On Grand Lake - continued ... Before leaving Douglas Harbour for Newcastle (Queens Co.), the reporter visited the old burying ground at Grand Point, in which repose many of the early settlers of the place. The oldest graves are unmarked, but it is believed in the neighborhood that interment were made here more than a century ago. The ground is situated near the base of the seawall that extends into the lake a distance of near 760 yards and is shaded by oaks and elms of no inconsiderable growth. The following are some of the inscriptions of most remote date: 'In memory of / Katheren PATTERSON / Departed this life June the 23rd in the year of our / Lord 1792, she being in the fiftieth year / of her age; 'Here lies the Body of / Dowe VANDINE / deceased the 10th Sept. A.D. 1787 / Aged 57 years and 3 months / Also / the Body of / William VANDINE / son of Arthur VANDINE and Rachael VANDINE. who deceased / the 2nd of January A.D., 1793 / Aged 20 years 3 months.'; 'Sacred / to/ the memory of / Alexander CLARK / Who departed this life / May 20th, 1825, / Aged 80 years 8 months / Also to / Mary, his wife / Who departed this life / March 21st, 1836 / Aged 91 years, 7 months and 2 days / They were natives of / New Jersey / And came Loyalists to this / Province in 1783.' A short distance up the lake, the reporter was for a time the guest of the family of I. Ambrose PALMER. Mr. Palmer is a great-grandson of Daniel PALMER who came with the early settlers of Sheffield to that place and died there in 1776. His son Daniel was born in 1748 and died at Grand Lake in 1813. His son, David PALMER, succeeded to the homestead, now owned by his son, I. Ambrose Palmer. and died in 1866. He was a poet of considerable ability, a volume of whose works was published shortly before his death. Mrs. Palmer is a great-granddaughter of Elisha ESTABROOKS who served under King George III in the old French War of 1758-61 and participated in the disastrous battle in which General ABERCROMBIE lost his life. Mrs. Lizzie E. PALMER has the manuscript diary kept by Sergeant Estabrooks during the war. (see original)