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Rock Barra area of Kings County. Roderick MacDonald apparently“ moved after selling his land to Donald Beaton. The descendants of Eonald Beaten, Charles MacLean, James MacDonald, John Ford, Lauchlan MacDonald, John MacDonald and Angus MacDonald were
still settled in the area one hundred years later.“
MacDonald
James MacDonald settled on the west side of East Lake
on 500 acres of land. John and Angus MacDonald settled on 600
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acres of land east of East Lake. In 1880 there were six fam—
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ilies of MacDonalds where Angus MacDonald settled: James, Angus, Sr., Angus Jr., Donald, Milus, and Ronald MacDonald. On the
'East Point land which James owned was settled a James MacDonald
in 1880. There were other MacDonalds on his land but they were located in North Lake.45 It is almost impossible to trace the genealogy of these MacDonalds! "Rhetland" thDonalds (descended from Captain Allan MacDonald, cousin of Captain John,of Rhetland)
settled nearhy in South Lake.
Cheverie 'J
The first of the present East Point Cheveries was James Cheverie. He came to East Point around 1880 from New Zealand to work at the lighthouse. He later became a fisherman and farmer. His second wife, Ellen Conway, accompanied him as did his family. His children from his first marriage to Cecily Cheverie were Isaac, Fidele, Mary, Agnes, Margaret and Annie.45 The girls all moved to the United States and married there around the 1870's
and 1880's. Mary married a Whitington; Margaret (Dolly) married