1767 - 1851 (83 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Adolphus F. Bostwick was born on 01 Mar 1767 in New Haven, Conn; died on 17 Jan 1851 in Dorchester, UC; was buried in Bostwick Cemetery. Notes:
[bostock.net]
He was given the name "Kanankauahs" by Indians in Canada which means "Little fish trying to swim upstream"
He petitioned for 200 acres of land in Westminster, Ontario in 1812 and was granted it.
In 1814 he was appointed as Assessor for Delaware, Ontario.
In 1851, the year of his death, some of his acreage in Westminster was officially separated to make a cemetery, known as the Bostwick Cemetery (also Westminster East Cemetery). Many of his family are buried in this attractive, tree-shaded, pioneer cemetery.
Adolphus married Mary Polly Bostwick. Mary (daughter of Amos Bostwick) was born on 15 Aug 1768 in New Milford, Conn; died in 1850 in Westminster Tp, Ontario. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- 2. Gesie Maria Bostwick was born on 04 Aug 1792 in New Milford, Conn; died on 19 Apr 1852 in Westminster Tp, Ontario; was buried in Bostwick Cemetery.
- 3. Elizabeth Anna Bostwick*+ was born on 24 Jul 1803 in Seneca, NY; died on 24 Jul 1871 in Seaforth, Ont.
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Generation: 2
3. | Elizabeth Anna Bostwick*+ (1.Adolphus1) was born on 24 Jul 1803 in Seneca, NY; died on 24 Jul 1871 in Seaforth, Ont. Notes:
Jacobs, Mrs. Betsy, daughter of Adolphus and Polly Bostwick, and wife of the late Nathan Jacobs, died on her 68th birthday, July 24, 1871, at the residence of Sidney Jacobs, Seaforth, and was buried beside her husband and 8 children in the cemetery at Brickville; survived by 5 children.
In Death Notices from the Canadian Christian Guardian, 1858-1872 (McKenzie), p. 159.
I [Glen Curnoe] have come across the name Brickville a couple of other times in reference to Temperance movement meetings.
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Elizabeth married Nathan Jacobs*+ on 23 Oct 1821 in Oxford Co., Ont.. Nathan was born on 24 Mar 1787 in Essex, Chittenden Co., Vermont; died on 07 Jan 1861 in London Twp. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 3
Generation: 4
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