Helen (Montgomery) Ramsay of Beach Point, Lot 18. Both bur. Geddie Memorial Cemetery, French River, 9 c.

11. Margaret, b.ca. 1792, living 23 June, 1846, m. before 10 Aug., 1811 to William Clark (b. 3 May, 1789, d. 24 Dec., 1845, Darnley) eldest child of William and Helen (Simpson) Clark of Cavendish. 7 c.

Benjamin MacEwen was the son of Margaret (Peggy) MacGregor and Benjamin “the Astronomer” MacEwen, who was Margaret’s sister J ennet’s stepson (see MacGregor family history). Young Benjamin was born at New Haven ca. 1816, died at South Rustico in 1882, and is buried in the Portage cemetery, Brackley Point. He was married on December 23, 1844 at Robinson’s Island by Rev. Charles Lloyd to Mary Ann Robinson (1826-1911), 2nd daughter of John and Elizabeth (Moore) Robinson of Robinson’s Island. Benjamin was a farmer and fisherman, and the father of ten children; he is the ancestor of Andrew MacEwen of Stockton Springs, Maine, who has given us much valuable historical information on Stanhope’s people, for which we are very grateful.

Benjamin and Mary Ann (Robinson) MacEwen’s children: — Elizabeth, Ellen, John William, Joseph Wendover, James Henry, Matilda Jane, Isabella, James Henry II, Emeline Robinson, Hannah Maria.

John William MacEwen, above, and his wife Matilda Sarah Robinson had a daughter Catherine Elizabeth (1874-1885), known as “Ibbie”, who died of small-pox aged 11 years. Ibbie was sent to Mr. Hooper’s store in Charlottetown for a loaf of bread, at the time of an outbreak of small-pox. Two sailors from the infected ship had been in there just before and Ibbie caught the infection and died they wouldn’t let her be buried at Winsloe where Mother had a lot so Uncle John William Robinson said you can bury her in one of my fields at Brackley Point. She was buried by the fence (presumbably next to the old pioneer cemetery). A sad story.

McGREGOR

John McGregor was born in Perthshire in 1745 or 6, the fourth son of Major James Drummond (or McGregor) and his wife, Annabella McNichol. John was a farmer, weaver, and surveyor, and was ap- pointed Deputy Surveyor-General here in 1809. It is thought that he came on the Falmouth, but there is some confusion with a John McGregor who was a disbanded soldier of the Black Watch (42nd

Regiment). John may have married a daughter of Neil Shaw 1n ca. 1773, with no issue; he certainly married Margaret Gregor on March 25,

1790 at St. Paul’s in Charlotte Town. She was born in Scotland, and baptised at Dundurcas, Morayshire, on October 13, 1765, the youngest

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