Carrie Ellen Griffith*

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Norton/Griffith
-7 children, lots of grandchildren

Carrie married William Henry harry Norton*. William (son of Allan Norton* and Sarah Margaret Sinah Rogers*) was born in 1883; died in 1956. [Group Sheet]

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farmed the family farm L35 C1
Griffith 4

Nathan married Catherine Ellen Herrington* in 1872. Catherine (daughter of Alanson Lansing Herrington* and Abigail Matilda Hungerford) was born on 31 Jan 1845; died on 19 Mar 1911. [Group Sheet]

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Griffith 4

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Griffeth 5
farmed west of brother Nathan's farm at L35 C1 and BF. Huron Diocese bought 39 acres of the BF to make Woodland Cemetery

Eli married Alexandria McAdam* on 12 May 1831. Alexandria (daughter of John McAdam and Ellen McKenzie) was born about 1813 in Scotland; died on 26 Dec 1861. [Group Sheet]

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Griffeth 5
a sister of Jane, wife of Nathan Griffith Jr.

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Herrington 2

Alanson married Abigail Matilda Hungerford on 28 Dec 1842 in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. Abigail (daughter of Samuel Hungerford* and Abigail Kilbourn) was born in 1820 in Westminster, Middlesex, Ontario; died in 1892. [Group Sheet]

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went by the name Matilda
10 children

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enlisted in Continental Army 1776 in Baltimor, Private and Corporal, until 1783; 9 months ranging service Mohawk Valley; took part in the taking of Burgoyne and several engagements previous; he received a pension from the U.S. gov't from 1818 until his death. He and wife Mary moved from Vermont to Westminster in 1835 to join their children
Griffeth 9

born 1756 - probably the earliest birth of anyone at BSC

[HCM, p. 1001]: Nathan Griffith, sr. (grandfather of Mrs. Skuse), was a soldier in the American Revolution on the side of liberty, and received a pension from the American Government. ...Mr. Griffith, sr., resided in Vermont for some years after his son had moved to Canada, but finally took up his residence with his son.

Nathan married Mary*. was born about 1769; died on 22 Jun 1848. [Group Sheet]

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Griffeth 7

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[HCM, p. 1001]: John McAdam was from the Lowlands of Scotland, and immigrated to London Township, Middlesex County, Ont., in 1819, on the 7th Concession, Lot 13, and there passed his last days.

John married Ellen McKenzie. Ellen was born in 1782 in Carsphairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland; died in 1866. [Group Sheet]

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-original romance with William Mair was discouraged.
-married John McAdam 1802
-came to Canada with family after 1815; in London Tp by 1819
-walked to Niagara with oldest and youngest sons to meet William Mair who had immigrated to Lockport NY [deserted her family]
-had child with William, William Jr., 1827
- William Sr. died 1836
-Ellen returned to London Tp 1845; discovered John McAdam had died 1840; bought farm in Westminster L38 C1and sold it to her sons
-lived with daughter Jane Griffith
-buried in Melrose with husband John McAdam

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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