Notes:

. 1892 Mar 19, Sodus Willis Kennedy & wife of Benton harbor were the guests of Carrie Parks, Sunday.
Ref: St. Joseph Herald Press.

. Obituary:
W. E. Kennedy Flu Victim - Benton Harbor Jeweler Dies After Illness With Influenza & Pneumonia.

. 1920 Jan 31 - William E. Kennedy, for a number of years a jeweler in Benton Harbor, died this morning at 3:40 following a brief illness with pneumonia. Mr. Kennedy was taken ill one week ago with influenza. He had improved & was believed to be on the road to recovery when pneumonia developed on Thursday.
Mr. Kennedy was about 52 years old & had lived in Benton Harbor his entire life. He is survived by his widow & one sister. The funeral will be private and will be held from the residence Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock.
Ref: St. Joseph Herald Press.

. 1920 Feb 3 - Kennedy Funeral Monday. Service for the late Willis, the city's first influenza victim were held from the home on broadway, Monday afternoon. Members of the Twin City Jewelers association, of which the deceased was a member, acted as bearers. Burial took place at Morton Hill Cemetery.
Ref: News Palladium newspaper, Benton Harbor, MI. - - -

Birth:
Age two months in 1860. Millburgh Post Office. Census 1860 & 1870.|

Died:

Family/Spouse: Jennie M HEATH. Jennie was born on 2 Sep 1861 in Allegan Co., Michigan; died on 25 May 1923 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried in Morton Hill Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1876 Jan 1 - Mortgage Sale, Default having bee made in the conditions of a certain indenture of Mortgage executed by Andrew Kennedy & Elizabeth J Kennedy, his wife, to Edward M Edward, 13 Mar 1874. Sale at Public Auction, on Territorial Road between Sections 16-17.
Ref: News Palladium newspaper, Benton Harbor, MI. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB: 1837.

Andrew married Elizabeth JANE TEETZEL, .i on 4 Mar 1858 in Berrien County, Michigan. Elizabeth (daughter of John Solomon TEETZEL, Jr. and Hadassah HESTER LAWRENCE, DUE) was born in 1839 in Palermo, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario; died on 22 Jul 1906 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried in Morton Hill Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jane Elizabeth is the daughter of John S Teetzel & Hadassah Lawrence.

Birth:
Alt Name: Jane Elizabeth, Ref: MI Death Registration.

Died:
Attended brother C W Teetzel funeral.

Buried:
Monument reads E Jane Teetzel.

Notes:

John S. Junior is the son of Mary Tufford & John Solomon Teetzel Sr.

> Two Lawrences sisters married two Teelzel brothers:
. Hadassah Hester Lawrence married John Solomon Teetzel Jr.
. Jane Lawrence married Mathias Teelzel &
> Lawrence cousin married their sister:
. Richard Lawrence Johnston married Julia Ann Teetzel.

. 1835 - (Esquesing, County of Halton) As soon as it was completed the first religious services were held in the Balinafad village school & meetinghouse on the corner of Nathaniel Rossel's lot [Roszel]. The meetings were held on a weekday & it was surprising to see the way the people would leave their work attend Divine Service. This was continued for several years.
The first religious awaking was brought about in a rather mysterious manner. A man named John Teetzel, who lived near where Acton now is, was thrown on a sick bed. He thought he was going to die. He had been a wicked man. In seeking someone to pray with him, he learned that in all the families for miles around no one could be found to do it. He then thought that he was lost. But just as he was about sinking into despair, the Lord gave some peace to his soul & gave him joys of salvation. He then & there pledge himself to God that he would consecrate his life to Him. And he faithfully kept his promise.
As soon as he got well, he sought out the Methodist ministers & they took him into the church. He at once commenced to hold meetings on Sabbath days around in private houses. A number of people were awakened & converted. My parents were among the number. For some years Mr. Teetzel was a power for good in that section of the country. He long since died in full assurance of faith & is now enjoying the reward of the father.
[Exact date is unknown, but the writer's story continues in fall of 1835 - PJA]
Ref: Experiences of a backwoods preacher, by Rev. H. Heiland, 1887

. 1842 Census Upper Canada, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario:
John Tetizel, Lot 228, Con 1 or Lot 28, Con 2? [last lot before Palermo, ON.], Labourer, 7 residents, 25 Acres, 10 cultivated.
Note1: To researchers: a dot artifact on microfilce may appear to read John Titzel.
. 1842 Upper Canada Census - Trafalgar Twp., Halton County, Ontario:
Tetzel, John: Con 1, Lot 30, faded entry, [No column names on this census page & by count are:]
Column 7: 4; Col 12-13: one; one; Col 22: one; Col 26: one; Col 29: one; Col 46: four; 100 Acres; 60; 50; 20, - ; 25. {rest runs off page.]

. 1852 January Census Trafalgar, Halton County, Ontario
John Teetzel, Farmer, Age 34 b. 1818 Canada, E. Methodist, Frame one story house
Hadasah Teetzel, Age 40, b 1812, Canada
Elizabeth J, Age 14, b. 1838, Canada
Mary A, Age 12, b. 1840, Canada
Margaret, Age 9, b. 1843, Canada
John W., Age 8, b 1844, Canada
George, Age 5, b. 1847, Canada
Esther F., Age 3, b. 1849, Canada
Charles W Teetzel, Age 1, born 1851, Canada, E. Methodist.

Ontario Land Registry Abstract Halton Co.,
Trafalgar Book 24, & p189-90.
Lot 30, Con 1 South of Dundas Street, Trafalgar Twp.
. 1808 Oct 18, Patent, Crown, to Bildad Simons, All 200 Acres;
. 1811 Apr 27, B&S, Bildad Simons, to Chas Teetzel, 90A, North Lot
. 1854 Mar 23, John Teetzel & Wife, to Aleucusedge Trxx?, fifth of an Acre, Half.

. 1859 Mar 23 - Advertisement St. Joseph Foundry & Machine Shop! too H Botham Proprietor, All Kinds of Work on the shortest notice. Steam Engine of 20 horse power has lately been added to establishment, also Extensive Iron lathes,
Bore out Gear Wheels, or bullies 20 feet in diameter.
Drills for mill owners, Iron Columns & window Sills & capes, Sugar kettles, cooking stoves for valor & box stove, Plows of 8 different kinds.
- I have lately had a trail of my plows on Mr. John Teezel's farm in Benton twp. against a plow manufactured in Mishwakee, Ind. Signed, St. Joseph Plow, Henry C Morton, Chas. Hull, John Teetzel, Jas Silver, of St. Jospeh, Mich.
Ref: St. Joseph Saturday Herald newspaper.

. 1865 - Application for Pension, Widow Mary Elizabeth Lawrence, wife of Richard S Lawrence, Jr. for his death of Typhoid Pneumonia during the American Civil War.
Witnesses sworn: Signed, John Teetzel & Hester Teetzel, Benton Twp., Widow of Richard S Lawrence. They know the decreased soldier from a long personal acquaintance of more than 30 years.

Affidavit1: 1865 Sept 13, Notary Public for Berrien Co.
Jane Teetzel of St. Joseph, Aged 55 years, b.1810 &
John Teetzel of Benton, age 49 years, b. 1816 ... Certify to be repeatable & entitled to credit. That they resided for many years previous & subsequently to 14 Oct 1830 at Palermo in Halton Co., Canada West. On that day Richard S Lawrence & Mary Elizabeth Simons were united in holy matrimony at the house of William Simons* in said Village of Palermo by the late Rev Mr King, a Presbyterian Clergyman. She is his widow. Jane Teetzel was present & witnessed the ceremony.

John Teetzel was a boy at that time & was at the house of his father on the opposite side of the Street from the said house where the said marriage took place & that the other members of the family were present & public records were not made & he know the said parties, signed, Jane Teetzel & John Teetzel.
Note2: Who is William Simons?

. 1860 Census Benton Twp., Berrien, Michigan
John Teetzel, b 1816; Hester, b 1813; Mary A, b 1841; Marg., b 1843; John W., b 1845; Geo, b 1840; Hester F., b 1851; Charles W Teetzel, b 1852.
IRS Tax Assessments Lists: 1863 Jan - Dec.
. Teetzel, John, Benton- Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A.32, Abstract Class B #241, Class C: Enumerated articles: 32. Total Tax Due: $3.00.
. Teetzel, John, Benton- Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A.32, Abstract Class B #10, Class C: B. Enumerated articles: 59.

. 1862 Dec 17 -Dr. Collins is located on the bluff north of the Paw Paw, has an orchard of 10 acres of peaches… Mr. Teetzel & J T Smith have each orchard from 10 to 20 acres new by & several more from 5 to 20 A.
Ref: St. Joseph Herald.

1864, May 17: Teetzel, John, Benton - Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A3, Abstract Class B #A, Class B: 32. Total Income Tax Due: $3.00.
. Teetzel, John, Benton - Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A.32, Abstract Class B #10, Class B: 59. Total Income Tax Due: $10.00.

. 1865 May 8, Teetzel, John, Benton Harbor, Source: Stallion Keeper, #236, Tax on item $10. Total Income Tax Due: $10.00. Benton Harbor.

. 1867 Bell Chapins, Michigan Gazetteer:
Benton Harbor: John Teetzel, Fruit grower.
Bridgeport Centre, John Teetzel, Carpenter. Bridgeport Twp. on Flint & Here Marquette railroad, 6 miles s of E Saginaw, Population about 500.

. 1870 Jun 24 Agricultural Census Benton Harbor
John Teetzel: 75 Improved Acres, 75 Unimproved A., Value $15,000.
Live Stock 7 Horses, 3 Milch Cows; 4 Working Oxen; 2 Other Cattle; Sheep 5; Holxx 6 = value $12,000;
Grains: Winter Wheat 100 bu.; Indian Corn 300 bu., Oats 250 bu., & Buckwheat 20 bu.

. 1871 March 8th, Ottawa. No. 836, John Teetzel, of the Twp. of Howard, Co. Kent, Province of Ontario, Farmer, a certain new & useful machine for ditching to be called or known as: "Teetzel's Ditching Machine."
Ref: Canada Gazette, Vol5, #25, 1871 Dec 116, Pg. 5.

. 1817-1877 - Brothers Hiram H. & Mathias Teetzel resided Benton Harbor, MI, John Teetzel fruit grower, also listed as carpenter in Bridgeport Centre, Saginaw.
. Benton Harbor, A thriving post village in the Twp. of Benton, Berrien Co., situated on the St. Joseph river, 1 m. from its mouth. It contains 4 general stores 1 hardware & 1 drug store, 1 hotel 1 flouring mill, a large grain house, 4 saw mills & several mechanics shops. Population 300.

1871 Jun 9 - NARROW ESCAPE: One of the severest electrical explosions we overheard occurred here last Friday afternoon, when there was but little appearance of a storm. the report was instantaneous, like that of a pistol short & was such a crash of thunder as to startle every one who heard it. The lightning struck & shattered a cherry tree not far from the residence of Hon HC Morton & so socked John Teetzel, who was near the tree & in charge of men repairing the road, that for a few moments he was unconscious He was however, uninjured.

. 1871 Benton Harbor, Berrien Co. Directory: John Teetzel, fruit grower, SW Section 17, Territorial Road, Dr. Talman Wheeler established the "Teetzel Orchard" where he grew peaches & other fruit crops. These were the area's first formal peach orchards; they began bearing fruit in 1852. By 1855 several thousand baskets of peaches - mostly Crawfords - were being shipped to Chicago annually. The fruit was sold for $3 per bushel; the peaches were then peddled by street vendors for 10¢ each. When news of the growing qualities of south western Michigan reached points east, a steady stream of families moved to the area to try their hand at growing peaches. When the Civil War began, (1863) the departure of men joining the army created a shortage of manpower to work the state's farms. .... New sawmills produced apple barrels & peach baskets. The peach also was responsible, in large part, for the founding & early growth of Benton Harbor. Sometimes the profits form one peach crop paid for the entire land they were grow on on. ... (after 1906) the introduction of refrigerated railroad cars, Michigan's monopoly of the Chicago peach market disappeared.
Ref: Berrien County's Great Peach Boom, by Wm. John Armstrong.

. BY AN OLD SETTLER OF BERRIEN COUNTY, The "Peach Belt" was inaugurated in 1847, at this time there lies in sight from the ridge where I first got sight of that tall timber…& out of that rail timber I had at one time a mile of fence which was too high for a deer to jump. This was necessary in the fall to keep the bucks from rubbing & twisting my fruit trees with their horns. In 1850 (I think it was), Mr. E. Morton put out something of a peach orchard in addition to his fence corner trees & shortly after Dr. Talman Wheeler set what is known as the Teetzel orchard. At this time nearly all the older farms had seedling trees bearing & those men who had a surplus above their own wants began to sell at what they thought good prices.

In Watervleit, Michigan, there was a boarding-house for mill hands ...afterwards it was sawed in two, one-half as Bradt's blacksmith-shop & the other as Mr. Teetzel's residence. - Mr. Teetzel of Berrier.

. 1876 Nov 18 - MORTGAGE SALE - Default has been made in the conditions of a mortgage made Oct 6, AD 1874, by John Teetzel & Hester Teetzel his wife, to Ephraim E Gates of Thorndike, Mass., recorded Oct 7, 1874, Liber 13, p 268, Register of Deeds, Berrien Co., MI. There is claimed to be due & unpaid on this mortgage at the date of this notice, $1302 & $75 mentioned in said mortgage.
Wed. Feb 14, AD 1877 this mortgage will be foreclosed by sale of the mortgage premises, at front door Berrien Springs Court House.
Description of mortgage premises is substantial: E 35 A. of section 17, Town four south, range 18W & much of W NE section 17 between Watervleit & Territorial Rd, including Residence at the junction of said roads & 3 acres adjacent. Signed, St. Joseph, Nov 15, 1876. E B Gates, Mortgagee.
Ref: St. Joseph Saturday Heard newspaper.

. John H Lee advertises in another column for a renter to take charge of the 140 acres known as the Teetzel farm just east of this village. Ag good chance for someone to do well.
.I will lease on favorable terms, that farm of 140 A., half mile east of Benton Harbor, , formerly known as the Teetzel place, to an energetic & reelable man. for particulars see John H Lee, St. Joseph.
. 1880 May 18 - Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA. United States Patent Office:
Partner Information U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909 Record for U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patents - Invented a Well-Boring machine.
. 1881 Apr 28 - John Teetzel reports things booming in the well boring machine. Ref. Daily Evening Herald, Saint Joseph, MI.
. 1881 Jul 14, The Town Pump is coming, but it is coming under a storm. The Committee having the well in charge have gotten the Teetzel Well boring Co. at work investigating the old well, which has already cost the corps many hundreds of dollars. Public opinion this morning seems be decidedly against trying the site of the old experiment over again. The objections raised to this site are, that it is over an old ravine & under a gutter thought which passes mrs of the filth of a block & has twice been tried without success, no more funds should be risked there. Many want the all tried on the school lot, corner of main & Ship St.; or near Mr Marsh on ship St, of St. Charles Hotel, provided the wells sunk at a new point. However, all the people want in this matter is cusses & PURE Water. How would it do to decide the location by petition.
Ref: Daily Evening Herald, St. Joseph.

. 1882 Sep 14, At Benton Harbor a Teetzel well augar was placed in position at 2 pm. & the last tile was adjusted at 10 minutes past 5 o'clock, making 40 feet of 12 inch well dug & stoned up in a trifle over 3 hours.
Ref: Lake County Star Newspaper, Chase, Michigan.

. 1884 May 24, St. Joseph, Sat.
The St. Joseph Iron Works has just closed a contract with J W Teetzel & R A Kneeland, of Benton Harbor, for the exclusive manufacture & sale of the well known Teetzel Patent Well-Boring Machine. The Iron Works Company will push the work on this machine with a view of making it one of the leading industries of our village.

* 1887 Jul 15, Friday. John Teetzel has returned from ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO, where he attended the meeting of the Teetzel heirs. They are arranged to send Wm. Teetzel of Detroit & James Teetzel, of St. Thomas, to Germany to look after the estate.
. 1894 Sep 21 - Mrs Wm Eberlee & daughter of Saginaw, visited at John Teetzel's this week.
Ref: Yale Expositor newspapier, MI.

. 1887 Mich. Crop Report: Solar halos were reported at Benton Harbor on May 5, 9, 25, 18. ( i.e. weather -planing forecast); Snow on the ground. Benton Harbor 1.5 Inches at the end of month May. High temperature: 82 degrees at Benton. Apples, peach, pear & cherry trees in bloom 2nd May, - Red headed woodpecker, king bird, wild canary & red bird first seen on the 3rd day. Large flock of ducks passing rapidly north, very noisy 3rd day.
Ref: Rainbow Benton H. 17th May.

. 1888 Mar 24, St. Joseph Herald
F. Platt has just had a well dug by the Teetzel Well-Boring Co.

. 1889 Feb 16 - John Teetzel is quite ill at his home on Empire avenue.
. 1892 Jan 26 - John Teetzel & on Chas W Teetzel & Miss Franc Teetzel are all quite such with the grip.

. 1889 Sept 20, Fri. The Dowagiac fair will be held 24th to & will be a first class exhibition throughout this Premium lists or other information will be supplied by Teetzel brought us some fine samples of peaches from his new variety Crawford. He has one hundred trees of this variety. Ref: Weekly Palladium.

. 1890 Sept 12, Homestead Newspaper, Des Moines, Iowa
Article & LARGE DRAWING of the TEETZEL WELL AUGER & DRILL, made by the Globe Well Works, Ottawa, Illinois.
The cut on this pate shows the Teetzel Well Auger with the new drilling attachment as used on all the combined machines now by by the Globe Well Works of Ottawa, Illinois. The same attachment can be added to the old machines made by them at a small expense. The drill as now operated is believed to be the most complete & practical device for drilling through rock of any yet made, as it works faster with the least lost of time or power. The manufactures in their circular describe it as follows:
A ratchet arm is fastened on the end of a shaft driven by a sprocket chain & intermediate gear & comes in contact with the rope to which the drill is attached, while making a sweeping movement, thereby raising the drill until the arm passes the perpendicular when it disengages itself in the ratchet & the drill is dropped, the arm being thrown around just in time to catch the drill on rebound & the operation is repeated."
To those familiar with well making apparatus this may be very plain, but to many others it will not be so easily understood. It is plain & simple enough, however, when seen in operation. The same apparatus in general is used to operate this as is used to operate the TEETZEL WELL AUGER which has the great advantage over all others of removing the dirt as fast as it is bored without taking the boring rod or shaft from the well. In operating some well machines in less than less the time is spent in taking the shaft to pieces to get the dirt out & in putting it together again. The advantages of using the one here described is apparent. For full information write the Well Works, Ottawa, Illinois.

[Drawing Description: a portable drill mounted on a metal carriage bed, employing a bicycle-type chain gear, with an offset balance bar which appears to turn in circle for use by human or horse power (?). I would like to suggest this invention by John Teetzel may have its origins back to the successful water mill that John Teetzel with brother Mathias Teetzel, operated back in Trafalgar, Halton Co., (now Milton, Ontario). - P J Ahlberg 2010.]

. 1894 Jun 1, Fri. Death of John Teetzel, an old resident of Benton Harbor, died at the home of his son Charles Teetzel, last Tuesday 8 o'clock, aged 75 years old. some weeks ago his mind became xx & for the past 3 weeks has been confined to his bend with complains of the stomach from which he xx. Teetzel was a native of Canada.
He leaved the following children: Chas. & George Teetzel Mrs Smith, Mrs Andrew Kennedy. Miss Hester Teetzel of Chicago, Mrs Horace Brunson of Chicago, John Teetzel also of Illinois. Funeral was held Thursday afternoon from the house on Empire Ave. burial in Morton Cemetery.
Ref: Semi Weekly Palladium, Benton Harbor, page 3 is slightly torn with a few missing words.

. 1903 Mar 1, Saginaw Newspaper: Niles has secured the Teetzel machine works of Ottawa, Il, which employs 57 men. The head of the firm is here & has secured suitable quarters. the concern turns out each-boring & rock - driving machines & air systems for water works.
Ref: Saginaw News, Michigan.

Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB 1811 or 12 Sept 25th.

John married Hadassah HESTER LAWRENCE, DUE on 18 Jul 1837 in Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario. Hadassah (daughter of Lieut. Richard LAWRENCE, , UE and Mary WILLSON, DUE) was born on 21 Sep 1812 in Town of York (Toronto), York Co., Ontario; died on 4 Jan 1888 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried in Morton Hill Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hadassah is the daughter of Mary Willson & Richard Lawrence. Hadasah used her second name Hester at times & is an archaic form for written 'ss' as in Hadapah.

> Two Lawrences sisters married two Teelzel brothers :
. Hadassah Hester Lawrence married John Solomon Teetzel Jr.
. Jane Lawrence married Mathias Teelzel &
> Lawrence cousin married their sister:
. Richard Lawrence Johnston married Julia Ann Teetzel.

. UC Land Petition 27, 1835 Jul 1,
Mathias Teetzel, Residence Trafalgar, Ontario.
Patent Lot 7, Con 11, Brooke Twp., Lambton Co., Ontario, 1839 JUN 26. Recognized at the York Court House to be the daughter of Richard Lawrence, innkeeper.
Note1: Location, Brooke Mills, today Alvinston.

1835 July 1, Wed. D'Arcy Boulton, Esq, JP, Chairman. - Hadassah Lawrence, of the Township of Trafalgar, in the District of Gore, Spinster, appeared in open Court & was Recognized to be a Daughter of the late Richard Lawrence of the District of London, formerly of York Twp. in the Home District, Innkeeper, deceased, an U.E. Loyalist, & a certificate was signed by the Chairman & Clerk of the Peace accordingly.

. Haddasah Lawrence Marriage Bond # 6053
Mathias Teetzel & John Teetzel of Trafalgar Twp., Gore District bond themselves to pay £200.
Signed, at Toronto, Home District, on 18 July, 1837.
John Teetzel of Twp. of Trafaglar in the Gore District, Bachelor & Hadassa H. Lawrence, of the same place, Spinster.
Signatures of John Teetzel & Mathias Teetzel.
Note2: But not Haddassah's signature! Photocopy too faint for duplication. -PJA
Upper Canada Marriage Bond 6-53, Microfilm C6786.

. Moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan with her sister, brother Richard Lawrence Jr. & Cousin Richard Lawrence Johnston, mother Margaret Lawrence, married a Teetzel also.

. 1860 Census Michigan, Berrien, Benton, FILM 537, FAMILY 1658 -
Teetzel, Hester, 47, b. 1813 in Canada East.

. 1869 Minutes of the Michigan Methodist Episcopal Church Annual Conference, Benton Harbor, Mrs. John Teetzel & Miss M. A. Teetzel, each $1.00. Hull, MI, Goe. Teetzel $1. Mason, MI. James Teetzel.

. 1871 John Teetzel, fruit grower, SW Section 17, Territorial Road, Benton Harbor, Berrien Co. Directory.

. 1878 Polk Directory, Benton Harbor & St. Joseph's Directory: John Teetzel, res. Lincoln street.

* 1887 Jan 15 - Mrs John Teetzel, Sr, is very ill rather home on Empire avenue. Ref: News Palladium Newspaper, Benton Harbor, MI.

. 1888 Jan 4, Obituary. Death of Mrs John Teetzel. wife of John Teetzel, sr. & mother of Mr C W Teetzel, the jeweler, died at her home on Empire avenue at noon today, aged about 74 years. She was taken ill last Monday night, with hemorrhage of lungs, the attach terminating fatally. Mrs Teetzel was an old resident, esteemed for many virtues. She leaves beside her husband 6 children, Charles & George Teetzel, Mrs Andrew Kennedy & Miss Hester Teetzel of Benton harbor, Mrs. Horace Brunson of Chicago & John Teetzel of Ottawa, Ill. The later have been summoned by telegram. The funeral is not yet arranged.

. 1888 Jan 5, Mrs John Teetzel whose death was noted our least issue, left 7 children, one name was inadvertently omitted from our list, that of Mrs Will Smith. Funeral will occur on Friday afternoon.
* Mrs. Hamilton, of Peachville, Mich., a sister of Mrs Teetzel, accompanied by her husband & son Alexander, arrived yesterday afternoon.
At our last advices it was doubtful whether Mr Mrs John W Teetzel of Ottawa, or Mrs. Brunson, of Chicago, could come to attend the funeral, on account of illness.
Note3*: Rather than her late husband, it was her son Rev. James Hamilton, junior, along with Rebecca's other son Alexander Hamilton.) There are several 'Peachvilles' in Michigan. Allegan is the peach growing area of Michigan. - PJ Ahlberg.

. 1888 Jan 7 - John Teetzel & family desire to return their sincere thanks to all the neighbors & friends who so kindly assisted them in their late bereavement.
- Rev. James Hamilton, of Three Rivers, & Mrs Hamilton & son, of Peach Belt, Allegan county, attended the funeral of their relative, the late Mrs. John Teetzel & returned home today.
Ref: St. Joseph Herald Newspaper.

. 1888 Jan 7, Benton Harbor. Mrs. John Teetzel died' Wednesday, aged 74 years. [Wed. 1888 Jan. 4th.]

. 1961 Apr 6 to 17th, News Palladium, Benton Harbor, MI., Legal Notice:
Order to Answer, File # C309, State of Michigan in the Circuit Court, Co. of Berrien, Ervin & Virginia Bontranger, Plaintiffs Vs many names, Preston Lumber Co., Maxwell Lumber Co., The Mich. Trust Co., JOHN & HESTER TEETZEL, etc, Defendants. On reading & filing of the complaint in this cause, Ordered that the Defendants & their unknown heirs & devises cause their appearance to be entered on 2 Jul 1963 in default there of.

Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
DUE: Daughter of Empire Loyalist. Alt Spelling: Haddasah & Adasah. Alt DOB 27 Sep 1812.

Died:
Berrien Co., Mich Reg. # 35. Dau. of Mary & Richard Lawrence. COD: Lung disease.

Notes:

Married:

Notes:

. War of 1812
Muster roll & pay list of a Detachment under command of Maj. Rich. Hatt:
Charles Teetzel, 25 Apr - June 2, 18183 inclusive, 39 days
Note of interest1: relatives & future relatives are serving together in this unit, Lewis Felker, various Green men, Adam Mingle, (on Command) & Nathaniel Rosezel. - PJA 2010.

. Charles signed his legal documents with an "X"..
Lot 30 Con. 1, South of Dundas Street, Palermo in Trafalgar Twp., Halton, County.

. UCLPetition 12, To Lt. Gov. Maitland, Petition of Charles Teetzel & John Teetzel, both of Twp. Trafalgar, Gore District. That your petitioners have lived in this Province for the last 20 years in Trafalgar [1799].
Charles Teetzel has a family of a wife 4 children. - during the late war he was employed for 2 & half years carrying his Magestys dispatches between Burlington & York, as by the acc. gen. order of Gen. Drummond. Therefore you petitions pray to grant them a portion of Crown waste land.
Signed, Trafalgar, March 8, 1818. Charles Teetze, John Teetzel.
Ref: UCLP T Bundle 12, Petition 12, Film C2834.

. 1816 Census, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co.:
Chas Teetzel, 90 acres. [Log Cabin.] 65 uncultivated & 25 cultivated acres.
Note2: Simons & Teetzel are in-laws. Log cabins were not taxed so not listed.

. 1824 Census, Trafalagar Twp., Halton co.
Chas Teetzel, Lot 30, Con 1 SDS, 40 uncultivated & 50 cultivated acres.

. 1818 Chas. F. Teetzel gave NE corner of his farm for a Methodist church, school & cemetery.

. 1833 - UCLPetition 18, To Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lt. Gov. of UC, Petition of Charles Teetzel, Lawrence Hagar, Jacob Shouk, all Twp. Trafalgar & Jacob Markle, Twp. Toronto. We have been in this Province upwards of 20 years. During the late American war, the Petitioners served as militia men in 2nd Gore Reg. & done duty on the lines for 2 years & 6 months. Capt. Hepburn of their Regt. appointed to convey dispatches with zeal & fidelity for about 2 years & half, much to the satisfaction of their officers. That Petitioners having devoted so much of their time to the serviced of their King & County, were in consequence during that period, unable to provide for themselves & families. Charles Tetzeel having a wife & 5 children: L Hager, wife & 6 children, J Markle, wife & & 3 children. They therefore, pray for a grant of Land.
Signed, 1821 Oct 8, 1821, Trafalgar.
. UCLBoard Petition T18, 1821 Nov 14. Charles Teetzel, Lawrence Hagar, Jacob Shouk, prying for a grant of land for their Service in the Militia & also Jacob marble. These men cannot be granted without the Adjutant General Certificate. Markle to produce the Adjutant General Certificate before he can be recommended.

. 1833 Jan 11, 3rd Session, 11th Parliament of William IV: Agreeably to the order of the day, the Petitions of T B Walkefied & 311 others …& Charles F Teetzel & 22 others, Elders & Brethren of the "Christian" church in this Province, praying for the authority to hold by Deed their Meeting Houses & Grave Yards, to purchase & hold farms & to be enabled to receive & convey for the use of their Society any Lands or Tenements devised to them by Will.

. 1838 March, Upper Canada Sundries, Index C9824, Image xxx & Page 105939-40, p723, C6898.
Petition of Eli Irwin, Twp. Whitchurch, for Pardon. Petitioner is a married man having a wife & child. He was unfortunately taken a part in the recent troubles, used by desperate & unprincipled persons by shoe he was unhappily seduced from allegiances. Signed, Eli Irwin, March 1830, Jail of the Home District (Toronto).
Petition of Inhabitants of West Flamborough to Sir Geo Arthur on behalf of prisoners under sentence of high treason. Hundreds of signatures, including Richard Johnston [Sr.], Joseph Simons, Lorenzo & Mathias Teetzel, Charles Jr. & Sr., Teetzel. Read in Council 20 May 1838 & pardoned upon giving into Bail for good for 3 years.

. Ontario Land Registry Abstract Book, Plan 9, Block 1, pg 476
Lot 3, Con 2NST, Halton Co.
. 1852 Jul 12, Mortgage, Charles Teetzel & wife, to MT & wife, to John White, Lot 13, Con 2NST. Six B&S B?
. 1855 Jan 29, B&S, Chas F Teetzel & wife, to Mathias Teetzel, L3, C2 NST.

Lot 30, Con 1SDS, Trafalgar, Trafalgar Book 24, pg 189-90.
. 1828 Apr 3, B&S, Chas. Teetzel, James Hopper & others,£2.10sh., 1/2 Lot & 20, HWSale? Burying ground. Quarter
. 1844 Jun 3, B&S, Charles Teetzel & Wife, to Janet Keill, widow, 1/4 A.Pt Lot 30.

. Palermo Cemetery on Dundas Concession 1 SDS, Lot 30:
He sold the NE corner of his farm to be used for a cemetery & churchyard in 1818 to serve the community. He received £2 10 shillings as payment. The agreement said the land was "forever for the proper use of a place to bury the dead for them & as many of the inhabitants of Trafalgar Township lying between 12 & 16 mile Creeks as many think proper to join them & also for a meeting house & a School House should the same at any time be required." The cemetery plots were to be16 feet square & one of these lots were assigned to each family. For Charles Frederick Teetzel & his heirs there was to be a tract of land one square rod in size for a burial plot to be protected forever.

A log church was built on the front of the cemetery in 1812 to serve the Episcopal Methodist congregation of Laurence Hager. In 1851 a frame church was built beside the log church & it became the home of the Wesleyan Methodist Congregation. In 1867, a new modern church was built across the road for the Episcopal Methodists, but many still chose to worship at the old building. The log church was eventually used as a stable for some years. This was 17 years before the many Methodists united to become the United Church of Canada.

After his wife, Mary Tufford, died of consumption in 1856, Charles Frederick Teetzel stayed on his farm for 6 months. Ill health caused him to move to Milton for medical care. He died shortly after. His son, Mathias Hager, purchased land in St. Joseph's, Michigan & moved there about this time.

Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Died:
Lot 30 Con 1, SDS.

Buried:
Tall white recumbent pillar is shared with wife Mary.

Charles married Mary TUFFORD on 29 Jul 1810 in Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario. Mary was born on 4 Aug 1788 in Morris Co., New Jersey; died on 26 Mar 1856 in Palermo, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario; was buried in Palermo United Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary is the daughter of George Tufford.

. TUFFORD -
The Canadian branch of this family spell their name Tufford. The New Jersey family spell it Dufford & it has also been recorded as Du Ford * Tofort, which was its original spelling. Philip Tofort Sr. & Philip Jr. arrived at Philadelphia on the ship 'Robert and Oliver', 11 September, 1738. They settled in what was then called the Long Valley (German Valley), New Jersey. In his will dated 16 February, 1767, Philip Tofort, Sr., names his wife, Catherine, sons Adam & George, daughter Mary Magdalena & grandson George Stephen, son of Jacob Tofort. The NJ family history states that Jacob was disinherited because he married an Indian maiden.
George Tufford served in the War of 1812 with the 4th Lincoln Regiment.
Ref: Annals of the Forty, Vol 9, 1958.

. Mary Tufford Teetzel died 1856 of consumption.

Her ten children are:
1. Mathias Teetzel, b: 1810 in Palermo, Halton County, ON, Canada - 1865 Michigan
2. Elizabeth Teetzel, b: 12 MAR 1812 - 1786
3. Julia Ann Teetzel, b: 12 SEP 1814 - 1753
4. John Teetzel, b: 15 APR 1815 - 1894
5. Mary Green Teetzel, b: 1822 - 1895
6. George Teetzel, b: 13 JUN 1825 - 1826
7. Caroline Teetzel, b: 1826 - 1888
8. Charles Teetzel, b: 1828 -
9. William Teetzel, b: 1830 - 1888
10. Harriet Maria Teetzel, b: 1831 in Palermo, Halton County, ON, CA - 1888. - - -

Died:
COD: Consumption.

Buried:
Aged 67 y 7m 22 days. Tall white pillar monument.

Notes:

Married:
Verify date. Too early?

Notes:

PART ONE:

Richard is name after his grandfather, Richard Lawrence, Esq., [The Third, 1719-1726.] & in family remberances going back to Richard the Lionhearted.

. 1771 July 5, List of letters, remaining in the Post Office, Richard Lawrence, Shrewsbury.
Ref: NY Gazette.
. Richard Lawrence, Upper Freehold. Ref: Roster of the People of Revolutionary Monmouth County.

. 1783 New Brunswick, Chrineyonce Vanmater & (Lieut.) Richard Lawrence, UE. petitioned together for land in Prince William Co., NB.
Note1: This land grant adjacent to his brother John Lawrence, was not taken up because it had previous legal encumbrances. - PJA 2101.

. Richard Lawrence carried a English Bible giving his & siblings' birth dates. He must have carried this Bible with him at the end of the American Revolution & then to NB & finally to Upper Canada. The Bible was then given to his youngest child, Rebecca. Grandson Walter Hamilton is the last known owner of the Lawrence Bible.

. 1776 Jul 15, Letters Remaining in the Post Office, New York: Richard Lawrence, Staten Island. Ref: New-York Gazette & Weekly Mercury.

. OLD UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST LISTS: Laurence, Richard, Home District, Loyalist from N. Brunswick. Ref: Appendix, Appendix B.

. 1776 MUSTER: Richard Lawrence:
. 1777 Feb - 24 Apr - Lawrence, Richard - Private, General Hospital (2 Richards) Muster roll of Capt. Wm. Gray's NYV. Lieut. 1st Co.
. 1777 Aug 24, - Private Richard Lawrence, 3rd Bat De Lancey's Brigrade, C1880,p1
. 1777 October 24 - Capt. Gilbert C Willett, 3rd Battalion of Oliver De Lacey, p. 28, at Long Island, #20, Richard Lawrence [Job" Tat? Host or Western? blurry]. {Ref C1880,p7)
. 1777 Dec 24, Priv. RL, 3Bat DeLancey's Brigrade, C12880,p16;
. 1778 Apr 24 - Rich. Lawrence, 3rd Bat. Oliver DeLacey. C1880, p22 & ?Compare Priv RL, NYV, C1874p5;
. 1778 Apr 24, Priv RL, #BDeLancey's Brigrade, C1880,p22, 38;
. 1778 Jun 24, Priv RL, 3BDeL, C12880,p28;
. 1778 Sep 4 - C1880, p38; 1778 Oct 24, c1880, p39;
. 1778 Dec 24, Priv RL, 3BDeL, - Discharged Dec 24th '78. C1880,p50.
. 1779 November 29, Capt. Thomas Hewlett's Co. NYV - Savannah, Quarter Masters Gen. Dept. & Hewlett's Coy. C1874p49;
. 1781 Apr, Priv RL, New York Volunteers, c1874,p60 & 1781.12.24 p82;
Ref: British Military & Naval Records, p49, RG8 Vol C, Printed, 1874. Elsewhere there is a UEL claim for supplies of horses & wagons for Trenton New Jersey.
Ref: British Military & Naval Records, C1880,p1, RG 8, C Series, & Copy Arch. Canada: Ward Chipman Muster.

British Headquarters Papers (Carleton Papers or American Manuscripts):
Richard Lawrence (31688)
. 1782.5.27, Account for Outstading debs for forage, New York, commissary General Dept., Doc 4668, Film M355, page 4668, Item 31688;
. 1783.11.21, List of Original Wills, Wills in custody of Secretary of NY, page 9671 (14); Film M366, Item 31689.

. NB Land Petitions:
* Note2: 1787 After the American Revolution four Lawrences lived near each other in Saint Johns, New Brunswick: Mrs. Alice Lawrence Leonard (Thomas) Lot 1; Lieut. John Lawrence Lot 101; Lieut. Richard Lawrence was on Lot 169 on the other side of the Saint John River; along with sister Mrs. Margaret Lawrence Nicholson (Arthur) at Lot 52. An important Lawrence family friend, Rev. J Odell of NJ, was adjacent to his land grant as well.

. Richard gave up his land claim in Prince William because of a prior legal entanglement by an earlier French Canadian inhabitant. Richard also made failed landed petitions with his Monmouth, New Jersey neighbours', Corneilis VanMater* & Capt. Richd. Lippincott, (BUT much later he would again be adjacent to R. Lippencott on Yonge St., Toronto) - PJ Ahlberg.
Note3: *John Vanmater was a witness to Richard's father, William Lawrence, d. 1795 in Middletown, NJ.

. 1782 May 27, Richard Lawrence, Outstanding Debts for Forage, New York, Accounts, Commissary General Dept., pg. 4668, (1.3).
Ref: British Headquarters Papers, (Carleton Papers or American Manuscripts), Microfilm M355, Ref: MG23 B1, Item Number 31688.

Research Item, (probably someone else, but should be verified):
. 1783.11.21 - Richard Lawrence, List of Original Wills, Document: Will in custody of Secretary of NY.
Document Pg. 9671 914), fonds: British Headquarters Papers, Carlton Papers or American Manuscripts, Microfilm M2369,
Ref: MG23 BA Item # 31689.

. 1783 DEC 12, PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK LAND GRANT, NB Archives. George the Third grant to Rev. James Fraser, Edward Rogers, Anthony Rogers, Arthur Nicholson, Esq., John Willson, Junior, Richard Lawrence, Stillwell Willson & James Walsh 2,238 acres on the northwest branch of the River Miramichi in the County of Northumberland. The first track beginning at the alder Stake on the easterly bank or shore of an Island being in the said Branch.
To John Willson Junior: Lot 1, 200 Acres; To Richard Lawrence the Lot 2 , containing 232 acres, Stillwell Willson, Lot 4, 240 acres. Registered the 12 December, 1793, Thomas Carlton, Lieutenant Governor, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

. 1789 Aug 11. To His Excellency Thomas Carlton. Province of New Brunswick, Memorial of Richard Lawrence of Miramichie,
Humbly Shewth, that our memorialist has been all the last War in the service of His King & Country, most of the time as a Volunteer in the Army. That a lott of Land has been assigned to him at Prince William in the County of York, but being then a young single man he resigned it. That he is now settled at Miramichie & likes the country, wishes to live by farming in reference to fishing.
Your Memorialist therefore prays you Excellency may be pleased to grant him a Lot of Land adjoining a lot assigned to Arthur Nicholson, Esq. on the north east side of the North West Branch of Miramichie & your memorialist is duty bound will Pray.
Richard Lawrence, [Undated, but delivery time about 4 - 6 weeks.]
Envelope side: Memorial of Richd. Lawrence - Complied with 25th Sept. 1789.

. 1795 June, there were still only 14 housed in the Town of York.

** See photo Photo Original Land Patent may be found at North York Central Library, Willowdale:
. UC Land Petition 5, Bundle, L Bundle 2, 1795 of York, Richard Lawrence, Sr.
Ref: C2124, p804. Ont. Archives. Original document is preserved at the North York Public Library, Yonge Street, Toronto. Very large parchment document with an attached was large beeswax seal.
*Researchers who had other relatives who received an UC Land Grant may wish to see what this very impressive document looked like. This also helps in part to understand why the administration of land granting was so slow.

. 1796 Apr 6 - To His Excellency John Graves Simcoe, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor & Commissioning his Majesty's forces in Upper Canada. Major General.
The Memorial of Richard Lawrence Late of the Province of New Brunswick in Nova Scotia That your Memorialist Entered in the Service of His Britannic Majesty at the beginning the Late rebellion continued in the same till the Peace of Eighty three & that since that time he accepted a Commission of first Lieutenant for the County of Northumberland in New Brunswick which he is ready to produce if required - & being Desirous of remaining a Subject to the King of Great Britain in this Province.
Humbly Prays that his Majesty's most gracious bounty in Lands may be Extended to your memorialist for the following Lotts Viz Number 25 on Yonge Street Eastward & 2 other Lotts in the Rear of Said Number 25 second Concession also a Lott in the Town of York, Number 18 in the second range Which he has improved as well as No 25 Yonge Street & such other quantity of Land as to your Excellency in your Wisdom may seem meet - & your Petitioner as in Duty Bound will ever pray. Signed, 6 April, 1796, Richard Lawrence.

There are 5 other Upper Canada Land Petitions for Richard Lawrence.
. The original parchment & seal, LAND GRANT for Lot 25, Concession 1 Yonge Street, east side, 200 Acres, will be found at the Canadian Room, North York Public Library, on Yonge Street, Toronto.
. 1796 July 30 - Granted Lot 18 D, Duke St., Town of York / [now renamed as: 79 Adelaide, Toronto.] (The next Lot 19 Duke, was granted to Samuel Osborn & his wife, Mrs. Alice Willson Osborn).
. 1802 May 5 Date of Patent or 18 Duke St., D Block, 1/5 Acre to Richard Lawrence.
Ref: Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto, Vol 1, p339.
. Lots 1 & 2, Con 4, Vaughan Twp., 400 Acres.
Note4: 1796 Oct. 8, is the day he paid his land settlement fees & is sometimes incorrectly quoted as the day he was FIRST granted this land. - PJA.

. UCLPetition 15, Y Batch 5, p417. -1801 Jul 16 - East Side Yonge St, Lot 25, Nothing done to the Street. [i.e. no logs cleared].

. 1801 Dec 15. East Side Yonge Street, Lot 25, Logs in the Street, not burnt.

. 1802 Feb. 21, Lot 1, Con 5, Vaughan Twp., 200 Acres granted to wife, Mary Willson Lawrence.
. 1803 Post Office Letters, downtown Toronto: This issue contains a list published by the postmaster of uncalled-for letters lying in the post-office at York:
. Richard Lawrence. (Original Toronto Post Office was one street over from Richard's 179 King Street house. However by
. 1803, Richard was now up on Yonge & Steeles.)
Ref: Vol XIL, The Oracle, Saturday Jan. 15, 1803, No. 28, Total No 610.
Note5: McGill had the 1000 Acres at Lot 25, Con 2, adjoining Richard Lawrence's Land Grant.

Ontario Lands Registry, Metro Toronto Book 683, p131 [Note: Version 2]
Lot 18, South side King St., Town of York
[Original Version 2 adds:] Abstract Town of York, S.S. King
St., Pt of Town Lot 18: Abstract of all Instruments affect 38.5 feet on South side of King St East x 120 feet deep coming at N.E.L. Town Lot 18 on South of King St & running West & being par t of sd. Town Lot 18.
. 1802 May 17, Patent, Crown, to Ricd Lawrence, All Contg. 1/5 Acre
. 1805 Feb 13, Patent, Crown, to Beasley et all, all condj 15 acre,
. 1805 Feb 19, Mem. Grant, Richd Beasley, survg. Trustee of Tos Barry & Wm. Allan, to Rev. Geo O'Kill Stuart of York, £321.17.16., All et all. Being 1 C in front X 2c deep. To hold unto sd. Grantee his heirs & assigne forever. Sg. by Grantee.

Abstract North York Book 16, p3
Lot 25, Con 1 Yonge Street East, York Twp.
. 1808 Sep 15, Patent, Crown, to Richard Lawrence, All 190 acres.
. 1806 Jan 20, Registered 20 Mar 1806, Bargain&Sale, Richard Lawrence et ux, to The B Gough, East Half.
. 1819 Aug 20, B&S, Richard Lawrence, to John S Baldwin, £250, West Half Acres.

Abstract, Metro Toronto, North York Book 128, p21
Lot 24, Con 2 West, York Twp.,
. 1798 Dec 31, Patent, Crown, to Wm. Jarvis, All 200 Acres
. 1805 Dec 31, B&S, Thos. B Gough, to Richard Lawrence, All 200 A
. 1809 May 1, B&S, Richard Lawrence, to Jacob Fisher Jr, £100, All 200 A.
Note6: Adjacent, Lot 23, Con 3, Sawmill, water badly supplied, Peter Keiffer, 1851.

Abstract Markham Book 91, p22
Lot 27, Con 1 East Side Yonge St. , Markham Twp.,
. 1803 July 15, Crown, to John Leslie, All 190A
. 1804 Aug 31, Bargain&Sale, Thos. McMichen etux, to Richard Lawrence, £100, All 190 Acres.
.1805 Jun 29, B&S, Richard Lawrence et ux, to John Arnold, £100, All 100A.
[Beside brothers-in-law, Wm. L Willson, Lot 26; Samuel Osborn Lot 27, & Stillwell Willson The Elder, Lot 30.]

Abstract York Region, Vaughan Book 185, p4
Lot 1, Con 3, Vaughan
. 1802 May 17, Patent, Crown, to Mary Lawrence, All 200 A
. 1821 Feb 21, B&S, Richard Lawrence et ux, to John Guthrie, £100, All.
[Near Fairbanks Lumber/ Railway tracks & Steeles W, 2020].-

Ontario Land Registry Abstract, Vaughan Book 190, p4 & 32,
Lots 1 & 2, Con 4, Vaughan Twp., York Co., [Keele Street], p4 & p32.
. 1805 Feb 1, Patent, Crown, to Richard Lawrence, All 400 Acres each [Lots1-2 @ 200A.]
. 1805 Feb 1, B&S, Richard Lawrence et al, to Thomas McMicking. All 190 A, 200 Acres for Lot 1. & Lot 2 190A.
Note7: Adjacent Lot 4, Con 3, was a sawmill, Michel Fisher, 1851.
Lawrence's most productive grant Lot 25 1ES was also part of the Willson sawmill land. Thus the summary suggest Lawrence searched for land that could yield water & tree resources, as opposed to strictly farm land. - P J Ahlberg 2016.

. 1805 to 1815 at least - Richard Lawrence received Tavern Licenses for the Twp. of York.
. March 1801, The Special Sessions of Peace, held the "The Court are of opinion that 6 persons are a sufficient number for Keeping Tavern in the Town of York, for the year ensuing.
. 1805 Dec 28, The undermentioned persons prayed to be admitted as fit persons for receiving Licenses to Keep Taverns in the Home District for the Year next ensuing: Richard Lawrence.
. 1806 Mar 20 - sells East ½ Lot 25, Con 1 ESYonge St.
. 1807 - Richard Lawrence owned Lot 18D, south side of King, west of Frederick St. Brother-in-law Sam. Osborn was on the next lot 19D.
Ref: Toronto Sundries, Home District. Quarter Sessions.

Special Sessions of the Peace, York, Tavern License for year ensuing,
. 1815 Dec 30, Town of York: Richard Lawrence, York Twp., Granted.

Note8: Various sources state the Joseph Abraham ran the first inn called the Green Bush at Steeles & Yonge at the North east corner. In an area noted for tall trees, it must have been a large balsam tree indeed that stood in front of the Inn. The NE corner belong to his brother-in-law Wm. L. Willson. Further research may show the exact location of Lawrence's tavern.

Regulations included: No excess drinking, no profanities or gambling; sufficient sheds, stables and/or barns were required for the patron's horses, carriages & wagons. The innkeeper should also have at least 4 good beds in addition to those for his family. All of these regulations were controls to limit taverns & increase inns.
Ref: Margaret McBurney & Mary Byers, Tavern in the Town: Early Inns & Taverns of Ontario. - P J Ahlberg). - . -

PART TWO: Tracking Richard Lawrence Though Documents:

. 1759 Aug. 20, Monday born, Middletown, Upper Freehold Twp., Monmouth Co., Prov. of New Jersey. Father William Lawrence's carpenter's shop along with his brothers.
. 1776 to 1783. American Revolution, New Jersey 1st Volunteers, Christies' Quarter Master Department. He was a volunteer in the army most of the time.
. 1776 Richard is on Staten Island, NY.
Note9: UCLPetition Richard gave a reference for Sarah Lakerman Willson who was on Staten Island since 1776, the beginning of the War & therefore, Richard Lawrence too was on Staten Island.

. 1785 New Brunswick. Purchased land at Musquash Island on the St. John's River from Capt. Richard Lippincott also of NJ.
. 1786 New Brunswick. By this time he is married to Mary Willson. [Further research: Records of the Anglican minister traveling though the Miramichi?]
. 1787 Jul 25, Wants land at Prince William, Queensborough, NB. allotted primarily to the Queen's American Rangers (& to future brother-in-law Arthur Nicholson, (ELIZABETH LAWRENCE).
. 1789 Jul 27, Land Grant: A little beyond the Sandy Point, opposite, Between Island by Johnston Basto, West Branch of Miramichi River, Northumberland County, New Brunswick.
. 1789 Sep 25 - Granted land at Willson's Point, Miramichi, New Brunswick. Richard builds log gaol at nearby, Newcastle, NB.

Northumberland Co., New Brunswick, Deed Registry Books, Grantor:
. 1793 June 15th - Richard Lawrence & Mary Lawrence to William Babcock, Vol 2, Pg. 97, Deed £20 for 200 Acres, 22 cleared with Stockable Dwelling House, 3 Commons Pasture. Signed, John Willson, Esq., JP of Inferior Court of Common Pleas.

. 1793 July - MAY FLEET *NJ *NY *NB *UC. Evacuation from NY to New Brunswick in 1783. Again the 'May Fleet' leaves around NB by ship & up the St. Lawrence River to Montreal, where John Willson called on Commissary Issac W Clarke for aid. The 60 people including Richd. Lawrence were in the party lead by John Willson, Esq.
. 1793 Aug 8 - Arrived at Quebec with 60 people. A dozen people remain here. Arrival by 3 bateaux at Kingston on 28 Aug., 1793. Received army rations & medical care. Detained over 30 days waiting for another boat. 1793 Oct. 10, group arrives at Niagara again sick & starved. 25 Oct, Governor J G Simcoe authorizes ship to pick up John Willson & associates.

. 1792 Sept. Fort George, Niagara. Lieut. Gov. Simcoe orders government ship to bring them Lawrence, Willson & all from Niagara to Town of York.
. 1793 Nov 2, Arrival at the Town of York, Toronto. Extracted from the documents on the hardships of this voyage to Upper Canada can be found also at 1) Roots.com under JOHN WILLSON.1 & 2.) more extensively in Richard Lawrence of NJ, NB & Ontario. Book may be found at North York Public Library, Toronto. & Richmond Hill Library - PJ Ahlberg, 2009.

. 1794 April 7 to 30 June, Paid for carpentry, Public Buildings at York. Paid £15 11 s. 3 pennies, on 10 July, 1794.
. 1795 June 1. Petitions for Lot 25, Con. 1 ES Yonge Street, York Twp., ON WHICH HE HAS ALREADY LOCATED. (Yonge & Steeles Ave., Toronto). Tavern here or and/or Vaughan. Sold 20.
. 1819 Aug. As a lieutenant he was granted 1000 Acres & an additional 400 Acres from his wife, Mary Willson.
* 1796 May 28, Cousin John Brown Lawrence presented Richard's land grant to his friend Gov. Simcoe:
. 1796 July 30, already built on it: 18 Duke Street, TOWN OF YORK. Today 179 King St. East, Toronto Downtown.
. 1796 8 Oct - Granted & lots in Vaughan, (just across the road from his Lot 25, Con 1 Yonge.) Steeles & Yonge Streets, tavern here or and/or at Vaughan.

. 1797 Minutes of the Town of York: Richd. Lawrence: 2 males & 4 females.Total six.
i.e. Ricd. & wife Mary & John, Mary, Marg., Eliz. & Mary Anne Lawrence.
Note10: Town of York had only 52 males & 34 females living on Yonge St., Toronto.

. Two Surveys of Settlers actually living on Yonge Street:
. 1797 Aug 3, York, Lot No. 25 East, 5 Acres cleared, Richard Lawrence is on the premises.

. 1797 Jun 27 - Oath saying he knew Sarah Lakerman, wife of John Wilson, Jur & that her father died within the British lines in the year 1776. Signed, Richd. Lawrence.

. 1798 June. Lot 25 East, Richard Lawrence, i.e. He is living on the lot) Four acres cleared. Small log house. Surveyed by David W Smith, Esq., Surveyor Genera.l { Is Wm. L. Willson, his brother-in-law on the adjacent lot, actually living with his sister Mrs. Mary Lawrence? - PJA.]

. 1802 Jan 12, Tuesday Richard Lawrence (7th) sworn to Petty Jury of 12 men. John Evenor the accused. When the miller was absent, John Evenor was seen taking a sheep away from the barn yard. Discharged because no Prosecutor was present.

. 1805 Mar 2. Richard Lawrence of Yonge St. who had received a license to keep a Tavern for House, at his dwelling house & who had removed from thence to another Public house; applied for leave to keep a Tavern under the same license in the house to which he had removed. The court do not find themselves authorized to comply with this request as they deem the License to be attached to the house recognize has been taken & not to any other.
Note11: 1804 Feb 1. Richard sells Lot 3, Con 4, Vaughan Twp. property. Coincidence?

. 1807 Jul 24 - Justice Robt. Thorpe's address, Summary: Whereas a goodly number of Independent Electors convented for discussing the sufferings whose situation was resplendent by many not his friends to be very deplorable of his losses which at first he yielding to their entreaties to represent them in Parliament in UC or England. A multitude of signatures, inc. Joseph Shepard, Richd. Lippincott, Alex. Montgomery, Baron Fred. DeHoen, Peter Muscleman, John Van Zantee, John Willson, [most likely junior] William L Willson, Stillwell Willson, James Finch. Richard Lawrence, William Johnson, George Taylor Denison, J Hale, Walter Moody, Peter Whitney, Garret Van Zantee, Sam D Cozens, Peter Winter.
Ref: Report on dn Archives, 1892.

. Ely started early. John Powell & Geo. Ridout soon overhauled me - fed at Buttanans? 18 miles - at Lawrence 17 miles, went on to Cantfields 11: a little after dark.
. 1809 Sep 29th - John Arnold & Ely Playter drew a load of ashes from [Richard] Lawrence's the AM. 47 bushels.
Ref: Ely Players Diary.

. 1815 Dec 30. Richard Lawrence received a Tavern License for Township of York. £12, Issuer James Kerr.

. 1818 Dec 26, Quarterly Session of Peace, Charlottesville, London District
$2 Costs of Court The said Sum for Wages to the said Alvin.
Ordered that as the License is Left in the behest? of the Magistrates all persons being desirous of keeping publick houses are required to attend on the last Saturday of this month precisely at 10 in the forenoon at which time the Bonds will be ready for signature, as an Act of the Legislature has passed to that effect.
The Court took into consideration the Tavern Bills & agreed as follows.:
Richd. Lawrence £3.10s & Wm. Lawrence £3.

Extracts from HIS CHILDREN'S LAND PETITION RICHARD LAWRENCE:
. 1818 Apr 14, Richard Lawrence is now in Woodhouse*, Ontario, daughter Margaret Lawrence.
. 1818 August 6, Mary Ann is with her parents at Long Pointe, Ontario.
. 1819 October 13, Richard is in Woodhouse now, wrote daughter Elizabeth Osborn-Tarbox-Lawrence.
. 1819 Aug 20 - Richard Lawrence sells West ½ Lot 25, Con 1 ESY for £350.
. 1820 April 11 & 20th, He is now in Charlotteville, London District, (Norfolk County).
. 1821 Feb 21, Sold Vaughan Twp. property of his wife, Mary Willson.
Note12: Woodhouse is now called Naticoke.

. 1828 - Photo of large wooden mill: Lot 1, Con. 2 East. Markham Township. Bayview Ave & Steeles Ave. Fish Mill, NE corner Steeles & Bayview in 1961. This grist & saw mill was built in 1830 by Benjamin Fish, next to the distillery that he owned (built 1828). Though the original mill was destroyed in a fire, Fish built a new one on the same site. Demolished in 1965, when the intersection of Bayview & Steeles was widened.
. The Town of Charlotteville:* When the war of 1812 broke out the court-house was used for barrack purposes, ... was christened" Fort Norfolk." The court house, jail, the fort & the tavern of Job Loder all stood on the elevation above the flat. A hotel was built under the hill & kept by a man named Hatch. In 1833, during the cholera scare*, a hospital was built at this place. It stood on the bank & was a barn-like structure & was used but little, if at all, for the purpose for which it was built. The old Town of Charlotteville reached the zenith of its glory during the war. In 1815 the District Courts were removed to Vittoria & the Town of Charlotteville relapsed into Turkey Point once more. No traces of its old-time importance remain, save a few surface irregularities indicating the spot occupied by the fort. The dreary waste at Turkey Point was, for 13 years, the judicial metropolis for all this vast region of country.
Ref: Pioneer sketches of Long Point Settlement. Published 1908.
Note13: Was this the cause of Richard Lawrence's disappearance? Note14: *Charlotteville is now called Delhi.

. 1831 May 3 - DECEASED of London District, wrote son, Richd. Lawrence, and also deceased was an Innkeeper, deceased per Jane Lawrence.
. 1846 Smith's Canadian Gazetter, Province of Canada West:
Harwich, Kent Co, Western District, soil extremely fertile, 1898 inhabitants. Timber - white oak, black walnut, maple, beech, hickory, basswood etc.

A more complete history with copies of ALL documents & photos may be found at North York Public Library, Toronto under Richard Lawrence, John Willson & John Brown Lawrence of New Jersey, NB & Ontario. By P J Ahlberg, May 2009. - - -

Birth:
Monday. Upper Freehold Twp.

Richard married Mary WILLSON, DUE est 1786 in New Brunswick, Canada. Mary (daughter of John WILLSON, .1, Sur. and Rebeka Thixton THICKSON(E)) was born est 1770 in Piscataway Twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died est 21 Feb 1821 ± in Charlotteville, Norfolk Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Richard Lawrence's New Brunswick Land Petitions indicate he was single March 1786 at Queensborough & married by August 1789 on the Miramichi. They could have been married by her father, a Justice of the Peace for Miramichi, or perhaps by an Anglican Minister in transit on the Miramichi, who had baptized a Willson child [Jonathan Willson 1783 & John Willson.III, born 1791?]
Further Research: However, also retained for further search: St. Andrews Church, Long Island. 1780 Oct 5, Married, Lawrence Mary & Lawrence, Richard. Vol. xxx, Page 56. This seems this would be too early for this Mary Willson.

. UC Land Petition 63, L Bundle 4 c 1808 p241
York, daughter of John Willson, [MARY WILLSON,] Richard Lawrence.
. To His Honor Peter Russell, Esq., president of the Government of Upper Canada etcetcetc. In Council:
The Petition of Richard Lawrence of the Township of York. Humbly shows That your Petitioner is a Loyalist & came from Nova Scotia about 3 years ago, [1794] that he is married to Mary, the daughter of John Willson, Esq. of Kings Mills on the Humber, who is also a Loyalist. That your Petitioner's wife having never received any Land, your Petitioner prays your Honor would be pleased to grant him 200 Acres in right of his said confer & is in duty bound your Petitioner will ever pray.
Richard Lawrence, York, 22 June, 1797.
Envelope: Ordered 200 Acres to wife of Petitioner as DUE, 1778 Dec 24. [Daughter of an Empire Loyalist.]

Ontario Land Registry Abstract Vaughan Book 185,
Lot 1, Con 3, Vaughan Book 185, p4
. 1802 May 17, Patent, Crown, to Mary Lawrence, All 200 A
. 1821 Feb 21, B&S, Richard Lawrence et ux, to John Guthrie, £100, All.

Note1: As of 2018 this land is now 1900 Steeles Ave. West, Fairbanks Lumber Co., Concord, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario. As of 2018 this land is now 1900 Steeles Ave. West, Fairbanks Lumber Co., Concord, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario. -PJA

Note2: Husband Richd. Lawrence had other land at Lot 1 Con 4, also the adjacent, Lot 25 across on Yonge St in York Township. In others words, all located on Steeles Avenue: First East at Yonge & Steeles to Dufferin St.]

. 1801 Children's schoolhouse, Condition of Yonge Street:
Lot No. 25 west & east complied with, Lot 25 East Side of Yonge Street; nothing done to the street & a schoolhouse erected in the centre of the street. This is the end of the Township of York.
Ref: Report to Surveyor-General D W Smith on the condition of Yonge Street in 1801, by John Stegmann, formerly a Hessian officer.
. On page 427 of Scadding's memoirs, he tells us that Elisha Pease taught in this early schoolhouse.
XReference: E. Pease was a witness of the WILL of John Willson, Jur. in 1818 & also John Johnston, 1852.
Note3: The schoolhouse was built in the road allowance in front of the Lawrence's property so the children could find it & not getting lost in the woods. Just a few lots away, Jacob Cummer tells us a black bear was digging up his garden. - PJ Ahlberg.

. DAUGHTER & WIFE of a TAVERN KEEPER:
Mary Willson Lawrence & her children, had much experience at Taverkeeping. Husband Richard Lawrence held a UC licensed tavern located on Yonge Street north. She & her friend, as noted below, Mary Thompson visited Miss Elizabeth Russel when Thompson was employed by the sister of THE most prominent & powerful man in Upper Canada. From extracted stories from Ely Playter's Journal we may see what life was like a woman tavenkeeper in early Upper Canada:
. 1806 Jan 11 - Thinking it was a tavern, Ely Playter & a companion mistakenly stopped & stayed over night at Mr. Miller's house. Implicit in the mistake at Millers & throughout his journal, is a parallel understanding that household life intersected with public life in taverns.

. 1802 May 2 & Sept 29 - Mary Thomson*, Playter's journal's Miss T - also lived at his house. She was the daughter of a substantial farm family from Scarborough Township. Her father, Archibald, was a master stonemason & a Justice of the peace from 1806. Nothing about her presentation in the journal suggests less than respectable young womanhood. It is difficult to account for her presence in the tavern rather than on her family's farm. [Scaboro Museum, 2016]. Certainly not a servant in the house, she socialized within the same circles as the tavern-keeper & came & went as she pleased.
Playter mentioned her almost exclusively in the parlour usually in the context of polite sociability, but once he noted, I seated myself by the Parlour fire & finished my letters to Mr & Mrs Rogers, it was one o'clock in the morning before I retired to bed. Miss T sat at her work till I had finished writing. This brief reference & others, imply Mary Thompson may have worked in the textile trade from Playter's tavern & continued so working after marrying John Scarlett of the Humber. Tavern-keepers placed tea tables in their parlours. Nor did anything about the emphatically public nature of their homes work to exclude the women of tavern-keeping households from local networks of female friendship & association:
The Tavernkeepers' daughters, Player saw Miss Beman, the Miss Jarvises, & Miss Robinson on their way home as they had been visiting & he gave my Sister's Compliments to her as they had requested in their letter" In their taverns these women crafted a female space for sociability, into which they also welcomed men.
Ref: Women, Men, & Taverns in Tavern-Keeper Ely Playter's Journal, by Julia Roberts, Guelph.
Note4: Mary Thomson's husband-to-be, John Scarlett was granted in 1817 Apr 2, Lot 19, south side of Richmond, that is across the street from husband Richard Lawrence. Ref: Town of York Abstracts, p263.

. 1837 - Toronto & Home District:
. 1799 - Population 224; 1800 - Population 1127. 1818 - Population 8,459.

Date & place of burial of Mary Willson Lawrence is unknown. Last known whereabouts of Mary Lawrence was noted in her daughter Mary Ann Lawrence's UC Marriage Bond of 10 August 1819, where permission to marry was obtained at Long Point in southern Ontario. Rebecca Lawrence says her father died when she was very young & she was reared by an older sister, implying perhaps that Mary Willson was dead between 1821 & 1831 when her husband died & thus making Rebecca about 16 years of age - not so 'very young'.

Richard Lawrence was an inn keeper in the Long Pointe to Harwich, Ontario, until his death about another 1 years later, about 1831.

A separate Willson Family Tree may be found at Ontario Ancestor; & also Rootsweb.com: John Willson of New Jersey & the Kings' Mill, Ontario. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB: Est 1765 -1769.

Died:
Alt Loc: Harwich, Kent Co., Ontario