The book Arran; - Cook Clan

IMPROVEMENT AND EMIGRATION 225
Meantime some of the settlers had found their particular
patches of ground of poor quality, having cleared the trees
to meet a hidden crop of stones. They moved to fresh
woods farther west. New settlers, too, were coming into
the country, from Ireland and parts of Scotland, and other
bands from Arran, particularly in the year 1831, when
thirteen families arrived, to find things rather easier for them
than they had been for the pioneers. By 1833 the Arran
settlement numbered some 222 souls, made up as follows : ^—
^'amily Name. I
McKillop .
Kelso .
McKinnon .