Notes:

Calvin is the son of Ann McCollister & Arnold Ames of Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

. UCLPetition 4, E Bundle 8, C1887, p764
To UC Government, Petition of Calvin Ems of North Gwiimbury, yeoman.
Your Petitioner has been 3 years in the Province & has a family consisting of a wife & 11 children, he as property amount of £500 Prince Currency.. He taken the Oath of Allegiance & desires to occupy & improve a vance Lot of land. He is prepared & undertakes in care his petitionshall be favorable answered, to pay within 3 days the whole feels allowed by his majesty to be chaired on the patent.
Signed, York 8 July 1806, Calvin Ems.
. Receipt 253, 3 July 1806 Calvin Ems paid £6 19sh 4p for Patent Fee. Signed, Peter Russell, Survey General.
. Envelope Granted 200 Aces of Land. Entered in Land Book G, page 96.

As an instance he stated the melancholy fact that his own father-in-law, Mr. Emes, with a son, a married daughter, her husband, a grandson & a hired man were drowned in sight of home & family in where they had to go for supplies. The late Mr. Emes was a United Empire Loyalist &d fought for George III when the States gained their independence. Mr. Emes gave up home & friends rather than live under a foreign flag. He settled with his family in Toronto, then called Muddy York, from there he moved to Roaches Point where the brave old Loyalist lost his life & part of his family in sight of his agonizing wife who stood watching on the shore.

Calvin Emes was in the 6th Massachusetts regiment in revolutionary War. Born Sudbury, Mass. . Lived in New Hampshire and Canada. Calvin Eames enlisted in Holdens Company 6th Massachusetts 5 May 1778 for term of 3 years. Sept. 9th 1778 listed as a private in Captain Abel Holden's Company, Col. Thomas Nixon's
battalion of Massachusetts By Forces. sep 1779 listed as On duty at Camp Bedford. July 1780 listed in Capt. Chambers Co, 6th mass, commanded by Col. Thomas Nixson. Aug & Sept 1780 - Oct 6 1780 at Camp Orangetown. Oct 1780-Nov 9, 1780 at Camp Totoway? March 1779-Apr. 1779 5th Mass at Kings Ferry, on commandant the barracks. April 1779-May 1, 1779 at Kings ferry. May 1779-June 12, 1779
at Camp Highlands (sick in general hospital).
Ref: US National Archives.

. 1812 May 13, 1812, Wed, Last Sunday morning a man of the name of Ames, his son, daughter,
son-in-law& an Indian, upset in a skiff crossing Cook's Bay, & were all unfortunately drowned. The skiff together with a small key containing some whiskey were take up in Lake Simcoe. Neither of the bodies have yet been found that we could hear of.
Ref: Upper Canada Gazette.
Note: Calvine drown in sight of his agonizing wife who stood watching on the shore. Cook's bay on on Lake Simone & crossing from Holland River to Roaches Point, (empties into Lake Simcoe).

. 1812 Mar 10. "Home District, to wit, By virtue of a Writ of Beri Facias, issued out of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench and to me directed, against the Lands & Tenements of Calvin Emes, at the suit of Duncan Cameron, I have seised & taken in Execution all that parcel or tract of Land being composed of Lot 24, Concession 4 of North Gwilliambury, containing by an measurement about 300 acres & 30 acres of which are cleared, and under a good state of cultivation, a good House and Barn, & other buildings erected thereon, all of which property will be adjudged to the highest bidder, at Mr. Abbot's Tavern, Town of York, on Saturday the 4th of April next. Sale to begin at 12 o'clock. Any person having any claim either by mortgage or otherwise, are
requested to make the same known to me before the day of sale. Signed, John Beike, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office.
Ref: Upper Canada Gazette, York.

Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
Alt Spelling Eames

Died:
COD: Downed. Lot 24, Con 4.

Family/Spouse: Matha DRURY. Matha was born on 20 Jan 1765 in Massachuesetts; died after 1874 in East Gwillimbury Twp., York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eleanor PENELOPE EMES was born on 12 Aug 1796 in Montpelier, Washington Co., Vermont; died on 9 Oct 1851 in Sharon, E. Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Pegg Cemetery.