just arrived from the Isle of Skye. Roddie Pratt recalled this story about Bishop McEachern: My people came from ML Hope and this was a Matheson who married into the Nicholsons, somewhere or another. They were just, off the boat from Scotland , and they were settling in ML Hope with the rest of the Matheson and Nicholson clan that came from the Isle of Skye. They had a little girl that grew a tumor on her jaw or her tongue, and the family had heard about the Bishop having special cures that he was capable of mixing and making. Whether they were spiritual or chemical, I am not prepared to say. The father took the daughter on horseback through the woods and made his way to St. Andrews , which would have been afew days journey at that time. The Father and daughter stayed at the Bishop's residence for the evening and the next day after the Bishop examined the child's tumor, he told the father that he would have to leave the little girl with him. Now that was quite a concern because children were very precious, they lost so many in those days. If they raised half their family that was born, they were very fortunate. The father pondered it over for a while, but the Bishop and the Bishop's sister living with him reassured him that they would take good care of the child. So the Bishop took the child as the story goes, made some sort of a potion, and applied it to the girls cheek. Being a child, she would not keep it in and kept spitting it our all the time. The Bishop fashioned a kind of a wooden spoon and tied the stuff inside the spoon, like a sucker. The little girl held it on her cheek, while the Bishops sister kept an eye on her during the day. Inside of six weeks, I think it was, the tumor fell out. He sent word to ML Hope, which would take a while in those days, to come and get the child, as she was all right. When the father arrived to get the child, parting was not so easy. The little one had become attached to the Bishop, and he and his sister were not too keen on seeing the child go either. The child grew up, got married, and her story is still talked about four generations later. One of her daughter's was my great-grandmother, who also married and raised eight children of her own. (37) The first Catholic settlers, as mentioned previously, arrived in St. Peters in 1792, shortly after the church and college had been established in St. Andrews . It is told that these early settlers had mass only twice a year, which occurred in the private homes of Angus Mclntyre in Cable Head and Angus Maclsaac in St. Peters . (38) It was not long, however, before the first Catholic Church was erected in St. Peters . The dates concerning the construction of the first Catholic Church in St. Peters vary. It has been estimated that construction began in the 244