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EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

PRINCE EDW’ARD ISLAND. CANADA

After the capture of Louisburg and Quebec in 1758 and 1759 the sea lanes between Great Britain and Canada were comparatively safe for emigrants sailing from the old land to the newly acquired territory in the west; and although the voyage was still tedious and uncomfortable, the emigrants were no longer exposed to capture and ill—treatment. This fact gave a special impetus to emigration from Great Britain to Canada. It was a period, too, when the prevailing landlord system in the home~ land subjected tenants to such irritating restrictions that their status was little better than that of serfs; and while the land of their fathers was clear to them, they were attracted to the new land across the seas by the prospect of securing better conditions for their children.

EARLY SETTLERS ON LOT 47

The first to settle in Kingsboro or West River came in 1808. The McLanes and Kennedys, James MacDonald, father of James and John7 and the Stewarts, and Munns. Duncan Stewart and Donald lVlacDon- ald came from Perthshire 1810. The last named was grandfather of Rev. J. A. Ford. The Scotts‘, Ftazers, Peter Stewart, (South Lake), and Duncan (Harbor). landed at Munn‘s Harbor in 1817. Donald Munn was born the night they landed. John Ford, St., came from Falkirk, Scotland. He belonged to the 42nd Highlanders. They were disband- ed in Halifax. N. S. He and a lVlr. Peebles were given a British gov— ernment grant of land at East Point and settled there 1805. Ford af~ terwards moved to North River (Bothwell). The grandfather of Lauch» lan MacDonald settled at East Point, 1790. There wsre then only three settlers on Lot 47 from the Point to the Basin at Chings.

Duncan Robertson. Six. and wife came from Perthshire. They cam: to Nova Scotia where they visited relatives and in November moved to