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Hi,
There was a destitute widow who put in a claim for land but there was no mention of
Pendleton in the claim, made after her husband was drowned in the Payne River at
Berwick(Finch Township).
There was a Donald Cameron(d. 1822), son of Angus Cameron, who had first settled on Lot
16, Concession 5, Cornwall Township, then this Donald moved to the Ninth Concession of
Cornwall Township, later settling on Lot 6, Concession 1, Roxborough Township. Concession
9, Cornwall Township, was just south of Finch and Roxborough Townships. Donald Cameron
who died in 1822 had a grandson, Donald Cameron who settled on Lot 17, Concession 2, Finch
Township. There were many 'Donald Camerons'!
The Donald Cameron who was killed March 1809, Lot 21, Concession 4, Finch Township, his
body carried out along the blazed Indian trail on boughs of the tree that killed him to be
buried on the South Branch, where men kept fires going on the hillock on his parents'
farm in order to thaw the ground for his burial, was my gtgt grandfather, and,.. it took
three days and nights to carry his body out to 'the front' where his wife,
Nancy(Ann) Cameron(b c 1779), waited for the arrival of his body. She was the daughter of
John Cameron(Inveruiskavouline). .
Many Cameron and McLean families lived in the Plantagenet area and in the Cumerland area.
Mr. Hill McLean (deceased) of Cornwall descended from the McLean family at Plantagenet, a
family which was of the Selkirk settlers, not related to the McLeans in Finch Township.
Mr. Hill McLean's grandfather, Charles Cameron, was born in Finch Township after
1808.(See death certificate of his mother).
You are probably related to the late Mr. Hill McLean(a cousin to the late Mrs. Jenny
Bicks, Lot 15, Conc. 1, Finch Township). I was told by Mrs. Bicks c 1975 that she
descended from Donald Cameron who migrated from Scotland in 1802 from Kenmore(The Donald
Bans).
Sincerely,
Margaret Cameron,
Long Sault