From The Settlement of Prince Edward County by Nick and Helma Mika. Transcribed here by Linda Herman

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

CAPT. ROBERT MACAULAY

Irish born Loyalist arrived at Kingston in 1791. 

Macaulay, Captain Robert was born in Ireland in 1744. At the age of twenty he emigrated to America. During the Revolutionary War his loyalty was on the Kings's side and because o f that, in the 1780's he left the United States and came to Kingston, Upper Canada. In 1791, he married Ann Kirby. The couple had three children, John, William and Robert. John was born in 1792, William in 1794, and Robert in 1796.

William, the second son, of Capt. Robert and Ann Macaulay, was educated under the Reverend John Strachan and at Oxford University. Ordained in 1818, he returned to Canada in 1819. A the son of a Loyalist, he obtained a grant of land consisting of 400 acres on Picton Bay, in 1803.

In 1823 the Parish of Hallowell was established to which the Reverend William Macaulay was appointed. Using his own funds, he financed, in 1825, the construction of the church of St. Mary Magdalene at Picton.

In 1829 he married Ann Catherine Geddes; they had no children. After the death of his wife, Reverend Macaulay married Charlotte Sara Levesconte. They had two daughters, Charlotte Ann and Mary Rose.

In 1829, Macaulay donated the land for a District Courthouse and Gaol. Through his influence, the two small communities which had grown up on the banks of the creek at the head of Picton Bay, united and became known as Picton after Sir Thomas Picton, a distinguished British soldier.

Reverend Macaulay died in 1874 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene.