on Panmure Island at the mouth of the Harbour, where he erected a. fine hrick dwelling house and many other buildings and vhere he did an extensive business for many years. Besides his family, he trough with him, a following of fifty is persons, who settled in the adjoining district of Gaspereaux and who it prohable, aided much in the erection of the church that shortly after their arrival was built upon Panmure Island . Beside the church was a cemetery where Mr. McDonald and his wife are buried arid which was for many years a favorite place of Sepulture the dwellers in Gaspereaux bringing their dead there for internment, long after the church was removed tc Georgetown . Somo years before there was a house where Georgetown now stands, Burnt Point and what is called the Royalty, were settled hy sev^n or eifcht Highland Catholic families from Hist, with a springing of Presbyterians from the Isle of Skye. These people formed part of the band of emigrant.6 who came out with the Earl of Selkirk in 1802, in the good ship "Folly". The majority of Lord Selkirk 's following settled in Belfast , but the Catholics of the band, with a few Protestants, herring that there were frwe farms to be had at Launching in Township Fifty Five, made their way thither. They found thrt the lands which had been encheatedby governor Smith were all taken up and they decided to settle on what is now the Royalty of Georgetown and upon land belonging to Lord Selkirk on the Cardigan River . Lord Selkirk gave to each family on his estate, one cow, one axe and a good grubbing hoe^" and to every two families he gave a quern or hand-mill with which to grind their corn. After many years of successful business life at Panmure Island , the venerable Mr. Andrew MacDonald moved across the harbour to where Georgetown now stands; families of different nationalities ctme to settle tt this point, and everything gave promise of it becoming a busy town. About the yea.r 1 S 58 the old church at Panmure Island was dismantled and. the boards and scuitling with the adition of a large supply of fresh material, were used in