DEAR SIR,--Yours to hand yesterday, and in reply I have to state that the widow Doherty (my grandmother) left the Parish of Rag, County Donegal, Ireland, about the year 1820, and landed with her family in Magudavic, walked to St.John, N.B., and eventually got by schooner up to Great Village, N.S., except my father, William, who remained for some time longer in St.John, but also got to Great Village, N.S., and gradually worked his way to Richibucto, where he had an aunt (Mrs.John McGregor, and sister to Mrs.Joseph Irvin, of Point de Bute or Tidnish).My grandmother likely found her way for a time with part of her large family to Point de Bute, where one of her daughters (Jane)married Richard Jones, of that place.One of her daughters (Mary)remained in Nova Scotia and married George Spencer, and after a number of years moved to Mill Branch, Kent, N.B.Grisilda, the eldest daughter, married John Reid, but I do not know when married, but they resided in Mill Branch, Kent County, from my earliest recollection.My father, William, in time settled on a farm on the main Richibucto River, and married Nancy McLeland, of Great Village, N.S., a sister of G.W.McLelland, who for many years represented Colchester County in the House of Assembly at Halifax.My father afterwards moved to the south branch of the St.Nicholas River, Kent County, and built an extensive establishment of mills, including saw, grist and carding mills.Joseph Doherty, the youngest of the family, located in Buctouche, where he also established a mill property, now in possession of John McKee, but subsequently removed to Campbellton.Isaac Doherty, the eldest of the family, came to Canada some five years before his mother and the rest of the family, and he and Joseph Irvin conducted some trade with Newfoundland, and, I think, built a ship somewhere about Tidnish or Bay Verte.Isaac and Joseph married sisters, the former Cynthia, and the latter Polly Wells.

After my father, William, got settled on the main Richibucto River, his mother and youngest brother, Joseph, resided with him; so I don't think that the family, except Isaac and Jane, remained very long in Point de Bute.My grandfather's name was William, but he never came to America.

My grandmother's maiden name was Marjorie Fetters.You can see that the Doherty family, with the exception of Isaac and Jane, were not actually settlers or permanent residents of Point de Bute.Both Isaac and Jane (Mrs.Jones) are buried there.Perhaps the Irvin family can add other facts to what I have written.With kind remembrance to self and family, I remain.

Yours very truly,J.W.DOHERTY, M.D.HOWARD TRUEMAN, Esq.

Prospect Farm, Point de Bute.

LATER RESIDENTS OF WHAT WAS THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF CUMBERLAND.

McCREADY.--HIGGINS.--C.F.McCready's and David Higgin's ancestors were Loyalists.The McCreadys settled in King's County, N.B., and Higgins, in Colchester, N.S.

SNOWDON.--The Snowdons were originally from Wales, England.Pickering Snowdon was a resident of Sackville in 1786.

SUTHERLAND.--James Sutherland is of Scotch blood.Donald Sutherland, his grandfather, came from Sutherlandshire, Scotland, in 1818, and settled in Pictou County, N.S.

BULMER.--George Bulmer is a descendant of George Bulmer, who came from Yorkshire in the ship DUKE OF YORK in the spring of 1772.He came with his brother-in-law, William Freeze.The Bulmers are said to be of Norman descent.

FULLERTON.--Douglas Fullerton's grandfather was a Scotchman, coming to Halifax about the year 1790.He taught school for a number of years.He married a Miss Peck and soon after settled down as a farmer in Parrsboro', Cumberland County, N.S., where many of his descendants live.

DOYLE.--James Doyle's grandfather came from Ireland and settled at Five Islands, Colchester County, N.S.

HICKS.--This name was early in Nova Scotia.I find John Hicks in company with three others, prospected Nova Scotia, in 1759, for prospective settlers, from Rhodes (sic) Island and Connecticut, and decided to take up lands at Pisquid or Windsor.Josiah Hicks was a resident of Sackville in 1786.The late Samuel Hicks of Jolicure came to that place from Sackville where the name is now in large number.

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