Alexander McDonell to Messrs. LeRoy, Bayard and McEwers, Merchants, New York

Containers:

Box 18, Folder 1

Extent:

1 letters

Scope and content:

McDonell asks the merchants to forward his enclosed letters (not present) to Lord Selkirk and two to New York.

Biographical / historical:

McDonell was a Scottish Roman Catholic Bishop in Canada (deceased 1840). He was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He attended Scots College at Paris and Valladolid; and was ordained a priest in 1787. He returned to Scotland and spent five years as a priest at Braes of Lochaber. He was the first Catholic chaplain in the British Army since the Reformation, as part of the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles Regiment. In 1804, he appealed to the Government to give the men a tract of land in Glengarry, Canada. Later in life he established Churches, schools and the Regiopolis College in Kingston. He died in Dunfries, Scotland in 1840.

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