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Glasgow Women's Institute Book 4 First Families Among the first settlers was Thomas Carswell with his wife and family â€" Robert, Margaret, Pethea and Thomas Jr. â€" who came from Scotland and settled in McNab township. This was about 1845. Hamilton family records show that William Hamilton and his wife, Ellen Airth of Renfrew, settled near the small hamlet in 1855. They had 11 children. Many of their descendants have remained in the Renfrew district. Farms still owned by descendants of the original settlers are Andrew Hamilton's. now farmed by Andrew, Thomas and Drew Hamilton, the fifth generation; one of Thomas Carswell‘s, being farmed by Kenneth Lavallee, the fifth generation, and an other of Thomas Carswell‘s, being farmed by Taylor Carswell, the fourth generation. Billy and Blythe Russett own the farm settled by their great- grandfather, Peter Russett, and W H Hamilton owns the farm settled by his grandfather, William Hamilton When the steel was laid for the Canadian Pacific Railway as far as Sand Point, a road was opened up from that place to Burnstown, on the second line of McNab. This road crossed the 7th line at Lundy's Corners, where Daniel Mclllinden (called "Lundy”) kept a general store. A short distance up from this store was another, kept by Daniel Young Sr. Nearby, on the 7th line, stood a blacksmith shop, belonging to Andrew Young. His residence, quite hear, was destroyed by fire in 1939, the owner then being George Cherry who afterwards built a residence on the site of the former dwelling. Public School -No. 13 McNab The school house, built in 1867, stood at one corner of the crossroads, while across from it stood a Temperance Hall used for various kinds of meetings. Other buildings were the homes of John Young and Daniel Young, the latter being purchased afterwards by Thomas Stewart and was subsequently destroyed by fire. The first minutes of school meetings on record are dated 1876. Daniel Fife was secretary and John Burton, chairman. It is noted that their meetings were carried on in a ‘businessâ€"like manner. " The log building still stands at the crossroads. Lundy‘s Corners, as it was called. Many names appearing in the minutes are those of the ancestors of the present generation: V\filliam Hamilton. Andrew Hamilton, Celesta Lavallee, Andrew Murphy, Peter Anderson, Robert Carswell, Daniel Young, James Gillespie. Donald Sutherland, Robert Eady, Alexander Stewart, and many others. In 1878 the use of the school house was given to the Sunday School. It was formerly held at James Carswell‘s home, then in the home of Hercules Murphy, (Mrs. Carswell‘s father). Council held an election in the school house, for which the sum of 20 cents was paid. Objection was made to this by two gentlemen at an annual meeting and a lengthy resolution was drawn up, condemning the trustees in very decided language for their "contracted policy" of charging this sum. In August of this same year, a well was dug close to the school house and a pump put in at a cost of $22. Wood, for use in the big box stove, was very 20f66