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6 BRUDENEIJL HONEERlS

orie-s that dark and. bloody time consisting in part of the farms during which the scattered and now in possession of William, Wal- unmesistii‘ng clansme-n were pur- tor and John Gordon, and Egerton

sued with relentless and unneces-

Norton. To wrest a livelihood from

sary cruelty by the Government I the stubborn wilderness was now

troops under Cumberland, who thereby earned the undying hatred

and contempt, of his name, and of,

his character by a race who. to- day are found in the front rank of progress and civilization the World- over, whose chivalrous valor stands unquestioned, and. to iwhom the appeal for mercy by a vanquish- eded foe was never made in "vain.

Before joining the rebel army Donald MoLaren transferred his property to a relation of his wife named Stewart who remained loyal to the house of Hanover after the Act of Amnestx to the Rebels had been passed by the British Parlia- ment When young McLaren had ‘tained the age of manhood he demanded restitution of his pro- perty from those Who held it in trust, which demand was refused A lingering law suit was tho re- sult which iMcLaren ultimately gained but finding the estate deeply in debt he sold it paid off the creditors and With the residue in his pocket set his face to the west as so many of his country men have done before and Since Accompanied by his family and their connections he sailed from Port, Glasgow in the spring or 1803 in the good ship Commerce, com- manded by Capt. Gait, and landed at Pictou, Nova Scotia in the same season, finally arriving at Baude— nell in the autumn of that vear. We are told that MoLaren chose Prince Edward Island as his future home on account of his acquaint- ance With Lord ISBlkI‘I‘K who owned land? here and who settled a num- ber? (ﬁt-“Scottish emigrants on land held 'by him in the district of Bel- fast 2 during the same. year Whose mendants" *” still- constitute . " the greater: number. of the inhabitants aft that :beatitifu’l and thrivmg sec-

the task before this little band of settlers. The first movement in this direction, that, of chopping down the trees of the forest, was

labour of which they had no ex-.

perienee, 'but they set themselves to their unwonted task with strong hearts and all the stubborn deter- mination characteristic of their nationality, and the result Was suc- cess in the end. Before the first generation had passed away they

found themselves in comfortable‘

if not affluent circumstances. and the-appearance of the country in this vrcmity today tells the tale of subsequent years.

Of the family of James McLaren William died at Brudenell, and his remains rest in the cemetery on the south bank of the river. John With his family removed to the United States about the middle of

the last century. He rests. under

the sod of a western prairie. Don- ald while absent from the Island on busmess died and was buried in Ontario James rests in the ceme- tery at -Murray Haribor North,

haVing passed away at the re.si-,

dence of his grandson, James

Graham, at an advanced age.

Christina, Wife of Donald Gordon, has already been spoken (if. Jessie, wife of James Stewart, lies in the cemetery on the south bank of Brudenell Elizabeth accompanied her husband James McFarlane to the United States, died and lies buried in Wisconsin. ‘

In this short sketch I have con- fined myself almost exclusively to the history of James McLaren and his family, many of whom of the third and fourth generation have removed. to the United States, who “nth ﬂ'IElL descendants are now scattered throughoﬁt: the. great un-

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