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Eli Trowbridge*

Male 1786 - 1828  (42 years)


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  • Name Eli Trowbridge*  [1, 2
    Born 1786  New York state Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died 28 Apr 1828  [1
    Person ID I799  Brick Street Cemetery
    Last Modified 5 Apr 2020 

    Family 1 Mary Summers*,   b. 1803,   d. 17 Sep 1897  (Age 94 years) 
    Children 
    +1. William Trowbridge*,   b. 1827,   d. 04 Dec 1906  (Age 79 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 5 Apr 2020 
    Family ID F229  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mabel Webster,   d. Bef 1827 
    Last Modified 5 Apr 2020 
    Family ID F338  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • settled on L35 C1 kn 1822
      ran a tavern and stage coach station
      Trowbridge/Nixon

      [Guy St-Denis - Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township, p 45] [James Shelden sold what was left of L35 to Eli Trowbridge, an innkeeper, on August 14, 1827]

      [HCM, p. 1029]: Eli Trowbridge, who was born in New York State, and was a man thirty years of age when he moved with his wife Miss Mabel Webster, to Westminster Township, Ont., in 1822 or '23. They settled on the First Concession, Lot 35, where his wife died three years later. Mr. Trowbridge then married Miss Mary Summers, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Bell) Summers, and became the father of one son - William Trowbridge., Mr. Trowbridge was the owner of 200 acres of fine farming land, which he cleared by his own individual labor, and was an industrious, hard-working man. He died in 1828 at the age of forty-two years.

      [HCM p. 567] Michael McLaughlin brought the first spring wagon --wooden springs -- into Wesminster about 1823-4. Alvard Ladd had the first stage between Delaware and Ancaster, and held it until Eli Trowbridge took the route. Trowbridge lived where the present Nathan Griffiths's house stands, on Concession 1 of Westminster.

  • Sources 
    1. [S10] Brick Street Cemetery marker.

    2. [S20] Glen Curnoe records.