Fonds MG 6.5 - MacNeil, Hector Character Reference

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MacNeil, Hector Character Reference

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Edmund MacQueen

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CA BI MG 6.5

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  • 1802 (Creation)
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    MacNeil, Hector

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1 p. of textual records

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Hector had been working in Glasgow, Scotland when he notified the Laird of Barra that he could not support his family financially. The Laird offered him a plot of land if he would return to his native Barra. Hector returned but later left following an incident in which a neighbor stole a number of his chickens. Unhappy about Hector's leaving, the Laird would not write the character reference and he was forced to approach the Church of Scotland minister, Edmund MacQueen.
Hector sailed into Pictou in 1802 and travelled to Grand Narrows the next year where he would stake out land and raise a family.

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Gift of Mrs. Lizzie MacNeil, Grand Narrows.

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Fonds consists of a character reference for Hector MacNeil, one of the first Scottish settlers of Christmas Island.

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