42 MacDonald. He had five sisters and two brothers. His sisters Flora, Isabella and Julia remained single. His sister Mary married John Mac Donald of St. Peter 's Bay. His brothers Alexander and Ronald lived at East Point . John MacDonald did not marry. John was a merchant at East Point . After the Catholic Em¬ ancipation, John became a member of the Assembly in 1830. He later 227 drowned on a trip to Halifax . J Hon. Lauchlan MacDonald was born in 1844 at East Point . He was the son of Lieut. Col. (Big) Ronald MacDonald and Catherine 228 MacDonald. Ronald, his father, was the son of Lauchlan MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald . Catherine MacDonald was the daughter of 229 Augustine MacDonald . y Lauchlan was a brother to Jessie (Mrs. James J. Beaton), * Margaret, ^ ( East Point ), John, (who lived at East Point and was unmarried) and Ronald (who lived at East Point and later P5P moved to British Columbia ). The MacDonald property was known loc¬ ally as . It comprised 600 acres when Lauchlan's grand- 255 father settled in the area. Lauchlan married Teresa MacLean (daughter of Allan MacLean 254 and Flora MacDonald ) of East Point in 1876. She was a sister to 25 R Daniel MacLean of East Point . ' They had two children Ronald and 256 Mary Ann! Mary Ann died in 1914. ^ Both died unmarried at East Point.237 Lauchlan took over the family farm after the death of his Lauc 239 258 father in March 1867. Ln the process, Lauchlan reportedly sque ezed out his brother Ronald's inheritance. Lauchlan attended the district school. He was a student at St. Dunstans (for the priesthood?). He taught school for several