A. StewartMm‘DonaI¢1'D.FC., MD. C..M.

wrote Mc, but I took the Mac. There appeared to be a religious factor, but I was corrected in my office, when I wrote Mc for a Catholic patient, whose name was spelled with Mac.

At the Battle of Culloden, the MacDonalds, who fought on the right side of the King, were told they had to fight on the left side. This not only meant a disgrace, but they would be fighting with the Campbells who were on the left of the King’s army. So the MacDonalds drifted off, and their tombstones are about two miles from the field of Culloden.

When the MacDonalds landed in Prince Edward Island, they were squatters. In 1803, when Lord Selkirk arrived, my great-great-grandfather bought the deed for the farm in Little Sands, 100 acres, for $10.00. I still have the deed, which says the starting line is from a stake in the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. At that time the Gulf went up as far as Pinette. My grandfather died in 1908 with smallpox. I imagine he was about the last Islander to die with that dreaded disease, as vaccinations were given to most Islanders. My grandmother’s relatives, the MacPhersons, were from Belle River. The early settlers were buried in the old cemetery, on the road to the Belle River wharf. They were farmers. My great-grandmother was married to a Curry from Little Sands, whose mother was a sister of the first Bishop of PEI, Reverend Father Angus MacEachern. Through the years, those connections were forgotten, possibly on religious grounds, but the story goes that Rev. MacEachern brought a cow to his sister’s home and old Curry said, ”no Catholic cow can come to this farm” so she told her brother, that her sister married to a MacLean in High Bank needed the cow more than she did and for accepting the cow, they were known as Bishops for years.