Sarah MacPherson of Tryon River Settlement. 3 c., Catherine (Mrs. Lachlanv McLauchlin), John and Sarah (Mrs. Richard Clarke).

3. Donald, b. 1790, Scotland, d. 1 June, 1858, Stanhope. The Islander, 11 June, 1858, notes his death, after a lingering illness of three weeks, at his brother’s residence, Lot 34, Mr. Donald MacLaughlan, aged 68 years. The deceased emigrated to this Island in 1806, and was much esteemed by all his acquaintances.

Donald is listed as a tailor in documents dated 1831 and 1858.

4. Alexander, b. 1794, Scotland, (1. 2 Nov., 1868 at Stanhope, bur. Portage Cemetery, m.ca. 1821 to Mary Henderson (b. 7 Apr., 1803 at Camusnagul, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 11 J an., 1884, Stanhope, bur. Portage Cemetery) dau. of Duncan and Isabella (Murray) Henderson of Clyde River. 10 c., John, Isabella (Mrs. John MacMillan), Duncan, Archibald, Donald, Mary (Mrs. John MacEachem), Ann (Mrs. John Thomas Rodd), Mary Ann (Mrs. Ewen Henderson), James and Alexander. (see below).

5. James, b. 1801, Scotland, d. 29 Oct., 1840 at Miramichi, In. 19 Apr., 1820 to Margaret Walsh Chaplin (b. 1790, Miramichi, d. 23 Dec., 1879 at Mount Stewart, bur. St. Andrews), widow of Daniel Chaplin, Miramichi, dau. of James and Ann (Martin) Walsh, Miramichi. 8 c., Daniel, Ann (Mrs. John McGrath), Christine (Mrs. Avrill), Mary Ann (Mrs. Richard Egan), William, Johanna (Mrs. David Egan), Ellen Jane (Mrs. Dunn) and .

The beginning of the MacLauchlan era in Stanhope was marked by an agreement, dated 21 March, 1829, between Sir James Montgo- mery of Stobo Castle in the County of Peebles, Baron Archibald Montgomery of the Whim, and Robert Montgomery of the city of Edinburgh, and signed by John Stewart of Mount Stewart, their attorney, and Donald and Alexander MacLauchlan of Pisquid River, for all that farm or place known as Poplar Grove, containing 200 acres at a price of £400 sterling. This is the property on the Stanhope peninsula, formerly occupied by James Curtis, and bounded on the north by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the east by the 130-acre Dollery Farm, on the south by Covehead Bay, and on the west by Point Pleasant, now or formerly in possession of Cornelius Higgins.

“Poplar Grove” was farmed in the MacLauchlan name during the next century. Donald’s half, the eastern portion, passed, after his death in 1858, to his nephew John MacLauchlan (son of Alexander), and subsequently to John’s children, John Arch, Edward and Mary Ellen. For over a hundred years, no changes in acreage occurred in this 100-acre farm, until lots began to be sold for summer homes to various people, beginning in 1936 with a parcel to George Brady, followed by other parcels to Mamie Drew, Marjorie Allan, Warren Duchemin, John E. Williams, Louis H. MacMillan, William F. Roper, Herbert P. Roper, Daisy M. Lyle, F. Rundell Seaman, Harvey G. Campbell, Frances Teed, and Dr. W.H. Soper. Many of these buyers recall purchasing land from John Arch MacLauchlan, who measured it off in “roods” with his OWn special stick, which must have been quite

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