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settled at the end of what is now known as Beaton's Point.

Due to the exposure he moved inward to what is now Percy

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Leatons./4 Roderick MacDonald purchased 216 acres from John Stewart in 1798.55

Charles MacLean from the North of Scotland purchased four hundred and one acres from John Stewart in July of 1805.56 In 1806, Donald Beaten purchased 216 acres from Roderick Mac Donald.57 In July 1805, James MacDonald purchased 500 acres from John Stewart.58 In March 1819, Lauchlan MacDonald signed a lease and release with John Stewart for 605 acres on lot 47.59 The deed of 1799 of Donald for 1,000 acres was written on birch— bark parchment with a quill pen. It is still in the possession of his descendants. I have heard that a ship of Scottish im— migrants, closely related to those that landed at Scotchfort,

landed at East Point but I could not prove that account.40

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Males Females

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Allen McKisick Laughlin MacDonald John Ford and Peebles Angus MacDonald

The accompanying map shows the original farms at East

Point. In many cases these farms are in the hands of the ori—

\ Q' ginal settler s'descendants.

Of the original settlers Allen MacIsaac moved to the