an enormous sum in those days; it was reduced to £9,219.12.21/2 by allowances for his work as agent and overseer, and from the sale of Rustico Island. This still huge debt was forgiven Lawson by Sir James, who was not vindictive; James Douglas was even ordered to pay him a pension of £12 a year. Lawson had a log cabin on 300 acres of land rented by his son William, on the Stanhope peninsula, between James Curtis’ property and the western boundary of Stanhope Farm; part of this land had been known as the “Dollery Farm” and we have been puzzled over the origin of the name. It is probable that David Lawson named his place for a small spot on the map of Perthshire called “Dollerie”, near Callendar and between Muthill and Monzie; the Lawson children were all baptised in the parish of Monzie. David Lawson died at the Dollery Farm some time after 1805, the last year in which we have found a record of his pension having been paid.

Home built on the Dollery Farm by John A. & Malcolm S. Kielly ca. 1880 now owned by theJenkins family Parks Canada — Joe Hickey

James Douglas

This Scot was the second Montgomery agent for Lot 34, from 1788 to 1803. He was the younger brother of John Douglas, an Edinburgh lawyer, and had emigrated to the Canadian-United States border, where he clerked for a firm of Indian traders operating between Niagara and Detroit. In 1781 he helped in the successful prosecution

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