Land records can bring a family’s history into focus, connecting a name with a particular place and the arrangements made for its use.

The Island Register lists an indenture involving John Blue McDonald in Lot 43, contributed by Peggy Cooney. An indenture is a formal written agreement; documents of this kind can help trace landholding alongside family histories, census returns and parish records.

For descendants researching the Blue MacDonald families, this is a promising reference. However, the name and lot number alone do not establish which John appears in the document or confirm his relationship to later generations.

Source: Indenture of John Blue McDonald, The Island Register.