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.