Steele, with families of 7 and 8 respectively. The census also 
     
     shows a total of 50 in the Launching-De Gros Marsh areas. 
     
     This area was made up of settlers from South Uist who moved 
     
     from the Macdonald settlement in Tracadie after 1790. They 
     
     were able to lease a block of 600 acres, divided among six of 
     
     the group. Whether Hugh came a little later is not known. He 
     
     was able to lease Boughton Island land from the Montgomery 
     
     Estate in 1808. The document stated that he had been living 
     
     there for some time. 
     
    

    
     Dan MacCormack, her father, kept the post office on the 
     
     island for thirty—five years. The mainland end of the Cardigan 
     
     courier route was Dan Yoston’s home in Launching. Mary 
     
     often accompained her father as they traversed the bar with 
     
     horse and wagon to pick up the mail at Yoston’s. This was 
     
     a twice-weekly chore, sometimes by wagon, other times by 
     
     boat. Sometimes he couldn’t go at all. There was a room in the 
     
     house set aside as the post office and Dan was very careful 
     
     to lock his desk when he went out. His other work was as a 
     
     farmer, a fisherman and a lobster packer. 
     
    

    
     Connections to Georgetown by boat were maintained from 
     
     earliest times. This is where Dan MacCormack found his wife. 
     
     She was a woman who developed a deep and lasting love for 
     
     Boughton Island, even returning in the summers when the island 
     
     was depopulated in the 1950’s. In fact Annie MacCormack 
     
     was the last person to leave 
     
     Boughton Island. Mary's 
     
     mother, Annie, had been born 
     
     in Port Hood, Cape Breton. 
     
     She was the daughter of a 
     
     Gloucester fisherman who 
     
     married a MacDonnell girl and 
     
     carried her off to Georgetown. 
     
     There he settled himself as a 
     
     tailor. Daughter Annie in turn 
     
     was transported over the water 
     
     to Boughton Island. There 
     
     she and Dan had a family of 
     
     five, John, Frank, Dan, Mary 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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