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    1. [Antigonish] Cape George
    2. Hugh, Thought I better check Cape George while I was at it. Could be a John Campbell for you here. [This write up is lengthy so I've edited it to the part including the original grantees and first settlers.] Linda CAPE GEORGE A cape between George Bay and NOrthumberland Strait and a settlement north of Antigonish........ .......Among the original grantees on the Cape were Archy Cameron, Malcolm McLean, John Graham, Angus McDonald, John French McNeil, Alexander, Donald and John Chisholm, Martin MacNeil, John and Angus McInnis, John McNeil, Donald Smith, Angus Gillis and John MacDougall. Some of these sold to men who became the first settlers. Donald McLean, John McNeill, John Campbell, Donald McKinnon, Rory Breac McNeill and Donald McNeill, all Barra men and soldiers in the American Revolutionary War. John McDougall from Morar, Scotland, Angus McInnis, Donald McInnis (Glic) Angus Mor MacDonald, Alexander and Donald Chisholm, Alexander McPherson, John McMillan and Malcolm Livingstone from Lochaber, Scotland, Charles Arbuckles, Neil and John MacNeil, Allan and John MacDonald, Angus McInnes, Duncan McDonald Taylor, Donald McEachern and Hugh McInnes of Airsaig, Scotland who owned the first axe in the community. John McDonald built the first grist mill. The district suffered from the Gale of 1811 and from the plague of the mice.

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