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served as high sheriff for the county and held that position at the time of his death on April 20, 1839. He was forty-nine years old.John and his wife Martha had a family of seven girls and four boys: Sophia, Margaret, Anne, Arthur, Helen, Eliza, Archibald, Martha, Hugh, John, and Flora. Two of the boys, Hugh, andJohn, took over Rose Hill Farm until the year 1881 when they, in turn, sold it for a sum of $6,000 to the new Presbyterian minister, Rev. Charles Fraser. The minister came from Springfield in Lot 8 where he had owned 250 acres on the Maddock Road.

Due to his early passingJohn served the shortest period of time of the four original elders. Martha Ramsay lived an addi- tional twenty-four years after the passing of her husband. She died December 11, 1863.

John and Martha’s daughter Sophia married Hugh Carr of Lot 17, also of the Lot 16 Congregation. 2°

FIRST PRESBYTERY ELDER Edward Ramsay (1763-unknown)

Included here is the first elder of the P.E.I. Presbytery, Edward Ramsay in light of his connection to the Rose Hill Ramsays.

When the Prince Edward Island Presbyterian Presbytery was formed in 1821, Edward Ramsay, an elder of the Prince- town congregation, was appointed the ruling elder. At nine years old, he was the younger of the two nephews who emi- grated with their uncle, John Ramsay, from Scotland in 1770 on the Annabella.

In 1790, he married Flora MacKay of Lot 18 and settled near Keir’s Wharf in Malpeque. The couple, by 1804, acquired 100 acres of land on Beech Point Road in what is now Hamilton. Edward and Flora had a family of twelve chil- dren.21 Rev. George Patterson, in his works Memoir 9f Ra). jams: MmGregm published byJoseph M. Wilson, Philadelphia in 1859 included the following excerpt from' MacGregor’s records. The author, Rev. Patterson, was told by Rev. Keir that the person about whom MacGregor was writing was Edward Ramsay. The year of the entry is 1794.

LOT 16 UNITED CHURCH AND ITS PEOPLE