Notes:

Titus Geer Simons married Mary Kitchen, b. Feb 14, 1813 Brantford- 9 Jun 1851 Jarvis, Ont.

. 1842 Census Willoughby, Lincoln Co., Niagara Ontario
[The handwritten column headings are 7 pages apart, but, by count, should be as follows:]
1 house inhabited, Titus G Simons, Non Proprietor of Property, Profession Esp. Methodist Preacher, Non-resident family members 3, xxxxx, 3 Born Canada, xxxx 1 Male, xxxxxxx 1 Married, xxxxx 1 family, x1?, 1x, 5 Esp. Methodist.

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Died:
Verify exact location. Aged 26y 4m 8d.

Buried:
Crowland, Niagara.

Notes:

. UCLPetition 112, S Bundle 2, p868, C2806,
Titus Simons, Junr., Requests a portion of land,
Signed, Titus GSimons, York, 26 Jun 1796. Granted 300 Acres.

Note1: Signature Comparison: The signature of the father Tutus Simons, UEL, is distinguished in Titvs, by two ts are crossed as together as one; also Titvs is in a print like script, whereas his Simons is written & underlined.
The signature of son Titus G Simons is a completely in script & likewise, in Titus the two ts are also crossed with a single stroke. Most distinguishing is GSimons is signed, as one word. - PJAhlberg, 2016.

. UCLPetition 129, S Bundle 4, C2808, p173,
Petition of Titus G Simons, Printer.
He has purchased Lot 13 on the South side of Duke Street, in the s town where he now resides, requests a Crown grant.
Signed, Titus G Simons, Printer, York 1 July, 1799.
Envelope: Awarded to, P.R. 1799 Jul 2.

Note 2: Titus GSimons held the important position as the first printer in Toronto. He published the Upper Canada Gazette, used by the UC Government for their official notifications. TSG was also the publisher of the American Oracle.

. 1801 Mar 30, Monday - District at York, Inhabitants of the Town of York, applied for recommendations to take out licenses for selling wines and spirituous Liquors, & for Keeping Tavern in the Town of York, the year ensuing. The Court are of opinion that Six persons are a sufficient Number, for Keeping Tavern in the Town of York. Titus Simons also applied for a Recommendation to take out a Tavern Licence but was not approved.
. 1801 Apr 20 - Read a memorial of Titus Simons, late Innholder in the Town of York, ordered to lie over till Monday next for further consideration. He is not recommended for a Tavern License.
Ref: General Quarter Sessions, & of the Home District Court (Toronto).

. 1810 he Court then took into consideration the appointing of Parish, &
Town Officers for the United Townships of West Flamboro', & Beverly, they having been informed that no Town Meetings were held in those Townships in March last. The following Persons were then appointed for the present year: For West Flamboro, Titus G. Simons Assessor.
Ref: General Quarter Sessions, & of the Home District Court (Toronto).

. UCLPetition 24, S Bundle Leases 1797-1808, p478, C2830. Petitioner Titus Geer Simons, Printer, has lands in continuous to the Reserved Lots 1 & 4, Con 2, Flamboro W Twp. He is desirous to Lease upon the usual terms.
Signed, Titus GSimons. York, 10 Jun 1800.
Envelope: Lot 1 is a Clergy reserve; Lot 4 is a Crown Reserve. Warrant 223, issued to himself, 18 Feb 1803.

. UCLPetition 36, S Bundle 10, p905, C2810. Petitioner received in 1798, a land Grant as the Son of UE Loyalist, that he now has under fence 150 A. in good conditions. Wherefore he prays for additional land.
Signed, Titus Geer Simons, Flamboro West, 8 April 1811.
Envelope: Envelope: Titus Greer Simons, received from himself 15 Apr 1811.
Recommended for 400 Acres by order of the Lieutenant Governor Francis Gore, Esq.

. UC Sundries, #5568, p1074, C4507
York, 8 July 1811. Wm. Halton, Est. Lt. Governor, Survey Gen. Office, Your note of 28 March last, it appears the Governor permitted Titus G Simons to locate on Lot 14, Con 1 of Beverley, as also Lot 12, Con 1, Beverly. Mr. Simons wishes to comply with the Order In Council of 16 February last, in his favor for 400 acres. Signed, Thos. Ridout. Survey Gen.

. UCLPetition 65, S Bundle 12, p886-91, C2812. Memorial of Titus Simons of Flamboro West, some time in the winter of 1812 he purchased of Mrs. Eleanor Haines, daughter of a UEL, Lot 45, First Concession, Ancaster Twp., settlement duty to be performed in 18 months. On June 20 of [1813] he marched to Niagara with his Militia Regiment & remained until the conclusion of Peace that year. In the summer of 1815 & 16 were occupied by him xx laid waste by the Western Indians who were executed in their vicinity. In Spring of 1818 he build a log house unsaid lot. July 5 & cleared 5 A. of land.
A few days since he was informed a gentleman in York continued a deed for said Lot. Wherefore he prays to take his case into consideration.
Signed, Titus GSimons, Flambro West, 8 March 1819.
. To Lt Gov. Pergrine Maitland, In Council.Your order me to report on Titus G Simons, Esq. In Mar 1812, Lot 45, Con 1, Twp. of Ancaster, containing 200 A. was located by special order of I. Brock, in the name of Eleanor Hanes, Daughter of UEL, who was granted 200 A. by oder In Council, 14 Jun 1811, her Agent signed, the usual engagement for performing the Settling Duty.
. 1818 Apr 29, a Report was made to Administrator Smith, stating the location had no Certificate had been filed in this office for performance of the said settling due.
. 1818 May 2, The Reports before mentioned were detailed in a letter to Mr. Smith, who on 11th following was pleased to Command me to issue a description in the name of Capt. Thomas Fitzgerald for the said lot, excepted from settling Duty,
Signed, Thos. Ridout, Survey General, York 16 March 1819.
Envelope he other gentleman, Capt. Thos. Fitzgerald, must make another claim.

. UC Sundries, #17893, p709, C4601, [as above, differing slightly:]
Sometime in the winter 1812 General Brock was favorable pleased to permit him to located in Lot 45, Con 1, Ancaster Twp. In the Spring following he engaged a man to perform the Settlement Duties thereon which he did part, shortly after the War commenced, when he marched to the Frontier & remained in Service during the contest & nothing since then has been done.
Your Petitioner learnt that on Saturday last, W. Durand was up in this neighborhood, endeavoring to provide affidavits that no Settlement duty had been performed on said lot in order that he might have it. Wherefore your petitioner has lost no time in stating the facts relative & will be favorable pleased not to escheat the said lot.
Signed, Titus GSimons, Flamboro West, 22 Feb, 1818.
. Signed, 30 April, 1823, Titus GSimons.
. Mr. Dunard said the Eleanor Hanes is on map of the above marker sd. lot.
Performance of Duty has not been filed in the Survey General's Office, York. 29 Apr 1818. Thos. Ridout, Surveyor General.

. UC Sundries 20971, p771, C4603.
Crown Reserves located in the Survey Generals Offices to Militia Officers & Men:
Titus G Simons, a deserving Militia officer, Lot 4, Con 2, West Flamboro, 200A, By authority of Lt. Governor Gore, 19 Feb 1816.

. UCLPetition 138, S Bundle 13, p382, C2814.
Petition Titus G Simons, Flamborough West, Esquire. That Lieut. Gov. Gore permitted him to locate on Lot 4, Con 2, Flamborough West in Consideration of him being disabled by wounds received in the Service* during the late war. He has cleared upwards of 80 acres. He has built a Grist Milland Saw Mill thereon. Wherefore, please grant him a Patent for said Lot.
Signed, 30 April, 1823, Titus Simons.
. Mr. Mersia? Agent for T G Simons has paid into the Gov. the Survey Fees, £5 5s 5p.
Note: Three grape shot lodged in Major Simons sword arm during the Battle of Lundy's Lane & lost most of the use of his right arm. Ref: Memorial of Colonel Titus Geer Simons.

. 1797 Jul 5 - A NEW PUBLISHER. The next issue reads: Vol. III., No. 143, & it was printed by Titus G. Simons, Gideon Tiffany, having retired from the business. Titus Geer Simons, son of Titus Simons, who after the Revolutionary war settled first at Kingston & then at Niagara, afterwards published the first newspaper at York. He commanded the volunteer armed militia at the burning of Black Rock, 29th December, 1813, & at Lundy's Lane was severely wounded. In 1824 he became Colonel of the 2nd Gore Militia. Mr. H. H. Robertson of Toronto, son of the late Judge Thomas Robertson, is, on his father's side, a great-grandson of Col. Titus G. Simons. Titus Geer Simons for a few months remained in Niagara, taking into partnership William Waters. On 4th October, however, under their proprietorship, the Upper Canada Gazette first appeared in the new capital of York (Toronto).

. 1797 Nov 18, Sat. Advertisement. THE PRINTER LOSES HIS COW. This issue contains, besides the British & foreign news of the day, the information that the printer had lost his
cow, for he advertises: "Two dollars reward: Strayed, from the subscriber, about one month since, a large red cow, with the letters 'T.S.' branded on her horns; any person who will give information of, or returning to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward & all necessary expense. Titus Simons.

. 1798 July 6th, Saturday, £4 per annum. WATERS & SIMONS PUBS.
West Niagara, printed by W Waters & T G Simons The skip from Vol 4 to 6 is probably due to the remembering of the volumes probably done when W Waters went into partnership with T G Simons.
. 1798 Oct 4, Thrus. This is the first issue of the Gazette at York. There is no reason given for the lapse of more than months dates of publications. the press upon which this & succeeding issues were printed, a century later came into the possession J Ross Robertson, proprietor of the Evening Telegram, Toronto. It is the oldest printing press in Canada. In 195 it now stands in a large glass case in the Normal School, Gould St., Toronto.
. 1800 Feb 8 - Bargains in 1800. A Bargain For Sale, Lot 23, on the south side of Duke St. with a convenient dwelling house, 24 feet by 18, outhouses, its, an excellent cellar can with little expense be made; the advantages of this lot, from its admirable situation richness of soil, etc are so well known that a description of them is unnecessary. For terms apply toG G Simons or John Kendrick, proprietor.Lot 23 was a grant made to John Kendrick.

. 1807 Apr 23, York, UC, To Mr. Wyndham., To inform you rom the general & notorious bad conduct of Joseph Willcock, Sheriff of Home District. I transmit 5 affidavits to consider the necessity to remove him from office. Signed, Lt. Governor Francis Gore.

. 1807 Feb 2, York, Affidavit of Titus G Simon, Flamboro West Twp., On 27 Nov 1807, having rode in company with several gentlemen to the house of John Mills Jackson, Yonge St., to dine with Capt. Richard Ferguson, JP, Sheriff Willocks, Baron de Hoen, Lieut. Ranny L Besserer & Jos. Cheniquy. We sat down to dinner at a late hours. approaching election become the topic of certain in which Mr Jackson & the King's health was drank. Mr. Sheriff said I am most shamefully & cruelly oppressed, for reasons unknown to myself & my friends. [The Governor] is my implacable enemy & his persecution will only cease on my being ousted. I have a letter from the solicitor General & then pulled some papers from his pocket.; Capt. Ferguson rose from his chair & begged hm in the most friendly terms, not to rad or expose any official Papers in a mixed public company. The sheriff address Mr. Jackson saying, this the way I am always pressed & cannot say a word in vindication of myself. My Jackson cried that the Governor has used you as well as some others in this place like a damned Rascal. Mr. Chenique got enraged ... To Capt. Ferguson, the sheriff said Damn you & your friendship, it is not to be depended upon. cast Ferguson immediately collared him & they rose throw their chairs - we interfered & parted them. Mr. Sheriff pulled off his coat & ran out the door, The Capt. followed & brought him back very peaceable. Sheriff sat down again & immediate began with Politics. I begged him to drop Politics. Sworn, Titus G Simons. York 2 Feb 1807, before D Cameron JP.
. Follows deposition of Joseph Cheniquy, Town of York, 27 Nov., at house of John Mills Jackson, Sheriff of Home District, Jospeh Willcocks. After dinner & before the cloth was removed, the Sheriff began the subject of Politics & persisted & used most abusive language against the tyrannical & oppressive Governor. JM Jackson supported the Sheriff assertions, & used violent language, that the Magistrate was constrained to interfere. Jacksons said the Executive Council & Gov. General Hunter had plundered the Country. Sworn J Chenille, before John Small, JP.
Ref: Report Canadian Archives, 1892, Pg.149, Slightly abbreviated version. -PJA

WAR of 1812, 2nd Regiment of York Militia:
. 1812 Jun 4, Major Titus G. Simons, W. Flamborough, under Col. Richard Beasley.
. 1813 Dec - Militia at Black Rock & Buffalo
. 1813 Capture of Fort Niagara, USA
. 1814 Jan 1, Black Rock campaign, 279 prisoners taken to Fort York, Ontario.
. 1814 Jun 20, Date of commission, Incorporated Militia [From YM 2nd Reg.]
. 1814 Jul 4 - 24, Maj TGS. 12 days. Battle of Lundy's Lane, Niagara Frontier, Received one grapeshot to the right shoulder as our picture shows. As a result he lost the use of his right arm.
. 1814 Jul 4 - Aug 16: Maj TGS, 11 days. & Adj John K Simons, 21 days. Signed for receipt of pay.

Ontario Land Registry Abstract, Trafalgar Book 24, 61
Lot 22, Con 1 South of Dundas St., Halton Co. p311-312.
. 1819 Oct 11, Reg. 1819 Oct 15, Titus G Simons, Sheriff, to Philip Tailler, West 4 Acres.

. 1826 Jun 2, Tar & Feathering of George Ralph who sued for damages from Titus G. Simons, Allan N. MacNab, James Hamilton, Peter H. Hamilton, Andrew Stevens, Geo. Gurnett, Alex Robertson, John D. McKay and Alex. Chewett. All were leading Toires & they were sued for trespass & outrage.

OBITUARY:
. 1829 Aug 27, Thurs. On morning of Thurs. 20 inst. at his house in Flamboro West, Titus G. Simons, Col. 2nd Reg. Gore Militia & former Sheriff of Gore District, Former sheriff of Gore District.
Ref: Colonial Advocate newspaper, Upper Canada.

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Buried:
at Bullocks corners, W Flamborough.

Titus married Elizabeth Green BETSEY SHARP on 3 Jun 1798 in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Lincoln, Ontario. Elizabeth (daughter of Guisbut (Guysburt) SHARP, Lieut.) was born in 1769 in Ernestown, Lennox & Addington Co., Ontario; died in c 1869 in Flamborough West Twp. Wentworth Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Betsy is the daughter of Guysbert Sharp, of Ernestown, UE Loyalist.

. UCLPetition 82, S Bundle 10, p1133, C2810.
To Major General Isaac Brock, Esquire., In Council
Petition of Betsy Simons, wife of Titus Simons of Ernestown & is the daughter of Guysbert Sharp, of Ernestown, U E Loyalist.
Wherefore she prays a Grant of 200 Acres of Crown Land. AV? Willit Casey of Twp. of Adolphustown to take out the Deed when completed.
Signed, Betsey Simons.
. Betsey Simons markets oath that she is the person which she describes herself to be in the above Petition.
Signed, Betsey Simons.
. Neighbor. I hereby Certify that Betsey Simons signed, the above Petition in my presents & that she is the person she describes herself to be.
Signed, Danl. Wright, JP., Adolphustown, 29 January, 1812.

Envelope: Read in Council in Council 25 Feb, 1812. Recommended for 200 Acres.
Warrant issued 3 Mar. 1812.
- This Petitioner is stated to be now in the United States by Mr. Casey, M.P. [Member of Parliament], 1st March, 1818, In her application to know if a warrant had issued.

Note: This last entry is a very curious entry:
Betsey Simons was granted 200 Acres on 3 March, 1812 by Justice of Peace, Daniel Wright who was involved in the then just beginning of the War of 1812. The intervening War would have made obtaining a deed difficult to impossible with Gen. Isaac Brock away fighting various battles in Upper Canada.
So in 1817 it appears Betsey Simons is finally inquiring about the land granted to her 5 years previously. Firstly, NO land can be granted to any person living outside of the Province of Upper Canada, & secondly & more to the point, during & subsequent to the 1812 War, a person moving to the United States would have been of suspected loyalty with further action to be taken!
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Children of Elizabeth Green & Titus Geer Simons.Jr. 2nd are:
Alexander Simons, Elizabeth Jane Simons, Hannah Simons, Matilida Ann Simons & Charlotte Simons, bc 1798, Niagara-on-the-Lake (Newark), Ontario - 1882 Apr 119 Ancaster, ON, Bu. Jerseyville, ON - married 1817to Ben. James Markle.
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Notes:

Births, Titus Simons, s/o John Simons & Sarah his wife, was born June ye 7th 1743.

. Immigrated to Montreal, Kingston & then to West Flamboro about 1780. Married twice: 1763 to Sarah Simons (his first cousin); & again in 1774 to Jerusha Kingsley.
moved to Hertford, VT
. FA4: 1778 property confiscation in the old county of Cumberland, VT
Religion: belonged to the parish of Rev Dr Samuel Peters
. FA1: AFT 1770 purchased property in Hertford, VT
. A1: 1777 trial documentation
Commission for Loyalist Losses.

. Titus Simons, Quarter Master, Peters Corp of Queens Loyal Rangers, on the Burgoyne campaign.1777 June Lt. Gen. Burgoyne.

. 1791 March Census, Mecklenburg District, Kingston & Ernestown:
Titus Simons, Age 46 /1745, Married
Tabitha Simons, age 36 /1755, Married
Tabitha Simons, age 16, /1775 single; Titus Simons, Age 14, /1777, Mary Simons age 11, /1780,
Elizabeth Simons, age 9 /1782, Sophia Age 6 /1785, John Simons Age 4 /1787, Ann Simons Age 2 /1789.
Ref: The Loyalist Gazette.

. UCLPetition 107, S Bundle 2, C2806, p849. To Gov. John Graves Simcoe, Petition of Titus Simons, Newark Twp., Upper Canada
Your Petitioner settled in Province of Quebec in 1777 with his family & resided in Upper Canada (Ontario) since 1788. Has a wife & 9 children, 6 born before 1788. Requests family lands.
Signed, Titus Simons, Niagara, 14 Jun 1796.
. To Certify Titus Simons was appointed & mustered in the year 1777 in the British Camp at Stillwater, as Quartermaster in Queens Loyal Rangers Corps, commanded by Lieut. Col John Peters, later incorporated with other Loyal Partisans, under Major Edward Jessup in 1781. Signed, Capt. Justus Sherwood, J. French LKR, NY, Lt. James Parret, Loyal Rangers, Capt. David McFall. True Copy 14 Jun 1796, T Ridout.
Granted 500 Acres for himself & 350 A. for his family.

. UCLPetition 126, S Bundle 3, C2807, p402.
Petition of Titus Simons, late Quartermaster in Corps of Loyal Rangers, serving to near the end of the war, until his regiment was incorporated into others & he then receive a pension. He has received 410 A. in the Eastern District in a warrant for 850 acres of which 350 A. was for his family. 1797. Please grant him land due to a Quartermaster. Niagara, 13 July, 1797. [no actual signature.]
Titus Simon granted 2,000 Acres. [ ! ]

Note: Signature Comparison: The signature of the father Titvs Simons, UEL, is distinguished in Titus, by the two ts are crossed together as one, also Titvs is in a print-like script, whereas his son Simons is completely written & underlined.
The signature of son Titus G Simons is completely in script & likewise, in Titus the ts are also crossed with a single stroke. Most distinguishing is GSimons is signed, as one word. - PJ Ahlberg, 2017.

. 1797 July 22nd to the 23d Nov 1797, M. Titus G Simons, Printer, amount of his account, £24.8.half shilling. [ i.e. owed to him. - PJA]
. 1799 between Jan 30 and 30th June, inclusive: Lieut. Governor's office for Print, $37.10.
Ref: UC State Land Book B, p120, 391.

. 1807 - Lot 113, South West corner Duke & Caroline streets, Toronto, Owned, but scheduled as not resident.

. 1826 Aug 10, WILL of Titus Geer Simons:
In the name of God, Amen, I Titus Geer Simons of Flamboro West in the Gore District & province of Upper Canada, being sound of mind & memory for which blessing I thank My God, do make & publish this my last will & testament & request that it may be received by all Concerned as Such:
 After the payment of my funeral charges, which I request may not be extravagant, & all other just debts, I give & bequeath to Mrs. Hannah Simons, Lot number 23 in the third concession of the Township of Nissouri in the London District containing 200 acres of land  more or less & to her heirs & assigns forever, & also the bedstead, bed & bedding & curtains on which we usually lay, & one third of the table linen, & 6 cups & saucers, teapot, milk pot, & 6 plates & 6 knives & forks & 3 silver teaspoons, one dining room Breakfast Table & 3 chairs, 1 frying pan. 1 common pot, 1 tea kettle & 1 milch cow, order to be given her as full compensation for all further charge or claims on my estate in the way of living or any other whatsoever.
I cannot help mentioning in this place, although I have long since forgiven her cruel, unfeeling unmother like treatment to my poor motherless daughters, in advising & encouraging them to their destruction, thereby entailing on me sorrow, mortification & unheard of trouble, in return for my having brought up & educated her Children & without making any charge against them for it, God forgive her?
 2nd. To my Grand Son Titus Markle, $50 to be laid out in sheep & cows, as may seem just to my executors, & to be paid out at interest or share to some reputable farmer until he shall become of age, when he is to receive the whole but in the event of his death while still a minor this legacy is to be divided among his brothers & sisters of the same mother.
 3 . To my nephew Titus Cummings, $25 to be laid out in sheep & cows & to be put out on shares for him until he should become of age, when he is to receive the whole, & in the event of his death while a minor the legacy to go to his sister Hannah.
 
Fourth I give & bequeath to my nephew Titus Simons (my brother Walter's son) $25 to be laid out in sheep & cows & to be put out in shares for him, until he shall become of age, when he is to receive the whole, but in the event of his death while a minor, the legacy to be given to his sister Eliza.
 
5. To my namesake Titus G. Simons Neville, $25 to be laid out in sheep & cows & to be put out for him on shares until he shall become of age when he is to receive the whole, & in the event of his death to be given to his youngest sister.
 
6. To my brother John K. Simons, my double barreled gun, reticule, flask & shot bag.
 
7. To my brother Walter William, my favourite mare, Nell, saddle & bridle, & in the event of her death, another horse.
 
8. To my daughter Charlotte Markkle, Lot number 24 in the 3rd concession of the Township of Nissouri in the London District being 200 acres, to her heirs an assigns forever, I also give her 2 cows & 4 sheep.
 
9. To my daughter Elizabeth Jane, Lot number 1 in the Concession 6 & also the south half of number 4 in the same concession of the Township of London making 300 acres to her, her heirs & assigns forever.
 
10. To my daughter Matilda, my piano forte with all the music, all my pictures, map & History of England & a horse with saddle & bridle.
11. To my daughter Hannah, my Encyclopedia & Atlas, bedstead, bed & bedding, my 2 mirrors, & one half of my estate, a horse saddle & bridle.
 12. I give & bequeath to my daughter Bell Gore, the residue of my library, spy glass, pier glass, bedstead, bed & bedding, side board & the remaining half of my estate. The table, chairs & kitchen furniture to be equally divided between her & my daughter Hannah & I give to my daughter Bell Gore my favourite case of pistols, my watch bearing my initials with gold chain & seal, the seal with my initial, I hope she will keep while she lives, & I also give her my own picture, & request that my military maps be equally divided among my last 3 daughter named. My best sofa to my daughter Bell Gore, & also the chest of drawers -- with pleasure sleigh & waggon & horses. My poacher's gun I give to my grandson Titus Markle, & my holsters to my brother John K. My fishing tackle to my nephew Titus Simons, (Walter's son).
 13. I give & bequeath to my son-in-law Alex Robertson, my Rifle & gun cleaning traps with case & my military bridle & martingale.
 14. To my sisters Jerusha, Mary Elizabeth & Anna, 100 acres of land each of them, to each of their heirs & assigns forever out of my military tract - being in the Township of Eramosa & to my sister Sophia I gave her husband's note of hand dated Sept 14, 1822 for £60 10s 7p which is more than I have been able to give another of my affectionate & dear sisters.

 15. I put & place the residue of all my property real & personal after the payment of all my just debts, my Executors to equally divided, as near as may be, my 6 children namely Charlotte, Alexander (transcribers note: he is a nephew, but treated as son) Matilda, Hannah, Bell Gore & Elizabeth Jane, & the others to have an equivalent in money or other property as may be agreed on by the parties.
It is my earnest wish that the homestead Lot No. 4 in the 2nd Concession of Flamboro West (Flamboro Cottage) should be kept in the family, for on it I have spent the vigor of my youth in rugged industry to make a small pittance for my dear children & relatives, & it has pleased God to bless my labors & increase my share & for which I feel truly thankful.
I could wish that Charles Slaven, a brute in the Shape of Man, who aided & encouraged by my wife, seduced from the path of duty & from a fond father's protection, my poor & unthinking motherless infant Elizabeth Jane, should not anticipate any of the property given to my dear child, if my Executors can possibly prevent it & as I have before mentioned I wish Lot 4, Con 2, Flamboro West known by the name of Flamboro Cottage with all its mills should be kept by one of my 3 children, namely Matilda, Hannah & Bell Gore or by the whole of them with share & share alike in the profits thereof if agreed, not to be sold out of the family if it possibly can be avoided & should it be so managed that the said Flamboro Cottage be kept by one of my said children or more. Or in money as may be agreed on by the parties concerned.
 I particularly request of my said Executors, & enjoin it upon them, that the do immediately after my death take appropriation of my Estate real & personal & a faithful inventory of all within as well as without doors & give a Copy of same to my daughter Hannah, for I have been so often robbed by those whose duty it was to protect me & my property, for I believe some advantages will be taken of my death as heretofore been done of my absence to carry off property & given to those whom I have only received the basest ingratitude, the world knows what I have done for them, & I advise my children to shun their dwellings, if they value their own peace & happiness.
Executor: John K. Simons, W.W. Simons & Alexander Robertson Esq. my true & lawful Executors & my daughter Hannah when she shall have attained the proper age my executrix.
Witness: 10 August 1826, Alexander Robertson Esq. & Matilda his wife guardians of my infant children Hannah & Bell.
 Signed, Titus Geer Simons to be his last Will & Testament.

Ontario Land Registry, Toronto Book 683 p272
Town of York Lot 13 South Side Duke St [now Adelaide St.]
1803 May 14, Grant, Crown, to Titus Geer Simons, 66 ft S of Sherbourne St.
. 1810 Bargain&Sale, Titus Geer Simons, to John Macdonell, All land.


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Birth:
Alt DOB: Jan 1, 1743. Belong to Parish of Rev Dr Samuel Peters.

Died:
Bullocks Corners

Buried:

Titus married Mrs. Sarah (Titus.1) SIMONS on 20 Jan 1763 in Enfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Mrs. was born in 1740 in East Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 14 Jun 1771 in East Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some genealogies suggest the parents of Sarah are
Docas Foster 1705.9.24 Chelmsofrd, Mass.
& James Simons, 1699.9.24 Enfield, Conn. -1761 East Windsor, Hartford Co., Conn.

. 1763 January 20th, Hartford County. Marriages
Titus Simons of Enfield & Sarah Simons of Windsor ware joyned together in marriage by me Ephraim Terry, Justice of Peace.

. Deaths: Titus Simons, son of Tutus & Sarah Simons, died in June 14, 1771. Verify identity. - - -

Birth:
Alt Loc: East Windsor, Conn. 1740?

Buried:
"a very old stone"

Notes:

Guisbert Sharp is the son of Batha & Johannes John Sharp & his father Geisberd Sharp 1767.

UCLPetition 162, S Batch 3, p534, C2807, [Partial filled out form was approved!
Certificate # 43, of the Board appointed by Lt. Govenor of Co. Lennox, Addington, Hastings, UC.
the Bearer Gilbert Sharp, having on the 22 January 1792 preferred to this board a Petition for a Grant of 200 Acres. Signed, 22 Jan, 1793, P VanAlatine, H Spencer,Alex Fisher. Envelope: 200 Acres. Confirmed 21 Jul, 1997, Peter Russel.

UCLPetition 177, S Bundle 3, p582, C2807.
In Council, Lieut. Guisbert Simons, of the late Loyal Rangers, commanded by Major Edward Jessup, prays for an allows of land for his wife, & 4 child, born before 1789. Viz. Christina, Allida, Catherine & Tiney? or Betsey.
Envelope: Received 8 Mar, 1797. Granted 250 Acres as family lands.
Warrant issued 2 March 1805.

UCLPetition 5, S Bundle 8, p 469, C2809.
Personally appeared Gusbert Sharp made oath & sworn upon the Holy Evangelist that his son of John G Sharp, [senior] solder in Major Jessups Regiment* during the American war & was discharged when the war ended, drawn half of Lot 22, Con 4, Ernestown. Sworn before me at Ernestown, 11 Sept 1805, Daniel Frazer, JP. & Guysbart Sharp.
Envelope. Declaration of Allan McLean, Esq. of Kingston & of John Detlor, now of York, that John Gusbert Sharp is not yet 30 years of age. The Board not conceived him entitled to the privileges of an UE J. Baby, Presiding Councillor.
approved A grant, President.
Gusbert Sharp's oath that his son John G Sharp had been a soldier in the Royal Rangers.
Recommended 250 Acres as family land. G Simcoe.
York, 3 March 1806. entered in Land Book G, p17.

Upper Canada Land Petition 187, S Bundle 11, p236, C2812. In Council,
Petition of Guisbert Sharp, Township of Fredericksburgh, County of Lennox, your petitioner at the commencement of the American War, adherent to the British Government, in consequence of which I was imprisoned at different places, in the now called United States of America & as early as was in power being charged with a heavy family, I came to this Province, with my family & the small remains my enemy left me as will appear by the Certificates accompanying this petition.
Wherefore your petitioner begs that your Excellency will pleased add me on the UE List & grant me such a portion Crown Lands as your wisdom may think proper to grant & permit Mr. John Lutlor, Town of York to be his agent to locate the same & take the Deed when completed.
Adolphustown, 22 January, 1811, Guistbert HISXMARK Sharp.

. Sworn & Signed, Adolphustown, 22 Jan 1811, Guisbert HISXMARK Sharp.
. Personally appeared 22 May 1811 before me in & for military land, Guisbert Sharp & saith he was acquainted with him form the commencement of the American War, & know to be faithful subject & that his being taken prisoner & sent to Fiskkiln [NY] from thence to Exeter in New Hampshire, further more the deponent saith not, except he knows of his coming into this Province 20 years ago last September. [Sept. 1791].
Sworn before me a Fredericksburg this 22 Jan 1811, N.J. WXXXer, JP, & Guisbert Sharp.
. Personally appeared 19 January, 1811 before me the undersigned, Justice of Peace, Under Campbell, who duly sworn Maketh oath & saith Gilbert Sharp, Twp. of Fredericksburg, on account of his loyalty & adherence to the British Government was taken prisoner at Fiskkiln in 1776, conveyed abroad a vessel to Fiskkiln where the deponent made his own escape & left the said Gilbert Sharp in confinement.
Sworn before me at Adolphustown, Mildland district the first above written, Alexr. Fisher, JP & Signed, Alexr. Carrefokal [blurry ink]
Envelope: Cannot be grant, not having joined the Royal Standard. Read in Council 12.9.1811. Imprisoned for his Loyalty, came to this Province about 1791.

. Petition of his father, John Sharp, [Senior]
UCLPetition 155, S Batch 3, p518,C2809, Petition of John Sharp, as a private soldier in Major Jessops Regiment in the late war. He retuned to Colonys to settle some private affairs, was detained longer than his intentions lead him, by sickness &,other unforeseen casualtys.
Upon his return of Upper Canada he found the Lands drawn for him on account of his services, to be appropriated to the use of another individual.
He therefore prays to be indulgent as to grant him Lands for himself & family as are allowed to such as served His Majesty with America. Also permit him to locate Lot 12?, Con 1, Glousester Twp., lying upon the River Rideau.
Signed, John Sharp, Eastern District, July 29, 1797.
Envelope: Granted 300 Acres family land.

- Petition of his son, John Sharp, Jur.
UCLPetition 157, S Batch 13, p522, C2807
Petition of John Sharp, son Guisbert Sharp, commanded by Maj Ed Jessup of the Loyal Rangers, having served as a Volunteer in said Regt. & being above the age of 2y, never rec. any lands prays such an allowance. Signed, 20 Sept 1797, G Winsor?, Agent.
Envelope: John Sharp Jur., Granted 400 A. as Volunteer of Son of a [soldier]. 17 Nov 1797.
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Notes:

John is the son of Sarah Hadlock & Williams Simons.1

. Prior to 1749 the towns of Enfield & Somers belonged to Massachusetts.

Children of Sarah Geer & William Simons are:
1. John Simons, 1724 Mar 19 Enfield - d. Enfield, married in 1748, Miriam Jones. 11 children;
2. Sarah Simons, 1726 Aug 22 Hartford, Conn - d. Connecticut;
3. Paul Simons, 1726 Sep 11, Enfield - 1778 May 24 Enfield, married Mary X, 2 children;
4. Ebenezer Simons, 1732 Feb 19 - 1755 Mar 11;
5. Asbel Simons, 1734 Apr 7- 1811 Jun 3 Enfield, was a soldier in the expedition to Fort Edward, Oct., 1757. Married, June 19, 1759, Mehitable Isom, b. 1740 Ellington or Windsor - d. April 8, 1813, aged 73. Their child Joseph, b. in Enfield, Nov. 20, 1772;
6. Charity Simons, 1736 Jul 27- 1737 Feb 17, Enfield;
7. Charity Simons the Second, 1738 Sep 4 -1805 Jun 13, 1805. Red sandstone monuments reads In memory of Mrs. Charity Abbe, wife of John Abbe, who died Jun 13, 1805 in the 67th year of hear age;
8.* Bathsheba Simons.1, 1740 Jan 24 -1742 Oct 4, Enfield;

8. Titus Simons, 1743 Jun 7 - d. Enfleld, & married Jan. 20, 1763, Sarah Simons of Windsor. Children: b. in Enfield: i. Titus, jr., b. Jan. 30, 1765, d. June 14, 1771; ii. Sarah, b. July 31, 1767.

9.* Bathsehebe Simons - 1748 Jun 9 Enflield - d. 1754 Apr 23, ye 2d 5y, daug'r of Mr. John Simons & Mrs. Sarah is wife in ye 6th year of her age, 2 children;
10. Bathsheba Simons.2, 1748 Jun 9 - 1754 April.
11. Edward Simons, 1750 Sep 3 Enfield, died unknown.
ALL buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, (except the unknown death of Edward Simons.)

. Cattle Marks & Town Meetings. [Life in the Village of Enfield]:
. Taken up by John Simons a white ear marked with a crop of the off Ear & a slice in the top of the near ear & a half penny the upper side the near Ear. Also a white ew marked with a half Crop the upper side of each ear.

. First Ecclesiastical Society in Enfield ( SHAKERS) 1770-1849
In Enfield until 1770 the parish lines were the town lines, the Society voters were the town voters & all society business was done in town meeting.
. A time of Remarkable Sickness & Mortality in this Town with Longfeaver [typhus].
1770 Aug 23 - when see fit to build a meeting house it should not he moved out of the Street­ … meetings warned by notifications at Taverns & Mills.
. Committee to uniting the 2 societies into one, inc. Lt Nath Geer. Ensign John Simons, Jun. Voted Shubael Geer shall pay what his rate would have been.

. [BARTER RATE]: Payment for building a Meeting House to be made in Indian Corn at 2shillings per bushel, Wheat at 4s/per bu.; Rye at 3, Port at pence per county, beef fit to Barrel at 2 p., Tobacco if raised by the hand that presents it for his own rate at 18s. per Hundred. Money always to be accepted instead if any person desires to cart each to the banks to Meeting House.

. 1772 Jul 9 - First Society Meeting convented.
. 1774 Oct 3 - Meeting Enfield, voted & chose Ensign John Simons to a 2nd. committee for the year ensuing. At the same meeting voted Mr. Isaac Kibbe have Liberty to put the Step Stones next May & Ens. John Simons be a Committee to finishing the meeting house & to say whither it be done according to garaging & to say shat step stones shall be at the Steeple door. Mr. Kibbee directed to lay a double floor in the new meeting house.
. Regulate seating young men to be seated at 16 & young women at 14 years old.
. 1784 Aug 30, Eliphalet Terry, Moderator, Capt. Ephraim Pease procured & presented a bell for the public Utility of a Meeting. It shall remain entirely for their use, excepting for Death & Funerals when the whole Town may have the Privilege of said Bell.
Ref: History of Enfield Connecticut, Town Records,

. 1775 Apr 19, Wed. News of the opening Battle of Lexington reached Enfield on Thurs. afternoon Apr 20, 175. Isaac Kibble kept the tavern near the church & soon as the messenger arrived, Kibbe procured a drum & Thos Abbe beat the long roll about the Meeting House. The church meeting was broken up by this Abbe's drumming. the next morning 75 of Enfield Minute Men march for Boston, each with his flint-lock musket & powder horn. the Long Roll are Maj Nathaniel Terry, Lieut. Richard Abbe, Capt. John Simons, & Corporals John Simons, 2nd., & Elusha Geer.
Ref: Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey.

. 1790 Census East Hartford, Conn.
John Simons, Male 1, Males under 16y 3, Females 5. - - -

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John married Sarah GEER on 1 Dec 1723 in Enfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Shubael GEER, Sr. and Sarah ABBE) was born on 5 Jan 1704 in Enfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 20 Jul 1751 in Enfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah is the daughter of Sarah Abbe & Shubael Geer who is the son of Deborah & Thomas Geares (Geer). Sarah is the cousin of husband, Titus Simons.

> In the Enfield Street Cemetery lies a beautifully monument, short but a wide stone, perhaps reburied deeper (?)

Very clear inscription reads:
Here Lyesy Body of Mrs Sarah Simons
wife of Mr John
Simons who died
July 20th 1751 in the
47 year of her age.
Above in inscription there appears a round face with wide eyes, curly hair & a necklace & surrounded with feathers.
Ref: Historical Sketch of Town of Enfield, 1900.

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Birth:


Died:
Aged 47y of her age.