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HECTOR CAMPBELL’S FAMILY

Hector Campbell was born in Searletown and married Eunice MacQuarrie of Carleton Point. He moved to Borden and owned the shore part of the farm now owned by John E Read & Sons.

They had nine children, one son and eight daughters 1. Don- ald died when a young man he was never married. 2. Flora mar— ried William Gillespie. They lived many years on the farm now owned by Frank Noonan, they later moved to West Royalty. 3. Mary Margaret who never married. 4. Euphemia who never mar- ried. 5. Annabelle married in USA. 6. Hannah married Alfred Cook. 7. Eunice never married. 8. Catherine lived in U.S.A. 9. Eliza lived in U.S.A., for many years and just last year passed away in Charlottetown Where she had resided for some time.

CARRUTHERS HISTORY

Among the earliest settlers at Carleton Point was Thomas Carruthers, a native of Dumfries Shire Parish, Scotland, who with his wife Elizabeth Lait and six (6) of their seven (7) child— ren emigrated to this country in 1820. They landed at Carleton Point and built a home for themselves a few hundred yards from the shore directly east of the present Borden Breakwater. Trad- ition has it that the name of the ship on which they crossed was the “Hector” and that she was lost at sea on her next voyage. Being God fearing people and not wishing to be buried in a strange land with nothing to mark his grave, Mr. Carruthers brought with him from Scotland a tombstone. After his death in this stone was erected to mark his grave and may still be seen in the graveyard directly behind the present Free Church of Scot-

land, Cape Traverse.

Their eldest son remained at home in Scotland and died soon after his parents came out. His wife also died young and they left one (1) one, Joseph who as a young boy came to P.E.I. with a Mr. Gillespie who had returned to Scotland for tools to enable him to carry on his trade as a wheel wright. In his young man- hood Joseph and James Irving sailed a produce vessel between Carleton Pt., P.E.I., and River John, NS. On one of these trips, while anchored at River John, Joseph fell overboard and although a strong swimmer, he was drowned. The following identifications are the first and last pages of a small psalm book which he always carried with him and which was in his pocket when his body was

recovered.

The other children of Thomas Carruthers and Elizabeth Lait were, Thomas, James, Samuel, Jennie, Mary and William. These six (6) children were all born in Scotland. Mary, the youngest was eleven (11) years old when they came to Canada.

Thomas the second son married Peggy MacDonald and lived on part of the farm now owned by Wilbert Wright. They had

no family.

James was born in 1832 and killed in 1867 while working in a saw-mill near where John E. Read now lives.

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