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     Mac1,EAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     Gordon MacLean (1954) is the son of Ronald and Dorothy (Birch) 
     
     MacLean of Birch Hill, P.E.1. On July 2, 1977, he married Heather Jean 
     
     Millar (1957) daughter of Edgar and Betty Millar of Wilmot Valley. They 
     
     built a new home in 1978, on the north side of the Blueshank Road, on a lot 
     
     which was originally Edgar Millar's property. Gordon and Heather have 
     
     devoted a great amount of time and energy on their cozy home and the 
     
     results must be pleasing, not only to the casual passerby, but to the 
     
     MacLeans as well. (See Rural Beautification Contest Winners). Gordon is a 
     
     mechanic at Summerside Chrysler Dodge and Heather works at Avco 
     
     Finance in Summerside. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The property bordering the MacLean lot on the north and east is part 
     
     of the Edgar Millar farm. A study of the map showing the Refugee 
     
     Allotments of 1784, as well as of the maps of Lot 19 in Meacham’s Atlas of 
     
     1880, and the 1926 atlas, suggests that this fifty-acre strip was originally a 
     
     part of the James Waugh property of two hundred and fifty acres. The early 
     
     history of this western fifty acres is not known. The land was owned by the 
     
     Curtis family before it was purchased by the Millars. However older 
     
     residents remember the depression in the field which borders on the 
     
     Blueshank, and the elm-trees which stood on the site, near the northern end 
     
     of the field. Two different families are believed to have lived there, one 
     
     being Craswell and the other being Maclnnis. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CRASWELL 
     
    
   
   
    
     Harold Craswell (1840) lived, according to the census of 1861, 
     
     between the Wilmot Valley School, and the Waugh farm (1979). He married 
     
     Margaret Hetherton Walker (1841—1863). daughter of Robert Walker of 
     
     New Annan, on March 29, 1859. Harold had been deputy—sheriff for Prince 
     
     County, but in 1861 he was listed as a publican and farmer. Unfortunately 
     
     nothing further is known about the Craswells except that they seem to have 
     
     left Wilmot Valley by 1863, according to Lake‘s Topographical Map. 
     
     Margaret died in Richmond in 1863, and is buried in the Anglican Cemetery 
     
     in St. Eleanors. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MaclNNIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Another story of this homestead involves a single lady, Sarah Macln- 
     
     nis. Possibly she was the daughter, Sarah, of the Laughlin Maclnnis family, 
     
     who lived opposite the Lyman Huestis home (1979). Apparently this 
     
     unforzunate lady had measles in her youth, and during this illness, fell into 
     
     the brook (probably the brook which runs through the Huestis and Waugh 
     
     properties). Complications developed which left her crippled. She made her 
     
     living by going from home to home throughout the neighbourhood spinning