Drs. George & Evelyn Simpson, typist & editor, take a break from the arduous task of compiling the Stanhope History to enjoy the out-of-doors. 1984 photo by S.E. Lawson Hudson) and built a summer cottage there. This land had been in the Hudson family since it was first leased to Robert Hudson Sr. in 1842 by Sir Graham Montgomery , heir to Sir James Montgomery , the proprietor of Lot 34. In 1972 the Simpsons bought a house on a further 2 acres of land, adjoining the previous 12 acres, from Edith Misener . This land, fronting on the , was part of 47 acres leased from the Montgomery estate to Martin Power in 1835. In 1878 it passed, via Joseph Pope , the Commissioner for Public Lands, to William Hudson , eldest son of Robert Hudson Sr. , and it remained in the Hudson family until Rachel (Hudson) Tillson sold it to Bertram Misener in 1918. Two acres of the 47 passed via the D.V.A . to Bertram's son John, husband of the above Edith. The present house was built by Aeneas MacDonald in 1940, at the corner of the and the , and sold to Bert and John Misener in 1946; they moved it about a mile to its present site, which according to an old map (1835 surveyor's plan) is exactly where Martin Power's house was. Evelyn is a member of the Stanhope U.C.W . and W.I ., secretary of the latter and of its History Committee. George is secretary of the York- Men 's Club and has been chairman of the Board of Stewards of Stanhope United Church; he has also been active in the 470