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The first church was put up by the McDonald’s,
and was free for all denominations; it was built
about 1832. Four or five years later the Methodists
erected a wooden building on the site of the present
church.
The first school house stood near the first church.
One of the first teachers was John S. McDonald,
subsequently a Provincial Land Surveyor.
The first resident minister was the Rev. William
Carson, also a school teacher.
The first Presbyterian minister was a young man
and a graduate of a Scottish University. The first
Sunday after his arrival he attended services held by
k a Local Methodist minister, who, during the sermon,
made an assertion and to clench the argument ex¬
claimed, “that’s so, isn’t it bub,” at the same time
slapping the Presbyterian minister on the back.
What the young emigrant thought of the Canadian
style of preaching can be better imagined than dis¬
cribed.
The Methodists furnished the first regular services
in Gananoque.
Originally, there was arapid where the upper dam
is located and a considerable fall existed on the site
of the lower dam.
Among the first settlers of the village was Ephraim
Webster, who was afterwards Collector of Customs
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store in Gananoque.
In 1812, Charles McDonald opened a store.
In the vicinity of the village, the Webster’s, John¬
ston’s, Landon’s and McNield’s settled.
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. THE McDONALD FAMILY,
a John McDonald emigrated from Scotland and
: 4 settled in Athol County, New York. He had
. — five daughters and five sons; three" of the sons
_ ———. came to Canada, viz : Charles, John and Collins.
| Charles married Mary Stone; John married
Henrietta Mallory, a grand daughter of Colonel
Stones second wife. Collin never married : he re¬
moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and from there to Cuba,
where he died.
sheriff McEwan, of: Windsor.
Charlotte married Joshua Legge, Sen.
Charles McDonald left three surviving children :
William Stone, a resident of Gananoque ; John
Lewis, who died at Belleville ; Charles Joel, who
visited China and South America, dying in New
York.
1. A Tur HONORABLE JOHN McDONALD,
_ This-gentleman was born at or near Saratoga, in
the State of New York, United States, in the month
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rival from Scotland of his father and mother, who
| had formerly resided at Blair Athol, in Perthshire.
At an early age, Mr. McDonald went to reside at
Troy, New York, where he subsequently was en¬
| gaged in commercial business. He came to Canada
| in.1817, and associated himself in business with his
brother Charles, who had preceded him, and had
settled at Gananoque. The firm of C.& J. McDonald
& Co., carried on extensive operations in lumber and
grain. About 1831, Mr. McDonald married Miss
Henrietta M. Mallory, whose grandmother was the
second wife of Colonel Joel Stone, who is generally
considered to have been the founder of Gananoque.
Subsequently, Mr. McDonald was called to the
Legislative "Council of Upper Canada, and at the
| union in 1840-41, was appointed a Legislative Coun¬
cillor for the Province of Canada, which position he
subsequently forfeited by non-attendance at parlia¬
ment after the removal of the seat of government
| from Kingston. Mr. McDonald was at one time a
Supporter of the late Honorable Jonas Jones, but in
his latter years was a Reformer, although never an
extreme one. He was an elder in the Presbyterian
Church at Gananoque. Full of years and full of
honors, esteemed and regretted by all, he died at
Gananoque in the 74th year of his age, in September
1860,
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| The following document, from the papers of the
| late Colonel Stone, is given as illustrating the
j powers and duties of the Land Board :—
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER,
March 13th, 1819.
Present: His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland, K. C. B.,
Lieutenant-Governor, in Council.
Whereas great inconvenience accrues to emigrants desirous to
become settlers in this Province from the necessity of presenting
themselves at York before they can obtain a location on the waste
lands of the Crown :
For remedy thereof, His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, is
pleased to appoint in each of the Districts certain persons to form
a Board, with power to locate any emigrant or other person desirous
| of becoming a settler in the respective District, on a lot of 100 acres
within the same, under such limitations, restrictions, and rules as
from time to time may be made for the government of said Boards
by any Order in Council.
The Land Board in the Johnstown’ District is to consist of
Solomon Jones, Esq., Chairman.
Joel Stone, Esq., Charles Jones, Esq., Adiel Sherwood, Esq.,
and Dr. E. Hubble. "
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The Boards will assemble one day at least in each week, of which
public notice shall be given in the District.
They shall examine every applicant, and minute his place of
birth, age, and time of coming into the Province ; and shall receive
and minute a declaration that he has not before received any land