Peter MacDougall (abt. 1749 - 1819)

Born about 1749 in Campbelltown, Argyll, Scotland

Husband of Marion MacKay — married 1771 in Malpeque, Princes, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Descendants

Died 19 Feb 1819 at about age 70 in Princetown, Prince Edward Island, British Colonial America

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Name

Name: Peter /MacDougall/^[1][2]

Biography

Peter McDougall was born in Scotland. He may have emigrated to PEI on the ill-fated Annabella in 1770, as stated by Nina Ross and others. ^[3] There was also a Peter McDougall who sailed from Kintyre, Scotland with 61 other passengers on the Brigantine Edinburgh, arriving on the Island of St. John on September 17, 1771. ^[4][5][6]

Peter was granted Town Lot No. 9, Letter B and pasture Lot No. 110 in Princetown and the Royalty in a land grant dated 5 October 1775. He purchased more land in 1792, from Edward Fanning. On January 30,1818 Peter leased from Dugald Stewart, Esq. 100 acres in the district now known as Hamilton PEI Lot 18. He lived there until his death in 1819. ^[7][8]

Peter, Duncan and John McDougall signed a letter to the Governor along with a number of residents of Prince County in 1792.

In the 1798 PEI census, in Lot 18, there were 12 people in the household of Peter McDougald in Prince County: 4 males and 3 females under 16; 2 males and 3 females between the ages of 16-60. There was also a Donald McDougald with a family of 5 in the same lot: one might assume a husband and wife, and 3 daughters under 16. ^[9]

Another contemporary source was his will, where Peter McDougall made provisions for his wife Marion, and left every else to his son Duncan. "I disavow the rest of my sons or grandsons". By his will dated February 1819, and proved July 10 1819 Peter left Lot 110 to his wife Marion and his 100 acres fronting on the Shipyard Road to his son Duncan. ^[10]

From the wording of the will, and the 1798 census, it seems safe to assume that there were other sons besides Duncan. The History of Malpeque and other local histories say the other sons were John, Peter, and Alexander.

Event

Although nearly every tree on the internet shows Peter being born in Campbelltown, there is no evidence to back this up, and it's highly unlikely that he was born there. Even if it could be proven that he sailed to Canada on the Annabella, that only proves he departed from Campbelltown. And even if he actually was living in Campbelltown when he made his voyage to Canada, that doesn't mean he was born there.

Event:

Type: Arrival

Date: 1771

Place: Prince Edward Island^[11]

It is highly probable that Peter arrived on the Annabella, which sailed out of Campbelltown in Scotland July 1770 and arrived at Prince Edward Island in October of that year. The passengers, comprised of 60 families, all came ashore for the night and during that night the Annabella sank, taking all of the passenger's possessions down with it. The ship's manifest lists only the last names of the families, so it cannot be proven that Peter was among them, but there were definitely MacDougalls and MacKays on the ship. A monument to these families was erected in 1964. http://www.kennet.pe.ca/chip/english/sea/annabella.htm

Research Notes

Jane Dyment commented that she believed there was no manifest for the Annabella. After researching sites that show the names of passengers, none mentions a manifest. The main source for the list seems to be Warburton's History of Prince Edward Island. ^[12] The Annabella is mentioned only once in the book in a footnote that names some of the passengers. The book has a bibliography with 92 sources, but Warburton does not indicate which source or sources the information about passengers came from. Some of the names were provided by descendants of passengers. It appears that Jane is correct that there is no manifest for the Annabella and any list is a compilation from various sources. The original 1923 edition of the book can be downloaded from here Warburton 1923.

Sources

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• Source: S00026 Author: Gale Research Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenge; Repository: #R00001 NOTEGale Research, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenge).

1. ↑ Source: #S00006 Page: Ancestry Family Trees
2. ↑ Source: #S00026 Page: Place: Prince Edward Island; Year: 1771; Page Number: . Data: Text: Arrival date: 1771 CONT Arrival place: Prince Edward Island
3. ↑ The Princetown Pioneers, 1769-1771 by James Lawson, pages 7-14, 1995 The Island Magazine. Lawson discusses the myths around the Annabella and the available sources
4. ↑ KINTYRE ANTIQUARIAN and NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MAGAZINE, TWO LISTS OF INTENDING PASSENGERS TO THE NEW WORLD, 1770 AND 1771 Frank Bigwood, M. A. Taken from Issue Number 41 Spring 1997, http://www.ralstongenealogy.com/number41kintmag.htm
5. ↑ Emigrants on the Edinburgh 1771 by Michael Kennedy, The Island Magazine p 39-42. Kennedy suggested that McDougall's passage was paid by the Stewarts as an incentive to immigrate to the colony.
6. ↑ Malpeque and its People
7. ↑ Peter MacDougald of the Annabella and his descendants, researched and compiled by Nina Ross, unpublished manuscript deposited in PEI Archives and Records Office
8. ↑ Pathways to the Present, Hamilton Prince Edward Island, Hamilton Heritage Alert Club, W. Earle Lockerby, ed. 1989
9. ↑ A transcript of the 1798 census is on the website Island Register; it was also published as an appendix in Duncan Campbell's History of Prince Edward Island. Nina Ross thought that 7 children under 16 might be an indication that there were two families in the household, but a 25 year span from youngest to oldest was not unusual at the time. Since he was under 60, Peter had to have been born after 1738.
10. ↑ Early Prince Edward Island Probate Records 1786 to 1850 by Linda Jean Nicholson, page 162.
11. ↑ Source: #S00026 Page: Place: Prince Edward Island; Year: 1771; Page Number: . Data: Text: Arrival date: 1771 CONT Arrival place: Prince Edward Island
12. ↑ Warburton, A. B. A history of Prince Edward Island: from its discovery in 1534 until the departure of Lieutenant-Governor Ready in A.D. 1831. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1998. p.153.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Michelle Angus for creating WikiTree profile MacDougall-209 through the import of James Francis Milligan Family Tree_2013-07-23.ged on Jul 23, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Michelle and others.