Notes:

. 1852 Census Caledon East, Peel Co. says he was born in Canada.

. 1861 Census, Caledon, Ontario,
Age 17 years /1844
Lived with his Grandmother Elizabeth Tarbox.

. 1870 Benton Habour, Berrien Co., Michigan
John Osborn, born 1846, Born Canada, carpenter
Juditha Osborn, Born 1847, Ohio
Daniel Osborn, born 1869, Michigan.

. Great Uncle Daniel Lawrence, born Canada & Family is next door. Great Aunt Hadassah Lawrence Teetzel is just a few farms away.

. 1900 Jun 18 Census, Sodus Twp., Berrier Co., Michigan
Osbourne John, b. Mar 1845, age 55 Canada, Father b. Canada, Mother b. England, Landed 1863, Farmer;
Osborne, Judith, wife b. Apr 1846, age 59, married 31 years, b. Ohio, Father b. Canada, Mother England;
Osborne, Frank, son, b. Jul 1871 Michigan, age 28, married 4 years, Parents b. Canada, Ohio
Osborne, Daughter, May 1878 Michigan, age 22, parents Canada Eng. & Ohio
Osborne, Mildred, Daughter-in-law, b May 1877 Michigan, age 23, Parents b. Canada Eng. & Michigan;
Osborne, Ettie M, Granddaughter, b Jun 1896, Michigan, age 3, parents Michigan;
Osborne, Gladys F, Granddaughter, b. Nov 1898 Mich., Age 1, parents: Michigan;
Lawrence, John, Cousin, Jan 1844 Canada Eng., Age 56, parents born Canada English, Landed 1860 - 40 years ago; Farm labour.

. [and three farms away is ]
Osborne, William, Head, born Mar 1873 Michigan, age 27, Father born Canada Eng., Mother Ohio, Farmer;
Osborne, Lena M, Wife, b. Aug 1881, Michigan, married one year, Parents born Michigan & NY. - - -

Birth:
Resided. Alt DOB:1844.

Died:

John married Juditha A LAWRENCE on 20 Aug 1869 in Millburgh, Benton Twp., Berrien Co., Michigan. Juditha was born on 15 Apr 1845 in Hamilton Twp., Warren Co., Ohio; died on 2 Dec 1917 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried on 4 Dec 1917 in Pearl Grange Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Daniel T OSBORN was born on 10 Feb 1869 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; died on 20 Jan 1872 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan.
2. Charles Francis FRANK OSBORN was born on 12 Jul 1871 in Caledon East, Toronto Twp., Peel Co., Ontario. ( Now Albion Twp.); died on 17 Apr 1936 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried in Pearl Grange Cemetery.
3. William OSBORN, .2 was born on 15 Mar 1873 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; died on 8 Dec 1948 in Millburgh, Benton Twp., Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried in Millburgh Cemetery.
4. Jennie OSBORN was born on 8 May 1878 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan; died on 26 Feb 1932 in Berrien County, Michigan.

Notes:

Upper Canada Sundries
Osborn, Wm. 1811, May 18, York, pg. 5404-5.
Osborne, William, 1815 Oct 12, York, pages 10734-10735, & 1815 Oct 14, pg.10770-10735.
Verify identify: Osborne, Betsey, 1813, Aug 21, page 6622-3.

. William Osborn appears to have died during the War of 1812 during the capture of the Town of York.

Further research:
Muster Roll of Capt. Abram Nelles’ Flank Company, from 24th July to the 24th of August 1812, both days inclusive. - Wm. Osburn
(Also John Felker & Jacob Swackhammer & Jonathan Teetzel).

. Abraham Nelles, 4th Regiment, Lincoln Militia, at Engineer Dept. at Forts George & Niagara:
July 4, 1814 to July 28, 1814: Sarjants: William Osburn, 7 days.
[Also Sargents: Roszels, Nathaniel, George & Eldgridge, of Erin Twp., Felker relatives.]

William Osborn died at the time of War of 1812. Elizabeth Lawrence Osborn then married Elisha Tarbox. The 1852 Census of Caledon, Ontario records the seven year old grandson, John Osborn, living with her.

. Minutes of Town of York, Census records that one male child was born in 1813 into Richard Lawrence's household. Was Elizabeth living with her parents now.

. 1837 Toronto Directory
Osborne, William, land agent, etc., 203 King Street
- Recorded for further research. If this is William Osborne' son, he would be about 24 years old. - - -

Birth:
Father died during 1812 - 1818 war.

Notes:

Upper Canada Sundries:
. 1807 Apr 18, Saturday - Appointed to be Constables in the Home District the ensuing year: Town of York, Jesse Ketchum, Oran Hale, William Osburn, under age.

Note: William Osburn was apparently, therefore, not appointed as his name was not listed with the others with their locations. Estimated at 16-17 or born 1791 or 1792. - PJA

. 1811 May 18, Osborn, Wm. York, pg. 5404-5.
Osborne, William, 1815 Oct 12, York, pages 10734-10735, & 1815 Oct 14, pg.10770-10735.
Verify identify: Osborne, Betsey, 1813, Aug 21, page 6622-3.

. William Osborn appears to have died during the War of 1812 during the capture of the Town of York.

. 1806 Mar 3 - The Annual Town Meeting, held at Storyells's Inn on Monday 3rd March 1806:- Township of York,
Mrs. Osburn: Men 0, Women 1, Boys Over 16: 1 Males Under 16: 2;
Females under 16: 3, Total 7
Verify identity: Is this William's mother, or a sister-in-law?

Further research:
. Muster Roll of Capt. Abram Nelles’ Flank Company, from 24th July to the 24th of August 1812, both days inclusive. - Wm. Osburn.
(Also John Felker & Jacob Swackhammer & Jonathan Teetzel).

. Abraham Nelles, 4th Regiment, Lincoln Militia, at Engineer Dept. at Forts George & Niagara:
July 4, 1814 to July 28, 1814: Sarjants: William Osburn, 7 days.
[Also Sargents: Roszels, Nathaniel, George & Eldgridge, of Erin Twp., Felker relatives.] - - -

Birth:
Verify location.

Died:
War of 1812, Attack on Ft. York

William married Elizabeth LAWRENCE, .13, DUE on 26 Apr 1813 in St. James Anglican Cathedral. Elizabeth (daughter of Lieut. Richard LAWRENCE, UE and Mary WILLSON, , DUE) was born est 1795 ± in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; died after 1864 in Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Date of Birth Estimates:
Parents married about 1786 in New Brunswick, at Miramichi. 1797 Town of York Minutes Census: Two female children (= Elizabeth, then Margaret Lawrence. Possibly brother John Lawrence is older than them).
Ref: UC Land Petition 1819, if 21y, she was born 1798.

Married 1813, if 18 years old she was born 1795.
Notes1: Why did relatives Wm. Lawrence & John Willson sign a marriage bond for her, & not her father Richard? Was Richard away with the War of 1812 duties then? - PJA.

. Elizabeth Lawrence & Elisha Tarbox founded Caledon East, first called Tarbox Corners in 1821.
UC Land Petition 1819, if 21y, she was born 1798.

. 1813 Apr. 3rd. This day were married by special license, William Osban
& Elizabeth Lawrence, both of the Township of York.
John Strachan, Minister.
This marriage was solemnized between us, William Osburn & Elizabeth Lawrence, in the presence of us, William Lawrence & John Willson.
Ref: Upper Canada Marriage Bond, Archives of Ontario, North York Public Library.
Notes1: Why did relatives Wm. Lawrence & John Willson sign a marriage bond for her, & not her father Richard? Was Richard away with the War of 1812 duties then? - PJA.

. Lawrence, Elizabeth married William Osborn, on 1813 APR 26, both York Twp.,
Witnesses: *William Lawrence & John Willson, By special license at St James Cathedral, Toronto.
Note2: *Witnesses to her wedding are likely Uncle William, UE & either her Grandfather or Uncle John Willson. - PJA.

. 1819 Oct 13 -Elizabeth Lawrence Osborn Tarbox appeared at York Court House, General Quarter Session on 1819 October 13 & is recognized by Magistrate Pergrine Maitland to be a daughter of Richard Lawrence who & maintained his locality during the late war.
Her husband 1.William Osborn, deceased, who did his duty in defense of the Province. Since the war. [1812-14] She has married Elisha Tarbox, Markham. She prays for 200 Acres of land. Elizabeth Tarbox, York.

. Elizabeth Tarbox, Residence Markham - Caledon, Lot 4, Con 6 ECR [east Credit River] on 1819 Oct 15
Over the years the village has had various names, the first one being Tarbox Corners, after its first settlers Elisha & Elizabeth Tarbox, who arrived in 1821. As the daughter of United Empire Loyalists, Mrs. Tarbox had been granted 200 acres of land on the Caledon-Albion town line, at the junction of County roads 7 (Airport Road) & 22 (Old Church Road), & about 25 kilometers northwest of Brampton. The address is now 4 Rocker Road. (at Airport Road) earliest settlers of Caledon came about 1821. At that time the township was covered with thick forest & swamp.
Ref: Settling the Hills, Caledon East, Caledon East Historical Society.

. 1851 Census Caledon East, Peel Co., Ontario: Elisha & Elizabeth Tarbox & John Osborn age 7, (Grandson of Elizabeth), 1 story log cabin.

. Land granted to Elizabeth Lawrence was Lot 4, Con 6 & Lot 14, Con 4 Toronto Twp. - at what is now the intersection of Airport Road & Walkers Line meet in Caledon East. They were the original settlers & the town was first named Tarbox Corners after Elisha & the village was later renamed Caledon East. In his will Elisha left some land to John Osborn, the grandson of his wife, Elizabeth Lawrence.

. The Tarbox, bearing a historical plaque may be found at 4 Rocker Rd, at Airport Rd. (which is the first line) Caledon East, Ontario.
1869 Caledon East - population 100.

. Elizabeth Tarbox Park, 37 Borland Cres., Caledon East
Early Caledon settler Elizabeth Tarbox was issued the west half of Lot 4, Concession 6 EHS, Caledon Township in 1819, receiving the formal Crown patent for the entire Lot 4 in 1821. Elizabeth & her husband, Elisha, sold the west half of the Lot to William Higginson in that same year. The Tarbox family remained on the east half of the lot, subdividing the portion of the property within the Caledon East village boundary into building lots. Caledon East was originally known as Tarbox Corners.
Ref: Heritage Caledon, 2014.6.3.

For further research:
. Wednesday, 11 March, 1812, by License, William Lawrence & Mary Holiday, both of the Township of York. 
Witnesses, Colin Drummond & Elizabeth Lawrence
Note3: Verify identify of this Wm. & Mary Holiday - PJA & information on:

(More history in the printed Richard Lawrence, UE book in the North York Public Library, Toronto. PJA.) - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB. 1797 / Census 1861.

Died:
Verify. Resided Caledon East 1821-1864.

Buried:
Burial was not listed with Elisha Tarbox in Caledon East. Presumed to be buried elsewhere.

Notes:

Married:
Laurence, Elizabeth X William Osborn 1813 APR 26 both York Twp.,
Witnesses: William Lawrence and John Willson,
By special license at St James Cathedral, Toronto
Note: witnesses to her wedding are Likely Uncle William, UE? owing to the St. James
& Grandfather or Uncle John Willson ii or iii. - PJA

Notes:

PART ONE:

Richard is name after his grandfather, Richard Lawrence, Esq. (1719-1726.)

. 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.

. NEIGHBOURS MEET AGAIN. In Sept 1763 Cyrenius & Chrineyonce Vanmater, Richard Lawrence were witnesses to the WILL of Daniel Polhemus of Middletown, NJ. This probably was Richard's grandfather, Richard Lawrence, Esq.iii.
In New Brunswick, Chrineyonce Vanmater & this 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.

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

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

. 1776 MUSTER: Richard Lawrence:
. 1771 Feb - 24 Apr - Lawrence, Richard - Private, General Hospital (2 Richards) Muster roll of Capt. Wm. Gray's NYV. Lieut. 1st Co.
. 1777 October 24 - Capt Gilbert C Willett, 3rd Battalion of Oliver De Lacey, p. 28, at Long Island, #20 Richard Lawrence.
. 1778 Apr 24 - Rich. Lawrence, ", C1880,p22;
. 1778 Sep 4 -C1880, p38; 1778 Oct 24, c1880,p39;
. 1779 November 29, Capt. Thomas Hewlett's Co. NYV - Savannah, Quarter Masters Gen. Dept. & Hewlett's Coy.
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, RG 8, C Series, Copy Arch. Canada.

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. As well as an important Lawrence family friend, Rev. J Odell of NJ, was adjacent to his land grant.

. 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.

. PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK LAND GRANT 1793 DEC 12, 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 One, 200 Acres To Richard Lawrence the Lot Two, containing 232 acres, Stillwell Willson, Lot Four, 240 acres, minus road allowances & wastage, Saving & reserving to ourselves, all white pine trees & lumber, Ponds & watercourses. Also the privilege of hunting, hawking & fowling in & upon the same & mines & minerals of Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead & coals.
Registered the 12 December, 1793, Thomas Carlton, Lieutenant Governor, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

** See photo Parchment & wax seal, Crown Land Grant for Lot 25, Con. 1 East Yonge Street, Toronto (Yonge & Steeles St.)

. UC Land Petitions. Bundle, L2, Petition 5, Vol 283, 1795 of York, Richard Lawrence, Sr.
Ref: C2124 Ont. Archives. Original document is preserved at the North York Public Library, Yonge Street, Toronto. Very large parchment document with an attached was 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.

. 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 & Two 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.
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 King St. East, Toronto. (The next Lot 19 Duke, was granted to Samuel Osborn & his wife, Mrs. Alice Willson Osborn).
. Lots 1 & 2, Con 4, Vaughan Twp., 400 Acres.
Note4: 8 Oct., 1796 is the day he paid his land settlement fees, & is sometimes incorrectly quoted as the day he was first granted this land. - PJA
. 1805 Feb 1, Patented, Lot 3, Con 4, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario, 200 Acres.
. 1802 Feb 21, Lot 1, Con 5, Vaughan Twp., 200 Acres granted to wife, Mary Willson Lawrence.
. 1804 Aug. 31, Lot 27, Con 1 Yonge St. E, Markham Twp., York Co., Ontario, purchased 190 Acres for £100 & sold two years later to relative John Arnold for the same amount.
. 1805 - Lot 24, Con 2 West, York Twp., York Co., Ontario, Purchased 200 Acres & sold 1809 to Jacob Fisher, Jr.

. Richard Lawrence received Tavern Licenses from at least 1805 to 1815 for the Twp. of York. In Mar 1801 The Special Sessions of Peace, held the "The Court are of opinion that six persons are a sufficient number for Keeping Tavern in the Town of York, for the year ensuing.
Ref: Toronto Sundries, Home District. Quarter Sessions.
Note5: 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 &/or barns were required for the patron's horses, carriages & wagons. The innkeeper should also have at least four 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.

. 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.

Note6: McGill had the 1000 Acres at Lot 25, Con 2, adjoining Richard Lawrence's Land Grant - 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.
Note7: UCLPetition Richard gave a reference for Sarah Lakerman Willson who was on Staten Island since the beginning of the War and therefore, Richard Lawrence too.

. 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 (and 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 11 - MAY FLEET NJ * NY *NB *UC. Evacuation from NY to New Brunswick in 1783. Again the 'May Fleet' leaves around NB by ship, and 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 three bateaux at Kingston on 28 Aug., 1793. Received army rations and medical care. Detained over 30 days waiting for another boat. 10 Oct., 1793 group arrives at Niagara again sick and starved. 25 Oct, Governor J G Simcoe authorizes ship to pick up John Willson and associates.

1793 Sept, Fort George, Niagara. Lieut. Gov. Simcoe orders government ship to bring them 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 and 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, Navy Hall, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. 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 Aug, 1819. As a lieutenant he was granted 1000 Acres, and 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 Oct 8 - Granted and 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: no males and four females. Total six.
i.e. Richd. & wife Mary and John, Mary, Marg., Eliz. & Mary Anne Lawrence.
Note8: Town of York had only 52 males and 34 females living on Yonge St., Toronto.

. Two Surveys of Settlers actually living on Yonge Street:
. York, 3 Aug, 1797 Lot No. 25 East, Five 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, Four acres cleared. Small log house. He is living on the lot. Surveyed by David W Smith, Esq., Surveyor General.
{ Is Wm. L. Willson, his brother-in-law on the adjacent Lot 26, actually living with Richard & his sister, Mrs. Mary Willson 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 and 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.
Note9: 1 Feb 1804. Richard sells Lot 3, Con 4, Vaughan Twp. property. Coincidence?

. 1815, Dec 30. Richard Lawrence received a Tavern License for Township of York.

. 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, and the tavern of Job Loder all stood on the elevation above the flat. A hotel was built under the hill and 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, and 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, and 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. [Published 1908.]
Ref: Pioneer sketches of Long Point settlement.

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.
. 1820 April 11, He is now in Charlotteville, London District, (Norfolk County).
. 1821 Feb 21, Sold Vaughan Twp. property of his wife, Mary Willson.

. Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg, Thank you. - - -

Birth:
Monday.

Died:

Richard married Mary WILLSON, , DUE before 22 Jun 1797 in New Brunswick, Canada. Mary (daughter of John WILLSON, Esq., 1, Sur. and Rebekah /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 Mary Willson 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 1891?]
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 Petitions Bundle, L4 /63, 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 three 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.]

. 1802 Feb 21 The Crown granted Mary Lawrence, Lots # 1, Con 3
& Con 5, 400 Acres in Vaughan Twp. & was sold on 1 March, 1821 by Richard Lawrence.
Note1: Richd. had other land at Lot 1 C4. 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 from Dufferin St. to Kipling Ave., in Vaughan]. Verify with map please.]

. 1801 Children's Schoolhouse, Condition of Yonge St.:
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: Pease was a witness of the WILL of John Willson, Jur. in 1818.
Note2: 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 ... In other school reports, a Mrs. Lawrence as an early school teacher in Thornhill. - 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.

. Toronto & Home District, published 1837:
1799 - Population 224; 1800 - Population 1127. 1818 - Population 8459.

. 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 ten years later, about 1831.

. A separate Willson Family Tree may be found at Roots.com: John Willson of New Jersey & the Kings' Mill, Ontario.

Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB: Est 1765 -1769

Died:
Richard Lawrence sells wife's land L1, C5 Vaughan.