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17851	Otter Albert is the son of Phoebe Dhurst & Otter Benjamin Willson. . Otter Albert Willson died in Denver & is buried with his parents in Maitland Cemetery, Goderich, Ontario. - - -	WILLSON, Otter Albert .ii (I318)
17852	Otter Ben. is the son of Mary Ann Cummer & John Willson.3rd. . 1898 Nov 3, Inquest into death of the late Fred Beattie was opened at Beattie palace, thus. Dr. Wm. Holmes coroner: Jury ; Otter Willson. Verdict: Fred Beattie came to his death Oct 26, in his own orchard, by a pistol shot by Wm. Cox, according to the evidence he was short in self-defence. Ref: Signal newspaper, Goderich. Extracted from a long article. - - -	WILLSON, Otter Benjamin .i (I263)
17853	Otto is the son of Julia E Lemon &George Washington Connors.	CONNOR, OTTO William Frederick Roy (I1268)
17854	Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants: compiled by Ambrose M. Shotwell, 1895-7 Pg 276: Edward, who married twice and had 16 children	MOORE, Edward (I1460)
17855	Our mother's uncle came to live with us when he sold his interests at Chinook, Alta. He passed away in 1937. I carry a keepsake watch which Uncle Louis Setterington used when he worked for the CPR when they were laying track through Medicine Hat (only three houses there) and Calgary where there were only five houses. He worked close to Banff and then quit.	SETTERINGTON, Louis (I1529)
17856	Over time George lost track of his birth date so I'm sticking with this one.	WALKER, George Michael 5 (P503)
17857	Over time Harriet changed her middle name from Newell to Nadine. mt haplogroup H-C16291T Ward Y is I-M269	WARD, Harriet (Nadine) Newell 1 (P77)
17858	Overholt/Bethel/Kramer Cemetery 1675 Third Concession Road Humberstone Twp., Ontario	DOAN, Robert Melvin twin (P407)
17859	Owen and Vivian separated in 1967. RESID: lot on Hwy.77 between Conc. 4 and 5. OCCU: mailman and janitor RELIG: United Church	SETTERINGTON, Owen Leroy (I155)
17860	Owen is the son of Sarah J Finlayson and Chas. Dell.	DELL, Owen (I1976)
17861	Owen Sound. Small wedge shaped red granite monument.	CATCHPOLE, George Joseph (I44)
17862	Owned a foundry on Furnace St	MCLENHAN, John (I252)
17863	Owned and operated the hardware business until about 1978/9 when it was sold to Drew Merrett. It had become a Home Hardware store a few years earlier. (Per conversation between Roger Patterson and John Cowan Jan 20, 2019)	PATTERSON, Frank Howden (I444)
17864	Oxford Twp. previously called Knowlton Twp.	MINGLE, John Jr. (I1)
17865	P J Mavert, Minister of the Gospel. Berren Co., Mich Reg # 1084.	Family (F561)
17866	P.C. is the son of Mary Shea & Lawrence King. . 1923 Aug 29 - Patrick C King Passes At Home.,Engineer, Prominently Known in Mining Circles is Dead. A host of friends mourn the loss of Patrick C King, pioneer mining engineer of Butte, who died last night at his home 511 S Crystal St. Mr King was 42 y of age & had lived in But for the pst 20 years. Up until 5 years ago he operated hoisting engines at different local mines. During the past 5 years he has been employed as a rope man at the Anaconda mine. He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Bell Nickleham. The body is at home from where the funeral will take place at a time to be announce later. . King the remains of Patrick C King are at the family home 511 S Clark St, from where the funeral will take place. Interment in the family plot in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Ref: Montana Standard Newspaper, Butte. . 1924 Jul 16 - court Notes. Hearing of the petition of Belle King for final distribution of the estate of Patrick C King, o which she is executrix was set for Sat. July 26, at 10 am. the estate amounts to $650. . 1924 Jul 27 - the petition of Belle King, administratrix, for settlement of the first & final account & distribution of the estate of Patrick C King was granted by Judge Lynch. . 1925 Jun 13, Mrs. Belle King & filed an acknowledgement of the racist of $5269.34 from the state of PC King of which she acted as executrix. Mrs. King has been discharged from that post & the estate settled. Ref: Montana Standard Newspaper, Butte.	KING, Patrick C (I454)
17867	PA	FREEMAN, Rachel (I1652)
17868	Page 2 . 1798 Sep 24 - Quaker Carpenter could Make Anything from Coffins to Mills: William Lawrence was a man of all work. The Quaker carpenter from Middletown Twp. & his boys were available for just about any sort of job - from building a mill to repairing a tea table- during the last half of the 18th century. Lawrence's account book, preserved at the Monmouth County Historical Association library in Freehold, gives minute details of work done for Middletown & Shrewsbury residents from 1756 until his death in 1795. It reveals that prior to 1771 he produced a number of pieces of furniture, making him one of the county's earliest known cabinetmakers. At the back of his account book Lawrence recorded that he was married May 5, 1748, to Margaret Tilton & their first child, Daniel, was born 2 years later. The marriage is recorded in the second book of Friend's Record's (Quaker) at Shrewsbury. That he was originally considered a carpenter is confirmed by the will of Joseph Field of Middletown in 1749. One of the witnesses was 'William Lawrence carpenter. Lawrence's plantation was located near Colts Neck Village. He willed this, his cattle & farm equipment to a son, Jacob, in 1795. Lawrence's accounts show sales of meat, grain & livestock to his customers in addition to charges for a wide variety of other services. He tanned hides, provided harvest help, constructed wells, built & repaired wagons, chaises & sleighs & was apparently a competent wheelwright. There are countless entries for coffins of bilsted (sweet gum), cherry, walnut & black walnut - many of them for children. Infant mortality was high in the 18th century. The names of 10 assistants or apprentices are listed in charges for labor in the account book. The last 5 named, between 1764 & 1784, are Daniel, William, Elisha, Jacob & John, which are the given names of 5 of 6 sons listed in a Lawrence family genealogy. Furniture made included six bedsteads, six tables of various types, two cases of draws (bureaus), a dressing table, a chest, several chairs, two cradles, a tea table & a desk. There also are numerous charges for furniture repairs. No examples of this furniture are known to have survived. Lawrence seems to have been strictly a country cabinetmaker who used only woods available locally. Maple, mahogany & other imported woods popular with city cabinetmakers are not mentioned. Lawrence's services were in considerable demand. In 1760, his crew put in 20 days work for Joseph Taylor in Upper Freehold Township - some 25 miles from home - probably building or finishing the interior of a house. One account is of particular interest. Lawrence & his boys did extensive work in 1764-65 for Michael Kearney, suggesting that they may have been the builders or interior finishers of the mansion house at Morrisdon Farm in Colts Neck, a fine colonial home that still is standing & was the subject of an Antiques column last year. Kearney apparently acquired the property in the 1760s & the first reference to Morrisdon Farm turned up in a 1767 horse breeding ad run by Kearney. Lawrence billed him for 36 days of labor over a 3 month period. . 1763, Lawrence charged Widow Mary Holmes, on July ye 18 to 1 day work to myself & boys underpinning the house.' The bill was 12 shillings. Two rather unusual services were performed for Obadiah Holmes, Sr. in 1768. He was billed for putting wings to the windmill & for making an instrument for John Holmes to press leather. In 1765 & 1766, Lawrence listed charges of £30 for work done on the Meeting House by me & my boys. In 1771 there were more bills for work on the Meeting House, these charged to Edmond Williams, who was an active member of the Shrewsbury Friend's Meeting. Lawrence seems to have had a well equipped shop for there are charges for turning bannisters & for making all sorts of parts for cider mills. In 1761 he was working on Van Dorn's mill & in 1766 built a mill for Cyrenius Van Mater, the latter probably a grist mill. In 1762 he made a number of moulds for brick-making for John Tilton. In 1768 there were charges for repairing looms. In 1782 he built some behives for Joseph Van Mater. In 1791 he made 2 hat blocks for Rulief Van Mater, presumably a hatter, & in 1793 he made a stove for him. . After William Lawrence's death in 1795, his son Jacob continued the business at least until 1817. But in this period most entries in the account book he took over from his father are for making coffins & repairing wagons & sleighs. Stillwell's Historical & Genealogical Miscellany says that Lawrence's eldest son, Daniel, was killed in the Revolution (he was a member of the Monmouth Militia), & 3 other sons, John, Richard & William, supported the Tory cause & moved to Canada. Perhaps the son William Lawrence was the Shrewsbury Tory of that name whose lands were seized by the American government in 1781. Lawrence's will left £30 each to his sons John & Richard & the bulk of his estate to his son Jacob. But there was no mention of his son William. Ref: Asbury Park Press, NJ. - - -	LAWRENCE, William .6 Esq. The Quaker (I131)
17869	Page 2 - Biography of W H Lawrence contd. . 1859 Mar 25 - Letters remaining at the Richmond Hill Post Office: William H Lawrence. Ref: York commonwealth Newspaper. . 1868 May 28, to Jun 12th. Richmond Hill Advertisement: WOOL CARDING & CLOTH DRESSING FOR 1868. The subscriber, in returning thanks for the liberal patronage which his numerous friends & customers have favored him, would state that he has Fitted up his Carding machine with New Cards, In a superior manner, also have employed Joh Riddell late of Markham who being widely known as a First-Class Workman, feels confident of given to those who ma favor him with their custom, the most entire satisfaction. Parties returning their cloth to be dressed at my establishment, in the fall, will not be required to pay for their carding until after having their cloth dress. *** the highest price will be paid for wool delivered at the shop. Wool Taken in Pay for Carding. Signed W H Lawrence. Ref: York Herald newspaper, pub. 1868 Jun 5. . 1869 Feb 17, Richmond Hill. Tenders Wanted. Tenders will be received up to Saturday, March 20 1869 for the building of a HOUSE & STABLE. Plans specifications may be seen on application to James M Lawrence, Township Clerk. The lowest or any other ender will not be received unless otherwise satisfactory. Signed, Wm H Lawrence. . 1869 Oct 5, Auction Sale of Custom Carding & Fulling Mill, Dwelling House & 4 acres of excellent Land, situated on Lot 42, Con 1, Vaughan, the property of W H Lawrence. To be sold at Henderson's Auction Rooms, 76 Yonge St., Toronto, Henderson Wallace Auctioneers. Ref: York Herald newspaper. Note2: Compare, at the same time, the Furniture auction of furniture by his Uncle A C Lawrence L42, C1 in 1867. . 1869 Oct 21, Astray. Came into the premises of the subscriber, near of Lot 42, 1st Con. Vaughan, about 20th September last, a large pig. The owner is requested to prove property, pay expenses & take it away. Signed W H Lawrence. . 1869 Nov 11, Notice The party who took from my premises, Lot 42, ear of 1st Con, Vaughan, a few days ago, a Black Pig, with a ring in its nose, & part of one ear cut off, is hereby requested to call on me & pay for the advertising of the same. W H Lawrence. . 1869 Nov 19, Auction Sales, Farm Stock, Implements etc, on Lot 42 1st Con Vaughan, property of Wm H Lawrence, Sale at 1 o'clock pm. W H Myers, Auctioneer. . 1869 Dec 17, The York Herald of the Vaughan Town Clerk, The York Herald refused to publish Jos Break's communication, which appeared in the Toronto Telegraph: 1st. because the editor wished to ascertain mr Break's statement regards tour township accounts were true. 2nd mr Eakin, Twp. Clerk always treated the editor very courteously. There was good reason to believe there was some truth in Mr. Break's charges. …When a journal uses its columns to use a twp. Clerk, to drive him from his position that Mr Teffy the editor, may drop ito the office is stooping too low to be wholesome. Should he Vaughan Council, in consequences of these tribal changes of the Herald, dismiss Mr. lawrence & appoint Mr taffy Town Clerk everything in that quarter would be satisfactory. The Herald will see the utter fallacy, now that the trick has been exposed - of finding fault with Mr Lawrence because it is anxious to secure the office for Mr Teefy. That card won't win. Economist newspaper. The Economist to the Rescue. The Economist inspired by Mer Lawrence's plethoric kinsman, with an eye to the approaching Municipal elections in Markham, has rushed to the rescue. Mr Break's first communication appeared in a city paper, is far fetched. It is common for journals to copy communications from other newspapers. We deny having any desire to remove Mr Lawrence from his situation & no one of Mr Lawrence's friends can pint to any remarks in these columns, since ehe became Clerk of Vaughan Twp. Mr. Lawrence's duty to attend to his business, for which he is amply paid, & resort to not tricks to prevent us from keeping our readers posted in matters done by the Council. When we did not publish the minutes of Nov 8th our readers inquired the cause. Which caused he Township Clerk's velvet to write Mr Lawrence's literary gem. Mr Lawrence absented himself for days from his office & that Twp. business was left to wait until he had done visiting Newmarket fair. Mr Lawrence, in his vain conceit, intimated he hew to be false. The Economist endeavors to induce his readers to believe that gentleman wants the office of Vaughan Twp. Clerk & for this is our reason for exposing Mr Lawrence's short comings. Mr Teefy's assurance that the Council have nothing in their gift that he covets. Mr Lawrence with a salary of $100 more than Mr Teefy offered to do the work for. We known that Mr Lawrence has vanity enough to consider himself unequalled. From time to time, sine Mr Lawrence assumed the duties of Vaughan Twp. Clerk & Treasurer, we could have frequently trodden on his corns, but w refrained, had it not been for the indiscreet zeal of his fat friend & the Economist. . 1879 May 1, New Woollen Mills, We are pleased to learn that Mr T H McNeilly of Barrie, has rented the old Lawrence Mills about a mile south of this village on Yonge Street, from John Langstaff & intends to have a first class woolen mill in operation immediately. The mills have lain idea for some years & Mr McNeilly purposes implying 5 hands steadily, the place will present a busy appearance hereafter. . 1879 May 8, Richmond Hill Woolen Factory, to the inhabitants of Markham king & Vaughan, having leased the above mills, formerly known as the Lawrence mills, from John Longstaff, for a term of years & having added the latest improvements in machinery, i among prepared to do carding, spinning, weaving, fulling, dying, in a superior manner Roll Carding!- - -	LAWRENCE, William Henry .16 (I584)
17870	Page 2, . A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN 1 May 1666 - 1 Dec 1727. by William L. Lawrence: Wm. Lawrence of Middletown wrote in 1727 a letter of compliant to the Governor, in "Discourse by way of dialogue between an old inhabitant of Co. of Monmouth & a Proprietor of the Eastern Division of New Jersey". He wrote, "it was not our our choice but your unjust dealings that obliged us to take patterns on the terms you pleased to grant or be disposed of our land ... as long as the proprietors controlled the courts, the settlers could expect no justice in land disputes." (The Gov. held hostage, the NJ Proprietors' land deeds.) A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN [1 May 1666 - 1 Dec 1727. by William L. Lawrence:] An old Inhabitant of the County of Monmouth & a Proprietor of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, which the impartial reader may in some measure make a judgment whether the first Inhabitants of sd. County ought in justice to pay Quitrents for the land they hold or not; written by WILL will be true who arrived in sd. County on the 1st May 1666 & has been a constant inhabitant & an observer of affairs & transactions there in to the 1st December, 1727. Proprietor. Sir. I am gland to see you & much more should be to know the reasons why you refuse to pay your Quitrents that has been so long due & unpaid will be true. I think not due, therefore, unpaid. . PRO: How can that be, when the Patent by which you hold your land obliges you to pay the rent therein reserved. . WILL: I think that no obligation at all. Have patience & give me leave & you shall hear my reasons. . PRO: That is what I want to know therefore say on. . WILL: The first to be considered is the great hazard we run, the extreme hardships we underwent. The many difficulties we met with & the charges we was at in enlarging the Kings' dominions by settling a wilderness country in the midst of a barbarous people who had scarce washing their hands that had so lately been imbrued In Christian blood: Next is the the good right we have to the soil & the just measures we took to obtain it (viz) not only by purchasing from the Indians by the Governours' Lease but also got it confirmed by a Patent he Granted to 12 persons called Patentees & their Associates bearing date the 8th of April 1665 for that tract of land beginning at Sandy Point & running along the bay to the mouth of Rariton River from thence going along the River till a corner to the westernmost part of a certain marshland that divides the river In two parts, from that part to Run in a Direct South West Line in to the woods 12 miles, then to turn away southeast & by south till it falls Into the main ocean; for which tract of the land Indian Sachems did acknowledge before the Governour to have received satisfaction: & again the S' 1 Latent was confirmed by Governour Phillip Carteoert* [Carerett in different ink & writing written over Cartroert] & Council by an Instrument under their hands bearing date the 28 of M ay 1672 as followeth upon the address of John Boune, Richard Hartshorne, James Grover & Jonathan Holmes, Patentees & James Ashton & John Hanse associates, empowered by the Patentees & Associates of towns of Shrewsbury & Middleton to the Governour & Council for confirmation of certain privileges granted unto them by Coll. Richard Nichols as by under his hand & seal bearing date 8th April, 1665. The Governour & Council did acknowledge & confirm to the said Patentees & their Associates the particulars following being their rights contained in the sd. Patent: Impd. That the sd. Patentees & their Associates have full power, license & authority to dispose of the land expressed in the sd. Patent as to them shall seem wise &c - Yet notwithstanding the good right & great assurance we had for our land about the year 1676 Governour Carteret gave notice for all persons to take patents for their land under the yearly rent of half penny per Acre & not he would grant it to any other that would. Some persons knowing the just right had taken measures to obtain it, refused to be at the charges of & again patenting their own Land on terms & their Land was by the Govenour granted to other persons. So it was not of our choice but your unjust dealing that obliged us to take Patents on the terms you please to grant or be dispossessed of our land: . PRO: That could not be that you could loose it if it was your own; the Law would protect you in the enjoyment of it. . WILL: That is true provided we could have stood on even grounds with the Proprietors, which we could not expect so long as the Proprietors had the putting in of Govrnours & they the appointing of Sherriff & Judges & their sherrifs ye empannelling of Juries, it being incident to the most of mankind to oblige their best benefactors we doubted of justice. . PRO: If you had doubted of justice here you might have had justice at home to England: . WILL: No doubt but we being poor scarce able to stand a law suit here much less to remove it home to England : . PRO: Certainly you are very forgetfull, or yon would not argue against paying rent for your land when by (your darling) Nichols his Patten you was to pay rent for your Land: . WILL: I have not forgot I well remember by that Patent we where to enjoy our lands for the space of 7 years free of rent Custom & Excise: & then to pay such rent as others the inhabitants of his Royal highness territories should be obliged to. The which we would gladly do now provided we could enjoy all the land & other privileges granted to us by ye patent or if we could have the liberty confirmed to us by Governour Carteret & Council could that are disposing of the land expressed in Nichols his Patent, as to us should seem meet, we no doubt might have money to pay Such rent as was Reserved by that Patent; & a good such rent as was reserved by that Patent, & a good sume to put in our pockets, but since you have cut us short of all the privileges granted by that pattern, & also of that which confirmed by Governor Cartaret & have divided among yourselves & granted to others, a 100,000 acres of our own land, & claim a right to at least 2,000 more, I think you may be easy that we enjoy between [sic] & 30,000 acres free of rent. Pro: Now you have said what you. can, I have that to say which you can: . WILL: Let us hear what that is: . PRO: About the year 1682 or 3 the pretended the Patentees & their Associates did surrender their right to Nichol's Patent on condition that the Patentees each to have 500 acres & their Associates. Each 100 acres free of Quitrent the which was confirmed to them by patent : . WILL: If it was as you say doubtless you can prove that ( or we do our right) by an Instrument in writing. However, if it was so, it is just making good the old Proverb, you paid with a pig of our own sow, the land was our own bought with our money. Confirmed by 2 Governours, it never cost the Proprietors one farthing to purchase it of the Indians ye right owner & chief proprietors thereof. If it was as you say I know nothing of it & I challenge all the Proprietors & records The Jersey, to prove that either my father or myself ever had one foot of free land granted to us on that account. But this I very well remember that about the year 1682 or 3, Gawin Lawry was the Proprietor Governor & he made Robert Hambleton, Sheriff of the County of Monmouth & gave him order to distain for Quitrent. Accordingly he disdained the cattle of one John Smith In Middletown, who was so enraged he got his gun & had he not been dissuaded by some persons of more moderation then himself he had done the Sheriff some mischief. Although that injustice of the Proprietors set the old Inhabitants almost in a fiery flame they thought no boot to hazard a lawsuit for the reasons following I (viz). By that time there was a considerable number of people settled in the Country who was thereunto encouraged by reason that the greatest hazard hardships & difficult yes was past, & you ye Proprietors let them have our land that you took from us on as easy terms as we that had run the hazard born the brunt & once already paid for it both to the Proprietors & Indians, I say there could be little hopes of justice where our adversaries would set our judges & the jury likely to be made up of such persons, who if they gave a verdict for us must condemn their own title & implicitly acknowledge their lands that they bought of the Proprietors was ours: Therefore I think whoever will be impartial must judge till you make it appear that you had a right to the soil you can have no right to rent for it. . PRO: Do you think that there is no acknowledgment due to the Proprietors? . WILL: Not at all because they never had a right to the soil therefore no right to rent for it. Pro: Had not King Charles' grant the soil with the Government to the Duke of York & he grant the soil to the Proprietors: . WILL: The question is how King Charles came to have a right to ye soil. Pro: King Charles got it by conquest when he took it from Dutch. . WILL: That is denied because the Dutch never had that tract of land, now the County of Monmouth, in possession by reason of their Wars with the Indians. They dare not venture over in to take it in possession seeing the Dutch never had right nor possession. King Charles could not obtain a right to the Indians land never sold to the Dutch by conquering the Dutch. Pro: You will not allow then that King Charles had a right to the soil, therefore, the Proprietors none. . PRO: Pray by what title do you pretend to hold your land if not by patent from the Proprietors, we hold our land by an honest honest purchase & consideration paid for. . WILL: A title derived from a Charter granted to the sons of Adam by the Great & Absolute proprietor of the whole universe, God almighty & has stood recorded in the best record on earth 3198 years. In these words remember the days of old consider the years of many generations, ask thy father & he will show the thy elder, & they will tell them when the most high divided to the nations their inheritance. When he separated the sons of Adam; he set the bounds of the people. . PRO: Then you deny that their is any acknowledgment due to the Proprietors. - WILL. Yes we do. . PRO: & so consequently to the King. . WILL: The acknowledgment we owe & duly pay to the King's in obedience to his Laws & being bound to support, maintain & defend in person crowns dignity to the utmost of our power &c. Now to conclude I speak for myself that when you make it appear that at the time you granted my Paten you had better right to the land than I had. I shall be willing to pay Quitrents, but till that done I hope in justice to hold my land free by plain dealing. * Note2 by John Stillwell: This paper is a copy of an original written by Wm., son Wm. Lawrence, the first, of Middletown, N. J. It belongs to the Hartshornes of Portland, N. J. It sets forth the difference between the early settlers & the proprietor, & is a valuable a valuable contribution to the local & general history of this period. - John E Stillwell. Ref: Historical & Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 1, Published 1903, by John E Stillwell. Transcripts P J Ahlberg, 2009. Thank you. - - -	LAWRENCE, Major William L .2 Jr. (I4)
17871	Page 2, Stillwell Willson The Younger. . Petition of Inhabitants of Toronto for Wm. Wilby. 1835 Nov 3, Toronto, Petition of Wm. Wilby for remission of sentence. Petition of William Wilby, Toronto, Wheelwright, native of England, convicted of perjury at last Home District assizes, & sentence to 6 months imprisonment & £5 fine. The Perjury change was contained in an affidavit. Treat had withdrawn himself from the province or was canceled within the same writ to deference his creditors or to avoid being arrested or served with processes. Your Petitioner being ignorant of the Law was induced to make such affidavit under the Absconding Debtors Act. That every satisfactory testimony in his behalf & of the manner in which he was induced to make the affidavit upon which he was convicted can be produced. Your Petitioner having a wife in poor state of health & 5 young children whose support depends upon his industry who will become entirely destitute by his imprisonment. He therefore prays to extend to him the Royal mercy. Signed, Toronto 3 Nov 1835, William Wilby, & S C Wilby, wife of Wm. Wilby. - Petition of Inhabitants of the City of Toronto that we have known Wm. Welly since he became a resident of James St. last May & during that time he, his wife & family have conducted themselves in the most peaceable exemplary manner & have always seen him as a man of good moral character & consider him a fit object for the Royal Mercy, Dated at Toronto this 3rd November, 1835, about 86 signatures, inc. Stillwell Willson, (The Younger). Envelope: Directed to be liberated after he had undergone 3 months confinement, see letter to the Attorney General, 20 Jan 1836. Summary of 3 Pages: Prov. Statute 2 May, 4 Chapter states first making Oath before action. Geo. Humorous the Creditor. Evidence showed Wilby had been in some way jointly licensed with Treat (a Blacksmith & Carriage Maker) in the business of making carriage & that they had parted frequently before the accordance in question was sent out on very good terms, but in disappointment touching the frequency of claims of Wilby against Treat - also Geo. Humphries had been in the employment of Treat as a Journeyman & had left him a few days before the issue of the attachment, having unsatisfied claims for £5 against him. Mr. Humphries feared Wilby would leave the Province without paying him. While Treat was out of the City, the defendant was daily in his workshop, except Sundays & had seen Humphries twice. The witness failed to appear. Found guilty. Both Juries recommended this to the Mercy of the Court. It is probably Mr. Wilby did not understand the Act. Mr. Geo. Duggan Jur. however seems to have used such language of affidavit is itself plain & pointed. Signed, (Justice) John Macaulay Toronto 16 Nov 1865. Ref: Index C9824, image 113; C6888, Image 36. . Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	WILLSON, Stillwell The Younger (I7)
17872	Page 2. Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. Sherman & Bette Willson Interview. Interviewer: You graduated from Wayne State University in what year, Sherman? Then you went to University of Michigan? Sherman: I graduated in 1930. Ya, I got my doctors degree. My life has been busy. I seem to have all I need or want, praise the Lord. Interviewer: How did you begin your affiliation with motion picture production? Sherman: This is fun. Have you ever heard of the woman who came to New York & establish a live theater down on the boulevard, in what was an old Jewish place? Jesse Bonselle. When I was about 12 years old, I had the best speech teacher that ever entered the Detroit area, & she appreciated that I had certain talents & so she worked with me. I had another thing that was in my favor; across the street from our school was a normal school where they taught young people how to be teachers. In order to be teachers they had to have subjects so the best teachers in the Detroit area, young people would come over & be subjects & I lived across the street. So even today, I admire those teachers as they were good. Much much later I came into a group & one of them was in the group & I yelled out, my God I haven't seen you in so many years. She said, “Sherman, go away.” She didnʼt want them to know how old she was. But I did have these wonderful teachers. Jesse Bonsall had a part for a young person in a play & I did pretty well in it. I got called in went through rehearsals & all that. I was never prompted on the stage I spent hours & hours at rehearsals. I remember when I was doing were more professional work at the University of Michigan. I couldn't go to my apartment, I was so tired I would curl up on the seat & go sound asleep, then wake up in the morning & go back to work again. As you see, Iʼm enthusiastic. I have been lucky. Every crisis in life, including death, I have been lucky enough to handle it, & say, ʻso be itʼor whatever you have to say. I finally lost both my mother & father & my sister. My father played 36 holes of golf Sunday afternoon, went to bed & woke up & died while shaving Sunday morning. His theory of raising a boy is like the story of the gun. I have a medal upstairs that says I'm a hotshot with a gun. I had a collection with my father of about 20 guns. I had fired everyone of them. I had my favorite & he had his favorite. I had quite a few marksman medals; if you send in your target with the holes in it & they send you a medal. The event of the bank I told you about briefly; it was a police call said that said the purple gang is headed for your bank & father just went & got his pistol & I got mine & we walked down & when we got there we rechecked & the police said we didn't have to worry, it is too late & they ran, but we each had our gun loaded. I was 13 years old, but father treated me as if I was 20 years old. Later on in Europe, when I was doing the same thing to my son, some Americans came over & said, we donʼt want to be rude, but we were listening in on your conversation. Why do you talk to this beautiful young man as though we were 100 years old? I said, well, heʼs not a 100 years old, but he is probably 60 or 70. They couldnʼt believe it. Another story along that line. There is a statue to the honor of the Swiss Army who paid for someone to come & guard this is a big statue from the crowds that were around, & so forth. I canʼt think what the statue was. Anyway it had lights all over it & one of my jobs was to go down at night & kick out people where picking pockets who wander around. Later I got assignments that were more exciting. I was lucky in the Navy, maybe. I had applied to the Army & I hadnʼt been sworn in I got a call from the Navy who said come on in & weʼll fix you up. So I went into the Navy as a lieutenant commander & boy did I work my tail off. Interviewer: Well, I hear the food was better in the Navy, too. Sherman: Well I never had a complaint. It was just working with a lot of fellows who knew what they were doing. I'm sure here were times when it wasn't that way. Interviewer: Tell us about working for Jam Handy. Sherman: Well, Jam Handy was a top-level, quality, politically successful producer of training films. When the war came along they wanted him to do that, too, & so he worked right alongside of me part of the time. My job was to pick up the hard jobs. There would be a job that became a better way to transmit secretly & then I was the only one who could understand it, so I taught it for a while & I guess I can say I was grateful to the Navy. I couldn't have asked are treated better & of course I got a paper from the president & one from the governor saying I maintain my rank. So, legally I am still in the Navy &, of course, I would serve if they called on me, are better where we work on it & then a course I was sure of it they needed me. But they didn't need me to point a gun & shoot somebody. They needed me to train. Training of young men is not always easy. I remember I was having trouble with a training film; Iʼd made the training film, &the young recruits, the young men, who were seeing this for the first time, would start dropping down & going to sleep. You wonʼ believe this. I looked around & found a very good looking girl start on virtually it what it is I like to route upon them for every good looking girl that had exceptionally good legs & I said I need to use you as a bait. If I don't let the animals chew you up, will you do it? & she says, sounds good, letʼs do it. So I had her doing unimportant things on the stage. They didnʼt sleep any more, they stayed awake. The most exciting story I can tell you is how we snuck a girl out who was going to be put in jail in Hitlerʼs place. Interviewer: Did you work with the French resistance? Sherman: No. I got word to the Americans that a girl was being held under armed guard from Austrian Nazis, & that made impossible almost a rescuer because they would shoot her first. So they call me in. It turned out she had a man with a loaded gun right at her door. All night long while she was sleeping, that guy was there. But he was human & he occasionally fell asleep. So we waited our chance telling her in the daytime what we were going to do, when we could do it. We waited until one time when he was asleep & she could open the door quietly & sneak out & we left & he was still sleeping. We got her down to some Americans & said to fly this girl out of there before they shoot her, & they did. Years later I remembered the name & I wrote to them & they were starving for food, & so I actually found the family so I sent them a lot of food because they needed it. Then years later, I was married to Betty, we were in their town & I said I wanted to see my old friend. Iʼm not sure Betty was in favor of it. So we went & called on her & she was married to a successful doctor who wasnʼt making much money because doctors donʼt make much money in Europe. We were entertained at dinner. Now the custom at dinner, if you entertain guests at dinner you give them a present to take with them home. It doesnʼt have to be expensive, just some little thing. As we were leaving she came up to me & put something in my hand. That something is a piece of wood about so square, & it says “donʼt forget.” Well that is on my office wall & is a handy thing to remember. It reminds me of that time & of what a delightful person she is. Betty was wonderful about it, she didnʼt make any fuss about it at all. Bettyʼs wonderful all the time. So I have this black & gold plaque & I say goodnight to it once in a while. There have been so many incidents like that, I wonder how I made it sometimes. Interviewer: Did you get any commendations while you were in the service? Sherman: No, no. Those things are for officers of high rank & I was only a lieutenant, & they werenʼt passing them out to lieutenants. Interviewer: How many movies did you make while you were in the service? Sherman: Probably as many as 15, because they were on small areas that had to be done in a hurry. You had to teach fast. Theyʼs say, hereʼs a group of students & weʼre teaching them RADAR, which was just coming in, & they are taking 3 months to learn it, & we canʼt afford that. Make us a film on RADAR that we can use, so I make one that can do it in 5 days.Theyʼd say, thanks much, & walk away. That was the thing that was exciting then, was how fast couldI turn it out. Interviewer: What did you do on the film? Did you write it? Did you do all the work? Did you photograph it? Did you have a crew? Sherman: I had complete command. I didnʼt do any of it. I just said YOU do this & YOU do that. I was going around the country, so I could take a plane or train or whatever. I didnʼt enjoy driving around. But when you get that kind of complete understanding & appreciation, you work your ass off for them. As I said, I still have that ʻdonʼt forgetʼthing hanging in my office. I think Betty will someday try & lose it for me. Interviewer: You werenʼt the only one in training movies. How many people were simultaneously making movies? Sherman: Hmmmm. Thatʼs a good one. I would say there as man as 12 to 20 motion pictures that they were waiting for. Theyʼd say, ʻget ʻem out, get ʻem out.ʼOf course, itʼs not easy to produce a film rapidly & make it a good film. You know the 40mm quad, the big gun that won the Pacific battle with the airplanes? It would be on a sandy beach & would be shooting at planes that were over the water. These things would go, boom boom, boom boom. The shell that had been sent out would be like that (indicating size) & if it hit any vital spot at all, it would destroy the plane, not fast, but eventually. Four of these guns were on pedestals with very fine controls. So you could watch the horizon see where you were shooting. I took Betty down on the beach to see this thing & she wandered off by herself. The loudspeaker comes out, ʻThereʼs a woman down on the gunnery range. Somebodyʼs going to catch hell. Get her out of there.ʼ So I had to get my wife out of the range. Interviewer: Your role was as a produce to do these movies? Sherman: Ya, I was I was a problem solver too. The Americans donʼt make good guns. Youʼll find that a French or Swiss gun is better. They wanted about 130 machine guns, but they couldnʼt bring them through openly & they were frustrated. It was my job to get those guns through. I found an article in the paper about a lady who was going over to America & I told her I want you to take some new clothes because youʼre going to be working for me. She said, ʻIʼve got plenty.ʼ I said, you go down & buy all the clothes you can carry over to the United States. So I took half of them & put parts of the guns in them & put clothes on top. They shipped them right through & nobody knew what they were until they got to the Airforce, & as that is where the machine guns could be used & we unbuckled them & gave her the clothes. Interviewer: Whose job was it at Jam Handy to negotiate contract with the Navy for these movies? Sherman: Probably mine. Jam Handy & I were friends & we could work together. Some people hated his guts; probably some people hated my guts, but anyway, it was easy to work with him. He understood. Interviewer: So you worked with him for how many years? Sherman: Well, it was intermittent work, you understand, not reporting for duty every day, so Iʼd say, probably, 3 years we worked. So did his rival, Wilding. They both cooperated with anything I wanted, & I didnʼt put them in a bad position or anything. But, my biggest contribution was teaching the little groups of people who had never heard of a RADAR or a 40 mm, but these kids were supposed to be turned into engineers who could use them. So I would make a quick film & sometimes I would just pull them in & say, Thereʼs the gun, learn how to use it.ʼ It was pretty satisfying, because the kids, & some of them were not kids but were old men, but the people under me appreciated it. I was giving them a chance, something they wouldnʼt have had otherwise. Interviewer: You were influenced by your dad, & he got you into DeMolay. Sherman: Let me think now. He didnʼt push me, he went over & checked with the DeMolay people & the Masons, because he was a Mason & he had gotten some money for them for the Lodge. Bankers can do that somehow, without robbing the bank. So I had an entrée, so to speak. WhenI walked in the said, your dad was here. So the DeMolay part was easy & enjoyable & I thought it would stop there, but it didnʼt, & I went on & now Iʼm a loyal member. Interviewer: You were raised, according to my records, 1959 in Pillar Lodge, #526, in St. Clair Shores. Sherman: Thatʼs right. Thatʼs when I was living in Grosse Point. Nice place to live. Interviewer: So you were an eastsider. Sherman: Not always, but recently. Grand View & the Boulevard were my high school & I lived a block away. There was a high school, grammar school, & a normal school. The normal school would use the others to practice on, to become teachers. So these people who were used as material got twice the training before they could train others, & I walked along & I had the best teachers in the whole system. They had some skills the others didnʼt have. They kept me to work right straight through. I was a busy man. Some wonderful women did some teaching during the wartime. Just great. Interviewer: After the war, what did you do? Sherman: I went back to work. I think I hadnʼt finished my psychology degree, so I finished that up & started teaching. I enjoyed it tremendously. I was sorry to leave. Psychology is a fascinating thing. Altogether I must have taught psychology classes for six years. I canʼt be sure of that. It seems about right. My doctorʼs degree is in psychology. I didnʼt like being called Doctor. I enjoyed my work, I loved it, but, damn it, I wasnʼt an M.D. & all I would have been doing by going & getting the diploma was becoming Dr. Wilson. I just wasnʼt going to go through life with Dr. in front of my name. So I didnʼt. Interviewer: Letʼs return to what your dad wanted you to do when you taught debate. Tell us about how you taught debate & how you used cameras to record the before & after with students.How did you get into debate? Were you teaching speech? Sherman: Well, first, I was an expert photographer early in the game; thatʼs how I got in the Navy. I was a speech professor as well as a psychology professor. But I only took the diploma as a speech professor. Speech was my job when I was in grammar school. Jesse Bonselle was a famous actress in New York who took up money & bought a Jewish synagogue in Detroit & established the Bonselle Theater. One day my teacher asked if I knew the theater & Jesse? I said no. So she introduced me & said that I would do what she wants. I walked over & she looked me over like she was buying me, & I said, will I pass? She said, Iʼm sure you will. I worked with her on the stage as an actor in various roles for a long time, probably 6 or 7 years. I taught debate, too. How did I learn debate anyway? It all goes back to a wonderful teacher. Iʼve had more wonderful teachers probably than any man walking, but I got hold of two teachers who taught me debate. They would come in to where I was reading a book & said, come on with us. They took me down & they said youʼre going to work for Jesse. Theyʼd explain what was to be done & Iʼd do it. Well, I admired these women enough that when the said do it, I did it. So I went on the stage & Jesse had me playing the parts of young people, & later on, playing mature parts with a lot of makeup. That was the life, & I enjoyed it. We did AS YOU LIKE IT in full costume to a full house. That was one thing I liked, a full house. Interviewer: Well, you are 102 years old. To what do you attribute your old age? What regime do you have? Sherman: You mean why am I healthy? I donʼt think I can answer that intelligently, but I can go around it. My father was the healthiest man I ever knew, except that nobody knew how to count calories & nobody knew what the dangers of overweight were, & so my wonderful father thought he could eat all he wanted to, & he did. So did I. But I was young enough so that I didnʼt develop the big belly that he did, & the weight killed him. He played 36 holes of golf on Sunday, got up & shaved Monday, & dropped dead. He was 56 years old. I was very young, in my 20s. He dropped dead & nobody knew why. Everything he did, I had to do with him. We both were golf & tennis champions. He had a huge library in his home. He designed his home just the way he wanted it. The library was filled with books & I had read everyone of them. You can read Victor Hugo & you learn something. Some of them were just Tom Sawyer. My father never let me go to bed & sleep at night without reading to me first. He was such a part of my life. We read the same books & discussed them. If I liked an author, Iʼd read everything else he wrote, & that makes quite a lot of books. As far as I know, I cleaned out a huge shelf, I had read all Victor Hugo, all of duMont, some books that my mother had whispered to my father that I should not read. Interviewer: You survived the depression pretty well. You were at the University of Michigan. Sherman: I lived on 30 cents a day for food, for quite a while. But I was young & I was directing on the theater. I formed & directed several theaters, civic theaters. The one I was in at the time, they would bring some soup, some raw bread, & so we were keeping alive by bringing each other food in the theater. That was a great group. That was in Battle Creek. Battle Creek is a nice town; nice people, good schools, I like it. Interviewer: Did you live in the dorms at the University of Michigan? Sherman: I did, but I didnʼt like it. There was a fraternity that offered to take care of me & they were alright, but I didnʼt like the air of the thing. I got out & found a private home. I paid $30 per week for my room. Interviewer: In Masonry, I know you didnʼt go through the chairs, but what interested you most about being a Mason? Sherman: Well, obviously, the biggest part was my father being a Mason. I appreciated dad so much so I was enthusiastic when I joined. I was active in DeMolay for quite a while & then I joined. My mother was a bit against my joining because she had heard all these wild stories about how they beat each other up, & things of that kind, so it all worked & I jumped into Masonry with dad being right there. From then on we went to Lodge together. It wasnʼt too long after that that he died. I donʼt remember the Masonic funeral. I sometimes wonder what happened to me. I was too upset. There was this very close, but healthy, association between the father & son. I was lost.There was just my younger sister & me. She was an actress, & was a teacher for a while. She married & her son comes to see me now & then, mysteriously almost, she died suddenly, just like that. It was something they hadnʼt learned about in medicine. So this beautiful woman who could play tennis well, play golf well, who was great in the theater; almost anything she could do well. She had a wonderful singing voice. Her son, Jack, comes to visit me about every third week & we go to breakfast or lunch. He is a hell of a guy. He has an interesting job. He has developed into a man of tremendous strength & agility. He is working where all the men in the place are a little cockoo. His job is to control the ones who go wild, without hurting them, &that isnʼt easy. Some big guys go wild. It enters into his personality. Heʼs different because of that. He & I spend time together like that. My wife says he comes too often. But thatʼs not it, thatʼs just the guy. My sister was living a very fine life. She got some disease & died very quickly. She was only 32. Interviewer: Your mother, what traits did she have? Sherman: Oh, thatʼs easy. She was one of the first women to play basketball & wear bloomers. She was also one of the first women to teach in that area in a school. Her father was a farmer & she grew up on the farm. She went into the city & got an office job. I want to get this straight ʻcause itʼs a good story. She met my father & almost at the same time, her aunt, May Ringe (who had married a man who was the richest man in California). It would have been nice if he had married my mother instead. She always felt a little embarrassed about it. She didnʼt have a couple of million dollars. I met my wife, Betty Wilson, who I picked out on the street one time. I said, youʼre new here arenʼt you? She said yes I just came in & hope to find a place with Northwestern University & she has come to this dumb place. I said, you are in my class, & I know a lot of speech. Well, if you do, I need you in my class. She would come because I need you. There was a state competition in speaking that was popular with all universities & you are a speaker, trained in spontaneity, I want you to enter for our university so we compete. She said, Iʼm not interested & got up & walked away. It was as though I didnʼt exist, you know. So I told her she was talking to a professor & I want you in my class tomorrow. Iʼve had speech, she said. So I said, please come to my class tomorrow. She did. Betty: I found out there was a monetary reward if you won this contest. I was more interested in the monetary reward to help with my college expenses, than I was in his class or the oratory contest. We have been married 42 years in October. With regard to Masonry, although I donʼt have any direct relationship except for the men I know, my father & his 3 brothers were Masons. Shermanʼs father & grandfather were Masons. Thatʼs as far as I know. In England, being a Mason is a very high privilege & a class kind of thing. Where in America, being a Mason is just every man loving every man & woman around him. My motherʼs father, my grandfather McDermit, was a Knights Templar in Canada & my first memory of grandpa was riding on a big black horse, because I was very little, with a big high plume on his hat in the Masonʼ s parade once a year. He was the leader of the Knights Templar & I thought he was very grand, indeed. I have nothing but good & wonderful memories. Recently, Sherman & I will be going to the Lodge to the fish & chicken dinner, to support the Lodge. Interviewer: So you are active the Lodge? Do you go to other events? Betty: Sherman got his 50 year pin, & the Grand Master of Michigan gave me this lavaliere which I wear around my neck, but I donʼt do anything except eat. Interviewer: What did you study in college, Betty? Betty: First of all, I was a high school teacher & then the war came along & I was married to someone else at that time & I went to California during the war, where I worked for American National Life Insurance. There the jobs got better as you moved from desk to desk. I started at the bottom. I was just outside of the door of the general treasurer. So when I came home I went to work at Northern Savings, doing income taxes & bookkeeping. Being me, it wasnʼt too long before I started my own business & had my own corporation for 54 years before I retired. Interviewer: What was the name of your company? Betty: Betty Ann Whitley. Sherman: Iʼd like to put in a word. I talked to her on the phone once to ask her advice. I hadnʼt seen her in 35 years. I was dating a Canadian photographer woman who was very good at spy work because I thought, so I had been taking her to dinner quite regularly. I walked in over there & she said, I have one more client & asked if I minded waiting. I said no, no, Iʼll sit out here & read a book. Pretty soon the door opens & I looked up & Betty walked in. Betty: I found you name in the book. I didnʼt know you were there. The Masons were at a funeral. He was a member of Blue Water Lodge & there was a group of Masons there, as they always are. So we hadnʼt seen each other in a long time, & were both single then. We both had vowed that we would never marry again. So much for that. Sherman: The first time I took both the girls & then the next time I just took Betty. I was struck, still am struck. Interviewer: Any wisdom that you havenʼt already shared of life, growing old, any recommendations that you could share. Betty: Oh, no, because for everyone its a mixture of good & bad & hard times & good times. The only thing that both Sherman & I have come to accept is part of song that is one of his favorites. “Keep right on going to the end of the road.” No matter whether it is good or bad, you canʼt change it or make it any better probably. But just keep on truckinʼ & youʼll get there. So, my legs donʼt work so well, but my head works, & sometimes Sherm forgets that his legs donʼt work so well, so between the two of us, we are, indeed, blessed. Interviewer: Tell us about what you do in the mornings. Betty: Well, I get up at a quarter after 6, unfortunately, I start dressing & then I call this one who has told me the night before that he wants to go to the mall in Port Huron, 13 miles away, & to walk. Because if he doesnʼt walk & if he doesnʼt see that crowd down there, & John Cooper, who lives in Port Huron, he wonʼt live. So for that reason & because Iʼm a soft touch, we get up & go to the mall 5 days a week ordinarily. Now I have to tell you a little secret - he walks with a shopping cart, to make sure he doesnʼt fall down. I donʼt walk at all, I just sit & talk with the folks there. He doesnʼt walk all the way around any more, the truth be known. Those days are gone forever, but he goes as far as the post office, which is about a third of the way & back, & picks up the mail. He & his partner pick up the mail for the sisters of a religious community to which we both belong, & brings it back for me. Then we have coffee & donuts at Tim Hortons & then home for the rest of the day, which included you two nice fellows coming to see us. Sherman: I donʼt have a driverʼs license. It was snatched away from me, not very long ago, less than two years ago. This woman was checking me out & it was cold out & I started the engine. She said, you fail. I said, I never had a chance to drive yet. She said, you never start your engine before you put your seat belt on & your foot on the brakes. I had committed a crime & havenʼt driven a car since. That was the only reason. Other than that I felt secure in driving. Betty: He has no insurance. In todayʼs world with no insurance you canʼt drive an automobile. Interviewer: Was there an appeal process you could have gone through? Betty: There were many other things involved also, but this is the one he likes to remember. Interviewer: So they had a big celebration at the Lodge for your 50 years? Betty: Oh yes, the Grand Master came. His wife came with him, too. They had a dinner the purple gang is headed for your bank & father just went & got his pistol & I got mine & we walked down & when we got there we rechecked & the police said we didn't have to worry, it is too late & they ran, but we each had our gun loaded. was 13 years old, but father treated me as if I was 20 years old. Later on in Europe, when I was doing the same thing to my son, some Americans came over & said, we donʼt want to be rude, but we were listening in on your conversation. Why do you talk to this beautiful young man as though we were 100 years old? I said, well, heʼs not a 100 years old, but he is probably 60 or 70. They couldnʼt believe it. Another story along that line. There is a statue to the honor of the Swiss Army who paid for someone to come & guard this is a big statue from the crowds that were around, & so forth. I canʼt think what the statue was. Anyway it had lights all over it & one of my jobs was to go down at night & kick out people where picking pockets who wander around. Later I got assignments that were more exciting. I was lucky in the Navy, maybe. I had applied to the Army & I hadnʼt been sworn in & I got a call from the Navy who said come on in & weʼll fix you up. So I went in to the Navy as a lieutenant commander & boy did I work my tail off. Interviewer: Well, I hear the food was better in the Navy, too. Sherman: Well I never had a complaint. It was just working with a lot of fellows who knew what they were doing. I'm sure here were times when it wasn't that way. Interviewer: Tell us about working for Jam Handy. Sherman: Well, Jam Handy was a top-level, quality ,politically successful producer of training films. When the war came along they wanted him to do that, too, & so he worked right alongside of me part of the time. My job was to pick up the hard jobs. There would be a job that became a better way to transmit secretly & then I was the only one who could understand it, so I taught it for a while & I guess I can say I was grateful to the Navy. I couldn't have asked are treated better & of course I got a paper from the president & one from the governor saying I maintain my rank. So, legally I am still in the Navy &, of course, I would serve if they called on me, are better where we work on it & then a course I was sure of it they needed me. But they didn't need me to point a gun & shoot somebody. They needed me to train. Training of young men is not always easy. I remember I was having trouble with a training film; Iʼd made the training film, & the young recruits, the young men, who were seeing this for the first time, would start dropping down & going to sleep. You wonʼ believe this. I looked around & found a very good looking girl start on virtually it what it is I like to route upon them for every good looking girl that had exceptionally good legs & I said I need to use you as a bait. If I don't let the animals chew you up, will you do it? She says, sounds good, letʼs doit. So I had her doing unimportant things on the stage. They didnʼt sleep any more, they stayed awake. The most exciting story I can tell you is how we snuck a girl out who was going to be put in jail in Hitlerʼs place. Interviewer: Did you work with the French resistance? Sherman: No. I got word to the Americans that a girl was being held under armed guard from Austrian Nazis, & that made impossible almost a rescuer because they would shoot her first. So they call me in. It turned out she had a man with a loaded gun right at her door. All night long while she was sleeping, that guy was there. But he was human & he occasionally fell asleep. So we waited our chance telling her in the daytime what we were going to do, when we could do it. We waited until one time when he was asleep & she could open the door quietly & sneak out & we left & he was still sleeping.We got her down to someAmericans & said to fly this girl out of there before they shoot her, & they did. Years later I remembered the name & I wrote to them & they were starving for food, & so I actually found the family so I sent them a lot of food because they needed it. Then years later, I was married to Betty, we were in their town & I said I wanted to see my old friend. Iʼm not sure Betty was in favor of it. So we went & called on her & she was married to a successful doctor who wasnʼt making much money because doctors donʼt make much money in Europe. We were entertained at dinner. Now the custom at dinner, if you entertain guests at dinner you give them a present to take with them home. It doesnʼt have to be expensive, just some little thing. As we were leaving she came up to me& put something in my hand. That something is a piece of wood about so square, & it says “donʼt forget.” Well that is on my office wall & is a handy thing to remember. It reminds me of that time & of what a delightful person she is. Betty was wonderful about it, she didnʼt make any fuss about it at all. Bettyʼs wonderful all the time. So I have this black & gold plaque & I say goodnight to it once in a while. There have been so many incidents like that, I wonder how I made it sometimes. Interviewer: Did you get any commendations while you were in the service? Sherman: No, no. Those things are for officers of high rank & I was only a lieutenant, & they werenʼt passing them out to lieutenants. Interviewer: How many movies did you make while you were in the service? Sherman: Probably as many as 15, because they were on small areas that had to be done in a hurry. You had to teach fast. Theyʼs say, hereʼs a group of students & weʼre teaching them RADAR, which was just coming in, & they are taking 3 months to learn it, & we canʼt afford that. Make us a film on RADAR that we can use, so I make one that can do it in 5 days. Theyʼd say, thanks much, & walk away. That was the thing that was exciting then, was how fast could I turn it out. Interviewer: What did you do on the film? Did you write it? Did you do all the work? Did you photograph it? Did you have a crew? Sherman: I had complete command. I didnʼt do any of it. I just said YOU do this & YOU do that. I was going around the country, so I could take a plane or train or whatever. I didnʼt enjoy driving around. But when you get that kind of complete understanding & appreciation, you work your ass off for them. As I said, I still have that ʻdonʼt forgetʼ thing hanging in my office. I think Betty will someday try & lose it for me. Interviewer: You werenʼt the only one in training movies. How many people were simultaneously making movies? Sherman: Hmmmm. Thatʼs a good one. I would say there as man as 12 to 20 motion pictures that they were waiting for. Theyʼd say, ʻget ʻem out, get ʻem out.ʼ Of course, it ʼs not easy to produce a film rapidly & make it a good film. You know the 40mm quad, the big gun that won the Pacific battle with the airplanes? It would be on a sandy beach & would be shooting at planes that were over the water. These things would go, boom boom, boom boom. The shell that had been sent out would be like that (indicating size) & if it hit any vital spot at all, it would destroy the plane, not fast, but eventually. Four of these guns were on pedestals with very fine controls. So you could watch the horizon see where you were shooting. I took Betty down on the beach to see this thing & she wandered off by herself. The loudspeaker comes out, ʻThere ʼs a woman down on the gunnery range. Somebodyʼs going to catch hell. Get her out of there.ʼ So I had to get my wife out of the range. Interviewer: Your role was as a produce to do these movies? Sherman: Ya, I was I was a problem solver too. The Americans donʼt make good guns. Youʼll find that a French or Swiss gun is better. They wanted about 130 machine guns, but they couldnʼt bring them through openly & they were frustrated. It was my job to get those guns through. I found an article in the paper about a lady who was going over to America & I told her I want you to take some new clothes because youʼre going to be working for me. She said, ʻIʼve got plenty.ʼI said, you go down & buy all the clothes you can carry over to the United States. So I took half of them & put parts of the guns in them & put clothes on top & they shipped them right through & nobody knew what they were until they got to the Airforce, & as that is where the machine guns could be used & we unbuckled them & gave her the clothes. Interviewer: Whose job was it at Jam Handy to negotiate contract with the Navy for these movies? Sherman: Probably mine. Jam Handy & I were friends & we could work together. Some people hated his guts; probably some people hated my guts, but anyway, it was easy to work with him. He understood. Interviewer: So you worked with him for how many years? Sherman: Well, it was intermittent work, you understand, not reporting for duty every day, so Iʼd say, probably, 3 years we worked. So did his rival, Wilding. They both cooperated with anything I wanted, & I didnʼt put them in a bad position or anything. But, my biggest contribution was teaching the little groups of people who had never heard of a RADAR ora 40mm, but these kids were supposed to be turned into engineers who could use them. So I would make a quick film & sometimes I would just pull them in & say, ʻhereʼs the gun, learn how to use it.ʼ It was pretty satisfying, because the kids, & some of them were not kids but were old men, but the people under me appreciated it. I was giving them a chance, something they wouldnʼt have had otherwise. Interviewer: You were influenced by your dad, & he got you into DeMolay. Sherman: Let me think now. He didnʼt push me, he went over & checked with the DeMolay people & the Masons, because he was a Mason & he had gotten some money for them for the Lodge. Bankers can do that somehow, without robbing the bank. So I had an entrée, so to speak. WhenI walked in the said, your dad was here. So the DeMolay part was easy & enjoyable & I thought it would stop there, but it didnʼt, & I went on & now Iʼm a loyal member. Interviewer: You were raised, according to my records, 1959 in Pillar Lodge, #526, in St. Clair Shores. Sherman: Thatʼs right. Thatʼs when I was living in Grosse Point. Nice place to live. Interviewer: So you were an eastsider. Sherman: Not always, but recently. Grand View & the Boulevard were my high school & I lived a block away. There was a high school, grammar school, & a normal school. The normal school would use the others to practice on, to become teachers. So these people who were used as material got twice the training before they could train others, & I walked along & I had the best teachers in the whole system. They had some skills the others didnʼt have. They kept me to work right straight through. I was a busy man. Some wonderful women did some teaching during the wartime. Just great. Interviewer: After the war, what did you do? Sherman: I went back to work. I think I hadnʼt finished my psychology degree, so I finished that up & started teaching. I enjoyed it tremendously. I was sorry to leave. Psychology is a fascinating thin. Altogether I must have taught psychology classes for six years. I canʼt be sure of that. It seems about right. My doctorʼs degree is in psychology. I didnʼt like being called Doctor. I enjoyed my work, I loved it, but, damn it, I wasnʼt an M.D. & all I would have been doing by going & getting the diploma was becoming Dr. Wilson. I just wasnʼt going to go through life with Dr. in front of my name. So I didnʼt. Interviewer: Letʼs return to what your dad wanted you to do when you taught debate. Tell us about how you taught debate & how you used cameras to record the before & after with students.How did you get into debate? Were you teaching speech? Sherman: Well, first, I was an expert photographer early in the game; thatʼs how I got in the Navy. I was a speech professor as well as a psychology professor. But I only took the diploma as a speech professor. Speech was my job when I was in grammar school. Jesse Bonselle was a famous actress in New York who took up money & bought a Jewish synagogue in Detroit & established the Bonselle Theater. One day my teacher asked if I knew the theater & Jesse? I said no. So she introduced me & said that I would do what she wants. I walked over & she looked me over like she was buying me, & I said, will I pass? She said, Iʼm sure you will. I worked with her on the stage as an actor in various roles for a long time, probably 6 or 7 years. I taught debate, too. How did I learn debate anyway? It all goes back to a wonderful teacher. Iʼve had more wonderful teachers probably than any man walking, but I got hold of two teachers who taught me debate. They would come in to where I was reading a book & said, come on with us. They took me down se. Theyʼd explain what was to be done & Iʼd do it. Well, I admired these women enough that when the said do it, I did it. So I went on the stage & Jesse had me playing the parts of young people, & later on, playing mature parts with a lot of makeup. That was the life, & I enjoyed it. We did AS YOU LIKE IT in full costume to a full house. That was one thing I liked, a full house. Interviewer: Well, you are 102 years old. To what do you attribute your old age? What regime do you have? Sherman: You mean why am I healthy? I donʼt think I can answer that intelligently, but I can go around w what the dangers of overweight were, & so my wonderful father thought he could eat all he wanted to, & he did. So did I. But I was young enough so that I didnʼt develop the big belly that he did, & the weight killed him. He played 36 holes of golf on Sunday, got up & shaved Monday, & dropped dead. He was 56 years old. I was very young, in my 20s. He dropped dead & nobody knew why. Everything he did, I had to do with him. We both were golf & tennis champions. He had a huge library in his home. He designed his home just the way he wanted it. The library was filled with books & I had read everyone of them. You can read Victor Hugo & you learn something. Some of them were just Tom Sawyer. My father never let me go to bed & sleep at night without reading to me first. He was such a part of my life. We read the same books & discussed them. If I liked an author, Iʼd read everything else he wrote, & that makes quite a lot of books. As far as I know, I cleaned out a huge shelf, I had read all Victor Hugo, all of duMont, some books that my mother had whispered to my father that I should not read. Interviewer: You survived the depression pretty well. You were at the University of Michigan.Sherman: I lived on 30 cents a day for food, for quite a while. But I was young & I was directing on the theater.I formed & directed several theaters, civic theaters. The one I was in at the time, they would bring some soup, some raw bread, & so we were keeping alive by bringing each other food in the theater. That was a great group. That was in Battle Creek. Battle Creek is a nice town; nice people, good schools, I like it. Interviewer: Did you live in the dorms at the University of Michigan? Sherman: I did, but I didnʼt like it. There was a fraternity that offered to take care of me & they were alright, but I didnʼt like the air of the thing. I got out & found a private home. I paid $30 per week for my room. Interviewer: In Masonry, I know you didnʼt go through the chairs, but what interested you most about being a Mason? Sherman: Well, obviously, the biggest part was my father being a Mason. I DeMolay for quite a while & then I joined. My mother was a bit against my she had heard all these wild stories about how they beat each other up, & things of that kind, so it all worked & I jumped into Masonry with dad being right there. From then on we went to Lodge together. It wasnʼt too long after that that he died. I donʼt remember the Masonic funeral. I sometimes wonder what happened to me. I was too upset. There was this very close, but healthy, association between the father & son. I was lost.There was just my younger sister & me. She was an actress, & was a teacher for a while. She married & her son comes to see me now & then, mysteriously almost, she died suddenly, just like that. It was something they hadnʼt learned about in medicine. So this beautiful woman who could play tennis well, play golf well, who was great in the theater; almost anything she could do well. She had a wonderful singing voice. Her son, Jack, comes to visit me about every third week & we go to breakfast or lunch. He is a hell of a guy. He has an interesting job. He has developed into a man of tremendous strength & agility. He is working where all the men in the place are a little cockoo. His job is to control the ones who go wild, without hurting them, & that isnʼt easy. Some big guys go wild. It enters into his personality. Heʼs different because of that. He & I spend time together like that. My wife says he comes too often. But thatʼs not it, thatʼs just the guy. My sister was living a very fine life. She got some disease & died very quickly. She was only 32. Interviewer: Your mother, what traits did she have? Sherman: Oh, that ʼs easy. She was one of the first women to play basketball & wear bloomers. She was also one of the first women to teaching that area in a school. Her father was a farmer & she grew up on the farm. She went into the city & got an office job. I want to get this straight ʻcause itʼs a good story. She met my father & almost at the same time, her aunt, May Ringe (who had married a man who was the richest man in California). It would have been nice if he had married my mother instead. She always felt a little embarrassed about it. She didnʼt have a couple of million dollars. I met my wife, Betty Wilson, who I picked out on the street one time. I said, youʼre new here arenʼt you? She said yes I just came in & hope to find a place with Northwestern University & she has come to this dumb place. I said, you are in my class, & I know a lot of speech. Well, if you do, I need you in my class. She would come because I need you. There was a state competition in speaking that was popular with all universities & you are a speaker, trained in spontaneity, I want you to enter for our university so we compete. She said, Iʼm not interested & got up & walked away. It was as though I didnʼt exist, you know. So I told her she was talking to a professor & I want you in my class tomorrow. Iʼve had speech, she said. So I said, please come to my class tomorrow. She did.Betty: I found out there was a monetary reward if you won this contest. I was more interested in the monetary reward to help with my college expenses, than I was in his class or the oratory contest.We have been married 42 years in October. With regard to Masonry, although I donʼt have any direct relationship except for the men I know, my father & his 3 brothers were Masons. Shermanʼs father & grandfather were Masons. That ʼs as far as I know. In England, being a Mason is a very high privilege & a class kind of thing. Where in America, being a Mason is just every man loving every man & woman around him. My motherʼs father, my grandfather McDermit, was a Knights Templar in Canada & my first memory of grandpa was riding on a big black horse, because I was very little, with a big high plume on his hat in the Masonʼs parade once a year. He was the leader of the Knights Templar & I thought he was very grand, indeed. I have nothing but good & wonderful memories. Recently, Sherman & I will be going to the Lodge to the fish & chicken dinner, to support the Lodge. Interviewer: So you are active the Lodge? Do you go to other events? Betty: Sherman got his 50 year pin, & the Grand Master of Michigan gave me this lavaliere which I wear around my neck, but I donʼt do anything except eat. Interviewer: What did you study in college, Betty? Betty: First of all, I was a high school teacher & then the war came along & I was married to someone else at that time & I went to California during the war, where I worked for American National Life Insurance. There the jobs got better as you moved from desk to desk. I started at the bottom. I was just outside of the door of the general treasurer. So when I came home I went to work at Northern Savings, doing income taxes & bookkeeping. Being me, it wasnʼt too long before I started my own business & had my own corporation for 54 years before I retired. Interviewer: What was the name of your company? Betty: Betty Ann Whitley. Sherman: I ʼd like to put in a word. I talked to her on the phone once to ask her advice. I hadnʼt seen her in 35 years. I was dating a Canadian photographer woman who was very good at spy work because I thought, so I had been taking her to dinner quite regularly. I walked in over there & she said, I have one more client & asked if I minded waiting. I said no, no, Iʼll sit out here & read a book. Pretty soon the door opens & I looked up & Betty walked in. Betty: I found you name in the book. I didnʼt know you were there. The Masons were at a funeral. He was a member of Blue Water Lodge & there was a group of Masons there, as they always are. So we hadnʼt seen each other in a long time, & were both single then. We both had vowed that we would never marry again. So much for that. Sherman: The first time I took both the girls & then the next time I just took Betty. I was struck, still am struck. Interviewer: Any wisdom that you havenʼt already shared of life, growing old, any recommendations that you could share. Betty: Oh, no, because for everyone its a mixture of good & bad & hard times & good times. The only thing that both Sherman & I have come to accept is part of song that is one of his favorites. “Keep right on going to the end of the road.” No matter whether it is good or bad, you canʼt change it or make it any better probably. But just keep on truckinʼ & youʼll get there. So, my legs donʼt work so well, but my head works, & sometimes Sherm forgets that his legs donʼt work so well, so between the two of us, we are, indeed, blessed. Interviewer: Tell us about what you do in the mornings. Betty: Well, I get up at a quarter after six, unfortunately, I start dressing & then I call this one who has told me the night before that he wants to go to the mall in Port Huron, thirteen miles away, & to walk. Because if he doesnʼt walk & if he doesnʼt see that crowd down there, & John Cooper, who lives in Port Huron, he wonʼt live. So for that reason & because Iʼm a soft touch, we get up & go to the mall 5days a week ordinarily. Now I have to tell you a little secret-he walks with a shopping cart, to make sure he doesnʼt fall down. I donʼt walk at all, I just sit & talk with the folks there. He doesnʼt walk all the way around any more, the truth be known. Those days are gone forever, but he goes as far as the post office, which is about a third of the way & back, & picks up the mail. He & his partner pick up the mail for the sisters of a religious community to which we both belong, & brings it back for me. Then we have coffee & donuts at Tim Hortons & then home for the rest of the day, which included you two nice fellows coming to see us. Sherman: I donʼt have a driverʼs license. It was snatched away from me, not very long ago, less than two years ago. This woman was checking me out & it was cold out & I started the engine. She said, you fail. I said, I never had a chance to drive yet. She said, you never start your engine before you put your seat belt on & your foot on the brakes. I had committed a crime & havenʼt driven a car since. That was the only reason. Other than that I felt secure in driving. Betty: He has no insurance. In todayʼs world with no insurance you canʼt drive an automobile. Interviewer: Was there an appeal process you could have gone through? Betty: There were many other things involved also, but this is the one he likes to remember. Interviewer: So they had a big celebration at the Lodge for your 50 years? Betty: Oh yes, the Grand Master came. His wife came with him, too. They had a dinner & he spoke. It was an emotional time, for me, too. Sherman: It was at a Scottish Rite cathedral. Betty: Down at the Masonic hall down in Detroit. Sherman: The pin has my mothers engagement diamond in it. The others are from the Scottish Rite, with eagles on each side. Iʼm a 32nd . Interviewer: We appreciate having you share your stories with us & we thank you very much. Sherman & Betty: Thank you for coming. It was an honor & a blessing. End of interview Ref: Legacy Series: Oral Histories with Past Grand Masters of Michigan also a video. - - -	WILLSON, Lt. Com. Shermen Anson .2 (I730)
17873	Page 2: Jane Thompson . IMPROVEMENT IN LUNATIC DISCIPLINE: 1848 July describing the annual Orange Parade in terms of a lunatic procession. He begins by remarking what appears to have been a regular urban spectacle, of female patients from the Lunatic Asylum being driven in a carriage around the city, seeing & no doubt being seen. This time, however, the whole Asylum population appeared to be on parade. The editor expresses his great pleasure at having recognized several citizens whom he had not previously thought mad, & one whose obvious shame & embarrassment indicated returning reason. His only regret is that Dr. Park had not chosen a day when his lunatics would not have been mistaken for Orangemen in a 12th of July procession. In the July 21st paper, under the heading "Twelfth of July," the Editor apologizes, albeit facetiously, to those readers whom he has offended by what he calls his "little jeu d'esprit." Rather disingenuously he claims to have been hoaxed by a contributor, whose article he set verbatim in editorial type. By pretending to correct mistakes in the last piece, he only makes the Orange ritual more ridiculous, & reinforces its similarity to a lunatics' procession. Yes, he admits, as if he were not increasing the damage, the procession described in the last issue as "an excursion of lunatics from the Asylum," was indeed a "bona fide Orange procession" what was described as a large beer barrel was really a "genuine Protestant big drum." Possibly anticipating one of his favourite ploys in the Annual Reports, the Editor exploits & playfully reverses the opposition between the Asylum & the rest of the world by reporting the inmates' indignation at being identified with anything as "mad" as the Orange Procession: We regret to learn that the inmates of the Asylum have also been seriously offended by the same article; & have expressed great astonishment that we could possibly have been deceived into the belief that they would act so irrationally as to expose themselves to the derision of the citizens of Toronto, by any such childish proceedings as those which characterized the procession of the 12th instant. The Editor pretends to have equally offended those he (accidentally) depicted as lunatics, & those who are (or at least are treated) as lunatics. Of course, the real target is not the inmates of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, but the inhabitants of the supposedly sane City. ... The Editor of the Mirror first indicates his awareness of the quarrel between Dr. Park & the Commissioners ( E F Whittemore & Brewer) of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in an article headed simply "The Lunatic Asylum" in the edition of October 20, 1848. Glancing at the alleged "mistake" regarding the Orange Procession last July 12, 1848. Ref: Troping the Asylum, by John Thomas Rowland, 1999. - - -	THOMPSON, Jane (I50)
17874	Page 325 1703 March 26. Moore, Samuel, of Woodbridge; will of. Wife Sarah sole executrix of real and personal estate. Children--Samuel, Jonathan (both under age), Mary and Rachel, bequest to Samuel Hale and brother-in-law Stephen Tuttle; brothers Thomas, Enoch of Kahansick (Cohansic) and John Moore mentioned. Land at Bald Hill, do. called the Red Root, do. at the great salt pond at Raraton, do. on Papyacha Creek. Witnesses--John Bishop, Stephen Tuttle, John Moore and Samuel Shep- ard. Proved April 2, 1703. Middlesex Wills 1703 March 31. Inventory of the personal estate (	MOORE, Samuel Jr. (I2026)
17875	PAGE 4 - 1837 UPPER CANADA REBELLION, Yonge Street UPPER CANADA SUNDRIES: . 1815, UC Quarterly Sessions of Peace: The Old Court House, Queen, Wm. Allan, Esq. Chairman. Proclamation for MATHIAS BROWN, late of the Twp. of York, Yeoman, to come forth, & answer to a Bill of Indictment found against him for HIGH TREASON, made this being the second time this Proclamation made - he did not appear to answer. Grand Jury then called & sworn: PETER LAWRENCE, JOHN WILLSON among 20 jurors. Again Proclamation of Silence being made the charge was given to the Grand Jury. Note10: This is an indictment of treason, not the actually trial- PJA. . 1838 March, Upper Canada Sundries, [UCS] Index C9824, Page 105444 & C6898, Image 226. ( Summary:) High Treason, James Johnson, York Twp., yeoman, To. Lieut. Gov. Geo. Arthur, Petitioner is a prisoner of Goal of Home District. That he is scarcely more than 21 years. He was induced by misrepresentation of the designing who practiced upon his ignorance to join in the insurrection. He committed no act of aggression to person or property, he returned home on 7 Dec & there remained until he was arrested on 9 Dec last - since which he has continued in confinement. He has a small property he wants to continue the reminder of his life. Signed, Toronto Jail 27 Mar 1838, James Johnson. - We the subscribers having known the James Johnson from his childhood as a sober, honest peaceable & industrious youth recommend his case to the favorable consideration. Signed, 18 signatures, inc. Peter Lawrence, Geo. Clark, Wm. Hill, Geo. Brown known him half year only, Jess Ketchum. Second petition 27 Mar 1838, 11 signatures repeated, as above. Envelope: Special Session 27 Mar 1838. In Council, James Johnson, Pardoned upon giving & entering into Bail for good behaviour for 3 years. . 1838 March, UPS Index C9824, Page 105460 & C6898, Image 226. ( Summary:) High Treason, Henry Johnson, York Twp., yeoman, To. Lieut. Gov. UC, Petition of Henry Johnson, late York Twp. yeoman. Your petitioner is only about 19 years without judgement or experience. He was not a member of any of McKenzies political meetings, yet unfortunately he was unable to resit the arts of dismissing men. He has made a full confession his guild & the part he took in the insurrection. Many & some who had more to do with the insurrection were discharged wholly. He was born in Ontario, a mother in some measure depending upon his support, kindred settled all around him. Because of confinement to prison commencing 9 December last, he has suffered severely from illness contracted in consequence of his close confinements. Grant him pardon, Signed, Toronto Jail, 27 March 1838, Henry Johnson. . 18 Signatures, as above, inc. Geo. Brown known him half year only. . Second Petition, 27 Mar 1838, 11 signatures repeated, as above. Envelope: Special Session 27 Mar 1838. In Council, Henry Johnson, Pardoned upon giving & entering into Bail for good behaviour for 3 years. . 1838 March, 27 Upper Canada Sundries, C6898, Image 719 & Page 105888-92. List of witnesses in the case of Joseph Sheppard, Inc. Rob Baldwin, Alex Wood John G Sprague, David Bridgeford, Jacob Snyder, Peter Lawrence, Wm. Clark & Daniel Sheppard. . 1838 March, UPS, C6898, Image 720-721 & Page 105893-901. List of witnesses in the case of Daniel Sheppard, incl. Chas. C Small, JP, Peter Lawrence, Wm Clark, Michael*, Joseph & Jacob Shepard, & J Gamble. Note10: Michael Sheppard, yeoman, Thomas Shepard & John Montgomery, convicts, ordered for transportation to Van Diemens Land [Tasmani], but escaped from Fort Henry, Kingston. . 1838 March, UPS, C6898, Image 720 & Page 105902-9. List of witnesses in the High Treason case of Joseph Sheppard, Inc. Rob Baldwin, Wm. Allan, Alex Wood, John G Sprague, David Bridgeford, Jacob Snyder, Peter Lawrence & Wm. Clark Joseph Sheppard pardoned on condition of giving security to keep peace for three years. See BELOW: . 1838 March, UCS, C6898, Image 720 & Page 105922-6. C Case of Thomas Sheppard, List of witness, Inc. Rob Baldwin, Alex Wood John G Sprague, David Bridgford, Jacob Snyder, Peter Lawrence & Wm. Clark & others. Note11: Thomas Sheppard, yeoman, convict, ordered for transportation to Van Daniems Isle [Tasmani] but escaped from Fort Henry, Kingston. . 1838 March, UCS, C6898, Image 721 & Page 105922-28, Special Session, Case of Treason. List of witnesses in the case of Jacob Sheppard, including, Peter Lawrence, Daniel Sheppard. Also Petition of Michael, Jacob & Joseph Sheppard. Jacob Sheppard, yeoman, pardoned on condition of giving security to keep peace for 3 years. . 1838 Nov 9, UCS, C6903, Image 1254 & Page 115275-77. Letter regard the case of Wm. Alves to Peter Lawrence on 1838 Oct 15. {Not found here /PJA 2015. . 1838 Aug 22, Ft. Henry (Kingston, ON.), Petition of Wm. Alves for pardon, Statements of Prisoners, Wm. Alves, born Scotland, 22y [1816], Landed at Quebec with aged parents Aug. 1834, lived mostly London, ON. On Monday following I was induced to give myself up the the authorities which I did that day, to Captain (Peter) Lawrence. Signed William Alves. Ref: C6901,112098-9/ image 1357. XRef: Alexander Montgomery.III for full transcript of his letter. . 1838 Sept 4. UCS, C6902, Image 434 & Page 13099-107, Summary: 1838 June 28. Wilson Hunter, Albion Twp., farmer, convicted of manslaughter of Constable Taylor. A Court Writ issued & the constable seized some cattle & was driving them away, the Hunter who was laboring in the adding field came up to him with a club in his hand, after some words knocked him down. An unloaded pistol fell from the constable's hand & Hunter seized it & beat Taylor with it violently so that the latter was much bruised. This happened in the early afternoon. Constable Taylor made an oath before a Magistrate & warrant to assist the prisoner issued. As resistance was abundant, a party of 40 was formed to assist him. Mr. Gray with the warrant got to his place in the early you of evening. They found Hunter in the highway near his house with gun in his hand. He refused to surrender himself & keep pointing his gun towards the party. He retired within his house. The constable & his part sent to a neighboring tavern where they remained 3 hours considering what to do. The Constable remained in the highway near the house. About midnight the drunken party, some with whisky with hem, retuned & went to the widow & called to the prisoner who was in bed, but he wouldn't surrender, so the Constable forced open the outer door & was just stepping over the threshold, when the prisoner fired at him & shot him in the neck, some grains of which glanced toward, after striking against the collar & descended into the lungs. - Mr. Shay survived some weeks & then died of the wounded. The Prisoner is clearly guilty of manslaughter, but did not want to surrender that night to the drunken party. After the trail Hunt received a very excellent character from any resettable & worthy inhabitants of this City, who spoke most favorable in his favor. He is of respectable parents, Hunter may have thought himself injured by conduct of Constable Taylor & large party who had all certainly been drinking. His fears were real. The Jury disposed to indulgence & mercy upon his case. Many highly respectable persons of different stations in society have believed in his favour. - We the subscribers having known the James Johnson from his childhood as a sober, honest peaceable & industrious youth recommend his case to the favorable consideration. 56 signatures, inc. Peter Lawrence. . To Sir Geo. Arthur, Lt. Gov. UC, Petition of Wilson Hunter, prisoner since last 10 April 1838, tried at the last assizes before Justice Robinson, guilty of manslaughter in self-defense, sanctioned one year to the penitentiary. Hunter has two small children to be separated from these is like separating the soul from he body, they are dear to one as life itself. Has a house & lot in this city Toronto, also farm in Albion Twp., 22 miles from this city, some stock. For liberty I would sell it & every shillings with I process & distribute it among the poor of this city. I am subject to a plan in the breast & enjoy poor health at present. I have suffered more being a prisoner than I suffered all my lifetime. Sir, please to send me an answer by the bearer, Wilson Hunter, Toronto Goal. . The above research & transcription by P J Ahlberg 2015. Thank you. - - -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I247)
17876	Page 5, Peter R Lawrence QUARTER SESSIONS OF PEACE, Home District, York County, UC: . 1815 May 6, Home District Constables: Peter Lawrence, Michael Whitemore York Twp. . 1816 Apr 9, York, Grand Jury: Peter Lawrence, Martin Snider, Johnathan Hale, Samuel Heron, Thos. Johnson, John Willson, Abraham Johnson. Diversion indictments. Those Coates, Assault & Battery. King VS. William Lawrence & Robert Johnston, Assault & Battery. A True Bill. . 1818 May 2, York. Constables for current year: York: Robert Johnson, Sworn, Thos. Carroll, Sworn. York Twp.: Peter Lawrence, Stillwell Willson, Junr. . 1820 Apr 22, York. Constables for current year: York Twp. Peter Lawrence for Yonge St. . 1824 Feb 4. A Complaint was made in Court against Jonathan Hale of York Twp. for having Fences in the Public High Road on Yonge Street. Ordered that if the said Jonathan Hale does not remove the said Nuisance before next Court, an Indictment be preferred against him. Ordered: That Peter Lawrence of York Twp., do now enter into Recognizance to appear at next Sessions of the Peace to be holden, to give Evidence against the said Jonathan Hale, which he did in the sum of £20. Pro: Currency. . 1824 May 6, York: Jonathan Hale for putting or causing to be fixed a rail fence in the Public Road on Yonge Street. On Jonathan Hale being arraigned, Pleaded Not Guilty, Entered into Recognizance to appear & to answer to the charge next Quarter Sessions, or to abate the Nuisance, & shew cause to the Court that he had done so, which he forwith. . 1825 May 6, York, Alex McDonell, Chairman. The Report of W R Cadwell, Surveyor of Road on Yonge Street, in consequence of a Petition signed by 12 Freeholders, was submitted to the court, but objected to being carried into effect by Peter Lawrence, by Counsel, the Solicitor General, upon which a Jury of was empaneled. The jury empaneled in the Cause of the Report of W R Cadwell & on the objections made by Peter Lawrence named within, apparel & presented their Verdict to the Court, confirming the Report of the Surveyor, & alliteration to be made on the Road between Jonathan Hales, Lot 5 E side of Yonge Street & Peter Lawrence in from thereof. Mr. Rollph, Counsel for Peter Lawrence, made his motion in Court objecting to the Verdict confirming the Report or the matter being recorded. Mr. Washburn, Counsel for Jonathan hale moved the Court that the Road in front of Lots 5 E sideYonge St., confirmed by the Jury, be forthwith opened. Court adjourned till 10 o"Clock tomorrow morning. [Follow-up not found - PJA]. .1827 Jan 16, holden at York, Grand Jury of 20 Sworn. Alexander C Lawrence, David Bridgeford, Jacob Munshaw, John Arnold. Petitions for Tavern Licenses. . 1829 Jun 30, Grand Jury: Peter Lawrence, John Willson [3rd], John Arnold. York Twp. Path Master, Jonathan Ashbridge notified 9 person of their Statute labour on part of their road. Kind VS Martin Stiles Junr. Assault, Settled, parties paying costs. King VS Thos. Selby, Assault. Two Bills against John Mitchel & David Patrick, Assaults & Batteries. . 1829 Jun 30 Grand Jury, Peter Lawrence, John Arnold, John Langstaff, David Gibson, Geo Mustard. King VS Marg Dundon, Assault, 5 witnesses, Verdit: not guilty; King VS Mary Conner, Assault, rue bill; King VS James Keeler, No Bill. . 1832 Nov 20, Tues., Grand Jury, Wm. Johnston Geo. Silverthorn, Peter Lawrence, David Gibson. King VS: Geo Preston, Assault on Chas. Murdock. Settled by leave of Court.; Catharine King wife of Wm. King made oath for security of Peace against her husband & Ann Henderson, A Bench Warrant issued for their apprehension. King VS John Armstrong & Wm. Glassy, settled bet. the parties. . 1836 Nov 22, Tues. Grand Jury, John Cooper, Foreman, Peter Lawrence, Miles Gangstaff, Thos. Denison, Jacob Sinder, Thos. Sheparder, John Montgomery. Respecting the Jail & Prisoners made at last Assizes: Resolved, 1st. It is expedient for there secure confinement & convenient classification of Home District Criminals, that a new Jail should be erected in some large open space of ground; to defray the expenses whereof the Site, & buildings at present erected on the present Jail & Court House. 2nd. Mr. McDonell having explicitly refused complying with the orders of Sessions of 1830, respecting the portions of the Gaol & Court House Block sold to the Methodists & Presbyterians, be requested to decline acting further as a trustee for said Block, in order that another may be appointed. 3rd. The Block of land now occupied by the Jail & Court House, be ordered to be held for the purpose of defraying the expense of new buildings. The Lieut. Gov. applied for a grant the site of the Old Parliament buildings. the salary of the Jailor be raised to £125. Dr Wilder, Alex Wood & Wm Proundfoot Esq. attend to the clothing & sustenance of the insane now confined in the Jail & order repairs as necessary to the comfort & safety of the Prisoners. 50 straw pail lasses & 100 blankets be order for the Jail. . 1843 Dec 20-22, Wed. - Fri. Thos. Fisher, Peter Lawrence, John Cummer. A Silverthorne, John Willson, 4th.: 42 Certificates for Tavern Licenses issued. Tavernkeepers on Yonge St, Dundas St. & Kingston Rd, be charged £10 . 1844 Jul 4, Thus., John Powell, Esquire, Chairman. Queen VS William Johnston, Larceny, Swore, Daniel Farghter & John McGowan to go before Grand Jury. Queen VS Wm. Johnston, Second Charge. Swore Eugene Giroux & P. Lawrence, Esq., to go before Grand Jury. & same day: Grand Jury brought in the following bills & Presentments: Queen VS. John Johnston, two larceny, True Bills. . 1844 Jul 5th. John Powell, Chairman, Peter Lawrence, Esquire. Queen VS. Wm. Johnston, Larceny, Arraigned the Prisoner, Two Pleas, Guilty. Sentence: to be imprisoned One Month at hard labour on the first Conviction & 3 months at hard labour on the second Conviction, in all Four Months. . 1844 Dec 20, Fri., Present Peter Lawrence, Esq. Ordered raising tavern fees to £10. Conditions of Home District Gaol, [XRef: John Willson 4th, for gaol conditions]. . 1845 Jul 2, Wed., Peter Lawrence, Esq.: Queen VS Jos Bateman, Assault, Queen VS., Bernard Finley, Forcible Entry. Queen VS John McInnis, Assaulting a magistrate in execution of this duty: All to go before Grand Jury., Tavern License James Walker of Markham transferred to Wm. Durose. . 1845 Dec 20, Sat., Present. Thos. Fisher, Wm Clark, Aaron Silverthorne, Peter Lawrence, Geo T Denison, Wm l Perrin, Esquires: 146 Tavern License ordered. . 1846 Jan 6, Tues., Robt. E Burns, Esq., Chairman, & Peter Lawrence, Esq. Grand 20 person for Jury Sworn: Queen VS Mary Sullivan, larceny [thief], Sentence, one month imprisonment. 6 Tavern Licenses issued. . 1847Jan 5, Tues. Grand Jury, Alexander C Lawrence, Rich. Vanderburg, James Playter. Read list of Land Claims. Appeal of Thos. Smith from the condition of Peter Shaver, Esq., for violation of the Sabbath, was Judgment: The Conviction by Magistrate Peter Shaver, Esq., be affirmed & sustained. Tavern Licenses ordered. . 1847 Apr 6, Tues. Robt E Burns Esq., Chairman, Peter Lawrence, Esq., Queen VS Wm Reed, Larceny & Isaac Tremble & John LaRuch, Larceny. Grand Jury: Wm. Reed [? ! ], John Willson, Thos. Montgomery. . 1847 Sep 8, Wed. Peter Lawrence, Esq. Transfer of Tavern license of Robt. Arnold to Aaron Playter sanctioned. . 1847 Nov 17, Wed. Present Peter Lawrence, Esq. Queen VS. Wm Assander, Maliciously killing a Colt. 2 changes Assault & Battery. Not Guilty all changes. . 1847 Nov 18, Thrus. Peter Lawrence: Queen VS Jos Crozier: Keeping a disorderly Tavern: No Bill. Queen VS Wm Smith & 15 others, Riot: Not Guilty. Queen VS Chris Lee & Others, Assault & Battery: fined £50. & John Dugan Esq., fined £25. . 1848 Dec 20 Wed. 39 Esquires present, inc. Peter Lawrence, JohnWillson 4th. Tavern Licenses Laws of this Province should be amended for various locations, be granted for less than £5. * 1849 Jan 5, Fri. Present 54 Esquires, inc. Peter Lawrence, Geo T Denison, Geo Silverthorne, John Willson 4th. Magistrates appointed. Ordered: Profits of prisoners labour in the Gaol be given to city of Toronto, to keep the prisoners employed to carry out their sentences. Ordered Town Meetings should in no case be held in Taverns, if any other place can be obtained. If it be found necessary to hold meetings in Taverns, no spirituous liquors shall be sold in or about such Taverns & Magistrates may employ special Constables to quell Riots at any Public Meetings. Yeas in favour of changes to the Tavern Act: Lawrence, & Wilson 28, Nays 15. . 1850 Jul 2, Tues. S B Harrison, Esq., Chairman. Grand Jury, Elisha Lawrence, Peter Lawrence & 18 others. Read Schedule of Land Claims under Heir & Devisee commissions, Queen VS Nathan & Wm. Denis, Nuisance. A True Bill. . 1850 Jul 3, Wed., Pres. S B Harrison, Peter Lawrence, Esq. Queen VS David Laughed, Felony & Assault. Queen VS James St. John Assault. Settled by consent of Court on payment of costs. . 1850 Jul 3, Wed., S B Harrison, Esq., Chairman, Peter Lawrence, Esq. Queen VS Nathan & Wm Dennis Nuisance, A True Bill. Queen VS David Laughed. Felony & Assault. Queen VS James St. John Assault. . 1861 Jun 11, Grand Jury, Sam Comer, P. Lawrence, James Marsh. Read Heir & Devise notice for John Stickley, Essy Maria Robertson, Mary Sinclair, John Trudgeon. Transcriptions by P J Ahlberg, Thank you. - - -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I247)
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17878	Page 93 & 119 1851 William Ward Genealogy	WARD, Joseph twin % (P7822)
17879	PAGE FOUR, 1837 UPPER CANADA REBELLION, Yonge Street UPPER CANADA SUNDRIES: . 1815, Apr 9 - UC Quarterly Sessions of Peace: The Old Court House, Queen, Wm. Allan, Esq. Chairman. Proclamation for MATHIAS BROWN, late of the Twp. of York, Yeoman, to come forth, & answer to a Bill of Indictment found against him for HIGH TREASON, made this being the second time this Proclamation made - he did not appear to answer. Grand Jury then called & sworn: PETER LAWRENCE, JOHN WILLSON among 20 jurors. Again Proclamation of Silence being made the charge was given to the Grand Jury. Note10: This is an indictment of treason, not the actually trial- PJA. . 1838 March, Upper Canada Sundries, [UCS] Index C9824, Page 105444 & C6898, Image 226. ( Summary:) High Treason, James Johnson, York Twp., yeoman, To. Lieut. Gov. Geo. Arthur, Petitioner is a prisoner of Goal of Home District. That he is scarcely more than 21 years. He was induced by misrepresentation of the designing who practiced upon his ignorance to join in the insurrection. He committed no act of aggression to person or property, he return4ed home on 7 Dec & there remained until he was arrested on 9 Dec last, - since which he has continued in confinement. He has a small property he wants to continue the reminder of his life. Signed, Toronto Jail 27 Mar 1838, James Johnson. - We the subscribers having known the James Johnson from his childhood as a sober, honest peaceable & industrious youth recommend his case to the favorable consideration. Signed, 18 signatures, inc. Peter Lawrence, Geo. Clark, Wm. Hill, Geo. Brown known him half year only, Jess Ketchum. Second petition 27 Mar 1838, 11 signatures repeated, as above. Envelope: Special Session 27 Mar 1838. In Council, James Johnson, Pardoned upon giving & entering into Bail for good behaviour for 3 years. . 1838 March, UPS Index C9824, Page 105460 & C6898, Image 226. ( Summary:) High Treason, Henry Johnson, York Twp., yeoman, To. Lieut. Gov. UC, Petition of Henry Johnson, late York Twp. yeoman. Your petitioner is only about 19 y. without judgement or experience. He was not a member of any of McKenzies political meetings, yet unfortunately he was unable to resit the arts of dismissing men. He has made a full confession his guild & the part he took in the insurrection. Many & some who had more to do with the insurrection were discharged wholly. He was born in Ontario, a mother in some measure depending upon his support, kindred settled all around him. Because of confinement to prison commencing 9 December last, he has suffered severely from illness contracted in consequence of his close confinements. Grant him pardon, signed, Toronto Jail, 27 March 1838, Henry Johnson. . 18 Signatures, as above, inc. Geo. Brown known him half year only. . Second petition 27 Mar 1838, 11 signatures repeated, as above. Envelope: Special Session 27 Mar 1838. In Council, Henry Johnson, Pardoned upon giving & entering into Bail for good behaviour for 3 years. . 1838 March, 27 Upper Canada Sundries, C6898, Image 719 & Page 105888-92. List of witnesses in the case of Joseph Sheppard, Inc. Rob Baldwin, Alex Wood John G Sprague, David Bridgeford, Jacob Snyder, Peter Lawrence, Wm. Clark & Daniel Sheppard. 4. 1838 March, UPS, C6898, Image 720-721 & Page 105893-901. List of witnesses in the case of Daniel Sheppard, incl Chas. C Small, JP, Peter Lawrence, Wm Cark, Michael*, Joseph & Jacob Shepard, & J Gamble. Note10: Michael Sheppard, yeoman, Thomas Shepard & John Montgomery, convicts, ordered for transportation to Van Diemens Land [Tasmani], but escaped from Fort Henry, Kingston. . 1838 March, UPS, C6898, Image 720 & Page 105902-9. List of witnesses in the High Treason case of Joseph Sheppard, Inc. Rob Baldwin, Wm. Allan, Alex Wood, John G Sprague, David Bridgeford, Jacob Snyder, Peter Lawrence & Wm. Clark Joseph Sheppard pardoned on condition of giving security to keep peace for three years. See BELOW: . 1838 March, UCS, C6898, Image 720 & Page 105922-6. C Case of Thomas Sheppard, List of witness, Inc. Rob Baldwin, Alex Wood John G Sprague, David Bridgford, Jacob Snyder, Peter Lawrence & Wm. Clark & others. Note11: Thomas Sheppard, yeoman, convict, ordered for transportation to Van Daniems Isle [Tasmani] but escaped from Fort Henry, Kingston. . 1838 March, UCS, C6898, Image 721 & Page 105922-28, Special Session, Case of Treason. List of witnesses in the case of Jacob Sheppard, including, Peter Lawrence, Daniel Sheppard. Also Petition of Michael, Jacob & Joseph Sheppard. Jacob Sheppard, yeoman, pardoned on condition of giving security to keep peace for 3 years. . 1838 Nov 9, UCS, C6903, Image 1254 & Page 115275-77. Letter regard the case of Wm. Alves to Peter Lawrence on 1838 Oct 15. {Not found here /PJA 2015. . 1838 Aug 22, Ft. Henry (Kingston, ON.), Petition of Wm. Alves for pardon, Statements of Prisoners, Wm. Alves, born Scotland, 22y [1816], Landed at Quebec with aged parents Aug. 1834, lived mostly London, ON. On Monday following I was induced to give myself up the the authorities which I did that day, to Captain (Peter) Lawrence. Signed William Alves. Ref: C6901,112098-9/ image 1357. XRef: Alexander Montgomery.III for full transcript of his letter. . 1838 Sept 4. UCS, C6902, Image 434 & Page 13099-107, Summary: 1838 June 28. Wilson Hunter, Albion Twp., farmer, convicted of manslaughter of Constable Taylor. A Court Writ issued & the constable seized some cattle & was driving them away, the Hunter who was laboring in the adding field came up to him with a club in his hand, after some words knocked him down. An unloaded pistol fell from the constable's hand & Hunter seized it & beat Taylor with it violently so that the latter was much bruised. This happened in the early afternoon. Constable Taylor made an oath before a Magistrate & warrant to assist the prisoner issued. As resistance was abundant, a party of 40 was formed to assist him. Mr. Gray with the warrant got to his place in the early you of evening. They found Hunter in the highway near his house with gun in his hand. He refused to surrender himself & keep pointing his gun towards the party. He retired within his house. The constable & his part sent to a neighboring tavern where they remained 3 hours considering what to do. The Constable remained in the highway near the house. About midnight the drunken party, some with whisky with hem, retuned & went to the widow & called to the prisoner who was in bed, but he wouldn't surrender, so the Constable forced open the outer door & was just stepping over the threshold, when the prisoner fired at him & shot him in the neck, some grains of which glanced toward, after striking against the collar & descended into the lungs. - Mr. Shay survived some weeks & then died of the wounded. The Prisoner is clearly guilty of manslaughter, but did not want to surrender that night to the drunken party. After the trail Hunt received a very excellent character from any resettable & worthy inhabitants of this City, who spoke most favorable in his favor. He is of respectable parents, Hunter may have thought himself injured by conduct of Constable Taylor & large party who had all certainly been drinking. His fears were real. The Jury disposed to indulgence & mercy upon his case. Many highly respectable persons of different stations in society have believed in his favour. - We the subscribers having known the James Johnson from his childhood as a sober, honest peaceable & industrious youth recommend his case to the favorable consideration. 56 signatures, inc. Peter Lawrence. . To Sir Geo. Arthur, Lt. Gov. UC, Petition of Wilson Hunter, prisoner since last 10 April 1838, tried at the last assizes before Justice Robinson, guilty of manslaughter in self-defense, sanctioned one year to the penitentiary. Hunter has two small children to be separated from these is like separating the soul from he body, they are dear to one as life itself. Has a house & lot in this city Toronto, also farm in Albion Twp., 22 miles from this city, some stock. For liberty I would sell it & every shillings with I process & distribute it among the poor of this city. I am subject to a plan in the breast & enjoy poor health at present. I have suffered more being a prisoner than I suffered all my lifetime. Sir, please to send me an answer by the bearer, Wilson Hunter, Toronto Goal. . The above research & transcription by P J Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I24)
17880	Page One . 1894 Mar 11, Essexville Public School, Eighth Grade, Charles Felker, Ada Felker & Anna Felker who had no spelling mistakes. Ref: Bay City Times. . 1885 Feb 3 - Bay City. Scholars promoted to high school: Anna L Felker. Ref: Bay City Times. . 1904 Feb 11, Thrus. Testimony Heard in the Felker-McDonagh Breach of Promise Case Prosecution's Witness was on the stand Wed. afternoon & this morning - Miss Felker's Story. The $20,000 breach of promise suit brought by Ann Felker against Thomas McDonagh, boy of Taymouth. Although Anna Felker is the virtual complainant, the suit is brought in the name of her mother, Mrs. Levi Felker, Anna at the time of the suit being a minor. Wed. afternoon Miss Felker was immediately placed on the stand & outlined the story of her relations with McDonagh. Miss Felker is 21 years of age, a brunette, with hair almost black, brown eyes & a blush always on her cheeks. She is tall, slightly built & dressed in black. In response to questioning she sated she was born in Essexville, Oct 29, 1882. In 1894 the family moved to Bay city. Livered there until Mar 1900, when her father bought a farm & moved into Taymouth twp. near Burt. While in Bay City she attended the public schools & was in her graduating year in the high school at the time of the family removal. She became acquainted with Mr. McDonagh shortly after moving to Taymouth, meeting him a a KOTM party at Burt; was introduced to him by her uncle Samuel Meyers, a farmer in that locality. McDonagh lived only a mile from her father's home. She dances several times that evening. McDonagh said he was glad there were some new neighbors in town & that he could be expected over soon to make a neighborly call. Met again 3 days after at Burt where she had walked over to do some trading. Met McD in postoffice & rode home with him. Got home about 4:30, talked of the dance. Two weeks later he came to call at the house on Sun. PM. She was just starting for her uncle's house for a pail of water at that time & McD went with her. Stayed perhaps a hour & half. She stated she used to see McD every day on his way to Bur, he called nest, the latter part of June, with buggy, set in front yard with the rest of family; talked mainly about the crops. She walked to gate with him. McD told her there was to be a party in the neighborhood. He called for her that night of the party, but her mother would not let her go so he left. She shortly afterwards went to Bay city to visit her sister & he met her by chance at the depot & took her tome about 6:30 PM. Several days afterwards sister & herself met McD & friend in a buggy near the house. Both got in & rode to the Felker home; men hitched & came in; McD stayed for supper. On departing said he would come again & was liable to drop in most any time. He quit coming to the house shortly afterwards; met him thereafter at her aunt's house a mile or so away on an average of twice a week; Attended several parties at Burt & neighborhood together & frequently went riding The reason he discontinued his visits was that the 2 of them had been to Burt together one evening & came home about 11 o'clock & were sitting in the buggy. Her mother asked McD if he did not known enough to keep reasonable hours, that she was not used to having her girls out at all hours of the night. Mad got mad & told witness that when her mother saw him there again she would know it. After that they always met at her aunt's house 2 or 3 times a week. Went to parties. Never went with anyone else in that time. Tues. apr 30, 1902 she was at her aunt's house. He drove by & asked her where she was to be that night & said he would come up. Family remained up until about 9 pm. then went to bed leaving the house. She showed him photographs she had received in a letter from a young man in Toledo that day; McD didn't appear to like. Stated home about 10:30, When he got to her aunt's gate he stepped in front of her & said,"Anna, are you going to marry me or that fellow in Toledo?" She told him she was going to marry him. "Then he put his arm around my neck & kissed me" for the first time. When they got to the gate he asked her if she love him & told her if she did she should answer with a kiss. She kissed him. He put his arms around her & kissed her & left. She saw him go by next. He didn't time to the house until May 5 & told her he was going to Burt if she wanted to go along. They drove around until 9 pm without stopping anywhere. Finally they approached a new house he was building & he wanted her to go in & he was living in the house at the time. She wouldn't go. He told her she belonged to him now & do as he said. She said she wouldn't. He asked her if that was the way she was going to act when they were marred. "Maybee. He drove up to the house against her protest hitched the horse & lifted her in his arms & carried into the house. Witness refused at this point to proceed with the recital. The Attorney asked her if she was a mother & that the child was born Feb 9, 1903 & that Thomas McDonagh was the father of the child. After May 4 witness & defendant continued to meet about twice a week either at her house or her aunt's about once a week. Detailed conversations held between then as to how the house should be finished & furnished. Told McDonagh of her condition about July 1 & suggested that they he married. He said that the house was not finished. Nor could they be married in August. She should go away for a while & would be married when she came back. In October witness went to Saginaw, taking a room at 2016 S. Weadock. Defendant called on her there. He suggested they to see a doctor, she refused. He wanted her to go to Detroit. Went to Ann Arbor Dec 4. did not see defendant again. Court reconvened Thursday with letters purporting to have written by defendant to witness while she was in Ann Arbour. The letters were addressed to Mrs Anna Savage while in the hospital there & were unsigned & undated. One of the envelopes bore the printed address of Thomas McDonagh & attempt having been made to erase the same.All of the letters were written in stilled, terse style, with cautions to be careful of what she said & who she confined in. One told her not to write so many times, that Green the postmaster, would get on. One had an enclosure of money in. Another stated that he could send any money until he reached Saginaw as he was afraid that the people in the town would be next. Attorney Snow in cross examination questioned the witness closely, was really the first time they met not Feb 1900, rather than Feb 1901? Snow attempted to show why witness that a close friendship in 1900 between herself & Thomas O'Keefe, a neighbor. This was denied & said they were merely acquaintances. Ref: Sagnaw News & an abbreviated version appeared in the Bay City Times, Feb 12. 1904. . 1904 Feb 12, Fri. - Miss Felker Still on Stand - Cross-examination attempted to bring to light apparently 2 facts, first that witness went with other young men other than the defendant at times she stated on direct examination that she was keeping company with McDonagh alone; secondly, that defendant was not at any time paying witness the marked attention implied. Attorney Snow asked if it was true in the same year she was engaged to Wm. Nice & later to Clarence Barnett in the neighborhood. Witness emphatically denied the assertion. After her engagement to McDonagan she was accepting the attention of a certain Frank Polzin of the neighborhood, going for buggy riding with him in Saginaw. She came to Saginaw that day to do some trading that she had accidentally met Polzin's sister on the street, that the 2 girls attended the circus together. She knew Mrs Dorwood & daughter Mary & stayed at the Dorwood house some 5 weeks during Jan. & Feb 1902. Witness stated she did not know he came to see Mary particularly any more than herself. Witness stated she had heard rumors that defendant was engage to Mary Dorwood for years; first heard rumor in summer of 1901, she asked him & he replied "Anna, I know I go to Dorwood's a great deal, but I was never engaged to her, & so simply as a matter of policy & convenience." She had a talk with Mary Dorwood on the matter & Mary told her she didn't care how much witness went with Tomso long as she Miss Dowood didn't come in second". Case of Anna Felker vs.Thomas B McDonagh was adjourned until Monday at 2 pm. because of the fact that those interested in the case desired to leave for their homes in Taymouth this afternoon, that being the only train until tomorrow afternoon. . 1904 Feb. 13 - Effort of Defense is to show that Miss Felker went with others - Hearing at Saginaw, Anna Felker, the complainant, formerly of Essexville continues on the stand. Abbreviated report as above Feb. 12th. . 1904, Feb 18 - Case resumed. Samuel Miner, uncle of the complaining witness, whose home is only a quarter of a mile from the Felker home, testified as to the meeting frequently of the the two as his home. Mrs. Gustave Reinhart of Bay City, sister of the plaintiff, corroborated the testimony of her sister as to the attention McDonaugh paid her & fixed some dates the 2 were together, Anna received no other men during 1901 & 1902. . 1904 Feb 19, Fri. - Witness Mrs. Helen Perry Barr denied that Miss Felker was present with Mr. Reinhardt. Witness Mrs. Frank McNally of Taymouth visited the new McDonagh house & saw no furniture except an old stove. Witness Vincent Liddecot of Burt showed a sale of furniture to Mr. McDonagh on June 11, 1902. Witness Mrs. Lillie Carl, 548 S. Ninth St. told of the circus day incident. Miss Felker was present for supper with Frank, & Rose Polzin, went down town for the parade with Anna, Frank, Rose Polzin & his mother. After the show they went to American House & got a rig & drove to his home. Witness saw the witness do nothing unladylike at the circus. Witness Mrs Sarah H Crosby, a resident of Taymouth for 21 years said Miss Felker was a member of Maccabees & she testified as to Miss Felker's reputation & said it was bad, she never heard any one say anything good about. Dr. Geo W Pierce, of Burt knew McDonagh for 10 years, On May 30, 1902 McD was driving with him on the road near Verne when they met Miss Felker, Mr. Dorwood & another young man & stopped to talk for a moment. McD said that Miss F's general reputation was bad. Pierce knew of the engagement between Miss Dorwood & Mr McDonagh. Witness Ed E Adams, son of ex Sheriff, stated that at a surprise party Anna & her sister Ada were there. Reputation of Miss F discussed & it was not good. Witness Supervisor Geo Watson of Albee received gossip about Miss F. at the barn raising in April. Attorney Snow continued efforts to break down the story of Miss F. reputation for chastity was bad, that there was no furniture in the new McDonagh house on May 4, 1902. Witness Mrs. Mary McDonagh denied pointblank that Anna Felker & Mary Dorwood had visited the new house May 31, 1902 & Henry McDonagh testimony merely a reaffirmation of his wife's. The next witness, Al Green, postmaster at Burt visited while working & saw no furniture in the house. He said Miss Felker's reputation was bad & he had heard it in the postoffice & other places. "Burt is a gossipy town, it is, where you talk about your neighbors." James Darling testified that although he told Miss Felker that her presence was objectionable to his wife's people, that he & his wife would drive her home after she returned from Bay City if she wanted them, but she did not arrive. Ref: Saginaw News. . 1904 Feb 27, Sat. - A BROKEN HEART - Valued at $500 by a Saginaw Jury. After being out all night the jury in the $20,000 breach of promise case brought by Miss Anna Felker against Thomas B McDonagh, a prominent Saginaw county politician, returned a verdict this morning in favor of Miss Felker for $500. Ref: Jackson Citizen & Flint Journal 29.2.1904. Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	FELKER, Anna Lucretia .1 (I24)
17881	Page One Johnn Friedrick Völkel was born 17 Nov 1757 at Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany & Johann Federick is the son of Anna KATHARINA, Amos & Johann Eckart Völkel. English name variation were first Folker, Falker & finally as Felker. John Felker is thus the step-son of Joseph Jost Volckel & also his uncle. John's mother, Maria Catharina Amos, remarried after the death of her 1st husband: John Eckhart Volckel - Joseph is John's brother. * VIllage of Erndtebrück, Germany The village of Erndtebrück was undoubtedly first settled in the upper part hill where the houses nestle themselves up against the 'castle' hill. This village needed protection, when on the cold winter nights, packs of wolves howled from the surrounding hills. Not a stout city wall, but rather a picket fence or thorny-hedge placed on a low wall served as the boundary fence. Now the Customs & Toll Collector, alone in his little office house, could not get at the purses of the travelers who sometimes tried to charged though in groups without paying. The Toll Collector would sound his horn to summon the local cart drivers to deal with a travelers with spears & pitchforks approaching from the city. Running the toll booth seems to have been an universal challenge. Many of the buildings in Erndtebrück were destroyed in the bombing on 10 March, 1945 at the end of World War II, including the Toll Collectors house & the oldest Luther church where the Volkels prayed & married. The church with its steeple, has been rebuilt in the same style & sits on high point overlooking the village. Similarly there are some beautiful rebuilt houses with gardens completely surrounding the path & stairway leading to the Evangelische-Reformiert Kirche. - Translated from German. PJA 2009. * FELKER BIBLE: On May 1773, Johann Fredrick Völkel left Erndtebrück with a German Bible with an inscription under the front cover: "This Bible is presented to you as a teaching of Christ, & instruction for your soul. God Grant that you may use it frequently on your journey to America. Erndtebrück, May 18, 1773" Last known location of this Felker Bible was by Belle Felker, great granddaughter, born in Auburn, Michigan. * 1773 AMERICA AT LAST! Oath of Allegiance to America as a British subject, etc, List 310C: At Wicaco (Philadelphia, Penn.) on 1 October 1773: Present: Thos. Willing, Esquire. The Foreigners whose names are written, imported in the Ship Hope, George Johnston, Master, from Rotterdam but last from Cowes, (Isle of Wright,) did this day take & subscribe the foregoing Oaths, & Declarations in the usual Form. 'Consigned to Messrs. Willing & Morris, 94 person on the List, Paid £7.1.0. (i.e. paid to lawyer taking the Oaths.) - . Fried. Völckel . Johann Frederich Völckel [handwriting may appear to read Johann Friederick Welckel - PJA] . John Ludwig Pfeiler [?] . Jost Voleckel. [Jost Welckel] Note1: All males over 16 years had to take the oath. This transcription from the original depositions, gives only the 53 males all German names, leaving out 41 females & boys aboard the Hope. Other voyages of the Ship Hope: Aug 28 1733, Rotterdam to Penn.; 9.23, 1734; 3.12.1772; 3 Dec 1772 Rotterdam-Cowes-Penn; & John's 1773 voyage appears to be the last record for the Ship Hope.- PJA 2010. Ref: Pennsylvania Immigrants, 1727-1776 . Port of Philadelphia: Philadelphia would seem an unlikely candidate as a major immigration port of entry, but 1.3 million immigrants passed through the port. The route took immigrants around Cape May at the foot of New Jersey, into the Delaware Bay & up the Delaware River to Philadelphia, adding more than 200 miles to the journey from Europe. & the trip wasn't without its hazards. The Delaware River often froze over during winter, limiting early immigration to warmer months. During the 1700s, there was an influx of German many of whom arrived as indentured servants or "redemptioners" who often stayed in the city to work off the cost of the passage. * NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS LOYALIST REGIMENT: Quarter Master John FOLKER, 3rd Battalion Quarter Master of NJV, Master Feb 3 1777 -1783 NJV Loyalists, John Falker was quartermaster the Third Battalion from its organization until 1781, then transferred to the Second Battalion & resigned at the end of the War on Feb. 22, 1783. Daniel James, on the Resignation of Quartermaster Falker, took this office & so continued until the 2nd Battalion was disbanded. William Felker (transcription?) Resigned Quartermaster, 2nd Bat. NJV. XRef: The NJV Loyalist in the Revolutionary War. . Note2 of Family Interest2: Also serving in the same NJV were Lieut. John Lawrence & Col. Elisha Lawrence of who commanded the NJV. - Later Lawrence descendant would married John Felker's descendant. * 1778 December 16, LAND AT ESSEX CONFISCATED: . At an Inferior court of Common-Pleas held for the county of Essex, on the 15th day of September last, were returned inquisitions for joining the army of the King of Great-Britain, & other treasonable practices found against (various names) & John Folker. . of which proclamation was made at said Court, that if they, or any on their behalf, or any persons interested, would appear & traverse, a trial should be awarded; but no traverses were offered: Therefore NOTICE is hereby given, That if neither they, nor any in their behalf, nor any interested, shall appear & traverse at the next Court to be held for the said county, the inquisitions will then be taken to be true, & final judgment entered thereon in favour of the state. John Clawson, Commissioner. Elizabeth-town, November 14, 1778. Ref: The New Jersey Gazette (Trenton), New Jersey, Essex Country . Muster Roll Captain Robt. Drummer's Co., 3rd New Jersey Volunteers: . 1779 Nov 29, Savannah, Quarter Master, John Falker Ref: Ward Chipman Muster Master's Office. . UCLPetition 33, F Bundle 2, C1893, p762. Niagara To Lieut. Gov of UC, John Graves Simcoe, In Council Petition of John Filker, Respectfully shows that your petitioner just moved from the Jeries with a wife & one child & that he is related to Geo. Bowman [Bauman?]* of the Township of Stanford. Requests 200 acres. Niagara, 2 July, 1796. Note3: No actual signature; As was common, the petition was possibly prepared, & in the hand of, Thos. Ridout, The Survey General]. Envelope: 2 July, 96. Recommend for 200 Acres. Pay for survey. Read July 14, 1796. . I do hereby certify that the bearer John Felker has taken the oath prescribed by law to be a faith & allegiance to Our Majesty King., Signed, July 2, 1796, David Secord, J.P. Note4: Geo. Adam Bowman, b 1731 Albany Co., NY-1803 Niagara-on-Lake, Grantham, On. Wife Ann Marie Conrad 1649 /Schoharie, NY: is the relationship based on their being German? Note5: John Felker's petition was sent together with brothers Ludwig, Jacob, Joseph Felker & John's oath was thus filed with Ludwick Felker's Petition & oath. Peter Bowman, Con 2, L17 Stoney Creek, 1850. Note6: Alas, John Felker does not mention that he was the Quarter Master of NJ 2nd & later the 3rd Volunteers, otherwise he too should have received 1,000 Acres 'for one of his description"! . UCLPetition 56, F Batch 2, C1893, p836. Petition of John Felker, Most humbly shewth, That your Petitioner from the beginning of the late American war was an open & declared loyalist & carried Arms for His Majesty, was several times severely wounded, taken prisoner, & suffered 9 months' imprisonment. That your Petitioner is resident in this Home District of this province & is married to the Daughter of John Mingle (also a faithful loyalist) & has 2 children. That your Petitioner has as yet only drawn 200 Acres of land; wherefore he prays your Honor for such additional allowances as your Honor in your Wisdom may deem meet. & as in duty bound he will ever pray. Signed, John Felker, Newark 1st Feb'y 1797. [Newark is now Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. -PJA] Envelope: Received 4 Feb 1797. Read 25 Feb. Certificate of Petition having married the daughter of a loyalist waning, Entered Petition 226, Land Book B. Ref: Archives of Ontario. . 1797 February 25th. John Felker, Praying for land in right of his wife, the daughter of a Loyalist. Certificate of Petitioner having married the daughter of a Loyalist wanting. Ref: F56., Upper Canada Land Book, Film C101, p 225. Note7: Petition appears to be entirely in the hand of John Felker. . Petitioner Newark [Niagara-on-the-Lake], states is is a Loyalist. Ref: Upper Canada Land Book B 1796-7, p225, C101. Further Research required: 1796 Jul 14, No. 39 F12, Ludwick Filker, Recommended for 200 Acres; No. 40 F42, Jacob Filker, 200 Acres" No. 41, F33, John Filker, " No.. 42 F35, Joseph Filker, " Nol 43 F34 John Filker, Junior, ". page 117 Ref: UC Land & State Minute Book B, P6 . 1803, John Filker, 20 Mile Creek. Delivered to himself, going off with a load of Wheat & Rye. Ref: Notes from Niagara, V14, p25. * WAR of 1812 Muster Roll of Capt. Abram Nelles' Flank Company, From 24th July to the 24th of August 1812, both days inclusive. - John Felker (Jr. or Sr. not determined). Co-incidentally, also in-laws, Wim. Osburn, Charles Petit, Jacob Swackhammer & Jonathan Teetzel). . Gainsborough Twp. Land Registry is now found in West Lincoln, in Niagara North, Ontario. Ontario Land Registry Abstract, Wentworth Co., Saltfeet Book 361, p 272 Lot 27, Con 7 . 1967 Nov 21, Arthur H, Cora B, & Elsie M Felker, to Ontario Housing Corp, Remarks Pt 5, Reference Plan #15, . 1967 Dec 26. Deposit, Elsie B Quinn, to Arthur H Felker, Mge. {last Felker entry. LOUTH MILLS, Account of Flour & Wiskey sent from this to St. David's by Capt. Askin & Ensign Applgarth; & . 1813 Dec 18th - Francis Harkisom, 4 (barrels), John Falker, 4, Joseph Falker, 4, Stephen Roy, 4, David Moyer, 4, Henry Hooh, 4, Isaac Osburn, 4, John Linderberry, 4, John Snyder, 4, David Battram, 4, John Ensly, 4, Isaiah Griffen, 3, Jacob Fisher, 4, Lewis Falker, 4, Alexander Lane, 4, Gilbert Lane, 4, Jacob Houser, 4, A. Sheldon, 4, Joseph Ducher, 4, William Hutt, 4, Morris Canada, 4, Silas Hopkins, 5. . 1816 May 20, Election, Candidates Robert Nelles Esq. & Doctor Cyrus Sumner. John Felker, Gainsborough Twp., Lot 30, Con 5, Voted for Nelles. Ref: Annals of the Forty, Vol. 10, 1956. . 1820 Feb 23 - JOHN FELKER MOVES TO STONEY CREEK from Gainsborough Twp., Niagara region of Ontario: Indenture of Bargain & Sale, Lot 30, Con 6, & Lot 27, Con 7, Stoney Creek, Ontario. Purchased from James Henry of Clinton Twp. Dated Registered Mar 22, 1820. John Felker, his mark X. * Ref: Book B #534. Note8: Stoney Creek is next county northward, but still in the Niagara peninsula growing area. - PJA. Note9: * Very curious indeed! as we know John Felker could read & write, why did he sign with an X? - PJA 2010. . 1823 Mar 26 Registered - John Felker sold 200 acres to Frederick Felker, Bargain & Sale. Ref: Book B, #933. * The farm land at Stoney Creek is near the City of Hamilton, Ontario. This farm now bears a housing sub-division, but on a portion remains at the Felker's Falls Conservation Park. The land sits on the Niagara Escarpment Corridor. Davis Creek runs through the old farm, with a two terraced veiled waterfalls over 70 feet high, creating a small plunge pool at the bottom. This would be a good place to keep your churned butter from turning rancid & No doubt, the Felkers too cooled off in the pool on a hot day. The Bruce Hiking Trail pass by the top of the falls. Through the grove of maple trees you can see lower Stoney Creek & further on to the blue of Lake Ontario. Out along the now paved east side of Mud Road you can see the former Felker's stone blacksmith shop. - PJA. . 1824 May 7, Loyalist Claims for Losses £25. Discount 25% = £3. 15s. . 1824 June 28, Account of Losses: Felker or Falker, John, Payout £3 15s. CLAIM 645 - As of 486 [claim] . Claim 182 for damages by the enemy, John Felker, Grimsby, Niagara district. A horse taken by the Enemy. Claimed £25. Remarks, Claimant & David Gee departs to this Claim having been sustained from the Enemy. Recommend £15. . Claim for Losses War of 1812, John Felker, Gainsboro, Niagara District, Claimed: £25 Allowed £15. Also, Jacob Felker, Ancaster, Gore District, Claimed £28 2s 6p, Allowed £16 15s.Ref: t1124 end & 1125, p943, Archives of Canada. . c1824 Loyalist Claims for Losses: Commissioners Award £15. - no signature for receipt. Note10: To Researchers: After payment, Claim #182 is then reused for someone else. - PJA . 1826 Assessment Rolls, Saltfleet & Binbrook Twp.: Fred Fulker, Levi & William Green, & a little farther are: J. London, Joseph London & John Cowell. Ontario Land Registry, Niagara North Book 102, p374 South Half Lot 30, Con 5 Township of Gainsborough . 1799 Jul 8, Patent, Crown, To John Felker 200 Acres, See Patent Book . 1820 mar 22, Bargain & Sale, John Felker, to James Henry, 200 A, £0.0.0. . 1820 Mar 22, B&S, Wm. Cooke, to John Felker, 200A, £0.0.0. Ontario Land Registry, Niagara North Book 102, p375 South Half Lot 31, Con 5 Township of Gainsborough . 1836 Feb 17, Patent, Crown, to John Felker, SHalf 100 Acres, See Patent Book . 1846 Sep 29, Bargain&Sale, Frederick Felker, to James Page,SHalf 100A, £100. Ontario Land Registry, Niagara North Book 102, p376 South Half Lot 34 & 35, Con 5 Township of Gainsborough, Lot 34: 1799 Jul 8, Patents, Crown, to John Filker, SHalf 100 Acres, See Patent Book; . 1827 Jun 13, Bargain&Sale, Joseph Filker and of John F, to John Filker, South Half, 100A, £0.0.0, 100 A. . 1836 Feb 12, B&S, Jacob Kennedy, to John Kennedy, SHalf 100A. . Lot 25: 1799 Jul 8, Patents, Crown, to Joseph Felker and of J.F., to John Filker, SHalf 100 Acres, See Patent Book; SHalf, 100 Acres, £0.0.0, . 1827 May 2, Bargain&Sale, Joseph Felker and J.F. to John Kennedy, SHafl 100 A., and SHalf 34, 200 Acres. Research & transcriptions by PJ Felker Ahlberg, U.E. Thank you. - . -	FELKER, Johann Frederick Völkel JOHN U.E., 13th (I11)
17882	Page One, . Parshall Adam Terry.II, who is the son of Deborah Clark (15 May 1775, Matituk, Long Isl., NYC - Jul 1778 Pennsylvania & General Parshall Adam Terry.Ist, (born 8 Aug 1734 in Mattituck, Suffolk, Long Island, NY. - Death 15 May 1811 in East Palmyra, Wayne, NY.) . During the Revolutionary War, Parshall II remained a Loyalist, as many of the New York friends & neighbors did. However, he was the only member of his family to side with the Crown. He was an adventurous person, a skilled woodsman, a friend of the Indians & had mastered the Mohawk language. . In the Revolutionary War he was listed as a member of Butler's Rangers. Butler's regiment of Tories had 8 companies all told. Two of the companies were composed of half Indians & half whites who could speak the Mohawk language. Parshall was second in command of one of the Indian companies. He served under Joseph Brant, an educated Seneca. Ref: A Puritan Heritage, The Ancestry of Marshall & Hannah Terry, by H Vernon & Eleaner M Hall, 1889. . During the war, Parshall Terry.1 went to Forty Fort for protection after the Wyoming Valley massacre, along with at least some of his family. He belonged to the 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia in 1778. Deborah Clark Terry, wife of Parshall Terry I, apparently tried to escape the Wyoming Valley massacre, but was killed in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in July 1778 when Deborah was captured & scalped at the door of Forty Fort. Her child escaped. Parshall Terry II was with the British loyalists who entered Forty Fort, & he interceded on his family's behalf. Later his son, Captain Jonathon Terry, gave this account of his brother Parshall Terry.Ii in his attempts to quell the vicious rumors about his brother. " False reports have been circulated in respect to my brother, Parshall Terry, & I have heard that it has been in print that he killed his father, etc., hence I wish to, in this place, declare the real truth in regard to it. My brother, Parshall Terry, was indeed on the opposite side of the great question from us, who were true Whigs, & was with the enemy, as well as many more. He also came into the fort with Col. Butler & his army; but he offered no manner of violence to any of his friends. On the contrary, he said he had come into the fort to save our lives; & his father, who was also my father, has survived many years." This is a sworn statement given at Terrytown. Ref: History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Dr. Craft. . Deborah Terry Hortonhad this to say about her brother. "When my Tory brother, Parshall, who had been with the Indians up the river & was in the battle, came in he spoke kindly, saying he had come to save our lives, but seemed overcome with shame. When my father upbraided him with the wickedness of his conduct, & horrible company he was in, he could not look him in the face, or answer a simple word. My father had on a pair of new shoes, which at that time were articles of great importance, which few people could afford to wear in warm weather. An Indian, observing them got down on his knees and recklessly cut the strings with his knife and took them off his feet. My Tory brother had not influence enough with them to prevent them from robbing us of everything they could carry away." At the time of the attack, Deborah Terry was 12 years of age. . James Parshall Terry, of Rockville, grandson of Parshall Terry II states in his autobiography: "In justice to him it ought to be said that between him & the rest of the family, there were only political differences." Ref: A SKETCH OF KELLAND TERRY'S LIFE . UCLPetition 10, 1794 Jun 6 - To his Excellency Gov. John Graves Simcoe, The Petition of Parshall Terry, Esq., Member of the Assembly, That whereas you petitioner having joined his Majestys Forces in the year & served that time faithfully during the War & having left some Commonwealth Property Lands in the States of America for which he had never received any compensation, he begs, therefore, that you Excellency will take his matter into you consideration & grant him leave to hold 500 Acres of land in one body 150 of which are in front being a number 4 & half Number 3, in the first concession below Black Creek* & on which he now dwells & also to hold 700 Acres in the Forks of Black Creek, there being plenty of vacant lots there. & your petitioner, as in duty bound will ever pray, Signed, Parshall Terry. Envelope: Read in Council the 6 Jun 1794. Entered in Land Book A, page 180. Ref: Upper Canada Land Petitions, T Batch1, pg.1012, Film C2832, Archives of Canada. Note*1: Black Creek is in Township of York in the west end of Toronto, near today's Jane Street . UCLPetition 47, C2950, p788. To Gov. John Graves Simcoe, Petition of Frederick Williams, served His Majesty from 1778 to 1780 in Capt Elias Smith, Engineer Dept. at NY & Philadelphia as a carpenter. From 1783 served as private on Ships as Pilot. He brought into this county in the year 1786 a wife & 5 children. Wants Land. Signed, Frederick Williams. Affidavit: These may certify that Frederick Williams moved into this province with his wife & 6 children in the year 1786 & that the said Williams is an honest industrious man. Signed, Parshall Terry. Note2: Recommended for 400 A. No date on any of these documents, but it was addressed to Governor Simcoe who governed until before Jul 1797. - PJA . UCLPetition 10, 1797 May 2. To Peter Russel, Esq., Administrator of Province of Upper Canada, The Petition of Parshall Terry Esq. having a large family to provide for of 9 children & 4 of who were born previous to the year 1789. That your petitioner [2nd wife:] married Rhoda Skinner, daughter of Timothy Skinner, whose name is entered on the U.E. list. Wherefore your Petitioner humbly prays your Honour would be please to allow him a location of 200 acres of land for his wife, as likewise such a grant for his children as your Honour may seen meet. Petitioner as in duty bound, will ever pray. Signed, Parshall Terry. ENVELOPE: Recd. 2 May 1797, Read 10 May, Ordered to Rhoda Skinner, the wife of the Petitioner, 200 Acres as the daughter of a loyalist. The Petition has already got the amount of land assigned, to him. Initialed, Peter Russell. . The warrant appears to have issued to Parshall Terry in stead of Rhode Terry, his wife, described to him in right of his wife 1811. Ref: UCLP, T Batch 3, C2833, p210-218. A Record of the Marks of Horn Cattle, Sheep & Swine. For the Inhabitants of the Townships of York: . 1799 May 22 - Parshal Terry Senr, A Hole in the right Ear Close to the Head. Ref: York, Upper Canada Minutes of Town Meetings, Toronto Ref. Library. . UCLPetition 10b, 1804 Apr 28, To Peter Hunter Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, In Council The Petition of Parshall Terry of York Twp. That your petitioner on the 24 Aug 1798 purchased from Henry Whitmer, alias Henry Wilner, 500 acres of land in Charlotteville Twp. in consideration of £62.30s of lawful money. That the size Whitner at the time of such sale had an order in Council for the said 500 scars. But your petitioner now finds that the Deed of such land has late been stayed in the Secretary's Hands, by an order dated in the year 1803 from the Inspector General of Provincial Accounts, by reason that the skas Henry Whitner is charged with having obtained 200 A of the said tract beyond what he was at the time entitled to receive. That the said Whitner is unable to refund to your petitioner the money advanced for the said land or any part thereof, Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays that your Excellency will take his situation into consideration & permit His Majesties' Letters Patent of Grant to issue in the name of the said Whitner or petitioner for 300A of the said tract. Also permit your petitioner to locate the remaining 200 A thereof in the name on behalf of some other person entitled to the Bounty of the Crown, in order to enable your petition to make good eventually a Bargain & Sale of the Premises, which he hath made & which will effectually xx him if he do not fulfill. York, 28 April, 1804, Parshall Terry. . I Henry Whitner, alias Wilner of Bertie Twp, do hereby acknowledge to have received of & for Pershall Terry, Twp. of York, £62 10 shillings currency in full for 500 Acres, Lot SW 11 & 16 & 10th Concession of Charlotteville. 24th Day Aug, 1798. . Henry Whitner was entitled to 350 Acres, located in 3 locations, which he received. The Survey General's office in a very rare mistake, issued him a letter stated 500 which he then sold to Parshall. . 1804 May 2. Affidavit may issuer for this 200 Acres granted to Witner for taking up the Dorchester grant, upon payment of the survey fees. The Clerk of the Council should issue a separate warrant for this 200 acres which now all that Wilmer has a just claim to. Signed, John Gill & Peter Russell. Ref: UCLP, T Batch 3, C2833, p210-218. Note3: Implied here is that now that Henry Whitner has been given another 200 Acres in Dorchester Twp., he could meet his obligations to Parshall Terry. The actual outcome needs further research. This area in southern Ontario was renowned for its large hardwood trees which, no doubt, Parshall was eyeing for his sawmill in Black Creek. - PJ Ahlberg. . 1st Heir & Devisee Commission, H1140, p.x Report upon sundry Claims allowed on 1 & 23 May, 1804: Claim 42, Parshall Terry, of Town of York, yeoman, Lot 7, Con 2, York; Original Nominee, Angus McDonell Proceedings of Comm. Allowed, proved the title from the Crown is regular. Remarks: Angus McDonnell is entered on the Plan for this Lot. A Return being made from the Council Office on 8 Oct, 1796, is was recommended that the Petitioner be confirmed in L7, C2 East Side of the Don, upon condition of improving the same with in one year. Note4: Angus McDonell was a barrister & had 2,000 Acres on the go in Flamboro W, Scarboro, Clinton, Louth & Beverly Twps. He was a major land speculator. It appears Angus McDonell did not make the improvements thus leaving the lot available for Parshall Terry. - PJ Ahlberg. . 1808 July 20 - DROWNED IN THE DON. Departed this life on the 20th Mr. Parshall Terry. His death was occasioned by his getting into the River Don on horseback. By this misfortune an exemplary wife & large, helpless family are left to the care of the all-disposing Providence, & a resistless appeal is made to the benevolence & sympathetic generosity of a virtuous public. The particular situation of the road near the Don bridge, calls imperiously upon the commissioners appointed by his Excellency for the particular care of the roads & employing the voted money for immediate repairs, as many lives are seriously threatened with danger by its present state, in consequence of the causeway being removed by an excessive flood. The place, when seen, suggests the nature of the required improvement, & as a part of duty we earnestly recommend o public attention." Parshall Terry essayed to ford the Don on horseback, at a point some 50 yards north of the present (1913) Queen street bridge. He was swept away, his body being afterwards found near the mouth of the river, but his horse reached the shore. Ref: York Gazette, Published Sat. Jul 23, 1808 and reprinted Robertson Landmarks, Vol 5. Parshall Terry.4th * * 1809 Apr 11, Claim #3, See p. 20. Notice is hereby given that I Parshall Terry of County of Ontario, in the State of New York, Farmer, will claim before the Honorable Commissioners upon claims to Land at their next sitting in the Town of York, the Lot # 7, 2nd Concession of York Twp. from the Bay [L. Ontario], containing by a measurement 200 acres, as heir-at-law of Parshall Terry, The Elder, late of Twp. of York, deceased. Signed, York present upon my office this 11 April, 1809, Thos. Ridout, Signed, Parshall Terry. Envelope: This is to certify that the within claim has been applied in this Office of the Clerk of Peace for the Home District [i.e. Toronto, York Co., Ontario], upwards of 30 days before this date. Signed, Clerk of the Peace, York 31 May, 1810, Thos. Ridout, Clk. Peace. Ref: Upper Canada Sundries, H1140, p. 577. Archives of Canada Research & transcripts by PJ Ahlberg, 2014, Thank you. Continued	TERRY, Parshall Adam .II (I2740)
17883	Page One: . Whittemore, E.F. - 624. Photograph colored size 4 X 5 inches, Head & shoulders. President of Consumers' Gas Co. Ref: Landmarks of Canada, What art has done for Canadian history: A guide to the J Ross Robertson Historical Collection, Toronto Public Reference Library, Volume 1. 1917. . 1840 Member of Temperance Reformation Society, First a partnership with Thos. Rigney, Retail merchant, progressed into private banking house & Consumer Gas Co., Toronto Gas & Lighting Co., & Toronto Stock Exchange. Toronto Alderman 1858. . 1842 Census Upper Canada, Toronto, St. Andrews Ward E.F. Whittemore, from Church Wards, Owner, Clerk, 1 room. . Checked Store King St.,Toronto, housed Globe & Mail Newspaper, Established Toronto Stock Exchange. Ref: Globe & Mail Newspaper. . Toronto: WHITTEMORE, RUTHERFORD & CO., wholesale merchants & general dealers in dry goods, groceries & hardware, King st. east, See card, page 445. Ref: 1851 Canada Directory. . 1846 Organized first telegraph company in Toronto. 1846 Brown's Toronto City & Home District Directory, E E Whittemore, Toronto, wholesale merchant. . In 1846 Whittemore tore down the old checkered store & erected in its place the structured demolished 2 years ago. [1886] ...business partners were Thos. Rigney, Rutherford, Elswood Chaffey, Edmund Morris. It was a private bank, eventually becoming the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Whittemore died 1859. About 1860 rear portion of building was divined into shops with an entrance on Toronto St.: A Bacas bookseller & news dealer, postage stamps... Wm. Lyon Mackenzie frequented...lawyer's offices, Mayor Sheard was the architect & G. Brown the builder. . 1851 WHITTEMORE, RUTHERFORD & CO., wholesale merchants & general dealers in dray goods, groceries & hardware, King st. east, See card, page 445. Ref: 1851 Canada Directory & The Globe & Mail for a multitude of advertisements. Toronto Assessments Rolls, 1853 owned by E F Whittemore, Merchant: Addresses 26 - 27 King St., North Side Occupant: Rutherford & Whittemore Co. 1230 Wellesley St., Vacant Lot 377 Bay St. Occupant: R J Smith, Surgeon St. George's Ward 760 Bay St. Homeowner: E F Whittemore Toronto Street Occupant: E F Whittemore. . 1847, Mar 10, Tues. Robt. Murray, A Bankrupt. Court House, in the City of Toronto, on Sat. 31 Jul, a lot of land & premises in the Village of Streetsville, Assignee E F Whittemore. . 1847 Mar 10, Toronto - Public Notice, in the matter of Robt. Murray. Bankrupt, Court House, City of Toronto on Sat. 31 Jul next, 12 o'clock, A lot of land & premise in the Village of Streetsville, 5 Con. W of Hurontario St., Twp. of Toronto, Home District. E F Whittemore, Assignee. Ref: The Gazette Canada. Many repeat issues. . 1848, Mar 27. Letter to Toronto Mayor & Common Council complaining of the unnecessary destruction of property at recent fires by excited & uncontrolled mobs. Ask that measures be taken to prevent such. Signed, Ed G O'Brien & E F Whittemore, Agents, Aetna & Hartford Insurance Companies. Ref: Fonds 200 Former City of Toronto, Series 1081 Toronto Council Communications from the 19th Century, at Spadina Records Centre, Box 143263. . 1849 Apr 2, Letter to Chas. Tendering his resignation as Common Councilman for St. Geo.'s Ward. Ref: Spadina Records Centre, Box 143264. City of Toronto . 1849 Jun 18 Petition of Whittemore, Rutherford & Co. & Robt Beekman, requesting the use of the Phoenix Engine & House until a permanent organization of the Fire Department takes place. Box 43264. Ref: Spadiana Records Centre. . 1851 Toronto Directory - Whittemore, Rutherford &Co., wholesale merchants & general deals in dry godos, groceries & hardware, King St., East; HartfordFire Assurance Co., Whittemore, Rutherford & Co., agents, King St. East. . 1853 Apr 9 - SHERIFF'S SALE OF LANDS. United Counties of Lincoln & Welland, t ~ Fieri Facias, issued of Her Majesty's Court, Queen's Bench & to me directed, against the lands & tenements of MOSES, Andrew Vanderburgh, at the suit of THOMA S RIGNEY, Ezekiel F. Whittemore & Edward If. Rutherford, I have seized & taken in execution the following property, viz: the north halves of lots 16 & 17, in the 8 Con of Twp. of Pelham in Co. of Welland, one of the above named counties; all of which lands, together with the buildings & erections thereon, I will offer for sale at my Office in the Court House, in the town of Niagara, on SATURDAY, the 9th day of APRIL,1853 at the hour of TWELVE o'clock noon. W. Kingsmill, Sheriff U.C.L.&W., Sheriff's Office, Niagara, 30th December, 1852. [First published 8th January, 1833.] . 1853 Feb 1 - Sheriff's Sales, in the common pleas, Ezekiel F Whittemore, Elwood Chaffy & Edmund Morris, Plantiffs Vs. Wm. Lines, Geo S Wilkes & Fred T Wilkes Defendants, Town of Brantford. . 1853 May 14, Toronto, CANADIAN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE, According to announcement, a meeting of the friends of Temperance was convened in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday evening last. …re forming liquor laws. Mr. Whittemore was of opinion that the proper time for legal restriction to the sale of intoxicating liquors had arrived. He depreciated the opposition raised by some temperance men against a prohibitory liquor law & conclude by expressing a desire that those who had entertained conscientious scruple in reference to secret societies, would lend their co-operation to the object of the league. Appointed, York County until 1st July next: E R Whittemore, Esq., President; Committee of Management: Peter Lawrence, Seur, York Mills. Note1: E F Whittemore was married to his Peter's cousin Margaret Lawrence Johnston. Ref: The Globe Newspaper, Toronto. . 1853 Sept 10, Quebec. His Excellency the Administrator of the Gov. has been please to make the following appointments: Ezekiel F Whittemore & Brewer or Toronto, Visiting Commissioner of the Prov. Lunatic Asylum at Toronto. * Upper Canada Journal of Medical Surgical & Physical Science created a narrative based on reports culled from various "city papers" (378). In their account two merchants, Whittemore & Brewer, visited Potter's Field in November 1851 & noticed that a coffin, which they knew had been sent from the Lunatic Asylum, seemed unnaturally light. ... In November the sexton investigating the lightness of the coffin of a deceased patient on its way to burial in potter's field, discovered that someone had removed an arm, a leg, & the head for "anatomical purposes". ...The coroner's jury subsequently discovered that Dr. Scott had performed a postmortem on the body after Mr. Coroner Duggan's own examination. Dr. King decided not to pursue the matter, but the Board of commissioners of the Lunatic Asylum censured Scott for '"indiscretion & a want of judgment.'" While respectful toward the public's sensitivities to human dissection, they insist that it was of utmost importance to medical science. Moreover the public's sensitivities would not have been so offended, had Scott & other officers at the Asylum merely taken the precaution of securing the coffin before sending it to Potter's Field. Then the public would have been as ignorant (& uncaring) whether the body of Andrews, a pauper lunatic. The principal objects of editorial censure are not the doctors but Whittemore & Brewer, who, according to the editors, would not have broadcast their discovery had they really been motivated by human sympathy. The editors desired to know why the pair investigated the coffin in the first place. They suggested that it had something to do with "the furtherance of private views or the display of political partisanship" Thus they turn the tables on, as well as "shoot" the messenger. . 1848 Oct 20 - The Commissioners also censured the Dr. Park for the mistake of parading in carriages, the inmates of the Asylum at the same time as the 12th of July Orangeman's Parade. Ref: Tropping the Asylum, by John Thomas Rowland, 1999. . SHERIFF'S SALE OF LANDS., Co. of Northumberland & Durham - on Sat. 24 Dec. 12, 1853, noon in town of Cobourg. In the County Court.' Thomas Rigney, Ezekiel Francis Whittemore & Edward Henderson Rutherford, plaintiff; vs. Benjamin Weller, defendant: Lot 23 3 Con Twp. Cramahe, Crandall Rd. 1800 A. Ref: 24 Sept 1853 888-6. & Sheriff's Sale of Lands, Co. Prince Edward, sold by Auction, Court House, Town of Picton, Sat 31 Dec, next 1853., lands & tenements of Benjamin Weller, several Writs of Fieri Facias, Rigney, Whittemore & Rutherford, plaintiffs, VS. Benjamin Weller, defendant. . 1853 Sept 21, Toronto. C.W. Dissolution of Copartnership of the firm of Whittmore Rutherford & Co., by mutual consent, Edward H Rutherford, Esq., retiring therefrom. . 1859 May 23 - Sheriff's Sales of Lands Peterborough & Victoria Co., Ezekiel Whittemore, Plaintiff, vs. P M Grover, defendant, Lot 16- 20, 9 Con Twp. Asphodel, Peterborough. . NOTICE is hereby given, that the undersigned will apply to Parliament at its next Session, for an Act to incorporate a Company, with authority to construct a Railway from London to Amherstburg, or to such other point on the Detroit River as may be deemed most advantageous. E. F. WHITTEMORE,. H. HOLTON. Ref: 10 Dec 1853. . Appointments, EZEKIEL WHITTEMORE, Esquire, reappointed Commissioners for visiting the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at Toronto, under the Act 16, Vict. ch. 188. Ref: 23 Sept. 1854 & again Appointments, Secretary's Office, Toronto 29th Dec 1855, His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz: Ezekiel F Whittemore to be Commissioners of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at Toronto. . 1856 Nov 13. Grand Truck Railway Co. of Canada: At the 3 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, held in Toronto: Messrs. Crawford, McGill & Whittemore, re-elected as Directors of the Co. . 1857 Nov 2, Accounts of Trinity House of Montreal, Paid W & E F Whittemore & Co. Sperm Oil, Vchr. 29, £1 12s 3p. Ref: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Prov. of Ontario. . 1858 Dec 31 - Northern Railway, A deputation from the Board of Trade, consisting of EFW +5, printed a petition to Parliament, Northern Railroad has been the means of developing the resources of country to a great extent than any other road … Ref: York Commonwealth Newspaper, Richmond Hill, ON. - . -	WHITTEMORE, Ezekiel Francis .I (I243)
17884	PAGE ONE: Peter Rezeau Lawrence son to John & Mary Lawrence was born on Thurs. 21st day of November, 1788. . Peter Rezeau Lawrence, son to John & Mary Lawrence left home the 22 day of June 1810 to go to Upper Canada with his sister Margaret Tisdale. . 1825 July 5, at York, mother Mary Rezeau Lawrence swore she saw her husband, John Lawrence when he wrote down their children's names & birth dates. Note1: The following choices assuredly contributed to his name choice: Peter Rezeau Lawrence his grandfather & great-great grandfather were named Pierre / Peter Rezeau. - P J Ahlberg 2010. . 1810 June 22 - Peter Rezeau Lawrence, left home to go to Upper Canada. Peter came to Ontario in 1810 with his sister Margaret Lawrence & her husband Joseph Tisdale. Signed, father, John Lawrence. . 1812 - INHABITANTS OF YORK: York, One Male. . 1816 - March 4, At an annual Meeting held in the Town of York on the 4th Inst. for the purpose of choosing Town & Parish officers, persons chosen: Peter Lawrence, from Center of Poplar Plains to Center Herons Bridge. . 1816 Peter Lawrence, One Male, 2 boys, 1 Woman, 1 Girl, Total 5 people. Ontario Second Heir & Devise Commission . 1846 - Peter Regean Lawrence, Innisfil Twp., Simcoe Co., Case File Number 40-2842. Microfilm MS657, reel 54. . 1847 Charles E Lawrence, Reach Twp., Ontario Co. [now Durham Co.] . Throughout the War of 1812 new settlers to York Mills added to the little Sunday gatherings at Seneca Ketchum's home until they outgrew his parlour & had to be moved into the little schoolhouse that had been built on the hill east of the Miller Tavern, on land Ketcham purchased from Thomas Mercer for a school. The exact site of the school has been lost, but it was in that schoolhouse that the dream of a church for Sunday services took root. It was not to grow & flourish however until after peace was declared on March 1, 1815. Ref: St. John's York Mills Anglican Church history. WAR of 1812 MUSTER . 1812 Dec 24 - 1813: Jan 25-31st, Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Ridout's Company of the 3rd Regiment of York Militia: Lieut. Duke Wm Kendrick, killed Jan 1, 1813, Sergeant Jacob Snyder, Thos. Johnson, John Willson (Jr), Stillwell Willson, Peter Lawrence (85 privates). Joseph Shepherd. . 1812 Oct 16, Capt. Ridout's Co., Marched into York Garrison, Peter Lawrence & then transferred to Rifle Co. 21st, Ref: also C1203, p75. . 1812 Dec 25 - 1813 Jan 24, Priv. John Vanzandt, Days 35, pd. 15s 7p. also, Peter Lawrence, on the Kingswork. 1st YM, Robinson Co. . 1813 Sep 3 - Oct 3, Muster Roll Capt. S Ridouts Co., 3rd YM, John Lawrence, pd. 4s 6p., Peter Lawrence - Absent without leave {12 others also] Private Lieut. John Scarlet. * 1813 Dec 26 - 1814 Jan 4: Detachment of 3rd York Militia, under the command of Lieut. Isaac Secord, emptied in the escort of Prisoners of War from York to Hamilton Twp. [i.e. probably bound southward for the US border. - PJA], Sergt. Andrew Johnston, Peter Lawrence, Days 10, pd. 5s 4p. . 1814 May 23 May 8, Peter Lawrence, Days 8. 3rd York Militia employed in the Bateau Service, commanded by Ensign G T Denison. . 1814 May 23 - May 30, 3rd YM, Batteau Service, Peter Lawrence & John Vanzante Jun., Days 8, pd. £1 4s. . 1815 Oct 23, Grantham, His claim for horse hired for the use of the Royal Artillery, between 5 July & 1 Nov 1814. Ref: British Military & Naval Records, RG 8, C Series. . 1814 Jun 10 - Men drafted in Capt. Wm. Jarvis Co., York Militia: STILLWELL WILLSON* formerly of Capt. Ridout 3YM, Ira Kendrick, substitute for PETER LAWRENCE*, Wm. Kendrick substitute for THOMAS JOHNSTON* formerly 3rd Reg. Capt Hamilton, JOHN VANZANTE, Osborn Cox,* all formerly 3rd Regt. York, Isaac Vanderburgher* of 1st York Militia who is a substitute for Joshua Leack & John Willson of Capt Ridout's 3YM, Jenlay Cameron of 1YM under Capt. Wilson, substitute for Thomas Wilson(*?) of Ridout's 3Y Militia. Note2 All these are relatives* or neighbors & acquaintances. Osborne Cox was a Innkeeper, Town of York. - PJA. . 1813 March 25 - BOARD OF CLAIMS FOR LOSSES: Claim 41. Peter Lawrence claims £12 xx for 3 months due him of a horse in the [Carbine] Brigade which is certified by Capt. Swayze. Upon enquiry the Board finds this charge unreasonable & some £3 currency suffice & recommend that that amount be paid to him. - The foregoing List has been formed from the materials & documents of the late office of Commissary General of Prisoners, Wm. Blagrove, Washington, May 9, 1818. Ref: War of 1812, Archives of Canada, Film T1122, p 371. . UCLPetition 53, York, 10 June, 1818, Peter Lawrence, Granted 300 Acres, 1818, Sept 3. Verify if this is - Con 1, Lot 11, Peter & Alex C. Lawrence, New Survey Toronto Twp., Peel Co. & Con 4 W Hurontario, Lot 12, Peter Lawrence (only). . 1823 Dec 18, Toronto Banns, Elisha Lawrence married Sarah Devins, Witnesses: Isaac Devins & Peter Lawrence. Marriage #117 by Rev. William Jenkins, Richmond Hill. . 1825 July 5, York, The Family Names. Personally came before me a Justice of Peace, Peter Rezeau Lawrence, son of the late John Lawrence, taketh oath & saith that he is aquatinted with his father's handwriting & believes that he wrote down the time of the birth of the family as get bit stand? & in particular, the time of the births of Eliza Ann & Sarah Catharine Lawrence as they are entered upon this paper. Signed, 5 July 1825, Peter Rezeau Lawrence, & James Miles, JP. Ref: to page 446 [film p 695] . 1831 - On the road from Hawk's Mill on Yonge Street to lot 5, £50 & that Peter Lawrence, Joel Beaman & Geo Bond, be Commissioners for expending the same. Ref: Statues of Her Majesty's Province of Upper Canada . 1833-4 York Commercial Directory: Peter Lawrence, C 1, Lot 6 Commencing near Montgomery's, to the end of the Township-1st Concession east & west, on Yonge street. . York Peel Directory: . 1833 Southwold Township, Elgin Twp.: LAWRENCE, P. (Peter), Southwold, South of Talbot Road, 23 South 1/2 of West ½ LAWRENCE, J. (John), Southwold, South of Talbot Road, 23 North ½ of West ½. . 1836 Mar 11, Bargain & Sale, Purchased from James Anderson for £80, Lot 6, Con 1 Yonge Street West side. Cousin Richard Johnston resided next Lot 5. Also at Lot 7 beside him was Duke William Kendrick (1800-1819 & Susan Kendrick to 1819). Ref: Land Registration Office, York County. . 1837 Toronto District Directory, p183: Lawrence, Peter, Con 1, Lot 6, Yonge St. road, York Twp.,Yonge Street Road, commencing new Montgomery's Tavern, to the end to the Township - 1st Con. East & west on Yonge St. Johnston, Richard, Con 1, Lot 5 Yonge St., York Twp., Montgomery, J., Con 1, Lot 1 Yonge St. east side, York Twp.,* Willson, John, the fourth, Con 1, Lot 3, east side Yonge St. road, York Twp. Note3: Cousins Lawrence, Johnston & Willson. Note4*: Montgomery's Tavern historical building, Yonge & York Mills Rd., incidentally, the west side of Yonge street is called Wilson Avenue. X-Ref: Capt. John Lawrence.Xiii, born 1815, to see a letter written by John Lawrence detailing Peter Lawrence's participation in the Rebellion of 1837. * The CUMMER MEMORANDUM: 1837 McKenzie Rebellion. Aunt Angelina Irwin Willson, wife of Joshua Willson, was a very ardent Reformer & she had many an argument before the Rebellion with her brother-in-law, Peter Lawrence, who espoused Tory principles. She stated that after the Rebellion he became disgusted with the Tories & always afterwards voted the Reform ticket. (Angelina Cummer interview, 1905). . 1836 Oct 15th - Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Notice is hereby given that a Public Meeting will be held at Montgomery's Tavern on Yonge St., On Monday the 14th Nov. next, at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose of considering whether it be expedient to establish a Fire Insurance Co. for the Home District, on the principal of Mutual insurance, under the provisions of the Act of Province Legislature recently passed. Signed, 12 signatures, Inc. Peter Lawrence, Joshua l, John Montgomery, Daniel Cummer. Ref: Correspondent & Advocate Newspaper, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. . 1837 Toronto & Home District Directory: Yonge Street Road, commencing near Montgomey's Tavern, to the end of the Township - 1st Con East, York Twp., York Co., Ontario: Peter Lawrence, Con 1, Lot 6; J. Montgomery L1, C1; Abrm. Johnston, C1; L10, Richd. Johnston, C1, L5; Joseph Johnston, C1, L11; Wm. Marsh L1, L11; Thos.; Shepherd, C, L15; Jacob Snier, C1 L; Thos. Johnston C3, L . 1838 Town of York annual meeting at Montgomery's & afterwards, adjourning to Anderson's Tavern, at York Mills. Elected: Peter Lawrence assessor. Alex Montgomery & Wm. Marsh as Commissioners. . 1838 - The electors meeting at Montgomery's & adjourning to Anderson's tavern, York Mills, where the following officials were duly chosen: Peter Lawrence, Assessor, Alex. Montgomery & Wm. Marsh Commissioners. X-Ref: Capt. John Lawrence .XIII, born 1815, to see a letter written by John Lawrence detailing Peter Lawrence's participation in the Revolution of 1837. . 1846 Toronto City & Home District Directory: Peter Lawrence- Justice of Peace, Home District, York Twp., - Home District Agricultural Society, Director. . 1846, Jan 5, Monday. - HEIR & DEVISEE, Claim 13, Case #40-2842. Peter Rezeau Lawrence York Twp., Esquire. Claims as the only surviving Executor named in the WILL of John Lawrence, deceased. Claims Lots 7- 8 in Con 8 & Lot 15, Con 9, Innisfil, Simcoe Co., Original Nominee John Lawrence. Remarks: Allowed to claimant as surviving Executor of the WILL of John Lawrence, the Original Nominee upon the Trusts & to the uses mentioned in the said WILL, dated 12 June, 1818. . 1846 Jan 7, Wed. Claim 21, as above, but mentioned in the said WILL dated 13 June, 1818. Innisfil Twp., 1846, Case File 40-2842. Ref: Upper Canada Heir & Devisee, H1151, p298, the 2nd Index copy on Page 672; & for 1846, Microfilm MS657, reel 54, Archives of Canada & Canadiana.ca. . 1850 May 3, Report for 13 Jan 1846, Peter Rezeau Lawrence, York Twp, Esquire was allowed Lots 7 & 8, Con 8 ^Lot 15, Con 9, Innisfil Twp, Simcoe Co., 600 Acres, as surviving member of Will of John Lawrence, ceceased, a settler, in the said will dated 13 Jun 1818, Patent feet paid, Settlement duty performed, Warrant 1169 RJ. Ref. Heir & Devisee, H1143, p672. . 1857 Jan 17th - HEIR & DEVISE COMMISSION, List of Lands allowed at the late Sittings at Toronto of the Commissioners, at Osgood Hall, Toronto: Peter Lawrence, York South portion of Lot 8, Con 1 E side of Yonge Street. Published 1857.2.14. . 1852 Agricultural Census, York Twp. East of Yonge Street Peter Lawrence, Con 1, Lot 6, 180 Acres, 60 A. under cultivation; 49 A. Under crops in 1851; 10 A under pasture 1851; 1 A, gardens/orchards; 120 A. Under wild woods, 8 Acres Peas; 12 A. produced 500 Bushels Oats; 25 A. produced 500 bu. wheat; Quarter Acres B. Wheat produced 10 Bu.; Quarter A. produced 0 Bu Indian Corn; 1 A. Potatoes;14 Bundles or tons of Hay; 60 lbs. of Wool; 4 Milch cow, 5 calves; 5 horses; 23 sheep; 20 Pigs; 600 lbs. Butter; 1000 Cwts. of Pork. [General] Comments by Enumerator: Impossible to take the agricultural census, conversely except the Farmers know the measurement of the fields & bushels of grain. Peas are generally thought & without any measuring plant as they are marked. . 1853 May 14, Toronto, CANADIAN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE, According to announcement, a meeting of the friends of Temperance was convened in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday evening last. …re forming liquor laws for York County until 1st July next: E R Whittemore, Esq., President; Committee of Management: Peter Lawrence, Seur, York Mills. Note5: E F Whittemore was married to his Peter's cousin Margaret Lawrence Johnston. Ref: The Globe Newspaper, Toronto. . 1855 Sep 7 - York Country Roads, Tolls. The abominably disgraceful state of Yonge Street road all who travel upon it; miles have had neither labor nor material upon them since hey have been in hands of present proprietor. Many parts are positively unsafe & so bought with so much loose tuff upon it, that horses can scarcely be driven out of a walk without a risk of camping them. … 4 miles interval from gate to gate a Farmer has now to pay 3 pence for every mile he travel upon Yonge Street. - Ref: the Colonist Newspaper. . Yesterday we made some allusion to the management of the York Roads, tolls, etc. As we were going to press an accident occurred on Yonge Street, from the state of the road …Mr. Lawrence, a very old & respectable inhabitant of Yonge Street, was thrown out of his buggy; 2 young lads, sons of Mr. Cherry, the Butcher of Yorkville, while driving in a gig yesterday morning are thrown out at the same spot & seriously injured. Repairs so much neglected at the hill near Davis brewery that a large hole has been filling up to endanger the life of any person sho should drive into. Ref: New Era Newspaper, Newmarket. . 1857 Oct 30 - Advertisement, Toronto. Gaige's patent Process: for Tanning! 100% made in 2 months. Tanned without bark, but with materials 30% cheaper, making a better article of leather & in 1/6 of the time; which received the First Prize at the Provincial Exhibition. We have certificates from James Hartry, Andrew McLean, Peter Lawrence, Wm. Summerville & Francine Buttery, Tanners. The Patten Right for the above invention is now offered for sale in all parts of Canada. Further information apply to: Gage & Co, American Hotel, Toronto, or at Lawrence Tannery, Yonge St, 5 mile from town. Ref: The Globe Newspaper. . 1860 Jul 9 - WILL of Peter Lawrence, Summary: South half Lot 6, Con 1 Yonge Street East. Wife Elizabeth bed & bedding, furniture, implements, horses & carriages Peter Jr. $500 minus $1,500 paid earlier William $1,400 + $600 Daughters - Margaret Wilson, Elizabeth Walker, Mary Mason, Nancy Katherine Lawrence and Sarah Jane Lawrence - each $2,000! Jacob Lawrence - Lot 6, Con 1 Yonge Street, $2.00 - $2,000 Mortgage to exempt the Mill privileges on the south half, north half waters and pons crossing the Down River. Executors are his beloved wife Elizabeth & sons-in-laws, John Willson and Wm. T Mason of Toronto. . 1860 Aug 19 - Peter Lawrence, born NB 1788 - UC 1810 York TWP., died Eglinton [postal district], 72 years. Ref: Christian Guardian Newspaper, Ontario. . 1860 Aug 24 - At Eglinton, Yonge Street, on Sunday the 19th inst., Peter Lawrence, Esq., aged 74 years. Ref: York Herald Newspaper, Aurora & Richmond Hill, Ontario. . 1861 York Peel Directory, York Twp., Peter Lawrence, C 1 Lot 21; Lawrence, John Con 1 L6, Lawrence, Wm., Con 3, Lot 21. . 1861 Census, York Twp., York, Ontario, 43 y/1818, W. Methodist, Married. . 1863 Apr 1 - To Rent, The premises at Eglinton, Yonge street, 3 miles from the Street Railway terminus, formerly the residence of the late Peter Lawrence, Esq. consisting of a large brick dwelling & outhouses, with about 5 acres of & including a large orchard, kitchen & fruit garden. apply to W T Mason, Ontario Hall, Toronto, April 1st. . 1866 Apr 18 - To Rent, for a Term of Years, To be leased, that desirable Country Residence at Eglinton, Yonge St. Belong to the Estate of the late Peter Lawrence, Esq. to which is attached, carriage, stable & other outhouses, with about 6 acres of land, including 2 large orchards, kitchen & fruit garden. Apply to W T Mason. . 1873 Dec 2 - 1873 Dec 2 - That Desirable Brick family residence with suitable outhouses & about 7 acres of land, to be let; which includes kitchen, garden & 2 orchards, belonging to the estate of the ate Peter Lawrence, situated at the village of Eglinton, Yonge street, about 4 miles from Toronto, W T Mason, 26 Toronto St., Toronto. Ref: The Globe Newspaper. . 1871 Lovell's Cdn. Dominion Directory, Willowdale: A village in the Twp. of York, west riding in the county of York. Distant from Thornhill, a station of the Northern railway, 5 miles, from Toronto 9 miles, fare 25¢. Mail daily, Population about 150. Peter Lawrence, farmer. - . - Ontario Land Registry Abstract Book North York Book 1, p 44, Lot 4, Con 1 East Yonge Street . 1803 May 14, Patent, Crown, Wm. Weeks, 190A . 1830 Oct 6, Bargain&Sale, Jesse Ketchum, to Peter Lawrence et all, £12.10 shillings, Part Half acre. . 1870 Jul 14, Trust, Grantor James Harris et ux, to William Lawrence, $1., part 1/8 Acre. . 1876 Oct 10, Grant, Wm. Lawrence et all, to Geo W Jackes, $1., Part 3.5 Acres. . 1876 Nov 18, Deed of Conf., Wm. Lawrence et all, to Geo W Jackes, $1., Part 3.5A. . 1877 Jun 6, Grant, Wm. Lawrence et al, to John Strathy, $8400, Part 66 Ac. . 1910 Dec 14, Alt, Dovercourt land Building co, Garth A Harris, Franklin Lawrence, S B Lawrence [i.e. Samuel B Lawrence] & J Wllson Lawrence. Lot 6, Con 1 East Yonge St., North York Book 2, p2-3 [i.e.North East side of Yonge & Lawrence Ave., Toronto] . 1798 Dev 31, Patent, Crown, to Bernard Carey, 190 A. . 1829 Apr 29, B&S, James Hale, to Peter Lawrence, £300, SHalf of 95 A. . 1836 Jan 11, B&S, Joel Beman et ux, to Peter Lawrence, £525, N &SHalf, 105 Acres . 1846 Feb 18, Peter Lawrence et ux, to John Lawrence, £200, 2Acres . 1847 May 31, B&S, John Lawrence et ux, to Peter Lawrence, £550 Part front part 2 Ac. . 1855 Dec 24, Mortgage, Jacob Lawrence et ux, to Peter Lawrence, £1500; & M. Discharged 1858 Mar 5. . 1857 Apr 23, B&S, Jacob Lawrence et ux, to Rev. Hy Wilkinson, £175, 1A. . 1860 Jul 5, B&S, Jacob Lawrence et ux, to Rev Hy Wilkinson, £10 . 1860 July 16, D.M., Peter Lawrence, to Jacob Lawrence, £1250, . 1860 Jul 18, Grant, Jacob Lawrence eux, to Peter Lawrence, £5000, Part 33 Quarter A. . 1861 Feb 25, Trust, Jacob Lawrence et ux, to John Willson et ux, 1., Part 33 Quarter Ac. [Abstracts continue with Jacob Lawrence]. Lot 4, Con 1 West, Yonge St., North York Abstract Book 1, p1-45 . 1829 Apr 29, B&S, James Hale, to Peter Lawrence, £200, S 95A. . 1835 Jan11, B&S, Joel Beman, to PL, £200, S 95A. . 1845 Dec 22 , B&S, Peter Lawrence et ux, Jacob Lawrence, £1500. N . 1847 May 31, B&S, John Lawrence, to PL, £550, 2A. . 1857 Apr 23, B&S, Jacob Lawrence, to Rev. Hy. Wilkinson, £10, Part 182 feet. . 1860 Jul 16, Disc Mort., PL, Jacob Lawrence, £1250, Part A. . 1860 Jul 18, Grant, Jacob Lawrence etux, to PL, $5000, 33A . 1861 Mar 1, Trust, Jacob Lawrence etux, to John Willson et, $1., 33A . 1864 Nov 25, Grant, Jacob Lawrence etux, to Municipal Corp of York $75. . 1860 Jul 9, WILL, Peter Lawrence, S Half & part N. . 1910 Dec 14, Plan 1534, Dovecot land Building & Garth A Harris, Franklin Lawrence, S B Lawrence & J Willson Lawrence, [ i.e. grandsons], Mortgagees. Page 45 . Ontario Land Registry Abstracts Book: Lot 5, Con 1 West Yonge Street, North York Book 96, p3-4 . 1812 Jul 25, B&S, Grantor, Thomas Hill & Hannah his wife?, to Peter R Lawrence, £50. Part half acre, on Yonge St by n. limit of Lot 5. . 1859 Jun 9, Grant, Grantor Peter Lawrence & Elizabeth his wife, to Jacob Lawrence, £350, Part 1/2 acre Limit allowance for road. .1868 Mar 16, Grant, Jacob Lawrence, to Thos. Mulholland, NE Pt half acre. Lot 6, Con 1, West side Yonge Street, Land Registry Book North York 97, p3-5: . 1800 Sep 4, Patent, Crown, Jos. Kendrick, 210 A. . 1845 May 9, Bargain & Sale, Peter Lawrence & Elizabeth his wife, to John Russell, £77 10 s., Part 2A. . 1846 Feb 16, B&S, Peter Lawrence etux, to John Lawrence, £200, Pt 2 acre. Lot 21, Con 1 West Yonge Street, North York Abstract Book 109, p3 . 1793 Sep 20, Crown, John Conn., All 210 A. . 1855 Nov 25, John Cummer ex ux, to Peter Lawrence Jr, £1700, Pt 70 acres. . 1855 Dec 23, B&S, John Cummer et eux, to John Willson*, £1000, Part W Half 29 acres; . 1861 Dec 17, Grant, Peter Lawrence etux, to John Cummer, $2400, Part 30A. . 1864 Dec 31, WILL, John Wilson, to Rev. Chas Fish, $xx, Par 18 Acres. . 1867 Feb 16, Mortgage, Peter Lawrence etux,to Amelia Harding, $500, Part E40A. Note6: VERIFY, if John Willson the Third or the Fourth, however, John Cummer is John Willson.3 's in-law. Ontario Land Registry Abstract Book 170, p127 Lot 42, Con 1 West Side Yonge, Richmond Hill . 1818 Jun 13, WILL, John Lawrence, to Mary Lawrence stall, All 160acres . 1855 Jan 31, Release, John W Lawrence et all, to Peter Lawrence, Executor, £25, ALL. Ontario Land Registry, Simcoe Co., Lots 7-8 Con 8 Innisfil - 400 Acres, Books 93, 94, p102 & 182 . 1850 Jun 17, Patent, Crown, to Peter Rezeau Lawrence, Lots 7-8 each at 200 acres [=400 Acres]; . 1852 Jun 13, B&S, Peter Lawrence etux, to Sarah Maria Lawrence, £25, Lot 7 E½, 100 acres; . 1852 Jun 30, B&S, Peter Lawrence etux, to John Lawrence of York, £125, for Lot 8, 200A; . 1852 Jun 20, Peter Lawrence, etux, to John Lawrence of York, £125 for Half 100A . 1854 Jun 14, B&S, John Lawrence of York etux, to Thos. Mulholland of York, £500, for All Lot 8, 200A Inter alia [i.e. among other things] & £500 for Half 100 A. [appears to be £500 for each lot. - PJA]. . 1856 Oct 13, Rufus Skinner of Toronto etux (Sarah Maria), to Alex W Smith of Toronto, £1627, E½ Lot 7, 100 Acres certificate endorsed. . 1863 Oct 1, Too Mulholland of York, to Thompson Smith of Toronto, $1.25 per 1000 ft. inch measure, W½ Lot 7 &All 200 A Lot 8, Sale of timber therein fit for saw logs. Ontario Land Registry, Simcoe Co., Lot 15, Con 9 Innisfil, Books 95 96 97, p157 . 1850 Jun 17, Patent, Crown, to Peter Rezeau Lawrence, All 200 acres . 1850 Sep 9, Bargain&Sale, Peter Lawrence of York etux, to James Robins, of Innisfil, £75, S½ 100A' . 1851 Feb 4, Reg. 1861.5.9, Peter Lawrence etux of Innisfil, to Trustees of the Weslyan Methodist Church, Part 32670superficial ft. commencing on north side 363 from NE corner, the west 330, then sough 99ft. A. . 1851 Sept 30, WILL of William Lawrence, to wife Elizabeth [Russel-Pherrill] for life, then to Wm. Lawrence, Jr., N½ 98.25 Acres; . 1851 Oct 1, B&S, Peter Lawrence of York etux, to William Lawrence of Scarboro, £25, N½ except 3/4 of an acre sold to M.E. Church; .1856 Jan 9, B&S, Elizabeth Lawrence of Scarborough, widow, to William Lawrence [Jr.] of York, £100, W½ 100A; . 1851 Feb 4, B&S, Peter Lawrence etux of Innisfil, to Trustees of Wesleyan Methodist Church, Part #32670 superficial pt. Commencing on north side 363 from NE corner, then West 330, then south 99 ft. . 1862 Apr 12, B&S, William Lawrence [Jr.] of York, to James Richardson of Barrie, $2400., Half said lot except 3/4 acre sold to ME Church; to William Lawrence [Jr.} of York, $1300, except 3/4 A sold to ME Church; . 1865 May 12, Release, Reg. 1866.12.18, Sarah C Lawrence, Henry Lawrence & Margaret Willson & husband, Legates of late William Lawrence [senior]; to William Lawrence [junior] of York Twp., $400, N½ 100 A.; . 1846 Brown's Toronto City Directory: Peter Lawrence, J.P., Directory of the Home District Agricultural Society. . 1851 Census Toronto Gore Twp., Peel Co., Tanner, 2 stories log house. . 1850, Peter Lawrence Justice of Peace, Toronto City. . 1851 Canada Directory, Toronto: There are stages for Richmond Hill, Thornhill & York Mills, leaving the Market Square [Toronto] at 4 O'clock PM. . Feb 1852 Census York Twp., York, Ontario Lawrence, Peter, Farmer, New Brunswick, Methodist, 63 y., Married, Brick 2 story House, one family, [Lines 20-28] Lawrence, Eliz., United States, Methodist, 58, F Lawrence, Mary, Canada, Methodist, 20, F Lawrence, Wm, Canada, Methodist, 18, M Lawrence, Nancy, Correspondent, Canada, Methodist, 16 y., F Lawrence, Sarah J, Canada, Methodist, 14 y. Lawrence, Wm., Farmer, New Brunswick, Methodist, Resident of Scarborough, Age 67, 1785, Married. [i.e. this is Peter Lawrence's brother. Wm.'s wife not present at this location.] - . -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I247)
17885	PAGE ONE: Peter Rezeau Lawrence son to John & Mary Lawrence was born on Thurs. 21st day of November, 1788. Peter Rezeau Lawrence, son to John & Mary Lawrence left home the 22 day June 1810 to go to Upper Canada with his sister Margaret Tisdale - mother Mary Rezeau Lawrence. . 1825 July 5, at York, mother Mary Rezeau Lawrence swore she saw her husband, John Lawrence when he wrote down their children's names & birth dates. Note1: The following choices assuredly contributed to his name choice: Peter Rezeau Lawrence his grandfather & great-great grandfather were named Pierre / Peter Rezeau. - P J Ahlberg 2010. . 1810 June 22 - Peter Rezeau Lawrence, left home to go to Upper Canada. Peter came to Ontario in 1810 with his sister Margaret Lawrence & her husband Joseph Tisdale. Signed, father, John Lawrence. . 1812 - INHABITANTS OF YORK: York, One Male. . 1816 - March 4, At an annual Meeting held in the Town of York on the 4th Inst. for the purpose of choosing Town & Parish officers, persons chosen: Peter Lawrence, from Center of Poplar Plains to Center Herons Bridge. . 1816 Peter Lawrence, One Male, 2 boys, 1 Woman, 1 Girl, Total 5 people. . Throughout the War of 1812 new settlers to York Mills added to the little Sunday gatherings at Seneca Ketchum’s home until they outgrew his parlour & had to be moved into the little schoolhouse that had been built on the hill east of the Miller Tavern, on land Ketcham purchased from Thomas Mercer for a school. The exact site of the school has been lost, but it was in that schoolhouse that the dream of a church for Sunday services took root. It was not to grow & flourish however until after peace was declared on March 1, 1815. Ref: St. John's York Mills Anglican Church history. . WAR of 1812 MUSTER . 1812 Dec 24 - 1813: Jan 25-31st, Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Ridout's Company of the 3rd Regiment of York Militia: Lieut. Duke Wm Kendrick, killed Jan 1, 1813, Sergeant Jacob Snyder, Thos. Johnson, John Willson (Jr), Stillwell Willson, Peter Lawrence (85 privates). Joseph Shepherd. . 1812 Oct 16, Capt. Ridout's Co., Muster as above, Peter Lawrence transferred to Rifle Co. on 21 Oct 1812, York Garrison 1812., C1203, p75. . 1812 Dec 25 - 1813 Jan 24, Priv. John Vanzandt, Days 35, pd. 15s 7p. also, Peter Lawrence, on the Kingswork. 1st YM, Robinson Co. . 1813 Sep 3 - Oct 3, Muster Roll Capt S Ridouts Co., 3rd YM, John Lawrence, pd. 4s 6p., Peter Lawrence - Absent without leave {12 others also] Private Lieut. John Scarlet. * 1813 Dec 26 - 1814 Jan 4: Detachment of 3rd York Militia, under the command of Lieut. Isaac Secord, emptied in the escort of Prisoners of War from York to Hamilton Twp. [i.e. probably bound southward for the US border. - PJA], Sergt. Andrew Johnston, Peter Lawrence, Days 10, pd. 5s 4p. . 1814 May 23 May 8, Peter Lawrence, Days 8. 3rd York Militia employed in the Bateau Service, commanded by Ensign G T Denison. . 1814 May 23 - May 30, 3rd YM, Batteau Service, Peter Lawrence & John Vanzante Jun., Days 8, pd. £1 4s. . 1815 Oct 23, Grantham, His claim for horse hired for the use of the Royal Artillery, between 5 July & 1 Nov 1814. Ref: British Military & Naval Records, RG 8, C Series. . 1814 Jun 10 - Men drafted in Capt. Wm. Jarvis Co., York Militia: STILLWELL WILLSON* formerly of Capt. Ridout 3YM, Ira Kendrick, substitute for PETER LAWRENCE*, Wm. Kendrick substitute for THOMAS JOHNSTON* formerly 3rd Reg. Capt Hamilton, JOHN VANZANTE, Osborn Cox,* all formerly 3rd Regt. York, Isaac Vanderburgher* of 1st York Militia who is a substitute for Joshua Leack & John Willson of Capt Ridout's 3YM, Jenlay Cameron of 1YM under Capt. Wilson, substitute for Thomas Wilson(*?) of Ridout's 3Y Militia. Note2 All these are relatives* or neighbors & acquaintances. Osborne Cox was a Innkeeper, Town of York. - PJA. Peter Lawrence claims £12 xx for 3 months due him of a horse in the [Carbine] Brigade which is certified by Capt. Swayze. Upon enquiry the Board finds this charge unreasonable & some £3 currency suffice & recommend that that amount be paid to him. The foregoing List has been formed from the materials & documents of the late office of Commissary General of Prisoners, Wm. Blagrove, Washington, May 9, 1818. Ref: War of 1812, Archives of Canada, Film T1122, p 371. . UCLPetition 53, York, 10 June, 1818, Peter Lawrence, Granted 300 Acres, 1818, Sept 3. Verify if this is - Con 1, Lot 11, Peter & Alex C. Lawrence, New Survey Toronto Twp., Peel Co. & Con 4 W Hurontario, Lot 12, Peter Lawrence (only). . 1823 Dec 18, Toronto Banns, Elisha Lawrence married Sarah Devins, Witnesses: Isaac Devins & Peter Lawrence. Marriage #117 by Rev. William Jenkins, Richmond Hill. . 1825 July 5, York, The Family Names. Personally came before me a Justice of Peace, Peter Rezeau Lawrence, son of the late John Lawrence, taketh oath & saith that he is aquatinted with his father's handwriting & believes that he wrote down the time of the birth of the family as get bit stand? & in particular, the time of the births of Eliza Ann & Sarah Catharine Lawrence as they are entered upon this paper. Signed, 5 July 1825, Peter Rezeau Lawrence, & James Milles, JP. to page 446 [film p 695] . 1833-4 York Commercial Directory: Peter Lawrence, C 1, Lot 6 Commencing near Montgomery's, to the end of the Township-1st Concession east & west, on Yonge street. . York Peel Directory: . 1833 Southwold Township, Elgin Twp.: LAWRENCE, P. (Peter), Southwold, South of Talbot Road, 23 South 1/2 of West ½ LAWRENCE, J. (John), Southwold, South of Talbot Road, 23 North ½ of West ½. . 1836 Oct 15th - MUTAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Notice is hereby given, that a public Meeting will be held at Montgomery's Tavern on Yonge Street, on Monday the 14th day of November next, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of considering whether it be expedient to establish a Fire Insurance Company for the Home District, on the principal of Mutual Insurance, under the previsions of the Act of the Provincial Legislature recently passed. Signed: 15 Oct. 1836: John Macintosh, Peter Lawrence, John Bogart Junr, Sillies Fletcher, Joshua Willson, Chas. Doan, Geo. Silverthorne, Wm. Macintosh, John Montgomery, Daniel Cummer. Marshall B Stone, Wm. Bigham. Ref: The Correspondent & Advocate. Toronto Newspaper dated 16 Nov 1836. . 1836 Mar 11, Bargain & Sale, Purchased from James Anderson for £80, Lot 6, Con 1 Yonge Street West side. Cousin Richard Johnston resided next Lot 5. Also at Lot 7 beside him was Duke William Kendrick (1800-1819 & Susan Kendrick to 1819). Ref: Land Registration Office, York County. . 1837 Toronto District Directory: Lawrence, Peter, Con 1, Lot 6, Yonge St. road, York Twp. Johnston, Richard, Con 1, Lot 5 Yonge St., York Twp., Montgomery, J., Con 1, Lot 1 Yonge St. east side, York Twp.,* Willson, John, the fourth, Con 1, Lot 3, east side Yonge St. road, York Twp. Note3: Cousins Lawrence, Johnston & Willson. Note4*: Montgomery's Tavern historical building, Yonge & York Mills Rd., incidentally, the west side of Yonge street is called Wilson Avenue. X-Ref: Capt. John Lawrence.Xiii, born 1815, to see a letter written by John Lawrence detailing Peter Lawrence's participation in the Rebellion of 1837. * The CUMMER MEMORANDUM: 1837 McKenzie Rebellion. Aunt Angelina Irwin Willson, wife of Joshua Willson, was a very ardent Reformer & she had many an argument before the Rebellion with her brother-in-law, Peter Lawrence, who espoused Tory principles. She stated that after the Rebellion he became disgusted with the Tories & always afterwards voted the Reform ticket. (Angelina Cummer interview, 1905). . 1838 - Town of York annual meeting at Montgomery's & afterwards, adjourning to Anderson's Tavern, at York Mills. Elected: Peter Lawrence assessor. Alex Montgomery and Wm. Marsh as Commissioners. . 1838 - The electors meeting at Montgomery's & adjourning to Anderson's tavern, York Mills, where the following officials were duly chosen: Peter Lawrence, Assessor, Alex. Montgomery & Wm. Marsh Commissioners. X-Ref: Capt. John Lawrence .Xiii, born 1815, to see a letter written by John Lawrence detailing Peter Lawrence's participation in the Revolution of 1837. . 1846, Jan 5, Monday. - HEIR & DEVISEE, Claim 13 Peter Rezeau Lawrence York Twp., Esquire. Claims as the only surviving Executor named in the WILL of John Lawrence, deceased. Claims Lot 7, 8 in Con 8 & 15, Con 9, Innisfil, now Simcoe Co., Original Nominee John Lawrence. Remarks: Allowed to claimant as surviving Executor of the WILL of John Lawrence, the Original Nominee upon the Trusts & to the uses mentioned in the said Will, dated 12 June, 1818. . 1846 Jan 7, Wed. Claim 21, as above, but mentioned in the said Will dated 13 June, 1818. Innisfil Twp, 1846, Case File 40-2842. Ref: Upper Canada Heir & Devisee, H1151, p298, the 2nd Index copy on Page 672; & for 1846, Microfilm MS657, reel 54, Archives of Canada & Canadiana.ca. . 1846 Brown's Toronto City Directory: Peter Lawrence, J.P., Directory of the Home District Agricultural Society. . 1851 Census Toronto Gore Twp., Peel Co., Tanner, 2 stories log house. . 1852 Census York Twp., York, Ontario Lawrence, Peter Farmer, New Brunswick, Methodist, 63, Married Lawrence, Eliz United States, Methodist, 58, F Lawrence, Mary Canada, Methodist, 20, F Lawrence, Wm. Canada, Methodist, 18, M Lawrence, Nancy Canada, Methodist, 16, F Lawrence, Sarah Canada, Methodist, 14, F. . 1852 Agricultural Census, York Twp. East of Yonge Street Peter Lawrence, Con 1, Lot 6, 180 Acres, 60 A. under cultivation; 49 A. Under crops in 1851; 10 A under pasture 1851; 1 A, gardens/orchards; 120 A. Under wild woods, 8 Acres Peas; 12 A. produced 500 Bushels Oats; 25 A. produced 500 bu. wheat; Quarter Acres B. Wheat produced 10 Bu.; Quarter A. produced 0 Bu Indian Corn; 1 A. Potatoes;14 Bundles or tons of Hay; 60 lbs. of Wool; 4 Milch cow, 5 calves; 5 horses; 23 sheep; 20 Pigs; 600 lbs. Butter; 1000 Cwts. of Pork. [General] Comments by Enumerator: Impossible to take the agricultural census, conversely except the Farmers know the measurement of the fields & bushels of grain. Peas are generally thought & without any measuring plant as they are marked. . 1853 May 14, Toronto, CANADIAN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE, According to announcement, a meeting of the friends of Temperance was convened in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday evening last. …re forming liquor laws. for York County until 1st July next: E R Whittemore, Esq., President; Committee of Management: Peter Lawrence, Seur, York Mills. Note5: E F Whittemore was married to his Peter's cousin Margaret Lawrence Johnston. Ref: The Globe Newspaper, Toronto. . 1855 Sep 7 - York Country Roads, Tolls. the abominably disgraceful state of Yonge Street road all who travel upon it; miles have had neither labor nor material upon them since hey have been in hands of present proprietor. Many parts are positively unsafe & so bought with so much loose tuff upon it, that horses can scarcely be driven out of a walk without a risk of camping them. … 4 miles interval from gate to gate a Farmer has now to pay 3 pence for every mile he travel upon Yonge Street. Ref: the Colonist Newspaper.. . Yesterday we made some allusion to the management of the York Roads, tolls, etc. As we were going to press an accident occurred on Yonge Street, from the state of the road …Mr. Lawrence, a very old & respectable inhabitant of Yonge Street, was thrown out of his buggy; 2 young lads, sons of Mr. Cherry, the Butcher of Yorkville, while driving in a gig yesterday morning are thrown out at the same spot & seriously injured. Repairs so much neglected at the hill near Davis brewery that a large hole has been filling up to endanger the life of any person sho should drive into. Ref: New Era Newspaper, Newmarket. . 1857 Jan 17th - HEIR & DEVISE COMMISSION, List of Lands allowed at the late Sittings at Toronto of the Commissioners, at Osgood Hall, Toronto: Peter Lawrence, York South portion of Lot 8, Con 1 E side of Yonge Street. Published 1857.2.14. . 1857 Oct 30 - Toronto. Gaige's patent Process: for Tanning! Tanned without bark, but with materials 30% cheaper, making a better article of leather & in 1/6 of the time; which received the First Prize at the Provincial Exhibition. We have certificates from James Hartry, Andrew McLean, Peter Lawrence, Wm. Summerville & Fancin Buttery, Tanners. The Patten Right for the above invention is now offered for sale in all parts of Canada. Further information apply to: Gage & Co, American Hotel, Toronto, or at Lawrence Tanner, Yonge St, 5 mile from town. Ref: The Globe Newspaper. . 1860 Jul 9 - Lawrence, Peter, WILL Summary: South half Lot 6, Con 1 Yonge Street East. Wife Elizabeth bed & bedding, furniture, implements, horses & carriages Peter Jr. $500 minus $1,500 paid earlier William $1,400 + $600 Daughters - Margaret Wilson, Elizabeth Walker, Mary Mason, Nancy Katherine Lawrence & Sarah Jane Lawrence - each $2,000! Jacob Lawrence - Lot 6, Con 1 Yonge Street, $2.00 - $2,000 Mortgage to exempt the Mill privileges on the south half, north half waters & pons crossing the Down River. Executors are his beloved wife Elizabeth & sons-in-laws, John Willson & Wm. T Mason of Toronto. . 1860 Aug 19 - Peter Lawrence, born NB 1788 - UC 1810 York TWP., died Eglinton [postal district], 72 years. Ref: Christian Guardian Newspaper, Ontario. . 1860 Aug 24 - At Eglinton, Yonge Street, on Sunday the 19th inst, Peter Lawrence, Esq, aged 74 years. Ref: York Herald Newspaper, Aurora & Richmond Hill, Ontario. . 1861 York Peel Directory, York Twp., Peter Lawrence, C 1 Lot 21; Lawrence, John Con 1 L6, Lawrence, Wm., Con 3, Lot 21. . 1861 Census, York Twp., York, Ontario, 43 y/1818, W. Methodist, Married. . 1863 Apr 4 - To Rent, The premises at Eglinton, Yonge street, 3 miles from the Street Railway terminus, formerly the residence of the late Peter Lawrence, Esq. consisting of a large brick dwelling & outhouses, with about 5 acres of & including a large orchard, kitchen & fruit garden. apply to W T Mason, Ontario Hall, Toronto, April 1st. . 1866 Apr 18 - To Rent, for a Term of Years, To be leased, that desirable Country Residence at Eglinton, Yonge St. Belong to the Estate of the late Peter Lawrence, Esq. to which is attached, carriage, stable & other outhouses, with about 6 acres of land, including 2 large orchards, kitchen & fruit garden. Apply to W T Mason. . 1873 Dec 2 - 1873 Dec 2 - That Desirable Brick family residence with suitable outhouses & about 7 acres of land, to be let; which includes kitchen, garden & 2 orchards, belonging to the estate of the ate Peter Lawrence, situated at the village of Eglinton, Yonge street, about 4 miles from Toronto, W T Mason, 26 Toronto St., Toronto. Ref: The Globe Newspaper. . 1871 Lovell's Cdn. Dominion Directory, Willowdale: A village in the Twp. of York, west riding in the county of York. Distant from Thornhill, a station of the Northern railway, 5 miles, from Toronto 9 miles, fare 25¢. Mail daily, Population about 150. Peter Lawrence, farmer. - . -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I24)
17886	PAGE ONE: 1812 Aug 6 . 1812 Dec 30 - An address presented to the Presbytery of Onondaga at Homer, by Joshua Leonard, Subject Baptism & Presbyterian Church membership. Printed in the Cortland Repository, Homer Village NY, by John W Osborn, 1812. p12. Note1: This indicates JW Osborn was upon leaving York he was immediate involved in publishing. - PJA . 1814 Nov 16, Buffalo NY, LOST, on the 6th inst. in the village of Buffalo, an old black leather Pocket Book containing a promissory note, made by Celeb Rogers, payable to the subscriber or order, for $850, in four see-annual installments, on the first days of May & Oct. with an endorsement thereon of $218.375 cents - also between $8 & $9 in bank notes together with sundry other papers of no consequence except to the owner. Whoever will return said pocket book & the papers to the subscriber, near Williamsville, may retain the money it contained & will be entitled to the thanks of the subscriber & no questions asked. Dated Wmsville, Nov 23, 1814, Signed, John Osborn. Ref: Buffalo Gazette, NY. * 1815 Jul 26 - Information Requested. The Subscriber having been informed that his Step-father, Mr. John Vanzantte, has moved from York, Upper Canada, into the United States, feels anxious to ascertain the place of his residence. Any person having information of the same, will do an act of kindness by communicating it by letter to: John W. Osborn, Printer, Homer Village, Cortland County, N.Y. *** Printers in this state are respectfully solicited to give above an intention in their respective papers. Ref: Geneva Gazette, New York Jul 26 & * Patrol, Utica, NY, pub. Wed. Jul 31, 1815. . 1815 Oct 1 - Letters Remaining in the Post Office at Buffalo, John W Osborn. - Letters called for by the first day of January next, will be sent to the General Post Office. Ref: Niagara Journal, Buffalo, New York, published 1815 Oct 17. . 1840 Census Warren, Putnam co., Indiana, John Osborn persons Employed in Manufacture & Trade: 2 Free White Persons - Under 20: 5 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:3 Total Free White Persons: 9 . 1862 Oct 29, Tax Annual Lists, district 7, Indiana, Hamilton Co., Retail dealer, Tax due $10.00. . 1840 Oct 30, Fri. - West half of NW quarter of Section 18, 17 Twp., N of range 5 east, containing 80 A in Marion Co. Also Lot 6 in out block 39. Also lots 3, 4 & 5 in out block number 2 in John Wood's adjoining to the town of Indianapolis, mortgaged by John W. Osborn. Debt damages & costs $516.05 Ref: Indiana Democrat, Indianapolis & also published 12.19.1840 & 1.9.1841. . 1840 Dec 12 - Mr. Switger of Marion offered for adoption the following & resolution: Whereas by virtue of a joint resolution of the General Assembly, approved 4 Feb, 1837 John W Osborn & Elijah Chamberlain were on 6 Jan 1838 duly elected public printers of this house for the tern of 3 years. Whereas Osborn & Chambers executed their bond for the due performance of the public printing, they were ejected 14 Dec 1839 form being public printers to this House, in violation of the rights & contract of said of said Osborn & Chamberlain, John Livingston was elected in their stead. Therefore resolved that a John W Osborn & Elijah Chamberlain are the rightful public printers to this house until 1 August next. Ref: Indiana Democrat, Indianapolis. . 1866 May 2 - The Greencastle Banner says: John W Osborn, the old pioneer printer & publisher of Indiana, is now a resident of Greencastle. His 'sands of life,' however, have nearly run out. Quite feeble in body & mind, perhaps before another issue of this sheet, he will be transferred hence. As a public journalist, he occupied no inferior position among the leading editors of 25 or 30 years age. He was at one time State printer in connection with Mr. Willetts, a Quaker, still residing at Indianapolis. He was also editor & publisher of one or two papers at this point - one called the Plow Boy, & the other, if we mistake not, dominated the Tenpence Advocate. He is known to some of our older citizens of the county as a zealous advocate of whatever cause he espoused. We feel kindly towards our older brother in the craft, & trust that when is called hence it will be to enjoy the reward of a life well spend. He is residing now with his son-in-law, Judge Claypool, who has recently become a citizen of this place, & is we believe, in the 73 year of his age. Ref: Worthington Gazette, Indiana. . Obituary - 1866 Nov 15, Thurs. - Death of an Old Printer. John Willson Osborn, Esq., since 1820 connected with the press of this State at Vincennes, Terre Haute, Indianapolis & in this town, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Judge Sol. Claypool, at Greencastle, on Monday morning last. Mr. Osborn was born in Nova Scotia, of Irish parents, about the year 1793 & was about 73 years of age at the time of his death. He moved with his parents to the vicinity of Toronto, Canada, where he continued to reside until he attained to the age of manhood. He learned the printing business in the town of Niagara, Canada, & soon after moved to the state of New York. From the State, he came with Lucien R Scott, formerly of Terre Haute, to Indiana & was connected with the press at Vincennes until 1823 when he moved to Terre Haute, where, opposite Grover's Foundry on Fifth street, he established the first paper ever published in that now important city. He continued to publish his paper for 9 years, under the difficulties incident to such business in a small village, a new country, & a sparse population. In 1832 he sold his establishment to Thos. Dowling, Esq. Mr. Osborn was a man of intelligence & respectable talents & distinguished for the warmth of his feelings & the impulsive of his character. Judge Gookins, his son-in-law, learned the art of printing in his office as did his brother Chas. W Cutter, Esq., now of Iowa. Ref: Sullivan Democrat Newspaper, Indiana. Biogragphy1: John W Osborne. Indiana was stiffening up on the slavery question. Even Vincennes was invaded by the anti-slavery element. In 1817 a number of Canadians who had served in the American army came to the state to claim the bounty lands which Congress had appropriated for them in Indiana. Among them was Major Markle, who located near Terre Haute, & built a celebrated old mill, & John Willson Osborn, who went to Vincennes. Osborn was a grandson of Col. John Willson, a British officer, stationed in New York, who went to Canada at the outbreak of the Revolution. His father was Capt. Samuel Osborne of the British Navy. Although his people were wealthy, young Osborn learned the printing trade in the office of the Upper Canadian Guardian a Freeman's Journal, [1807-14, considered an opposing newspaper,] which was conducted by Joseph Willcocks, Member of Parliament from the Niagara district, who was decidedly pro-American in his views, & who was killed in the American service, near Fort Erie. In this employment Osborn took on American ideas, & at the beginning of the War of 1812, went across Lake Erie & joined Capt. Mahar's company of Irish Greens, * for which he was disinherited by his grandfather. [under Lt. Col. Francis/ Geo.? McClure, NY Militia] This did not worry Osborn, who, when he got through soldiering, went into the newspaper business at Homer, N. Y., for a time, & then started the Cortland Republican newspaper at Cortlandville. While here he married Ruby Bishop. He arrived in Vincennes in June 1817, & at once found employment in the office of the Western Sun, & a few weeks later became a partner, & editor of the paper. This lasted him a few months as Osborne had very pronounced anti-slavery views, which did not hinge with those of Elisha Stout, the proprietor of the paper; & so they "dissolved" & Osborn went to farming. In 1819 Osborn was joined at Vincennes by his brother-in-law, Amory Kinney, a native of Vermont, who had read law at Cortlandville, in the office of Samuel Nelson, later a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Both Osborn & Kinney were satisfied that the slavery existing in Indiana was illegal, & they united to make a test case with two lawyers. Col. George McDonald, of New Jersey, the preceptor & father-in-law of Judge Isaac Blackford, who entered the practice at Vincennes in 1819; & Moses Tabbs, a son-in-law of Charles Carroll of Carrolton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, who was admitted to the bar at Vincennes in 1818. The test was made by an action of habeas corpus on behalf of a mulatto woman named Polly, held as a slave by Col. Hyacinthe Lasselle, the principal tavern keeper of Vincennes. Lasselle was one of the old families of the French in Indiana. ... The case presented the question of the old French slavery, Polly being the daughter of a negro woman who had been captured by the Indians in the Revolutionary period. The Circuit Court held her to be a slave, but the Supreme Court held that the people of Indiana had the power to abolish slavery, without regard to the Virginia Deed of Cession, & that "the framers of our constitution intended a total & entire prohibition of slavery in this state." This decision was made in July, 1820, & it created some resentment among the slave-holders, who threatened vengeance on Osborn & Kinney, but those gentlemen manifested a readiness to meet any one hunting for trouble, & no casualties resulted. Ref: Indiana and Indianans, A History of Aboriginal & Territorial Indiana & the Century of Statehood, by Jacob Piatt Dunn. Chicago 1919. Note2: * Among Catholic residents of Albany who had reached a degree of prosperity & prominence was a wholesale grocer, James Maher. Maher organized the Republican Rifle Company, or Irish Greens [Republican Green Rifles]. He was captain & fellow parishioner John Cassidy was lieutenant. In 1813, Maher's company took part in the Battle of Sackets Harbor & led his troops in the capture of Little York, (now Toronto) Canada, Ontario. Feb. 5 1813 the Maher Company had a Camp in Buffalo, otherwise regular station was in Albany. The flag taken at Fort George Upper Canada, May 27, 1813 was taken by a summer, Daniel Campbell, in Captain Maher's Albany volunteers. Ref: Albany Argus Newspaper, published 1813 Jul 2, Friday. . 1813 Jan 5, Albany - Captain Maher's company of Albany, now at Buffalo as - part of Col. McClure’s Regiment, are volunteers for one year. They received from me 2 months pay & $16 each on account of clothing in September when they entered service. Capt. Maher, who is now here, requests that they may receive the bal­ance of the allowance for clothing immediately. …They must be equipped with uniform & a blanket at all events. A Musket and knapsack can be supplied with those also. 1812 Sep 29, Albany Greens, which are to are to follow the NY Greens to Onondaga, in a few days., Gen’l Dearborn. Ref: Public Papers of Daniel D Tompkins, Governor of NY, 1807-1817. - . -	OSBORN, John Willson (I708)
17887	PAGE THREE: WITNESSES TO HISTORY: . 1816 Peter Lawrence & John Willson - Early Scenes in Manitoba: GRAND JURORS in the UPRISING at the SELKIRK RED RIVER SETTLEMENT (Summary:) The Montreal North West Company of Fur Traders was a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company. Whilst the latter traded for the most part in the regions watered by the rivers flowing into Hudson's Bay, the former claimed for their operations the area drained by the streams running into Lake Superior. The North West Company of Montreal looked with no kindly eye on the settlement of Kildonan. An agricultural colony, in close proximity to their hunting grounds, seemed a dangerous innovation, tending to injure the local fur trade. Accordingly it was resolved to break up the infant colony. The Indians were told that they would assuredly be made "poor & miserable" by the new-comers if they were allowed to proceed with their improvements; because these would cause the buffalo to disappear Lord Selkirk secured land for emigration purposed in land held by the Hudsons' Bay Company. In 1813 there were 100 settlers originating from the Scottish Clearances to the 'Selkirk Settlement' located at the confluence of the large Assiniboine & Red Rivers, with an outlet at York Factory on the Hudson's Bay. Ref: Toronto of Old, Henry Scadding, 1873. In the spring of 1816, Mr. Semple, the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, appeared in person at the Red River, having been apprized of the growing troubles. At the Battle of the Seven Oaks, on the 18th of June, a band of men, headed by Cuthbert, Grant, Lacerte, Fraser, Hoole & Thomas McKay, half-breed employees of the North West Company, the Governor of the Hudsons Bay Company was violently assaulted; & in the melee he was killed, together with 5 officers & 16 of his people. Chief Peguis, with the permission of Cuthbert Grant, stayed to bury the dead, the rest fled eventually to the Grand Rendezvous at Fort William.* En route to his Selkirk colony, Lord Selkirk had used his troops under his authority as a magistrate to seize Fort William & arrested Nor’Wester William McGillivray & his 2 companions, & to hold the Fort’s assets for eventual arbitration, as payment for his colony’s losses. On Selkirk's return to Upper Canada, he was drawn into a lengthy lawsuit brought against him by the North West Company. In 1821 the Hudson’s Bay Company & the North West Company amalgamated. . Out of these events sprang the memorable trials that took place in the York Court House in 1818. On the judges were Chief Justice Powell, Mr. Justice Campbell, Mr. Justice Boulton, & Associate Justice W. Allan, Esq. The counsel for the Crown were Mr. Attorney-General Robinson, Mr. Solicitor-General Boulton. The counsel for the prisoners were Samuel Sherwood, Living P. Sherwood, & W. W. Baldwin, Esq. The juries in the 3 trials were not quite identical. Those that served on one or other of them are as follows: George Bond, Joseph Harrison, Wm. Harrison, Joseph Shepperd, Peter Lawrence, Joshua Leach, John McDougall, Jun., Win, Moore, Alexander Montgomery, Peter Whitney, Jonathan Hale, Michael Whitmore, Harbour Stimpson, John Wilson, John Hough, Richard Herring. . 1818 Jun 19th, the Trial by Grand Jury take place a the (old) Court House on Richmond St. in the Town of York, (Toronto). The Earl of Selkirk was not present at the trials. The Jury found by the Grand Jury for conspiracy to ruin the trade of the North West Company; a verdict £500 damages for having been seized & false imprisonment by the said Earl of Selkirk in Fort William, Ontario. Ref: Toronto of Old, Henry Scadding, 1873. . 1860 August 19 at Eglinton, Yonge Street, Peter LAWRENCE, Esquire, age 74 years. Came from New Brunswick 50 years ago. He was a Major in the Militia & later a Magistrate. Ref: Markham Economist Newspaper, published 1860 Aug 23rd., . Died, At Eglinton, Yonge Street, On Sunday, the 19th Inst., Peter Lawrence, Esq., Aged 74 years. [= b. 1786.] Ref: York Herald, Richmond Hill, published 1860 Aug 24, p. 3. . Peter Lawrence, born NB, 1788 - UC 1810, York Twp., died Eglinton [postal district], 19 Aug 1860, 74 years. Ref: Christian Guardian Newspaper, Ontario. Note7: Fort William & Henry, is located at the top of Lake Superior. Now renamed Thunder Bay, Ontario. No doubt the 19 (French) Canadian Metis were apprehended at the annual Grand Rendezvous of fur traders at Ft. William. Note8: This was a very important trail with many famous people of time being involved. Note9: John Willson, senior or junior, is not stated. Because of the presence of Peter Lawrence, I believe it was more likely John Junior as the Juror, because in 1816 they lived closer together. On the other hand, his father, John Willson Senior, had moved further north to the Children of Peace's settlement in Sharon, Ontario, however, John the Senior was captured in the previous year in the War of 1813 at the Battle of Fort York. - PJA 2011. - . -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I24)
17888	PAGE THREE: WITNESSES TO HISTORY: . 1816 Peter Lawrence & John Willson, at the Richmond Street Court House, Toronto, before chief Justices Powell & Campbell, Justice Boulton, W Allen . Early Scenes in Manitoba: GRAND JURORS in the UPRISING at the SELKIRK RED RIVER SETTLEMENT Summary! : The Montreal North West Company of Fur Traders was a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company. Whilst the latter traded for the most part in the regions watered by the rivers flowing into Hudson's Bay, the former claimed for their operations the area drained by the streams running into Lake Superior. The North West Company of Montreal looked with no kindly eye on the settlement of Kildonan. An agricultural colony, in close proximity to their hunting grounds, seemed a dangerous innovation, tending to injure the local fur trade. Accordingly it was resolved to break up the infant colony. The Indians were told that they would assuredly be made "poor & miserable" by the new-comers if they were allowed to proceed with their improvements; because these would cause the buffalo to disappear Lord Selkirk secured land for emigration purposed in land held by the Hudsons' Bay Company. In 1813 there were 100 settlers originating from the Scottish Clearances to the 'Selkirk Settlement' located at the confluence of the large Assiniboine & Red Rivers, with an outlet at York Factory on the Hudson's Bay. In the spring of 1816, Mr. Semple, the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, appeared in person at the Red River, having been apprized of the growing troubles. At the Battle of the Seven Oaks, on the 18th of June, a band of men, headed by Cuthbert, Grant, Lacerte, Fraser, Hoole & Thomas McKay, half-breed employees of the North West Company, the Governor of the Hudsons Bay Company was violently assaulted; & in the melee he was killed, together with 5 officers & 16 of his people. Chief Peguis, with the permission of Cuthbert Grant, stayed to bury the dead, the rest fled eventually to the Grand Rendezvous at Fort William.* En route to his Selkirk colony, Lord Selkirk had used his troops under his authority as a magistrate to seize Fort William & arrested Nor'Wester William McGillivray & his 2 companions, & to hold the Fort's assets for eventual arbitration, as payment for his colony's losses. On Selkirk's return to Upper Canada, he was drawn into a lengthy lawsuit brought against him by the North West Company. In 1821 the Hudson's Bay Company & the North West Company amalgamated. . Out of these events sprang the memorable trials that took place in the York Court House in 1818. On the judges were Chief Justice Powell, Mr. Justice Campbell, Mr. Justice Boulton, & Associate Justice W. Allan, Esq. The counsel for the Crown were Mr. Attorney-General Robinson, Mr. Solicitor-General Boulton. The counsel for the prisoners were Samuel Sherwood, Living P. Sherwood, & W. W. Baldwin, Esq. The juries in the 3 trials were not quite identical. Those that served on one or other of them are as follows: George Bond, Joseph Harrison, Wm. Harrison, Joseph Shepperd, Peter Lawrence, Joshua Leach, John McDougall, Jun., Win, Moore, Alexander Montgomery, Peter Whitney, Jonathan Hale, Michael Whitmore, Harbour Stimpson, John Wilson, John Hough, Richard Herring. Note: Peter Whitney had been a constable in 1791 Northumberland Co., New Brunswick. . 1818 Jun 19th, the Trial by Grand Jury take place a the (old) Court House on Richmond St. in the Town of York, (Toronto). The Earl of Selkirk was not present at the trials. The Jury found by the Grand Jury for conspiracy to ruin the trade of the North West Company; a verdict £500 damages for having been seized & false imprisonment by the said Earl of Selkirk in Fort William, Ontario. Ref: Toronto of Old, Henry Scadding, 1873. . 1860 August 19 at Eglinton, Yonge Street, Peter LAWRENCE, Esquire, age 74 years. Came from New Brunswick 50 years ago. He was a Major in the Militia & later a Magistrate. Ref: Markham Economist Newspaper, published 1860 Aug 23rd. . Died, At Eglinton, Yonge Street, on Sunday, the 19th Inst., Peter Lawrence, Esq., Aged 74 years. [= b. 1786.] Ref: York Herald, Richmond Hill, published 1860 Aug 24, p. 3. . Peter Lawrence, born NB, 1788 - UC 1810, York Twp., died Eglinton [postal district], 19 Aug 1860, 74 years. Ref: Christian Guardian Newspaper, Ontario. Note7: Fort William & Henry, is located at the top of Lake Superior. Now renamed Thunder Bay, Ontario. No doubt the 19 (French) Canadian Metis were apprehended at the annual Grand Rendezvous of fur traders at Ft. William. Note8: This was a very important trail with many famous people of time being involved. Note9: John Willson, senior or junior, is not stated. Because of the presence of Peter Lawrence, I believe it was more likely John Junior as the Juror, because in 1816 they lived closer together. On the other hand, his father, John Willson Senior, had moved further north to the Children of Peace's settlement in Sharon, Ontario, however, John the Senior was captured in the previous year in the War of 1813 at the Battle of Fort York. - PJA 2011. - . -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I247)
17889	Page Three: York County Estate Files . Whittemore, Ezekiel Francis, 1859 Feb 19, Fifty-five pages of legal banter, oaths etc. E F Whittemore [ EFW ] died intestate, perhaps implying a sudden death, or was he ailing or depressed? His last year he failed to post a statement & his books were in disorder. No mention is given of the results or is there even a signature of Margaret Lawrence Whittemore or family. Here are a few summaries of the salient documents. 1. To York Surrogate Court. EFW died wholly intestate, largely indebted & insolvent ...numerous creditors... -partnership is owned about $40,000 ..it will take careful & prudent care to benefit the creditors... Administration should not be granted to the widow or next of kin, but by the Court, under Statute 22 Victoria. Signed Edward Chafferty, Attorney, 19 May, 1859. 2. York Surrogate Court, Petition of Herbert Mason, Accountant of those whose subscribed creditors of the Estate of EZF who died 19 Feb. 1859, Toronto, leaving a widow & several children under the age of 21 years. He died much involved in debt & unable to met its liabilities. William Brown Philips should be appointed administrator. EFW 's personal estate is about $16,000. Signed, 7th day of July, 1859. W. Mason, Ross Mitchell, John Gladtone Holy, Their Attorney, E L Inis, Thomas Rigney {i.e. the other partner}. [Evidently Mr. Philips didn't become the administrator, as Mr. Mason took the position -PJA]. 3. Herbert Mason report to the York Surrogate Court: Your petitioner was urgently requested by a number of the Creditors of the late EFW to undertake the administration of estate. He was required to post a bond of $28,000 at some inconvenience & loss to himself, thereby placing himself under obligation friends, although he had nothing to gain himself. Mason was obliged among other things to take proceedings to protect the household furniture belonging to the estate which was under seizure from the Canada Life Assurance Co. to the amount of 2 Policies on the life of Mr. Whittemore. The Chancery Court compelled Mason take the steps of renewal of Insurance on the life of A B. Townley which had nearly lapsed. Inducing Mr. Townley to go to Fort Erie from Buffalo where he resided to undergo a medical examination & now a considerable sum can now be realized on said Policy. The creditors also filed with the York Chancery Court who also compelled Mason to give an account of balance & expenses of the EFW Estate. The creditors demanded an account of the funeral expenses for E F Whittemore: Undertaker's bill by John Ross was £8 15 schilling & 0 pence. EFW in his lifetime was largely engage in business transactions of different kinds, wholesale Hardware merchant & grocery business, a banker, an exchange broker & an agent of several insurance companies. By reason of numerous & varied transactions was complicated & greatly increased by the loose & careless manner in which the books were kept. Before his death they had not been posted for more than one year. They were voluminous extending to many thousand folios. Funds amounted to $10,784 received ... causing him to attend to much correspondence ... thus necessary to employ a solicitor & an accountant. Herbert Mason's bill for approval is $447.45 for expenses incurred. The Court considered a reasonable compensation to be $1000 & including $339 to be paid the accountant. Signed, 30 August, 1861, Surrogate Court. 4. Page 5 of five pages of extracted INVENTORY: E H Rutherford said to be settled £388.4.6; A H Tisdale total acct. said to be doubtful £ 43. 5.4; Streetsville Plank Rd. Co.; Erie & Ont. Rail Rd. stock; Toronto Guelph Rd. Co., Ont. & Simcoe Rail Rd. stock; Peterboro & Pt. Hope RR stock; Pt. Credit & Hurontario Plank Rd., Scarboro Markham Plankroad Rd. were all said to be doubtful. £468; ROBERT JOHNSTON [a relative] £32.10.2; Consumers Gas Co. Stock $1000. a Cash installment $60. GRAND TOTAL: £15, 715. 4. 6 Note3: The use of both pounds & dollars in 1861. - PJA. . WHITTEMORE'S STORE, King Street East at Toronto Street, for Edward H. Rutherford, 1846; demol. 1886 (Telegram [Toronto], 15 May 1886, 5; J.R. Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto, i, 1894, 81-3, illus. & descrip.) CONSUMER'S GAS CO., Toronto Street, office block with dwelling for the Manager, 1852 (Daily Patriot [Toronto], 15 June 1852, 2) Ref: Joseph Sheard, 1813-1883, Architects in Canada. . Reference note: A slightly fuller version with photocopies is printed in my book. Otherwise please see the Estate File at the Archives of Ontario for the complete legal miscellanea. - P J Ahlberg, Toronto. 2009 - - -	WHITTEMORE, Ezekiel Francis .I (I243)
17890	Page Two The Walkers made Cutter & farm implements. The Difference Between a Cutter & a Sleigh One of the biggest differences between a cutter & a sleigh is the size. Cutters were created for leisurely driving among one or two couples. They were meant to be snug & comfortable. Sleighs, though, were built to accommodate a larger group. The cutter was used for longer, slower rides, the runners are straighter, which means the cutter is meant to keep going straight. While it can be turned, turns must be taken slowly & wider than normal. The primary use of both a cutter & a sleigh is transportation in the snowy winter months, they each have their own individual purpose. Because cutters offered a cozier ride with all occupants sitting close together. The cutter, for instance, is built lower to the ground & requires more flexibility to ensure the jarring of the road does not break the structure. - - -	WALKER, Charles Henry .1 (I7)
17891	Page Two & . 1693 Nov 7th day - WILL, of Richard Cornell, of Rockaway in Queens County, In the Name of God, Amen, being sicke, do make this my last will & testament." I do bind & make over all my lands & meadows at Rockaway upon the south side of the Island of Nassau, for the paying & satisfying of a certain debt, owing by me to the children of John Washburn, deceased. If my executors do not pay the said debt when due, then I direct the overseers of this will to sell the same for that purpose, & give the overplus to my 4 sons, William, Jacob, Thomas & John. . I bequeath to my son William a certain part of my lands & meadows situate at Rockaway, bounded north with the old fence upon the south side of the last years wheat field, & so running east to Hempstead line, & south by the sea. Including all lands & meadows, excepting my now dwelling house & orchard & the pasture thereto adjoining with the barn & the land in tillage about it. . I bequeath to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth Cornell, during her widowhood, & then descend to my son William. . to my son Thomas, all that portion of land & meadow bought by me of John Smith of Hempstead, commonly called Little Smith. Also another part of my land & meadow, bounded south by my son William's line; north by the middle of the Fresh Cove that Robert Beadell's meadow was laid out in, & so running east to the three rail fence, & further if it shall happen. . to my sons Jacob & John, all my lands and meadows adjoining the wells to the north of Thomas Cornell's line, situate at Rockaway. Bounded north by the Great river or Cove, east by the 3 rail fence, to be divided equally between them. . to my son Richard 10 acres of meadow joining to wells his line, to run north & south upon an equal line. . to my son William 10 acres of meadow joining the above, & to run in the same manner. . I give to my daughter Elizabeth Lawrence, ten acres of meadow joining to my son William Cornell's meadow, & to run in the same manner. I leave to my daughter, Mary Cornell, £100 NY currency, one third to be paid to her when of age 18 y, the rest in yearly payments. Also one half of the indoor movables. Leaves to his wife the use of the house & lands during her widowhood. Leaves 12 heifers to his 12 grand children, namely the children of his son Richard, the children of my son Washburn," & the children of my son John Lawrence. . to his daughter Sarah Arnold, 2 cows. . If my wife remarry then she is to have 100 & one half of the movables. Directs his lands at Cow Neck & Crabmeadow to be sold, & the money to go to all his children. Leaves all his rights in the undivided lands in Hempstead to his 5 sons. His four sons, Richard, Thomas, Jacob & John, are to have the right to put horses on the beach, & they are to assist in making the fence. If his sons Jacob & John see cause to build by the path side to the eastward of my dwelling house, & on the land purchased of Little Smith, I give to each of them two acres of said land. All the money in my house, & all the debts due to me, shall be employed for the payment of the children of the deceased John Washburn & Captain Charles Lodwick. . To Jacob & John, liberty to put horses on heather. . To sons Thomas & William, liberty to put swine on beach. Revokes all former wills. Signed & (red) seal, Richard Cornell. Executors: His wife Elizabeth, & sons Richard & William executors, & his friends Colonel Thomas Willett, Lieut. Colonel Thomas Hicks & Captain Daniel White, overseers." Not witnessed. Proved before Governor Fletcher, October 30, 1694. Ref: NY Abstracts of Wills, Liber 5-6 &, History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917, Alfred H Bellot, 1917. Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg, Thank you. - - -	CORNELL, Richard Sr. (I2651)
17892	Page Two RESEARCH FOR CATHERINE B KHUN'S PARENTS & HISTORY: History & Roster of Peter Khun Family i the USA.1932 Red Hook, Duchess, NJ 1. Nicholas Bonesteel & Anna Margretha Kuhn, his wife, with some of their children, were among the early settlers. A portion of the village of Red Hook is now on the easterly part of their farm. Of their descendants, Philip N. Bonesteel was a merchant, magistrate & post-master in Red Hook for many years. His son, Virgil D., was Surrogate of Dutchess county in 1844. 2. John, James, Daniel & Robert Wilson, 4 brothers, settled in the vicinity of Upper Red Hook before 1770, & engaged in farming. The 2 eldest married the Kuhn sisters, daughters of Simon Kuhn. Refs: Historical & Genealogical Record Dutchess & Putnam Counties. 3. Anna Margaretha Kuhn, c172- died before 1744 other spellings: Coens, Coons . d/o Elisabetha Kilmer c 1697 & Johann Wiliem Kuhn 1695 Germany Landed 1710 (some of 6 children born Camp east bank, Columbia Co. NY) see #8. 4. KUHN - 10/29/00 - looking for information on the Kuhn dairy farm in Pine Bush NY around the late 1800's to about 1910 any info. wiill help E-Mail nil add 5. PITCHER - 1/07/05 - Heinrich Pitcher born 1762 around Rhinebeck, N.Y. -11.4.1800, Clermont, Columbia, NY. He was married 4.30.1786, NY to Catharine Kuhn born 1762 Germantown, NY-11.4.1800 Clermont, Columbia, NY, & had a daughter, Polly Pitcher on Feb. 24, 1794. I'm looking for parents of Heinrich & Catharine. Polly married Peter Van Etten in 1813. They lived in Sodus Twnshp. Wayne Co., N.Y. & both died there. ken@mediapost.com 6. My Ed Kuhn & brother John Kuhn lived in Pine Bush New York they had a farm there. John married Grace DeWitt & Fred lived in Middle town N.Y 7. Smith (1881) has the following: "John Wilson & Elizabeth Kuhn had children as follows: Catharine, baptized March 27, 1774, married Col. Philip Pitcher, of Upper Red Hook; " (p. 204). 8. ANNA ELISABETHA KILMER (GEORG KILLMER, GEORG was born August 14, 1698 in Altengronau, Hessen, Germany, & died Unknown in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, USA. She married JOHANNAS WILHELM KUHN 1719 in Red Hook, Dutchess Co., New York, USA.  He was born Bet. 1697 - 1699 in Germany, & died Unknown in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, USA. 9. Working research: Looking for family: Poughkeepsie is 22 miles from Red Hook., Dutchess Co., NY Titusville is six miles from Nine Partners. Nine Partners & Poughkeepsie are about 12 miles away. 10. Catharina Kuhn, c 1745 d/o Anna Gertrud Falckerberg 1711, West Camp , Ulster, NY, married 1734 to Henry Kuhn, 17k08, Columbia & died Clermont, Columbia NY Red Hook, NY: Nicholas Bonesteel married Anna Margretha Kuhn. - John, James, Daniel & Robert Wilson, four brothers, settled in the vicinity of Upper Red Hook before 1770, & engaged in farming. The two eldest married the Kuhn sisters, daughters of Simon Kuhn. * Ref: Historical & Genealogical Record, Dutchess & Putum Co., 1912, pg. 45. *1751, Jul 11. Advertisement: Lottery in the Borough of Lancaster for purchasing a fire engine & other public uses. The following persons are appointed managers of the lottery:...Simon Kuhn. 1751 Aug 19, Lancaster Lottery Tickets to dispose of Adam Simon Kuhn. 1772 Mar 26 - Phila. General Assembly the following laws were passed: An Act for confirming the estate of Adam Simon Khun, in & to a certain lot of ground borough of Lancaster, one of the title deeds where of is lost. 1786 Jan 12 & 1791 Phila. Meeting of American Philosophical Society, Fri. Last, elected the following: Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Esq. President. Dr. Adam Kuhn, Counsellor. Ref: Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, PA . - - -	KUHN, Catherine B (I809)
17893	Page Two - Pension Applications (Summaries), p 333 Canada, Pension Applications for Widows & Family of British Military Officers . Required for placing on the Pension, the widow of an officer. Elizabeth Nicholson made other she was locally married on 7 August 1787 to the late Arthur Nicholson, Adjutant in the late Regiment of Kings American Dragoons, Bej. Thompson son Lieut. Col & she has no Pension. Signed, Elizabeth Nicholson, Prseque Isle, County of York. Sworn at Woodstock, 25 July 1822, Rich Ketchum JP, Woodstock. Signed, John Saunders, 17 Aug 1822, Judge of Supreme Court of Adjudication of NB. Capt. in late Queens Rangers, as there is no one his Corps not in this Province. Counter Signed, Ward Chipman, Judge, Saint John, 5 Oct 1822. . 1822 Oct 12, Affidavit1: John Saunders & Ward Chipman whom signed the certificates, were Members of the Supreme Court of NB. Signed, Wm. L Odell. . 1820 June 21, Affidavit2: Home District, Upper Canada [Toronto,York Co., Ontario]. Personally appeared before me James Miles, Esquire, of Vaughan, Justice of Peace, John Lawrence, Esquire of Vaughan, a Lieutenant on the Halfway of His late Majestry as late 1st Battalion New Jersey Volunteers, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists deposits that he was present when Adjutant Arthur Nicholson, of late Kings late American Dragoons and Elizabeth Lawrence were lawfully married on or about 7 August 1787 & Arthur & Elizabeth Nicholson were married in the Parish of Fredericton NB by Rev. Johnathan Odell, late Secretary of His Majestys's Council, in NB. Signed, John Lawrence. Sworn before me at Vaughan in the District aforesaid, 21 June, 1820, Signed, James Miles, J.P. To: J Henry Smith, Esq., Justice of Peace for York Co., New Brunswick. Note: This affidavit was sent more than a year before her brother-in-law John Lawrence's death, surely anticipating the need for this testimony - PJ Ahlberg. . 1820 Dec 18 - Affidavit3: Catherine Kollock, wife of Capt. Simon Kollock, Loyal Am Reg. was present when Cornet Adj Arthur Nichols & Elizabeth Lawrence were lawful married about 17.8. 1786, married in the Fredericton Parish, by Rev. Jonathan Odell, late Secretary of Majestys NB Council. Signed, Catharine Kollock. 1822 Jun 21 - Affidavit4: Andrew Phair, Assist Barrack Master Gen. NB, verify late Adj. Arthur Nicholson was upon halfway Kings Am Dragoons, comm by Col Thompson &, 17 Reg , to the day of his Death, In 1788 he obtained said Reg of Dragoons as Quarter Mast of a Troop, purchased. Upon raising said Am. Dragoon Reg, he was appointed Cornet & Adjutant by Commissions dated 6 May 1872 by Sir Guy Carlton on 22 Feb 1781. during the term of 5 years upward he rec. full pay & allowances, Signed, A Phair, Fredericton, NB. . 1822 Jul 26 - Affidavit5: Hugh McGuigon make oath he attended the late Arthur Nicholson, deceased in his last sickness he died at Presque Isle on 26 Sep 1821 of natural decay. He was interred in my presence on 10 Sep 1821 in said York County. Signed, Hugh McGuigan, York Co. Wit. Rich Ketchum, JP, Woodstock. . 1822 Jul 26 - Petition of Elizabeth Nicholson, To. Rt. Hon. Secretary at War, Your Petitioner residing at Presque Isle, York Co, NB Province, is the widow of late Adjutant Arthur Nicholson, on the Half pay of the late Reg. Kings American Dragoons, Commanded by late Col. Ben. Thompson, who served during the whole of the late Rebellion in America (& previous, to that, upwards of 2 years in His Majesty's 17th Reg. of Light Dragoons, in England), who was brought to this Province after the evacuation of New York, was disbanded & placed upon the Half pay List in 1783. Her late husband died 5 Sept 1821 of natural decay. At his death she was left with a family of 4 unmarried daughters & 1 son under age, to wit: Jane, Eleanor, Mary Ann, Eliza Sarah & James Edward, all the children of the Arthur Nicholson, born in Holy Wedlock; with slender means of support. - Your petitioner would rather more truly say, in indigent circumstances. She prays for the usual widow's pension of Half-Pay officers. Signed, Presque Isle, York Co., NB, 1822 July 29, Elizabeth Nicholson. Sworn before me, Rich Ketchum JP, Woodstock, NB. . . 1822 Jul 29, Affidavit6: Robert Payne, aged 80y, late of Kings 17th Reg of Light Dragoons, taketh oath that the late Arthur Nicholson dis on or about the close the the year 1778 introduce to this deponent, a Lady (whom he had personally known some time before) as his wife. Her maiden name was Eleanor Henry. She was his wife & cohabited together from that time to her death in 1784. They had offspring a song, long since dean & a daughter about the year 1780 names Jane, a Lady well known of this deponent and who at this time is about making an application with her sisters & brother by a subsequent marriage - for an allowance from the Compassionate Fund. Signed, Robt. Payne Sr., Fredericton County. . 1822 Jul 29, Elizabeth Nicholson, widow of the late Adj. Arthur Nicholson, Halfpay Kings Am. Dragoons, make oath & saith that Eleanor Nicholson Maryann Nicholson, Eliz Sarah Nicholson & Jame Edward Nicholson, now applying for an allowance from the compassionate Fund are her & Arther Nicholson's children, born in Holy wedlock & that they are have been baptized in the service of Church of England. Signed, Elizabeth Nicholson. Sworn at Woodstock, NB, Rich Ketchum, JP. . 1822 Jul 29 - Petition of Jane Nicholson, May Ann Nicholson, Eleanor Nicholson, Elisa Sarah Nicholson & James Edward Nicholson The 4 first named Petitioners are unmarried daughters & the last named is a son under age of late Adj Arthur Nicholson, Halfway Reg. of Kings Am. Dragoons, for the whole of the late ware, & evacuated from New York, disbanded & in 1787 the Petitioners father died on 5 Sep 1821 of Natural decay. They to grant each an allowance for the Compassionate Fund. Signed, 29 Jul, 1822, Presque Isle, York Co., NB, Mary Ann, Eleanor, Jane, Eliza Sarah & James Edward Nicholson. To. Rt. Hon. Secretary at War. . 1822 Jul 30th, Affidavit7: Andrew Phair, Asst. Barrack Master, was well acquainted with Adj Arthur Nicolson, deceased, about 1778 Nicholson interdicted a Lady of the Officer of Reg. & other person of his acquaintance - as his wife - who was taken, acknowledge & reputed to be his wife. I verily believe to be the mother of Jane Nicholson, daughter of Arthur Nicholson, now applying for an allowance form the Compassionate Fine. Signed, A Phair Asst. X Gen., Fredricton. [& added in different handwriting:] - Jane Nicholson is the daughter of A Nicholson by former wife.	LAWRENCE, Elizabeth .x (I107)
17894	Page Two ELISHA TERRY TARBOX . 1874 Nov 4 - A DISTILLERY SEIZED - Collector Sedgwick has seized, for violation of internal revenue laws, the distillery of ET Tarbox, located at Los Angles, together with some 10,000 gallons of fruit brandy therein. Ref: SF Bulletin. . 1875 Mar 3 - THOSE MATERIALIZED SPIRITS, The Great Seizure of Grape Brandy at Los Angles. I M Foulke, Supervisor of Internal Revenue, who with Suv. Collector Mayhew recently seized the great grape brandy distillery at LA, a arrived in this city today. It appears from a statement made by Mr. Foule that 6 pipes of brandy were shipped from the distillery to SF in December last & the stamps on these pipes were inspected & found to be correct. During the month of January the same pipes bearing the stamps already used once before, were again received in this city. The violation of the law by the use of old stamps, aroused the suspicion of the Revenue authorities here & the LA distillery was therefore under strict surveillance. The distillery, as stated in our special dispatch from LA, stands in the name of E T Tarbox & was under the management of Lucien Curtis. In explanation of the reason why the illicit manufacture of brandy was not discovered by the local authorities, it is stated that there was no storekeeper at the institution. The law does not provide for a storekeeper in a grape brandy distillery but tin the case of a grain distillery this order is deemed an imperative necessity. The reason given for the failure to provide storekeepers for the grape brandy distilleries, that several farmers manufacture grape brandy & it would be a great hardship on them to pay for a storekeeper. The distillery at LA manufactured more brandy that the united products of all the other distilleries in the State. The Revenue authorities arrive at the yield of a distillery in this way. The capacity of the institution is surveyed; a certain number of boilings is allowed; the time required for fermentation is noted; & the owner or manager is obliged to report the production each months under oath.While searching the LA distillery, the Supervisor & his deputy came across a pipe 18 inches under the ground, in a little room adjoining the receiving room of the institution. This ice lead to rubs 150 feet from the building. It is unnecessary to go not all the details. Suffice it to say that tin tubs buried under the grounded in pipes concealed in hay, about 75,000 gallons of body was discovered. The institution was seized & the work of pumping out the brandy was forthwith commenced. As fast as the brandy is removed from he tanks it is placed in fire-proof back warehouses, 2 of which have been leased by the Government. The only people who deserve any sympathy in this affair are the small producers to whom the distillery people are indebted. Two years ago the grape growers lost heavily by the burning of the distillery. Curtis, then the owner, being unable to pay his debts. An now by the attempt on the part of the distillery people to swindle the Government, the producers are again losers in sums caring from $200 to $2,000. Curtis is a man who held public offices in this State about 20 years & finally drifted into the distillery business a few years ago. Ref: SF Bulletin Newspaper. . 1875 Mar 16 & 25 - DISTILLERY FRAUDS at Los Angeles is given as follows in the Call of 11th The official gauge of the grape brandy seized at Turbos & Curtis' distillery, the officers having finished pumping out the underground vats, shows 61,702 proof gallons seized at L, busies which 6 pipes, 1,600 poof gallons shipped from the under reused stamps, were seized a short time before in SA, ming a total of 63,302 pored gallons seized.In addition to which was seized the valuable distillery property at LA work probably fro $30-40,000. Warrants were issued the the arrest of E W Tarbox, the nominal proprietor & Lucien Curtis, the superintendent. Tarbox has been arrested in this city & bound over to appear before the next US Grand Jury, in the same of $10,000 with James Laidley as security. Ref: LA Herald & San Diego Union Newspaper. . 1876 Apr 5 - CROOKED BRANDY, TRAIL OF THE LA DISTILLERY CASE On Nov 4, 1874, 13,000 gallons or grape brandy made were seized in the name of E T Tarbox as proprietor & Lucien Curtis as manager. Huge Hoffman allowed the party to bond the spirits & to go on & work up the material on hand & that contract for. On Feb 26 the same deputy made another seizer of 61,700 gallons which was turned over to the US Marshall. Since the time the distillery & costs have remained in charge of keepers appointed by the Marshall. The defendants wee arrest a year ago this month & in June the USGrand Jury found a true bill of indictment against them. Mr. Van Duzer made the opening statement against L Curtis on 13 counts … of which large quantities of distilled sports had not been paid & removing & concealing the same. He failed to keep looks as required by law & no entries were made. some months afterwards another visit was made by Revenue officers discovering a large quantity of concealed spirits. Seizure & confiscation of the property. … Large quants of sports had been surreptitiously removed from the premises was shown by the fact that a number of barrels had been traced to a chart in SF with stamps & labels on them which proved beyond all question that they had been shipped by the defendant. Collection HW Mayhew submitted a notice given by ET Tarbox that he was about opening a fruit distillery in LA, as required by law. . 1876 Apr 12 - Examination of Mr. Tarbox resumed. He testified: The first product of the sill was not gaged by me. Prior to the seizure of Nov 1874, he made about 10,000 gallons of singlings. After that seizure I made some 15,000 gallons of brandy. Tax was paid upon a part & the remainder was stored in the ware house. I had on hand at the time of the 2nd seizure, about 11-12,000 g. of brandy. It was sold to the LA Brand. Feb 25 when the 2nd seizure was made, I did not register my still as not being in use up to the time, as I intended to treat my singling. At that time because I had as much brandy on hand as I could impose of for some months & I had no money to pay for the necessary casks required. I went to a wholesale him in this city & asked them to write of NY & see what California brandy was worth which they did & told me it was worth form $1.50 to $2 a gallon. I then went to the Bank of California & explained matters & they gave me a letter of credit on the LA Bank. This was in February. I then bought 200 barrels & 100 pipes from J M Curits for the purpose of shipping the spirits. The only reason that I did not double on the singles was because I had up to the time money. He had no other interest in the establishment except his salary, $300 a month. There had been no spirits sent from the distillery about the time the sports were seized at Spadra. They could not have been sent without my knowledge. All my brandy was stored n the warehouse which I described in my application. I know nothing about the Spadra seizure except what I have heard from others. I have heart the description of the packages seized ex-Orizaba. I need had any such spirits sent from my distillery as those described by the Gov. witnesses. the cisterns are instructed by the advice of Mr. Curtis who recommended me to put them down in order to store the rain water, which he said was the best thing to reduce brandy with. They were underground to prevent the water from getting putrid. The pipe was used for the purpose of catching the water from the roof of the receiving & fermenting room. The pipe went 5 feet underground to prevent it interfering with the foundation. Mr. Tarbox testified that it would take 2 weeks to fill the underground tanks. There was no secrecy in emptying the singling into them. It was known to everybody around the distillery. The storage buildings were not locked in the daytime. Neither the distillery nor the rectifier was in operation at the time of the seizure. Had the distillery been left alone until May all the spirit stock would have been accounted for to the Gov. authorities. Witness said that upon the singling being gauged he made a tender to the Revenue Dept. of duty amount to $40,000 but the tender as refuse … If Mr Curtis had reported the 3,200 gal. instead of 2,332 gal. of singling, it would appear as if were working on juice of the original material. The spirits were stored in those places to keep them cool. There was no hay put over the pipes, to my knowledge. I was never absent from the distillery more than 3 hours in a day during the time ti was running. I had a rough memorandum of the number of empty packages, but not of the filled ones. No one could take any packages out of the distillery without my knowledge. I would miss he packages. I had an account of all the packages on hand a the end of October. I cannot say how much brandy I sold to Curtis who told me about using rain water. He called it the French method, to keep the rain water for a year or two & use it to reduce the brandy to proof. which would be illegal but there is now law against adding water or burnt sugar at the distillery. The rainy season at LA is very short. An offer was made to get the spirits released I had a copper still in the refinery. I do not know that its capacity is 900 gallon. I was authorized to produce at the refinery by redistilation are grape brandy, pure spirits & alcohol. In Jun 1875, Sam. Hubbard of San Rafael, introduced Mr. Tarbox to the firm that could ship some of 60,000 gallons of sports East. Ref: San Francisco Evening Post, published Apr 5, 1876, [Edited for duplication - PJA] . 1876 Apr 13, Thurs. J M Curtis testified, to rectify brandy & free it from fusil oil & other impurities, Witness had made distillation study, studied chemistry & graduated as an analytical chemist. It is a great object to distill grape juice as rapidly as possible into singlings to prevent the pomace being destroyed. the color of singling come from the still is white. The light sherry color in singling is attributed to the wood casks. Witness Mayhew's opinion it would take about 30 days to double 31,000 wine singling into to grape brandy. Lady is worst at present $1.50 per gallon. Mr. Coghland put a few handfuls of hay on top to keep off the sun. PJ White testified the underground cisterns were put down openly, everyone could se them in the course of construction. He was employed as weighted because I spoke Spanish. Ref: San Francisco Evening Post. . 1876 Apr 20, Thus. The defeat of Government against Curtis & Tarbox is gratifying or otherwise just. There are many circumstances connected with the Avenue law & enforcement which incline fair mined men to sympathize with those those subject to its conditions especially when they fall into the hands of officers on charges of violating those conditions. The Revenue law supposes a distiller to be a thief & its is the custom of Revenue officers to on the assumption that the law is correct. Ref: LA Daily Herald. . 1876 Apr 20 - The defeat of the Government in the case of the US against Curtis & Tarbox is gratifying or otherwise just as one regards the situation of he many Revenue laws & law enforcement in cline fair mined men to sympathize with those subjects to its conditions especially when they fall into the hands of the officers on charges of violating those conditions. It is quite probable that the business of the LA Distillery was conducted on the cranked order. But the Government couldn't prove it & we are inclined to rejoice over the result of the trail. Ref: Los Angeles Daily Herald. . 1876 May 27, Sat. - The following passengers left San Francisco yesterday at 9 AM on steamer Orizaba for Los Angles: E T Tarbox. . 1876 May 31 - A meeting of the creditors of Los Angeles distillery will be held today. Mr. Tarbox, one of the proprietors, has called this meeting for the purpose of conferring with those holding claims to made satisfactory to the creditors. Much Ado About Nothing. After a great deal of dust & feathers, expense, loss, inconvenience& the subsequence tail of one of the proprietors of the Lost Angeles distillery, growing out of the seizure of the establishment on a complaint of violation of International Revenue Law, the conclusion has been reach that no illegal act has been committed. The Judge before whom the case was tried was not in accordance with the law. A new trail will probably be granted Mr. Curtis & the result will be the total acquittal of the defendant. Mr. Tarbox, another one of the proprietors was indicted on 3 counts precisely similar on which Mr. Curtis was acquitted, it is not likely that he will be brought to trial. … for all the damage to farmers vineyardist who supplied the grapes, there is no recourse.The Government makes no restitution for losses it inflicts upon citizens. . 1876 Jun 1 - Yesterday the fruit growers held a meeting at the County Court room for the purpose of making a disposition of the indebtedness of E. T. Tarbox to them. About 25 creditors were present. Thirteen of these signed, an agreement to accept 60¢ on the dollar, with one year's time, in payment in full, for the purpose of following Mr. Tarbox to start a distillery & rectify during the ensuing year. The general feeling of the creditors present was in favor of giving an opportunity for the recovery of Mr. Tarbox's fortune. There was an almost unanimous feeling in favor of giving him a fair chance to renew business again & the best wishes of the majority of his creditors are with him. He is an able business man, & we join in the kind wishes of his friends. . 1875 Jun 16 - It is reported that Tarbox, in a suit in San Francisco, has recovered the liquors seized of the Los Angeles Distillery. This, if true, is good news to our vineyardists who are the creditors of the concern. . 1876 May 27, Sat. - The following passengers left San Francisco yesterday at 9 AM on steamer Orizaba for Los Angles: ET Tarbox. Ref: Los Angeles Daily Herald. . 1878 Jan 5, The North Pacific Land & Water Copay, Stockholders Meeting, quarter annual meeting will be held at the office of Wm W Morrow, President, Room 76, Navada Black, on Jan 7, 1787 at 9:30 Am. Signed, ET Tarbox, Secretary. Ref: San Francisco Bulletin. . 1878 Jan 27 - ET Tarbox has telegraphed from San Fran. to Jeremiah Baldwin that the verdict in the LA Distillery case is in favor of the claimants. The distillery is the property of the Bank of California. As it will now, after a lapse of 3 years, pass out of government hands, it will be ready next fall to resume its mission of manufacturing grape brandy. This will be a decade boon to our vineyardists. Ref: Los Angeles Daily Herald. . 1878 Feb 12 - Deputy US Marshal Dunlap returned from San Fran. yesterday The US Attorney has made a motion for a new trail in the Tarbox Distillery case. The General option is, however, that the motion will be denies & that the matter will stand ad adjudged at the last trail. Ref: LA Daily Herald. . 1878 Jul 23, LA Distillery US vs a certain lot of land, 28,000 gallons of distilled spirits, ET Tarbox, on appeal by US for several os the decision, rudest to grant a motion for a new trail. Ref: San Francisco Chronicle. . 1878 Aug 10 - ET Tarbox, proprietor of the LA distillery, hayfield a potion in bankruptcy in the US District Court. Liabilities $81,618.62., Assets, $71,087,10. . 1881 Jul 29 - Attempted Suicide. ET Tarbox, residing with his family at the corner of Octavia & Union streets, attempted suicide in the bathroom of his residence last evening by cutting his throat & attempting to sever the left femoral artery. Shortly before the hour mentioned he entered the house & find his wife absent, sent 2 of the children on an errand. He then entered the bathroom & removing his coat, gashed his throat twice with a razor. Death not ensuing as promptly as he desired, he made a third cut on the inside of the left thigh, which also failed to reach a vital spot. He was found a few minutes later by the children, who gave the alarm to Officers JJ Conley & Kelly, who later staunching the blood, removed him the city receiving hospital. Police Surgeon Clarke dressed the wounds pronounced the patient in no danger of decade. Mr. Tarbox was formerly quite wealthy & despondency at the loss of property is assigned, was the cause for his attempted at self-destruction. Ref: San Francisco Chronicle. . 1889 Oct 3 - J T Wallace Murder Trial, by shooting, Jury: ET Tarbox. 1899 Jul 29, Sat. - 45 District Republican Club convened at Garibaldi Hall & elected advisory delegates: ET Tarbox. Ref: San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper. Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	TARBOX, Elisha Terry .3 (I560)
17895	Page TWO, Parshall Terry . Biography of PARSHALL TERRY, III (1778-1861). Born at Fort Niagara, New York, son of Parshall Terry & Amy Stevens. Family move from New York to Upper Canada; family conversion in 1838; immigration to Missouri shortly thereafter; death of his 11 year old daughter due to exposure after being forced from home by mobs in Missouri; exodus west. The beginning of the evacuation of Nauvoo, Illinois, was planned for March-April, but because of mob threats President Brigham Young directed that the exodus of the Saints across the Mississippi River begin on 4 Feb 1846. President Young remained behind to administer endowments to the Saints & did not leave Nauvoo until mid-February. Significant Events: Before his death the Prophet Joseph Smith prophesied, "Some of you will live to go & assist in making settlements & build cities & see the Saints become a mighty people in the midst of the Rocky Mountains" (HC 5:85). Nearly 12,000 Saints departed Nauvoo from February to September 1846. After the Saints left Winter Quarters & later locations, they were organized into companies of tens, fifties, & hundreds, under a company captain. In September 1846 a mob of approximately 800 men equipped with 6 cannons laid siege to Nauvoo. After several days of fighting, the remaining Saints were forced to surrender in order to save their lives & gain a chance to cross the river. Five to 600 men, women, & children crossed the river & camped on the riverbank. President Brigham Young sent rescue teams with supplies to evacuate these "poor Saints." Ref: Mormon Manuscripts to 1846: Guide to Lee Library, BYU. . Elizabeth Terry, daughter Parshall & Hannah Terry, when was 4 years old they moved back to Upper Canada. We lived in several different places near Little York, (since called Toronto) till the 2nd day of July, 1822, we moved to the Township of Albion, Home District Upper Canada. It was a new country, with much timber upon the land. Elizabeth was baptized a Mormon on 3 Jul 1838. ... My mother & father & their family came to our home & started for Toronto on their way to Far West, Missouri. Kirby & my sister Dency & myself accompanied them to the city of Toronto & saw them on board the steamer "Transit" on the 10th. . 1839 October the 26th. I went out a few minutes with my servant girl to pick up a few Beech nuts. * Biography continued at Jane Parshall. . Parshall Terry drowned while attempting to cross the Don River on a floating bridge. Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg 2018. Thank you.- - -	TERRY, Parshall Adam .II (I2740)
17896	PAGE TWO, The Lawrence Mill & Tanner at Lawrence & Yonge, in North Toronto: . The Don river was originally known by various Aboriginal names including Necheng Qua Kekonk & Wonscoteonoch. The latter may be interpreted as "black burnt lands" which may refer to fire damage. . York Mills Village: The first mill was built by Samuel Heron in 1804. Early names of the village were Big Creek Bridge (1797-1809), Heron's Bridge (1810-1822) In 1836,a post office was built and named York Mills. 1856, J. & W. Hogg submitted a plan for a subdivision called Hogg's Hollow. Ref: Toronto Region conservation, Archaeology Services, 2011. . THE MILL AT YORK MILLS: It is true there was not waterfall on the Don River at Hogg's Hollow, but a high cliff to the north & several acres of fly land across the steam indicated that the water could be held back to create a large mill pond. The northern log mill was anchored into the clay bank which still discloses its great bare scar to the visitor. The the southeast corner of the mill pond a sluice was cut. This was the mill race that brought water front he pond to the mill. After some 50 years of operation it was ground that the surplus water that spilled over the dam was eating into the clay bank & endangering the anchorage of the wooden portion of the dam. Over several years frantic efforts were made to give the dam a strong hold on the clay. But the last the stored up water, strengthened by spring floods, was too much. The entire wooden portion of the dam was washed away & when the flood water had rushed down the Don River all that was left of this great work was the earthen portion of the dam & the floor of the former mill pond a sea of mud. A study of the situation convinced the owners that the replacement of the washed out dam was not practical. They decided on a bold move. The surrounding country was plentifully supplied with wood. Why not drive the mill with steam power & generate the steam from wood fires? Such a bold scheme at this required that much of the mill be rebuilt while much of the original wood structure was being replaced with stone & brick, a steam engine & boiler was bing constructed in an iron works at the southeast corner of Adelaide & Yonge Streets. This shop had built the first locomotives for the Northern Railway, the first steam line to operate in & out of Toronto. They built the steam engine & boulder for the mill at York Mills. After a strenuous journey up the mud road, that was then Yonge Street, the engine was installed & the former mill pond turned into a potato patch. This was one of the earliest applications of steam power to industry in Canada. As the years pass, there was less wheat grown on the farms bordering Yonge St. to the north of the mill. After almost a century of operation the property was old & the property was sold & the mill converted to a summer home of the widow of a former bishop of Toronto. The author, Lyman Jackes, took a picture of this mill in the summer of 1923. The old reminder of its former greatness as the great square chimney that arose on the north side. On a winter day, not long ager, the old will was gutted by fire & the walls & chimney have collapsed. However, the earthwork & the mill race may still be traced throughout the trees. The mill was almost below the viaduct that crosses the river. Note6: The Millrace may be identify as the sunken Lawrence Park on Yonge Street adjacent the Locke Public Library. - PJ Ahlberg. 2014. - . -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I247)
17897	PAGE TWO, The Lawrence Mill & Tanner at Lawrence & Yonge, in North Toronto: The Don river was originally known by various Aboriginal names including Necheng Qua Kekonk & Wonscoteonoch. The latter may be interpreted as “black burnt lands” which may refer to fire damage. . THE MILL AT YORK MILLS: It is true there was not waterfall on the Don River at Hogg's Hollow, but a high cliff to the north & several acres of fly land across the steam indicated that the water could be held back to create a large mill pond. The northern log mill was anchored into the clay bank which still discloses its great bare scar to the visitor. The the southeast corner of the mill pond a sluice was cut. This was the mill race that brought water front he pond to the mill. After some 50 years of operation it was ground that the surplus water that spilled over the dam was eating into the clay bank & endangering the anchorage of the wooden portion of the dam. Over several years frantic efforts were made to give the dam a strong hold on the clay. But the last the stored up water, strengthened by spring floods, was too much. The entire wooden portion of the dam was washed away & when the flood water had rushed down the Don River all that was left of this great work was the earthen portion of the dam & the floor of the former mill pond a sea of mud. A study of the situation convinced the owners that the replacement of the washed out dam was not practical. They decided on a bold move. The surrounding country was plentifully supplied with wood. Why not drive the mill with steam power & generate the steam from wood fires? Such a bold scheme at this required that much of the mill be rebuilt while much of the original wood structure was being replaced with stone & brick, a steam engine & boiler was bing constructed in an iron works at the southeast corner of Adelaide & Yonge Streets. This shop had built the first locomotives for the Northern Railway, the first steam line to operate in & out of Toronto. They built the steam engine & boulder for the mill at York Mills. After a strenuous journey up the mud road, that was then Yonge Street, the engine was installed & the former mill pond turned into a potato patch. This was one of the earliest applications of steam power to industry in Canada. As the years pass, there was less wheat grown on the farms bordering Yonge St. to the north of the mill. After almost a century of operation the property was old & the property was sold & the mill converted to a summer home of the widow of a former bishop of Toronto. The author, Lyman Jackes, took a picture of this mill in the summer of 1923. The old reminder of its former greatness as the great square chimney that arose on the north side. On a winter day, not long ager, the old will was gutted by fire & the walls & chimney have collapsed. However, the earthwork & the mill race may still be traced throughout the trees. The mill was almost below the viaduct that crosses the river. Ref: Tales of North Toronto, vol 2, Lyman B Jackes. Note6: The Millrace may be identify as the sunken Lawrence Park on Yonge Street adjacent the Locke Public Library. - PJ Ahlberg. 2014. - . -	LAWRENCE, Major Peter Rezeau SUE (I24)
17898	Page Two: . On December 28, 1846, a public meeting had been convened by the Board of Trade for the purpose of hearing a proposal from Captain Archibald Taylor for the establishment of a line of freight propellers between Toronto & Oswego. EF Whittemore, a merchant, told the meeting that the line was necessary because Toronto businessmen in the previous year had year had experienced inconvenience because of delays in transference of their goods from Oswego. He assured potential investors that the line would turn a profit & that one or more of the propellers could be diverted to carrying grain & other produce to Montreal & Quebec City in slack periods in the Oswego trade. Whittemore's reference to the St. Lawrence route fired Globe publisher Geo. Brown to counsel businessmen to undertake great national effort with their brother merchants int he cities & towns of Canada West to crush the stranglehold of the Laurentian forwarding firms by establishing a broad stock company to operate freight & passengers boats from Toronto to Quebec City direct. In subsequent meetings that winter, it was agreed to establish the Canada Steam Navigation Company. Ref: Changing Patterns of Great Lakes Vessel Ownership As a Factor in the Economic Development of Toronto, 1850-1860. . Obituary1: 1859 Feb 23 - At Toronto, on Saturday last, Ezekiel Frances Whittemore, Esq., aged 41years. The illness of Mr Whittemore was very brief. the Toronto Globe Says: Mr. Whittemore was one of our most public spirited, enterprising merchants, zealous in eve good work, open to the calls of charity & of every duty which devolved upon him as t a member of society. As an Alderman of the city, as a member of the Board of Trade & director of many public companies, he was always ready both with his purse & his time to forward any worthy object. In business he was upright & faithful. Once entirely independent in his means, the recent criss had injured him severely & he had just got over his troubles & appears to be recommencing his career of prosperity & usefulness, when he was struck down by the fell destroyer. He leaves a widow & 5 children to lament the kindest of husbands & fathers. Ref: New York commercial Advertiser, NY. . Obituary2: Death & burial of Mr EF Whittemore, Abridged from the Globe. It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we announced the death of E F Whittemore, which took place at his house onBay Street, at 10 o'clock Saturday night. He was taken ill about a week ago of inflammation of the kidneys & notwithstanding the exertions of numbers medical med, continued to grow worse until he was attacked t=with typhus & death speedily put a stop to his sufferings. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon from his late residence & a very large number who attended to pay the last sad mark of respect to his remains, justly showed the high estimation in which he was held by all classes of the community. The stores on King, Yonge & her stress were all closed as the mournful procession passed along on its way to the cemetery. The cortege was upwards of 20 minutes in passing a given xx & was composed of over 400 persons on foot & about 70 carriages. Ref: York Commonwealth Newspaper . Obituary3: Mr. E F Whittemore, Saturday night in his house on Bay Street, leaving a wife, & 5 children. Mr. Whittemore was an Alderman, Member of the Board of Trade. 2 Mar. 1859, Ref: Globe Newspaper, Toronto. Ezekiel Francis Whittemore began his commercial career in Montreal in the 1830s but his first modest ventures ended in bankruptcy by 1840. Making a new start, he moved to Toronto to work as a clerk for the mercantile firm of Thomas Rigney & Company. The business prospered greatly in the commercial boom of the 1850s in Toronto & Whittemore was said to have achieved financial independence. Even financial difficulties in the panic of 1857 forced him to sell land & other assets & his firm failed. ...Widely respected for his integrity & business acumen, Whittemore was a leading participant in several of the financial & commercial institutions which had emerged in Toronto. A founding member in 1844 of the Toronto Board of Trade. Whittemore participated in organizing Toronto's first telegraph company. He was also a founder, treasurer, & director of the Toronto Exchange (organized in 1854-55 as a focus for the grain trade), a founder (1847) & president (1856–59) of the Consumers' Gas Company of Toronto. A Congregationalist, he worked with strong conviction in a number of temperance, mission & sabbath observance organizations. Ezekiel Francis Whittemore was one of the outstanding figures in Toronto's dynamic business community of the 1840s & the 1850s. His comprehensive career, despite its brevity, reflects exceptionally well the city's business & political history in his time. Ref: Excerpts from Dictionary of Cdn. Biography Online, Archives of Canada. . Dissolutions of Partnerships: Whittemore, E F & Co., 345. Ref: Canada Gazette, Annual Index, 1859, page 5 & NOTICE: - The Co-partnership heretofore existing between the subscribers under the name & firm of WHITTEMORE RUTHERFORD & Co. has been dissolved by mutual consent, Edward. Rutherford, Esquire, retiring therefrom. The business will be continued by Thos. Rigney & E F Whittemore under the same name & firm, who will liquidate & receive all debts due by or to the late firm. Toronto, C . W., 21st September, 1853. Ref: Vol12, No. 49, 10 December 1853, page 50. . 1859 Feb 24 (Publishing date) - Died: On 19 February, at Toronto, Ezekiel Francis WHITTEMORE, age 41 years. Ref: Markham Economist. . 1859, Mar 25, Necropolis Cemetery, EFW, Aged 41years, born Montreal, died Toronto. VAULT Plot O43.50. COD: Inflammation of Kidneys. Plot O 43.50. Property of Wm. Whittemore. 'INTERRED 25 MAR 1859' Placed in vault Feb 19, Burial service March 25th, by Rev. Mc Marling. Note2: Perhaps this refers to a official funeral, due to withholding telling his pregnant wife, Margaret, of his death - PJA. ...the firm of Whittemore, Rutherford & Company. In 1855 the partnership was dissolved & Mr. Whittemore started a general banking & brokerage business which, owing to the collapse of the boom of 1857, was not a financial success. The business of these firms was conducted in a four-story building at the north-west corner of King & Toronto Streets, owned & erected by Mr. Whittemore, & which later on was torn down & the building occupied until recently by the Quebec Bank was erected in its place. Mr. Whittemore died at the early age of 41 years, on February 19th, 1859. He was a man universally esteemed & his funeral was one of the largest that had ever taken place in the city & was attended by nearly all of Toronto's prominent citizens. Ref: Recollections & Records of Toronto of Old. - Pub. 1914.	WHITTEMORE, Ezekiel Francis .I (I243)
17899	Page Two: 1905 Jan 25 - Supreme Court Denies McDonagh release on Criminal Charge Against Him Before Jude Beach in Saginaw Co. circuit court. Thomas B McDonagh has 3 cases commenced at the instigation of Anna Felker. McD. was defeat in the capias case, judgment in the sum of $500. A suit of breech of promise is pending and Mr. McD has also been arrested on a charge of illegitimate parentage. The question hinged on whether the case came under of seduction of or basted. Judge Beach held it was a case for seduction and consequently the bastardy case could follow. Ref: Saginaw News. 1905 Feb 15 - A large number of people are attending the trial. 1905 Jan 16 - Wed. afternoon, while on the witness tanned, the compiling witness had a bad attack of heart failure. She had been undergoing a very strong cross-examination at the hands of E A Snow for the defense, when she collapsed. Dr. E F Crane was summoned and after applying restorative Miss Felker was removed on a stretch to the residence of the sheriff at the county jail where she still lies too wast to be moved. Dr. Cane certified his patient was too ill to appear. 1905 Feb 18 - Fri. afternoon it was deem advisable to remove Miss Anna Felker from the county jail to the Saginaw General hospital. 1905 Feb 27 - Miss Ann F. has recovered sufficiently from heart failure she suffered some days ago while on the witness stand to leave the hospital. She is expected to resume the case on Monday. 1905 Mar 7 - Arrangements had bee made for the cur, Jury, attorneys & stenographer to visit the Crowley house where Miss Felker lies too ill to appear in court. The defense objected. (Various adjournments due to her ill health.) 1905 Mar 29 - Felker-McDonagh case was only last week finished after a long trial. It commenced on the 13th month. First the complaining witness collapsed on the stand and her physician expresses doubts as to her ever recovering her former health. Junor Sylvester was taken ill with pneumonia and removed to his home. Now comes the death of Juror Moxley who was overtaken with nausea before the jury retired 1905 May 12 - Judge Beach, Thursday sentenced Thomas B McDonagh who was found guilty by jury some time ago of being a father of the illegitimate child of Anna Felker to pay $2 a week for the support of child until its 15 years of age. He is also required to file a fond of $1,000 with superintendent of the poor to insure compliance with the order of the court. 1905 Jun 15 - Orders have bee filed in the suits of Anna Felker Vs. Thomas B McDonagh and Henry McDonagh, Frank McNally and Mary McDonagh, that latter 3 garnishee defendants that they appear before Judge, June 10 and depose under oath at property they have in their possession belong to Thomas B McDonagh. - Adjourned to June 26th. Ref: Sagnaw Journal. 1907 Jan 25 - Burt, Miss Margaret Felker, aged 19, has caused the arrest of Geo. Spencer, age 16, on a serious charge. His father is in poor circumstances but friends furnished bail for the boy's examination Jan 28. Margaret Felker is a sister of Miss Ann Felker who figured a breach of promise suit against Thomas B McDonagh 3 years ago. Ref: Flint Journal. - - -	FELKER, Anna Lucretia .1 (I24)
17900	Page Two: Ontario Land Registration	LAWRENCE, Capt. Abraham PERINE SUE (I252)