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801	[HCM, p. 918]: Lawrence Manning, was born Henrysburg, Canada, 1818, and was in his sixteenth year when he came to Westminster Township, where he assisted his father to clear their farm and get it in good tillable condition. He was married to Miss Hannah Duncaw, a daughter of Joseph Duncaw sen., by whom he became the father of one son, who grew to manhood - Jacob J. The family attend the Methodist Church, and are classed among the prosperous, highly honored, and progressive citizens of the county.	Manning, Lawrence (I1904)
802	[HCM, p. 918]: Jacob J. Manning is a man of forty-three years, and was born on the old homestead in Middlesex County. He received a common school education, and was wedded to Miss Rebecca A. McKnight, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Borland) McKnight, which union was blessed with the birth of a daughter - E. Addie. Mr. Manning has always been an industrious farmer. Neither he, his father, nor his grandfather was ever sued for any cause, being peaceable, law-abiding citizens. There are four generations now living on the old homestead, the fifthe generation being Harry L. Collard, son of Mr. M. Collard of North Dorchester. This instance forcibly illustrates the remarkable longevity of the staunch old pioneer family.	Manning, Jacob J. (I1906)
803	[HCM, p. 949]: Frederick A. Odell, blacksmith, at Nebstown, was born in Lower Canada, in 1826, and is thre son of William and Caroline (Wilson) Odell. The Odells are from an American family from Poughkeepsie, New York, and are of German origin. Frederick was a lad of eight years when he came to this county with his father. He learned the blacksmith trade in early life, and married Miss Fannie W. Reynolds, daughter of Henry and Fannie (LaBodo) Reynolds, of Windsor. This union resulted in the birth of six children -- Henry, Gertrude, Nellie and Myrett and two others. Mrs. Odell is a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Odrell has always been prosperous in his business relations, and is a man of means. His son Henry married Miss Lizzie Lewis, daughter of George Lewis. Gertrude married Frederick Giles. The rest of the family are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Odell had the misfortune to lose one son, Frederivck, at the age of twenty-two years. He was a young man of unusual promise. Mr. Odell is one of the many intelligent and enterprising citizens of the county, and is noted for his honesty and integrity.	Odell, Frederick (I1283)
804	[HCM, p.948]: All [John Odell's] children, with the exception of Loop, who died in Lower Canada, came to Westminster Township, Ont., his son Albert S. being the first one to come. The latter arrived in 1810, and the remainder of the family shortly after, his brother Joshua coming in 1811 and taking up 200 acres of land, on which he located and began clearing. Petition of Albert Scriver Odell, yeoman........... "That your petitioner was born in the United States of America and is 28 years of age. That he has resided in Lower Canada since infancy until last July when he removed to the Township of Westminster in this province................" Petition dated February, 1816 Albert S. Odell born 1787+28 years old = 1815. Hi David: This is info from a document that I have found recently. It is from a Land Petition which is dated 1816 So, according to this document Albert Odell would have arrived in Westminster in July, 1815. ie after the war was over. It just proves that once an error is made, it can be copied over and over again., including my own article "Grave Concerns" Glen arrived Westminster Tp 1815, settled on L24 C1 until his death -chosen a warden in Tp 1817 -chosen township collector 1818 and 1828 - an incorporator of the London and Gore Railway Company, chartered by the government of Upper Canada in 1834 -no children Odell 9 [Will] LNAME[ ODELL FNAME[ ALBERT SCRIVER RESID[ WESTMINSTER DATE[ 1856 FILE[ 55 MFNO[ 1465 NOTES[ - death date uncertain - may have died at Napierville in the District of Montreal, Canada East - will dated July 5, 1856 - brother was Loop Odell of Napierville, District of Montreal, Canada East - brother was James Odell, Ohio - brother was William Odell, deceased - brother was Peter Odell, deceased - brother was Joshua Odell - brother was John Odell, deceased - brother-in-law was David Doty, husband of Rebecca - sister was Martha - sister was Rebecca Doty, who was deceased - sister was Hannah NIECES AND NEPHEWS, CHILDREN OF WILLIAM ODELL: - John; - Johanna; - Deborah; - William Loop; - James; - Frederick NIECES AND NEPHEWS, CHILDREN OF PETER ODELL: - James; - Sydney; - Cornelia; - Lora; - George; - John; - Harriet NIECES AND NEPHEWS, CHILDREN OF JOSHUA ODELL: - Jeliam; - Enos; - John Gilbert; - Cornelius; - Rachel; - Alvira; - Rebecca; - Cornelia Manning was the granddaughter of Joshua Odell NIECES AND NEPHEWS, CHILDREN OF JOHN ODELL: - Eliza Jane; - Priscilla; - Enos; - Harriot; - John Austin NIECES AND NEPHEWS, CHILDREN OF REBECCA AND DAVID DOTY: - Darius; - Edwin; - Joshua; - William NIECES AND NEPHEWS, CHILDREN OF MARTHA: - Alonzo; - Lyman; - Almira; - Alvira; - Mary; - Charlotte; - James NIECES AND NEPHEWS, CHILDREN OF HANNAH: - John; - Ferguson; - Polly; - Charles; - Jacob; - Loop; - Enos; - Sally - mention of Leonard Odell EXECUTORS: - Loop Odell, Napierville, Canada East; - James Odell, Baden, Montgomery County, Ohio; - Leonard Odell, Township of Westminster - Oath of Administration taken August 15, 1856 WITNESSES TO WILL: - James Stow; - John York; - Thomas Hartt; - Loop Odell	Odell*, Albert Scriver (I574)
805	[History of the county of Middlesex, Canada p571] John Caldwell settled on Concession 2, Westminster in 1818, when there were only two settlers there, Wm. Bryant and John Elliott. He was local Methodist preacher of this district. [HMC p754]: Matthew Caldwell is of Scotch-English descent, and a son of John Caldwell, who was born in Nova Scotia and came to Ontario, settling on the Second Concession, in Middlesex County, in March, 1818, bringing his family, which consisted of a wife and seven children, with him. The names of the latter are as follows: -John, Meron, Elizabeth, Ezekiel Robert, Hannah, Sarah A., and last was born Matthew.The country was in a very wild state at the time of their settlement, not a tree having been cut where the vcity of London now stands. Mr. Caldwell entered 200 acres of land, which he managed to clear by dint of hard labor, and became noted throughout his neighborhood as a hard working man, and one whose word was as good as his bond. He was a member of the Methodist Church, being also a local preacher in the same, and lived to be 77 years of age.	Caldwell, John (I998)
806	[http://www.nancylanni.com/?p=1102] Warner Dygert of Fall Hill (Little Falls) was killed and his 10-year-old son Suffrenes was taken prisoner. Warner Dygert/Tygert was a brother-in-law to General Herkimer. He had been an active patriot since the beginning of the war, the first meeting of the Tryon County Committee of Safety having been held at his house. It had made him a target. Dygert had gone to build a corn crib. He stopped his work to light his pipe when Indians shot him down, tomahawked and scalped him. [Beers. History of Montgomery & Fulton Counties 1878]. [Pension Application for Soverinus (Safrinus) Dygert File # S.10598 found online at http://morrisonspensions.org/dygert.htm] (Born September15, 1766, Resided at entering - Herkimer Co., N.Y. 1845 Resides London District, Upper Canada Died Nov. 6, 1849.) State of New York County of Fulton Court of Common Pleas Declaration, Act 1832 SS On this third day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty six, personally appeared in open court the same being a court of record before the Judges thereof now sitting at Johnstown in said County Soverinus Dygert Aged about eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made in Act o Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he is a son of Capt. Warner Dygert deceased & Magdalena his wife also deceased. That he was born in the Year One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty six and as appears by the record of declarants babtism, [baptism] recorded by the Rev'd Mr. Rosencrants & now in the possession of his grandson Abm G. Rosencrants, he was babtised on the fifteenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and sixty six.- Declarant further saith that he was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution and served as a volunteer in guarding a fort at a place called Fall Hill on in Herkimer County and State of New York, that the said service was performed under declarants father the said Warner Dygert in Col. Clyde's Regiment. Declarant further saith that when thus engaged as a volunteer as aforesaid fully equipped for the service, and in the service as aforesaid declarant was taken prisoner & his father killed by the enemy at the same time. That declarant was taken prisoner on or about the fourth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty was taken to Canada & there kept a prisoner by the enemy one year and ten months at which time viz on or about the fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty tow, this declarant in company with a large number of other prisoners were exchanged and permitted to return to their homes, and this declarant among others did return home from Canada by way of Lake Champlain and the City of Albany. Declarant also saith that he now resides in London District Upper Canada and having been recently informed that he was entitled to a pension by virtue of the Laws of the United States during the time soldiers were imprisoned as so much service & have been informed that it was required by the pension Department that his declaration for a pension must be made before a court of record in the United States he accordingly this declarant has come explicitly from Canada as aforesaid to attend the court in the county and state aforesaid. Declarant further saith that the reason he had not heretofore made application for a pension are first that he did not know until recently that persons residing out of the United States, were entitled to a pension under any circumstances and service. That he did not know that time of imprisonment was counted as in such service, & having removed so far from his old Associates had no means of knowing (even if he had known he was entitled) whether or not he could prove his services & thus he has never made any effort until within the last few months & that declarant rec'd information as to time of imprisonment being counted as so much service, some few months since through the medium of Wm. Valentine of Albany, N.Y. Declarant further saith that at the time he was engaged in the service as aforesaid he resided in what is now known as the County of Herkimer & State of New York with his father who then owned & occupied a farm in that place and that Declarant resided in said County and State until about thirty five years ago, from whence he removed to Canada, as aforesaid where he now resides. Declarant further saith that the names of the persons who he recollects were, David Schuyler, Nicholas Schuyler, John Casler, Nicholas Forbush, but at present can not recollect any others. (Signed) Safrinus Dygert. Subscribed & sworn to before me this third day of August 1846. The words	Dygert, Sylvanus (I1590)
807	[Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs] Seth, son of Thomas and Rachel (Wetherbee) Putnam, was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, September 16, 1756, a twin of Susannah. He died in Putnam, Ontario, Canada, September 3, 1827. His gravestone, erected in 1847, states he was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, in 1758. He was a private in Captain Samuel Wetherbee's company, Colonel Isaac Wayne's regiment, which marched to reinforce the Northern Army in 1776. According to his gravestone he was a colonel in the Continental army. A family belief, as told in later years by his son Thomas, was that he was a member of the "Boston Tea Party." He was a man of education, with a good knowledge of civil and military engineering. In 1795 he emigrated to Canada to a wild and unbroken region. He entered into a contract with the Canadian government to construct a wagon road from the head of the lake where Hamilton now stands, to Chatham, eighteen miles east of Lake St. Claire, a distance of one hundred sixty miles, through a heavily wooded country. For this he was to receive sixteen hundred acres of land and a cash bonus. He built the road but never received his reward. He married, February 14, 1790, Sarah Harding (gravestone), of the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, one of the few who escaped from the massacre of Wyoming. She died about 1850. Son Thomas: In his youth,in his father's house, he witnessed the historic interview between General Proctor and Tecumseh, the night previous to the battle of the Thames, in which the great Indian chief was killed. General Proctor made the house of Seth Putnam his headquarters at that time. [Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation - by Hiram Carleton	Putnam, Seth (I1565)
808	[London Township Families Past & Present p413] George Robson (1801-1885), the fourth child of John Robson and Nancy Ann Calvert, took over his parents' farm, Spring Grove Farm at S1/2 Lots 29 & 30, Con. 13, following his father's sudden death in 1838 when he fell off a horse. George established a reputation throughout Canada and the U.S. as a breeder of Shorhorn cattle and Lincoln sheep. He was reeve of the township, a justice of the peace and played an active role in the 1837 Rebellion, first as an ensign and later as captain of a reserve militia. The brick house he built on the farm in 1845 was destroyed by fire in 1944. George married Elizabeth Summers (1807-1880), daughter of Robert and Margaret (Bell) Summers, about 1826. Seven of their ten children remained here [London Twp]	Robson, George (I716)
809	[Sid Prior]: John Hansel was shot while defending Fort George in May 1813; he died from his wounds a few days later at DeCew, near Thorold. He is buried at Beaverdams Methodist Church	Hansel, John (I1407)
810	[The London and Midlesex Historian Vol. 22, Autumn 2013] [referring to Old South neighbourhood Dunkirk-Elworthy-Edward-Murray, owned by his father John Stephens] The portion of his property that eventually became the neighbourhood under consideration was known orignally as the Richmond Hill Farm. Following the death of John Stephens, this area was taken over by his son, Richard (1817-1903), whose name appears on the 1878 map... [his son Roland took over the farm after Richard's death]	Stephens, Richard (I1079)