57° PAST AND PRESENT OF was also subsequently appointed a notary public. After his admission to the bar, Mr. Duffy became, and now is, a partner with Mr. Morson , under the firm name of Mor- son & Duffy. Hon . Andrew. Archibald Mac - Donald , than whom no man is more re¬ spected and honoured in his native land, was born at Point , Kings county, Prince Edward Island , oh February 14, 1829, and is the eldest son of Hugh Mac - donald and Catherine Macdonald , natives of Inverness -shire, Scotland . The subject's grandfather, Andrew Mac ¬ donald, was born in 1745 and was of that ancient sect of the Clan Donald known as Mclans of Ardnamurchan. He married Miss Isabelle Macdonald , of Canna, and was a merchant in Arisaig, Scotland , where he did a large business for that time. In 1772 his relative, John Macdonald , the eighth chief of Glenaladale , purchased a large property in Prince Edward Island and, with his family and many relatives, came and settled thereon. Such favourable accounts were received from them of the productiveness of the soil that And#ew de¬ termined to close up his business anil follow them. He sent his brother John, known in Island history as " Major Ian Mor ,"!]|f West River , to see the land, and he was||j> satis¬ fied with it that he bought a place, settled upon it and lived there. It was not until 1805 that Andrew suc¬ ceeded in closing his business in Scotland . He purchased ten thousand acres of land, then brought out his family and a dumber of other persons who settled on that part n\ his property about Three , Eot 22, Macdonald bought the Island of Panmure, comprising upwards of seven hundred acres of beautifully wooded land at the entrance of Georgetown Harbour , and there he lo¬ in Kings county. Shortly afterwards Mr. cated and embarked at once in a general mer¬ cantile business, exporting timber and build¬ ing ships to be sold in Britain . He also es¬ tablished a branch house at , in the province of Brunswick, where he did a large and profitable business until the great fire there in 1825, when, it is claimed, five hundred lives were lost and besides every building, the numerous vessels in the har¬ bour and the forest for hundreds of miles around were destroyed. After that date he confined his business to Prince Edward Island . While on a voyage to England in 1812, accompanied by one of his younger sons, the ship was captured by an American priva¬ teer, taken to Charleston, South Carolina , and the passengers imprisoned. They were very harshly treated for some time before being let out on parole, but when their case became known to the British authorities and their liberty was demanded, they were re¬ leased as they were but peaceable colonists, not taking part in the war and who should not have been detained prisoners. In 1817 the family residence at Panmure Island was burned, with everything it con¬ tained, the inmates barely escaping with their lives. The loss of all documents con¬ nected with the property he had bought here before coming out was one cause of his be¬ ing involved in a chancery suit, which con¬ tinued for many years and resulted in the whole property being sold to pay the costs of the suit. As an instance of his enterprise, it is noteworthy that immediately after the fire :