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Receipt, July 1848
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Rev. Peter Gordon MacGregor was born in 1816 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of Rev. James Drummond MacGregor (1759-1830).
He was a Presbyterian clergyman. He began his ministry in Guysborough and continued in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He believed that social reform, especially literacy and education, could affect general improvement and bring individual success. He was the father of James Gordon MacGregor (1852-1913), a Canadian physicist.
In 1849, he married Caroline MacColl (1826–). He died in 1886, in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
Receipt from P. G. McGregor to James Dawson.