 | Donald
McCall and his friend Robert Munro enlisted to fight for England in
the Seven Years War and were sent to America to fight in the Indian
Wars. After seven years service they accepted land grants in New
York rather than return home. They swapped those grants for land in
the Scottish settlement at Basking Ridge in New Jersey, where they
lived for the next 30 years, including the American Revolution.
Thirteen years after the Revolution, in May 1796 Donald and Elsie
resigned their half of pew 20 in the Presbyterian Church there and with
most of their descendants, a few friends and neighbors, arrived in the Long Point Settlement six
weeks later. Donald and Elsie settled in Walsingham Township but by 1798 had
moved to Charlotteville Township where, near their children, they lived the rest of their lives.
Frequently retold family
lore seemingly first brought forward by E. A. Owen in his 1898 book Pioneer
Sketches of the Long Point Settlement, embellishes this story considerably, but the historical record
does not support these possible flights of
fancy. |
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