He was for many years an elder of the Presbyterian church and the last member of the session, when the late Reverend William MacGregor was inducted at the first Presbytery meeting on Prince Edward Island in 1821.

He was a good man, a quiet, industrious Christian and a prudent ruler in the house of God. His love of the sanctuary was so strong, that until, his last illness, utterly prostrated him, the church was never open on

the Sabbath or week day (j; but what he was at his . “ M , place. Session minutes, March 24, 1832, Lot 16. Help, Lord, for the “Appeared before the session, Robert Godly man cometh, for the

Milligan, Elder for the crime of going to hear faithful fall from among the McDonald the Preacher (Methodist) after the children of man.

Presbytery condemned him. After some Robert Milligan was conversation with him he acknowledged that buried beside his first

he had done wrong but not intentionally. wife, Margaret, in the Lot Session was then satisfied.” 16 Cemetery.

John Ramsay (1790—1839)

One of the families to arrive on the Island aboard the fated Annabella was that of John and Margaret (Taylor) Ramsay, their four sons, and two nephews. The family lost all of their possessions on October 29, 1770 when the Annabelhl was wrecked at the entrance to Malpeque Harbour. They were emigrating from Ugadale, a small village on the east coast of the Kintyre peninsula, about ten kilometres northeast of Campbelltown in Scotland. The four sons who emigrated with the family were Donald, Neil, Angus, and Archibald. Two more sons John and Malcolm were born on the Island. The two nephews were Edward (the first ruling elder of P.E.I. Presbytery) and Malcolm whose father had died.17 John and Margaret settled their family at Princetown. Archibald, called his oldest son, born in 1790, after his father, John. In April 1815, John (the second), married

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