds, a place midway between Malpeque and New London har- bours. Donald married first Miss Annie Murray, of Bedeque, and second Mrs. Lou- isa Gall (nee Cundall), of Charlottetown. He represtented Princetown in the local Legislature of the province from 1838 un- til 1862, when the Legislative Council be- came elective. He then resigned his seat in the lower house and was returned to the upper house for the first district of Queens, in which body he sat as president till 1874. When the' Island entered the Confederation he was ap- pointed to the Senate of Canada, which po- sition he held to the time of his death, hav- thus served his country faithfully for fifty- four consecutive years in the legislative