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wishes all happiness forever to attend him-

self and family. ALEXANDER MACGREGOR,

Student in Divinity." Manse of Kilmuir, 20th May, 1829.

“Manse of Kilmuir, Skye, 12th May, 1829.

“Mr. Allan Macdonald is a man of good conduct and behavior. He and his wife, and such of his children as have attained to the years of discretion and understanding, are free of every kind of scandal, and he is as agreeable, mannerly and upright a neighbour as either poor or rich ever had. All his acquaintances are sorrowful that he leaves them, albeit he goes to a better place; for none would wish to part with Allan. Many a dispute has he 'ever settled. Ob- streperous fellows, intending to sue one an- other at expensive law, has he often pacified, reconciled, and obtained their blessing. He is peaceable, wise, prudent and learned above thousands of his countrymen. All this .is certified by

ROBERT MACGREGOR, Minister.

Monkstadt, 18th June, 1829.

’ HUGH MACDONALD, J. P.. County of Invemess. J. MCGREGOR, Schoolmaster."

Allan J. Macdonald, the representative farmer and leading citizen of Mount Hope. in Kings county, who furnishes the imme- diate theme of this writing, was born on the farm on which he now resides, [and is :1 son of John and Margaret Macdonald. His is an exceptionally fine estate, consisting of some two hundred acres of land. and it has come down to Mr. Macdonald from his grandfather, Allan Macdonald, hereinbefore mentioned. The subject’s maternal grand- father, Alexander Macdonald. who was

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born in 1790 and died in 1862, married Mary Campbell, of the parish of Kilmuir, Scotland. in 1826. They had issue as fol- lows: Donald, who was born in August, 1827, and died in March, 1891, unmarried; John, who was born in 1829, and died in March. 1857, unmarried; Annie, who was born in August, 1831, and died in April, 1857, and was the wife of Angus McLeod, of Murray Harbour Road; Flora, who was born in November, 1833, and died in Octo- ber, 1858. and was the wife of Alexander Macdonald, of Murray Harbour Road; Margaret, who was born in October, 1835, and became the wife of John Macdonald, of Dundas, and by him the mother of Allan J. Macdonald, the subject of this sketch; Christy, who was born in January, 1837, and became the wife of James McLeod, of High Bank; Archibald, who was born in May, 1840, and died in 1900, and who mar- ried Mary McKay, of Murray Harbour Road: Catherine, who was born in August, 1842, and became the wife of Abner Gay Dundas; Sarah, who was born in March 1846, and became the wife of Allan Mc. Leod, of Dundas; John. who was born in April, 1849, and married Elizabeth Ballan- tyne, of Nova Scotia. The Alexander Mac- donald referred to as the maternal grand- father of Allen J. Macdonald, was master of both the Gaelic and English languages and was a teacher of English for some years previous to his coming to this Island. He resided at Murray Harbour Road till his death in 1862.. John Macdonald. above re- ferred to, married Margaret Macdonald in 1861, and they had issue as follows: Mar- garet Janet, who was bom on January 16, 1863, and in 1894 married Norman Mc- Swain, of Dundas; Allan J., who was born on May 1, 1866, and in 1897 married Wil-