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section of this paper. As well, Mathieu Turin who was at

East Point in 1752 may have had Haure a' Mathieu in Rello Bay

~ . » -x . , «m 24 :uned arter him. It was located on Cfle Picnon l700 map.

On July 25, 1767 lot 47 was granted to Gordon Gra— ham Esq., and Lieut. Col. Robert Porter Esq. 25 This lot was later bought by John Stewart. From the deportation of 1758 to 1785 East Point was unsettled. Inl785, Henry Baxter, William

Burke, and Hugh Peebles applied for and received grants of

‘ land for refugees on lot 47 provided they had not received

land elsewhere. They were disbanded soldiers.26 Only Hugh

Peebles accepted the offer and he became the first English

settler at East Point. 27 He was later joinved by John Ford

Sr. also of Falkirk, Scotland (lowlands) who came in 1804-.28

The later Scottish settlers were primarily from the highlands.

It may be coincidental but it is strange that most early set—

tlers at East P01nt were ex—military men. /(nabeK¢PxLOhCVW@Q In 1790, Lauchlan MacDonald from Glencoe settled at

East Point after his marriage to Margaret MacDonald of St.'

Peters Lake. He bought 1,000 acres of land from his relative

Captain Charles Stewart.29 Angus and John MacDonald from

Glencoe purchased six hundred acres of land from John Stewart

on November 15, 1799.50 Allen MacIsaac from the mainland of

Scotland settled on 250 acres of land prior to 1798.51 In 1799

they were joined by Donald Beaton from Lachaber, Scotland. He

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was married to Lauchlan MacDonald's sister, Mary. He purcha-

sed 500 acres from John Stewart on November 14, 1799.35 He first