Page  47.  —  "Capt.  Ranald  MacKinnon  served  in  the  regular  array
with  distinction,  and  afterwards  in  this  Province,  with  energy,  in  com-
pleting the  expulsion  of  the  French."

This  paragraph  implies  that  Ranald  MacKinnon  was  concerned  in
the  expulsion  of  the  Acadians  in  1755.  He  had  nothing  to  do  with
that  disgraceful  affair.  He  came  first  to  America  in  June,  1 75  7,  with
his  regiment,  the  "  Montgomery  Highlanders ; "  and  he  was  engaged
during  the  five  years  following  in  New  York  and  Pennsylvania,  as  will
be  shown  later  on.
By  a  deed  dated  at  Yarmouth,  June  27,  1764,  Ranald  MacKinnon
"  gives  and  bequeaths  to  Joseph  Moulaison  250  acres  of  the  lands  he
now  possesseth  for  his  proper  use  and  benefit,  including  in  the  same
one-half  my  cleared  landSy  so  long  as  he  or  his  shall  continue  to  live  on
the  same."  Joseph  Moulaison  was  one  of  the  Acadians  who  declined
Winslow's  invitation ;  and  it  would  rather  seem,  therefore,  that  Ranald
MacKinnon  did  what  he  could  to  re-establish  Joseph  in  the  land  of  his
forefathers,  and  perhaps  to  re-instate  him  in  a  property  once  their  own.'

*  Appendix  D.
46  THE  HERSEY  FAMILY.
Page  52. — "David  Hersey,  or,  as  it  afterwards  became  corrupted^
Hassey,  lived  near  to  Ephraim  Cook,  who  built  a  saw  and  a  gri^t  mill,
the  former  of  which  was  managed  by  Hassey ;  and  was  long  afterwards
known  as  *  Hassey's  Mill.*  "

The  name  Hersey  has  never  been  changed  to  Hassey,  as  this  para-
graph implies.  The  Herseys  form  a  numerous  family  in  Yarmouth,  and
they  spell  their  name  Hersey.  It  may  appear  Hassey  in  some  of  the
early  records,  just  as  Phenias  Durgey  and  Binjman  Darling  appear  in
the  documents  on  pp.  41,  42.
