Matilda Hungerford

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Samuel married Mary Elizabeth Frank on 28 Feb 1844 in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Robert Frank* and Elizabeth Dell*) was born in 1828 in Westminster, Middlesex, Ontario; died in 1902. [Group Sheet]

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came to Upper Canada c1800
10 known children
Dowling Family Genealogy on rootsweb says he was born 7 Dec 1771 in Fairfield Co, Connecticut
Hungerford

[Guy St-Denis - Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township] In 1815 Samuel Hungerford purchased the improvements [to northern part of L34] made by Calvin Martin....In 1800 he had migrated to Upper Canada and eventually made his way to Westminster. Although his arrival in the Byron area predated Watson's survey, he cannot be considered one of the pre-survey squatters, as he did not take up his own land until he purchased Martin's improvements in 1815. Prior to this purchase Hungerford had apparently lived with Joseph Kilbourn Sr. on lot 50 in concession A. Hungerford had married one of Kilbourn's daughters, Abigail, which helps to explain his presence on Kilbourn's location. He was probably assisting his aging father-in-law to clear and cultivate his farm. On June 2, 1812, however, he prepared a petition requesting a grant of his own 200 acres, but when he arrived in York he found that the government was preoccupied with the war and nothing could be done about his petition.
After the war, on April 3, 1815, as noted, Hungerford bargained with Martin, who was then living in Oxford Township, for the improvements to the broken front lot 34 and the adjacent northern part of lot 34 in the first concession. The two men agreed upon a price of $125 for which Hungerford gave Martin a horse worth $60 as part payment of the total sum. Because neither Martin nor [Usrich] Shenick before him had received the patent to the property Hungerford was, technically, one of the post-war squatters. In May he occupied the 200 acre lot and began performing the settlement duties, apparently without informing the proper authorities that he had purchased Martin's improvements. As a result, on January 17, 1816 the Executive Council, feeling that by this time Shenick's location ticket was invalidated, allowed Archibald Burtch to locate 100 acres of the northern part of lot 34, south of the Commissioners' Road and also what was now Hungerford's farm. Unfortunately, the land south of Hungerford was also occupied, by Peter McNames, which compounded the already confused mess. On the same day Burtch's wife was allowed all of lot 34 in the broken front to the north - which was also now occupied by Hungerford.
[After a long drawn-out dispute with Burtch, Hungerford was eventually granted the land by Executive Council, with the help of Ezra Griffith and Peter McNames, on May 1, 1821]
It is not clear whether Hungerford actually farmed the land in the broken front himself or merely held on to it for purposes of speculation....Hungerford retained his property until February 7, 1823 when he sold it to George J. Goodhue for

Samuel married Abigail Kilbourn about 1804. Abigail (daughter of Joseph Kilbourn and Mary Coe) was born about 1785; died after 1861. [Group Sheet]

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not at BSC??
A prodding of the ground at Brick Street Cemetery next to Samuel Hungerford's grave by Bernie Gill and Glen Curnoe in October, 2008 would indicate that his wife Abigail(c1785-after 1861) is not buried beside him.
The Kilbourne family genealogists are unable to confirm Abigail's place of burial. They suspect that she could be in the abandoned graveyard which is on the former Kilbourne property where there are no surviving headstones. This was the Kilbourne family cemetery, which was probably established before the war of 1812. ie.Joseph Kilborne died in 1807.
Glen

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Frank 4
moved from England to New Jersey 1798
moved to Niagara 1804; lived in Stamford Tp, Welland Co 1810
1810-1816 lived in Trafalgar Tp, Halton Co.
1816 arrived Westminster, L39 C1
farmer and blacksmith
"The first wartime incident of squatting in the Byron area seems to have taken place on July 1, 1813 when Nicholas Westbrook assumed Robert Frank's location."
[Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township - Guy St-Denis]
moved to South 1/2 Lot 10 C1, London Township

[Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township - Guy St-Denis, p50] The other non-Watson settler to obtain a location of land in Westminster prior to the War of 1812 was Robert Frank, a native of Yorkshire, England, who was born about 1786. Little is known of his personal history prior to 1804, the year of his immigration to what is now Ontario, except that he evidently settled in New Jersey prior to his departure for Upper Canada. After his arrival in Upper Canada Frank lived in the vicinity of the head of Lake Ontario where he worked a farm on shares and subsequently rented another. By 1810 he was living in Stamford Township, in the former county of Welland, with his wife, Elizabeth, and one son named William.
On June 5 of the same year both Frank and his wife were recomended for grants of land. Being the daughter of Henry Dell, a United Empire Loyalist, Elizabeth Frank was approved for a grant of land. Frank was also eligible for 200 acres for his status as an intending settler; for some reason, however, he does not appear to have been officially located anywhere for almost two years. Ultimately he received a location of lot 39 in the first concession of Westminster on April 10, 1812. It seems that Frank and his family spent the interim on a 100 acre farm in Trafalgar Township, formerly in Halton County, and continued to live there until 1816. In that year Frank settled in Westminster. He had intended to occupy his lot early in the summer of 1812, but when the United States declared war he joined the milita and his service prevented him from settling on his location, for which he had paid the fees, and also from performing the settlement duties.
"Westbrook...entered the province in February of 1810....a follower of Simon Z. Watson. On July 1, 1813 he went on Frank's lot evidently believing that it was really as vacant as it looked, and probably expecting that he would be confirmed there after the war. It is impossible to know what transpired between the two men concerning the lot, and perhaps it is just as well; in the end it was Frank who received the lot. Westbrook, who may have been paid for the work he did on Frank's land, later moved across the Thames River and took up land in neighboruing London Township. Frank was an industrious man, who through hard work, managed to accumulate nearly 1400 acres of land which he eventually divided among the surviving ten of his 11 children.
The subsequent division of his land was complex. The homestead farm on lot 39 was apportioned between his sons, George and Henry. On November 2, 1846 Henry received about 35 acres of this lot on the north side of the Commissioners' Road. On November 2, 1855, exactly nine years later, Henry was given the west half of the farm. George, mentioned above, also got the east half of the lot, except for that portion north of the Commissioners' Road which had been given to his brother. A few years later, on July 1, 1859 Robert Frank died and was buried in the Brick Street Cemetery.

Robert married Elizabeth Dell* on 05 Jun 1808 in Niagara. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Dell and Anna Marr) was born in 1788 in Sussex Co., NJ; died in Jun 1874. [Group Sheet]

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-Quaker heritage
-her father was UEL
-maybe buried at BSC?

Samuel married Mary Graves. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Mary Coe. Mary was born in 1749 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1817. [Group Sheet]

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1754
a United Empire Loyalist

Henry married Anna Marr about 1772. Anna was born in 1767; died in 1833 in Haldimand, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]