MacAulay, Angus

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MacAulay, Angus

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ca. 1760-1827

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Angus MacAulay was born on the Isle of Skye, Scotland (ca. 1760), the youngest of twelve children. In and prior to 1873, he was a student of Divinity at Marischal College in Aberdeen. He was the schoolmaster in Portree on the Isle of Skye before being appointed by Alexander MacDonald as his factor in the Barony of Trotternish on Skye, 10 December 1789. On 24 March 1797, MacAulay was commissioned as a chaplain in the British Army, but left to further his studies and obtained his M.D. from Glasgow University in 1803. Angus began corresponding with Lord Selkirk in 1794, assisting him with his plans for emigrating Highland settlers to Prince Edward Island. Angus arrived on "The Polly" in Belfast, PEI, with other colonists in August of 1803.

MacAulay settled on one-thousand acres of land near the Pinette River. He conducted religious services in Gaelic for settlers in Belfast and surrounding areas. In addition to his role as minister, physician and speaker of the House of Assembly, Angus was also Selkirk's official agent. He married Mary (?-1857), daughter of Samuel MacDonald who was a Captain in H.M. 184th Highland Emigrant Regiment. Angus died on 6 December 1827. While he was still alive, Angus had set aside a parcel of his own land at Mount Buchanan for a cemetery. It is there that he and his wife Mary are buried.

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5 June 2001. Copied from PEIAIN 29 January 2015.

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