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| 17901 | Page Two: ONTARIO LAND REGISTRY, Lot 26, Con 1 E Yonge St., Markham, Abstracts Book 91, p4-6, {Later renumbered as Lot 1, Con1 ESY, Markham.] . [date missing], Patent, Crown, to William L Willson, all 190 acres. . 1828 Dec 24, Bargain& Sale, Wm. L Willson, to Robt Wiles, £100, Pt Front, 10 Acres. . 1829 Jan 27, B&S, WLW, to Robert Willson, £100, pt West, pt 10 A. . 1830 Jan 11, B&S, WLW, to Robt Wiles, £100, pt Front pt 10 A. . 1830 Nov 29, B&S, WLW, to Jos Abraham, £350, part 60A. . 1830 Dec 30, Mortgage, WLW, to John Anderson, £125. E Half 100A. . 1831 Mar 11, B&S, WLW et ux, to James Robinson, £250, E Half 100 A. . 1833 Dec 30, DiscM, John Anderson, to WLW, £125, EHalf 100A. . 1844 Jan 27, Wm L Wilson, to Wm. Robinson. £10, Centre Part 3r 9p. . 1831? Sep 12, Registered 1849 Jun 9, B&S, Robert Wilson et ux, to Robt Wiles, £25, Pt W pt 10A. . 1897 Dec 31, Mortgage, Wife Jennie & Wm J Robinson, to Samuel Wilson, David James & Wm Beatty, Executors of Johnston Wilson, $1000. E Half . 187 Dec 31 Mtg., Wm J Robinson & Jennie his wife, to Samuel Willson & avid James & Wm Beatty, Exors. of Johnston Wilson, $1000, E Half Reg in full .1898 Mar 23, Disc M., Samuel Wilson, to Wm Robinson $1000. East Half. NOTE8 to Researchers: The following land transaction appears to be the unrelated to this Willson Family & are recorded here for clarification purposes: Johnston & Samuel Wilson. Robt Wilson, b 1760 Ireland -1850.9.28 Markham, Ont., Buttonville Cemetery, Markham. In 1851 Markham Census: Robt Wilson lived beside Dan. Johnson family, both from Ireland. & including, James & Wm. B. Willson - However, the John Wilson listed below, needs identity verification. - PJ Ahlberg 2018. Lot 26, Con 2 ESYonge, Markham, Abstracts Book 97, p5-8 [Renumbered Lot 1, Con 2] . 1799 Jun 8, Patent, Crown, to James B Maccauley, 200A . 1841 Feb 1, B&S, John Ewart, to John Willson, £50. NW Quarter. . 1843 Oct 9, B&S, John Willson, to Ben Fish, £143, PT SW 10A. . 1844 Aug 5, B&S, Robert Willson etux, to Ben Fish, £290. NW Quarter. . 1845 Oct 9, Mortgage, Ben Fish etux, to John Wilson, ¢106.5, PT SW. . 1846 Oct 18, Ben Fish etux, to Ben Thorne, £312.10.9, pt 10A. {Note: Thornhill named for him), . 1849 Dec 12, Discharge Mortgage, John Willson, £106, PT SW Acres. . 1850 Nov 27, B&S, Ben Fish etux, to James Willson, £62.10, Centre Pt. 10A. . 1852 May 25, Registered 1852 Jun 15. WILL, John Willson. {i.e. John Willson.7, son of Wm L Willson?] . 1855 Feb 28, B&S, John Willson, to Ben Fish, £1.8.9, PT 14 perches. . 1855 Jul 18, B&S, John Wilson etux, to John Cope, £470., SW Quarter 27A. . 1859 Feb 23, Mortgage, James Willson, to Jos Keller, £25. . 1861 Apr 19, Mortgage, James Willson to Robert Willson, $216. . 1876 Mar 8, Mort., James Wilson, to Johnston Willson, $400, Pt W 22A. . 1881 Apr 28, DiscMorg., Johnston Willson*, to James Wilson, $400, W 22A. . 1886 Apr 28, DiscMorg., Samuel Willson* et al, to Thos S Humberstone, $593, Pt 22A. Lot 26, Con 2 ESYonge, Markham, Abstracts Book 97, p 81-82 {Renumbered Lot 2, Con 2] . 1799 Jun 8, Patent, Crown, to James B Maccauley, 200A . 1854 Dec 18, Grant, John Ewart etux, to William Willson, £28.10, Pt 19A . 1860 Jan 18, Mortgage, James Wilson, to Jos Keller, $159.20. . . 1863 Jan 30, Dis Mort, Robt Willson, to Ben Fish, $1400, Pt. SW quarter. . 1866 Sep 15, Q.C., Francis Willson, etal, to Robert Willson, 5 shillings, Pt Half 19A. . 1866 Nov 28, QC, Robert Wilson etux, to May French, $600, Pt W End Quarter 19A. . 1869 Feb 13, Grant & Q.C., Robt Wilson teal, to Mary French, $600, Pt 19A. Lot 1, Con 3 / formerly Lot 26, [ renumbered to Lot 1 Markham Twp. Con 3 Leslie Street] . 1802 May 27, Patent, Crown, to John Simcoe Macaulay, All 200. . 1839 Feb 26, Henry Sanders, to Robert Willson, £400. east Half. . 1860 May 24, Mort. Wm. Johnston, to Eliz Hardy, $150, . 1868 May 1, Grant, Robert Willson, Et ux, to Samuel Willson, $6,600 Half 100A. . [undated doc] but, Registered 1899 Dec 15, Affidavit of Samuel Willson, RE. Boundary {Lot 1, Cons. 3 & 4. . 1881 Mar 8, Grant, Samuel Willson Etux, to Township of Markham, $80, SE for 1/5 A. . 1897 Nov 25, WILL, to Robt A W Wilson, All in al subject to legacy. . 1916 Apr 20, Release, Mary E B Johnston, to Robert A W Willson, $1 & Premise, All in al. . 1934 Jun 14, Robert A W Willson & Margaret his wife, to E J Bennet & Urusla A C his wife, $11,344., Pt 56 A. . 1940 Jan 15, Grant, Robt A Wilson & Margaret his wife, to Wm J Harman, $1, All ex lands & Given Rd. . 1934 Jun 14, Mtg., Urusual & E James Bennett, to As Joint Tenants & Robt. A W Willson, $7562.67. . 1939 Jul 26, DM, Robt A W Willson, to U & J Bennet, $7562. . 1944 Ju 13, R A Warren Willson, to Eliz Herma, $3300. . 1945 Apr 15, Grant & Q.C., Martha & Timothy C Eaton, to A Skaith, J Crookston, & Virginia N Willson, $25,000. . 1948 Jul 31, Grant, Virginia N Wilson, to Allan L Skaith, J I Crookston, $5539. . 1818 Oct 15, Ind., Babington Nolan, to John Willson, All West Half 100A. [no sale registration found - PJA] . 1876 Mar 1, Mort., Samuel Willson, to Vincent Johnson, $2,500, Half 100A. {Lot2W, Con 3 . 1873 Aug 1, Mortgage, Vincent Johnson Etux, to Wm O Farrier, $2500, NHalf, 50A {Lot 2, Con 4, Markham Twp. . 1881 Mar 1, Morg. Vincent Johnson, to Johnston Wilson, $2,500. 50A. { Lot 2, Con 4. . 1883 Apr 2, Mort. Thos. Cherry Etux, to Vincent Johnson, $2900, H1/2, {Lot 2, Con 4. Lot 3, Con 3, Markham: . 1804 Sep 8, Patent, Crown, to William Berczy, All 200A. . 1818 Oct 15, Ind. Babington Nolan, to John Willson, All 200A. . 1856 Apr 16, B&S, The Dale, etux, to Samuel Willson, #150, pt 50A . 1865 Mar 31, John Cummer etal, to Samuel Willson, 5 shillings, part. . 1870 Feb 22, Samuel Willson etux, to Wm. Cherry, $3,6000 SE pt. Lot 5, Con 3, Markham . 1818 Oct 15, B&S, Babington Nolan, to John Willson, All 200A. Lot 6, Con 3, Markham . 1870 Mar 28, Grant, Robt Willson, to Angelina Henricks, $5,500 NHalf 100A. . 1878 May 1, Mort, Johnston Willson, $1,700, Half 100A. . 1881 May 2, DM, Johnston Willson, to Wm Hord, $1700. NHalf 100A. Lot 7, Con 3, Markham . 1867 Apr 29, Mortgage, Rob Scott Etux, to Samuel Willson $1000 . 1896 Jul 2, DM, Sam Wilson & Wm Beatty, Executors of of Johnston Willson, to John TB Scott, Admr. of Emily Scott, $400, NE Quarter. Lot 8, Con 3, Markham, . 1881 May 9, DM, William B Willson*, to Michale Cross, $2000, Pt 64A, Lot 1, Con 4, Markham: . 1799 Aug 8, Patent, Crown to John Simcoe Macauley, 200A. . 1899 Dec 15, Certif. Affidavit Re boundary, Samuel Wilson, SW angle | WILLSON, William Ladner .i (I27)
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| 17902 | Page Two: Died, Richard Hamilton, died Feb 4th 1909 Ref: Bible of Jane Matilda McCutcheon Hamilton. > Died, Hamilton - In Erin, on Thursday, February 4th, aged 74 years. Ref: Acton Free Press, published 11 Feb 1909, p. 2. . OBITUARY1: Mr. Richard Hamilton, of Erin Village, died very suddenly last Thursday. He had been at his usual work & business about the store the day before & death came without warning. The funeral on Sunday afternoon was very largely attended. Mr. Hamilton spent his boyhood & middle life in Acton & was highly esteemed here. He was a house carpenter & builder & was foreman carpenter for Messrs. Beardmore & Co. at the tanneries for many years. During his residence here Mr. Hamilton built one of the first brick houses in town - the comfortable residence at the corner of Main & River streets, at present owned & occupied by Mr. J. H. Reed & family. About twenty years ago he removed to Erin. Mrs. Hamilton & her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Walker, survive. Mrs. Walker was bereaved by the death of her husband last fall. Ref: Acton Free Press, 11 Feb 1909, P 3, Col 2. . OBITUARY2: That "in the midst of life we are in death" was most impressively forced upon Erin, Ontario, attended by a large number of sorrowing friends. The pallbearers were H. Mathews, D. McCleland, G. F. Sutton, J. D. Leitch, H. R.Smith & H. Barbour., one of our prominent & most highly esteemed citizens, was, almost without a moments warning, summoned from the activities of his life to the realities of the unknown world beyond. Up to the moment he was stricken Mr. Hamilton was in the enjoyment of his usual good health & his unexpected & startlingly sudden death within 24 hours thereafter, came as a great shock to his family, to his friends & to the community at large. Deceased was born in Toronto 73 years ago, was for many years a successful builder & contractor & some 25 years ago came to Erin, where he engaged in the grocery business & won the respect & esteem of every one with whom he came in contact during that quarter of a century. His genial presence will be greatly missed in business, religious & social circles. His youngest brother predeceased him by only nine months & those who survive are Alexander of Bangor, James of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Warner of Fairville, Mrs. McCutcheon of Grand Rapids & Miss Rebeckah Hamilton, Fairville, all in Michigan. On January 24, 1861, he married Jane McCutcheon of the 3rd line, Erin & she & an only daughter, Mrs. C. H. Walker are left to mourn the loss of a faithful husband & a loving father. They have the sympathy of all. Deceased was a devout member of the Disciple Church & a member of the A.O.U.W. Services were held by Rev. G. O. Black in the above church on Sunday afternoon & the interment took place to Erin Cemetery, the funeral being attended by a large number of sorrowing friends. The pallbearers were H. Mathews, D. McCleland, G. F. Sutton, J. D. Leitch, H. R.Smith & H. Barbour. ESTATE FILE, Richard Hamilton died 4 Feb, 1909. Application of Jane Matilda Hamilton, widow, of Erin, Wellington Co. Real & personal, valued at $3,050.00. Richard Hamilton of Village of Erin, County of Wellington, Merchant. All in favour of Jane Matilda Hamilton & thence of any surveying children. The property #13 East side of Main Street, Erin, W 1/2 Lot 15, 10 Con., Erin Twp. According to a Plan of Survey made by Charles J. Wheelock, Esq., filed at Guelph. Signed, R. Hamilton. Witness Humphrey Matthews, Erin, Harness Maker & Wm. M. Dowell, Barrister-At-Law. PROPERTY $1,800. - . - Securities A.O.W.W. 150. FARMING IMPLEMENTS 300. STOCK-IN-TRADE 300. $3,505.00 . 1919 Jun 12. Obituary: In his young manhood Mr. John Bell learned the trade of carpenter & framer. He & the late Richard Hamilton built numbers of the buildings in Acton & vicinity. They built the store on the site of the Secord block on the south side of Mill Street for Mr. Benzie, one of our early merchants. This store was burned down about 50 years ago. [1869]. When the Civil War broke out in 1862 the family moved to Niagara, NY & joined the American Army. JOHNSON COUSINS: Cousins Richd. Lawrence Johnson, Senior live also in Esquesing Twp. as did his brother Robert Lawrence Johnson (Lot 30, Con 1.) & also his son Richd. Lawrence Johnson, Junior, also live in Acton, & surely must have have known each other. R L Johnson, Jr. was born 1869 & thus 30years younger than R L Hamilton. . 1856-66 Mitchell & Co.'s Canada Classified Directory Canada West: Carpenter & Builders, Acton. Hamilton, R., carpenter. . 1871 Ontario Directory: Acton West; Village, A large quantity of wheat is purchased here. There is a considerable mfg. of flour, lumber & leather. Hamilton Richard, carpenter. . 1892 Ontario Gazetteer & Directory, Hamilton, Richard, grocer & crockery. . 1898-99 Western Ontario Gazetteer & Directory: Erin, Hamilton, Richard, grocer. Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you- . - | HAMILTON, Richard Lawrence (I341)
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| 17903 | PAGE TWO: Biography2 . JOHN W. OSBORN, Editor, printer and proprietor of the "Western Register and Terre Haute General Advertiser," was a man who, in my estimation, carried in his head all the knowledge of the world. He was quiet in manner & kind in speech, never passing any one in the street without a pleasant word. He was particularly opposed to horse-racing (then a custom universally indulged in) from a moral point of view, & was very sensitive in regard to razor strops, but I never understood why. To me there were two points of interest in the "Western Register"; one was that the news was always "two weeks later from Europe." . JOHN W. OSBORN (Picture of a middle age gentleman, dark, short hair). A biographical sketch written by the late S.B. GOOKINS of the pioneer editor of the Wabash Valley. The editor & proprietor of the first newspaper published in the town of Terre Haute, Indiana, was born at St. Johns, New Brunswick, February 7, 1794. He was the second son of Capt. Samuel OSBORN, a gallant & accomplished officer in the British navy. His grandfather & eldest brother, Capt. William OSBORN, were also both officers in the service of his majesty the King of England. * Also his maternal grandfather, for whom he was named, held a captain's commission & was an intimate friend of Gen. BROCK, acted as commissary general, etc., & filled many places of trust. *See Note 1. William OSBORN, the eldest son of Capt. Samuel OSBORN Jr., was promoted to a captaincy very young for bravery during several sharp engagements at sea. Thus by the divine right of inheritance & early associations Mr. John W. OSBORN was fitted for the struggles & difficulties of pioneer life which need a brave heart, untiring devotion, progressive & aggressive, to the principles of right. * Mr. OSBORN's mother was Alice WILSON, the daughter of John WILSON & Rebecca THIXTON, his wife. She was born on Staten Island. She was educated in New York, where the family lived always a part of each year, her father being an officer in the British army, loyal to his king. They left the United States & made a new home in Canada, living sometimes at Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Canancoqua [ now Kingston], & finally settling down at Toronto, buying land & laying, as they supposed, a permanent foundation for a home. * See Note2. . 1807 Oct 10, Sat. - York Gazette, Wanted: An apprentice to the printing business. His connection must be respectable & his morals uncorrupted. Application to be made to the printers of the York Gazette. Note5: The reference here is to the qualifications needed to be involved in the newspaper business. - PJ Ahlberg 2013. Col. WILSON sent to Scotland & brought out a hundred families & settled them upon his lands in Canada, & believing in the magic power of the press to enlighten & civilize, he sent to England & had a printing press, type & men to do the work sent out to the almost wilderness. Col. Joseph WILLCOX, who was a member of the provincial parliament, an ardent politician, an educated Irish gentleman and a republican, was associated with Mr. OSBORN in publishing the "Upper Canada Guardian & Freeman's Journal." Mr. OSBORN late in life spoke of Col. Willcox as one whose name he loved, & referring to his association with him, said: "I then & there drank in the principles of free government which have remained with me until this hour & which changed the whole course of my life." Mr. OSBORN's devotion to republican institutions & his belief in the justness of the American cause led him, on the breaking out of the war of 1812, to espouse, with all the fire & energy of his nature, the side of free government. On August 14, 1812 he left the country, home, kindred & friends, & crossed Lake Ontario from Toronto to the United States, when he joined the American army, at which action of his he alienated & grieved his relatives, especially his grandfather, who disowned & disinherited him. * * Notes4: 1818 Aug 21st, at Ft. George, Niagara-on-the-Lake, where John W Osborn was on duty at this time, it was announced the Maj Gen. Sheaffer has a very great satisfaction in announcing to the troops, the surrender of Fort Detroit Gen. Isaac Brock at the head of 700 soldier, volunteer Militia with 600 Indians captured the Fort. Ref: Issac Brock papers, p132. . 1812 Sept 29, Tues. On Sunday last, arrived from NY, on board the sloop Euphemia, part of a Volunteer detachment from the Republican Greens of that City, under the command of Lieut. Col. McClaurte. Yesterday they disembarked & marched up to the barracks in Lion Street, escorted by The REPUBLICAN GREENS, of this place, commanded by Captain Maher. Ref: Albany Register Newspaper, NY. Mr. OSBORN did not anticipate giving up his love & interest in Canada, but was sanguine in his belief that Canada would become a part of the United States, would be annexed, when he intended to return there. He was induced, through the representation of Mr. Denny, a book publisher, of Albany, to go to Homer, Cortland county, New York, where he took charge of & edited the Cortland "Republican," a paper still published there. He, however, soon removed his office to Cortlandville, the county seat, for a time. His paper was ardently devoted to the United States government. He continued the publication until 1816. In that year Indiana was admitted to the Union as a sovereign state, & the spirit of adventure, at that time rife in the land, led him, with many others, to the inviting fields of the then Far West. In 1817 he came to Vincennes, & soon afterward secured the office of the "Western Sun," the first newspaper published in Indiana. At that time the slavery question was much discussed. The ordinance of 1787, excluding slavery from the territory northwest of the Ohio river, was almost universally disregarded. Slaves were held in Vincennes & other places, & were bought & sold. Indiana had just been admitted to the Union, & having by a clause in her constitution prohibited slavery, the holders of slaves became uneasy, & as a consequence as scheme was adopted for making what profit they could out of the stock on hand, which was to be carried out by running the negroes off to the slave states & selling them. Adventurers were found who were willing to go into the business of kidnapping for a profit. This was winked at by many of the most popular & influential men, & for anyone to espouse the cause of the slave was to subject himself to the odium, not to say contemptuous persecution, of a majority of the people in that region. But the proscribed race were not without friends, & one of the most active of these was Mr. OSBORN. Having suffered immeasurably from separation from home, kindred & friends on account of his devotion to the principles of freedom, he did not propose to accept a mere sham & pretense for the precious boon he sought at so great a sacrifice. He not only protested, but defended, the negro, & pursued the kidnapper & rescued his victims. He, cooperating with others like minded, carried the question to the supreme court & obtained a decision which set at rest forever the question of slavery in Indiana. In 1828 Mr. OSBORN came to Terre Haute & established the "Western Register." The first number was printed July 21, & created quite a sensation. A newspaper really & truly printed in the wilderness! Men, women & children came from all the country around to see the great wonder, especially on publication days. The "Western Register's" motto was "No dupe to party tool of power, nor slave to minions of an hour." The paper was conducted upon all questions of home & foreign government & the development of our rich & lovely valley of the Wabash. Mr. OSBORN was contemporary with Robert Owen, Rapp, Flower & many others of less note, would-be reformers, but all his teachings had the true ring of patriotism & Christianity. During the summer of 1828 Mr. OSBORN made one of his characteristic exploring trips on horseback up the Wabash river, intending to visit Fort Dearborn, now Chicago. Early one lovely morning he arrived at the Tippecanoe battle-ground, where he discovered that after the soldiers had left the field the Indians had returned & dug up the remains of the brave heroes & stripped, scalped & tomahawked them & left them to be devoured by wild beasts, & the bones had lain bleaching in the sun & storms for 12 years. When Mr. OSBORN returned to Terre Haute he had an interview with Capt. Nathaniel Huntington, & induced him to proceed with his company of cavalry, the Wabash Greens, to Tippecanoe. The remains of the brave men were carefully collected by them & reinterred with military honors. Mr. OSBORN was ever ready to render honor to the generous, noble & brave, & quick scorn & flashing indignation for the mercenary & selfish. One summer day in the year 1828 he was passing by the court-house square, & laying partly concealed by some hazel bushes, he saw a man senseless, apparently dead. The man was only drunk! Mr. OSBORN had known him in Toronto a prominent merchant, an honored man. He covered the poor wretch's face to protect it from sun, insects & the derision of passers-by. From that hour he was an uncompromising temperance man. His heart swelled with indignation toward the man who for a few cents would see a fellow man degraded & wallowing in the dust, & from this incident probably the first temperance movement in the country originated. Education, free education, was another subject of intense interest to him. During the year 1829 his health gave way, caused by his untiring exertions, & he retired from the editorial chair & went upon his farm, five miles south of the city, from which he received great benefit. In 1834 his old feeling in regard to the power & importance of the "press" returned & feeling that there was great value in the knowledge & talents that he possessed, he looked about him for a field of action & decided up Greencastle, Putnam county, considering it a healthy, desirable region of country. He purchased a printing office & sent out his paper, the "Ploughboy," broadcast, & inclosed (sic) in it a small temperance paper which he published in pamphlet form, of eight pages, & sent to his subscribers gratuitously, called the "Temperance Advocate," the first temperance paper ever published in the west. Temperance in those days was as unpopular as warning against slavery, & required unbounded moral courage & a trace of "fighting blood," both of which he inherited in good measure from a brave & chivalrous ancestry. This paper was devoted to the interests of agriculture, education & temperance, in the promotion of all which he was a zealous & efficient laborer. In Greencastle he was surrounded by congenial associates, Dr. Alex Stephenson, Dr. Taravin & Judge Cowhill, Rees, Hardesty & others. To Mr. Osborn's exertions were due in a great measure the establishment at Greencastle of the Indiana Asbury University, the leading educational institution of the state of the Methodist denomination, of which he was a conscientious, active member. He was one of the first trustees of Asbury University. In 1838 he removed his establishment to Indianapolis, changed the name to "Indiana Farmer and Stock Register," was elected state printer, also continued the publication of his temperance paper. At the close of his term of office he retired from the press on account of ill health, but was a contributor to various local journals during most of his life. When the war of the rebellion broke out, too old to take the field & too zealous a supporter of the government to permit of his remaining idle, he went to Sullivan county, & published a war campaign paper under the title of the "Stars and Stripes," where he rendered invaluable service to the Union cause. This was his last venture in journalism. (Which he conducted at Sullivan during the war, was pronounced in its Union sentiment & strong in its support). His health continued to decline until his death, which occurred in Greencastle on November 12, 1866. His latest hours were marked by painful disease, patient resignation & Christian faith. Ref: HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, by H.W. Beckwith - 1880, Terre Haute - pp. 169-175. Note3: Maternal grandfather is John Willson, Sr., born NJ. The war referred is slightly confused. During the Revolutionary War, Capt. John Willson was in the Quartermaster Commissary General's Office for the NJ Volunteers & he was a friend of Lieut. Gov., John Graves Simcoe, of Upper Canada, that is, Toronto, Ontario. John Willson brought a 100 people with him from New Brunswick in the journey known as 'MAY FLEETs' arrival at York' - In a twist of fate, this time during the War of 1812, Capt. J Willson of the York Militia, was captured & later released when American forces captured Ft. York (Toronto.) Note4: Canacoqua is the original native name for Kingston, Ontario. Canacoqua or Kateracoui. Cataraqui is the French pronunciation. It was also named Fort Frontenac. It is very interesting that this story taken in 1880 from verbal family history, is bares out in proven facts. Reference to John Willson, U.E. and 'May Fleet to York, Upper Canada. 1793' - P J Ahlberg, 2011. . In 1823 he went to Terre Haute & began publication of the Western Register and Terre Haute Advertiser. This he sold in 1832 to become a candidate for sheriff but was defeated. In 1833-34 he was publisher of The Plowboy in Greencastle, Indiana. . In 1823, Mr. Osborn loaded his press into a wagon, & set out for Terre Haute. The dangers of the journey from high water were not insurmountable, but when an ignorant driver lost his way, the case was different. And so in attempting to cross a stream in a wrong place, the wagon was overturned, & its precious burden landed in the water. About 1830-2 Osborn after spending some time on his farm, again undertook the role of a publisher, by establishing the Ploughboy at Greencastle. In 1838 he removed with his paper to Indianapolis, changing the name to the Indiana Farmer and Stock Register. While there he was elected to the position of State printer. When the war of the rebellion broke out he moved to the town of Sullivan, & established a paper which he named The Stars and Stripes. Ref: The history of early Terre Haute from 1816 to 1840. - . - | OSBORN, John Willson (I708)
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| 17904 | Page Two: Robber Hold Out Beneath Tarbox's Saloon: . 1909 Jan 28 - TRAPPED AFTER HIDING A WEEK BENEATH STORE . Edward J. Rand Commits 2 Mysterious Thefts & Is Finally Caught . Author of Daring Raids on Mose Gunst's Cigar Stand Is a College Graduate . Makes Secret Passageway & Conceals Himself Until Taken by the Police Hiding for 7 days in a tunnel beneath the scene of two daring burglaries. Edward J. Rand was trapped by Policemen T. A. Kerrigan and E. T. Timbs yesterday. Rand, a graduate of the Kentucky state university, twice raided the cigar store of Mose Gunst at Geary street and Van Ness avenue, and was finally captured after a week's siege. Rand confessed his guilt to the arresting policemen, but later at the central station made several denials & contradicted himself. lie told the police that 1 had a confederate, and although first unbelieved. This statement was given the color of truth by the mysterious visit of 2 strangers to the vicinity of the crime yesterday. One of the mysterious pair asked for "Ed," and he answered the description given by Rend of his confederate. . PLANS THIRD ROBBERY Hand had carefully planned a third robbery one week ago, but lost his nerve when a conversation in a saloon overhead, warned him that he was trapped like a rat in his tunnel. Policemen had been stationed in the basement of the saloon, blocking Rand's avenue of escape and resulting in his capture yesterday morning, when his presence was betrayed by a futile at tempt to cut his way to freedom. Kerrigan & Timbs tore the boards from the tunnel's entrance & Rand, weakened by 7 days' life in the foul, dark & almost suffocating tunnel, made no resistance or attempt to escape when he discovered 2 revolvers pointed at him. The two robberies, which took place October 12 and October 28, puzzled the police. The burglar left no trace on the first occasion, and suspicion fell on several of the store's clerks. The second time It was found that a section of flooring had been cut out but still It was not suspected that there existed a tunnel, or a space, left by the builders between the ground and floor. . WATCHES THROUGH HOLES Rand was formerly night clerk at the Hotel Martinet. In his original confession Rand claimed to have gained access to the Hotel Martinet through a window and then through a door & down a flight of stairs to the basement. He was compelled to squirm through less than a foot of space between the top of a door & a passageway under the saloon. A hole about a foot square was cut into the wall of the passageway by Rand, who thus got into the excavation under the saloon floor. Wriggling like a snake be kept on under the saloon, scraping away the dirt where necesA brick wall separates the subsaloon excavation from the narrow space under the cigar store. Rand burrowed through the brick wall, and after getting under the cigar store bored a small hole through the floor and later another. He used a brace & '.bit. Through these holes he -watched the safe being opened by the manager & learned the combination. Then at night he .cut through -into the store & opened the safe. He carried with him an electric wire and bulb, which he attached to existing wires, getting light. More than $300 of this loot was recovered from its hiding place in the hotel basement. . FEEDS IN SALOON KITCHEN Rand also bored holes up through the floor of the saloon & thus learned the combination of the safe there. He had in his possession, when caught, a drawing of a key used to' open the money drawers of the saloon safe. Pinkerton detectives had been watch ing the cigar store, but last week the 2 policemen were placed in the saloon cellar to await developments. It happened that Rand had entered the tunnel that day for a third coup, but overheard the policemen & others speaking in the saloon. This warned him that he was trapped, and he stole from his tunnel to the saloon kitchen each morning after the policemen, who had watched all night, had left. Here he obtained food and drink, but escape. In the daylight was impossible. At night the policemen were present & Rand remained trapped until his capture. . FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES Mysterious disappearances of a revolver, liquor, cigars, canned fruits & food from the saloon resulted In the police being placed on watch. Tarbox & Tobin, the saloon proprietors, lived in fear of their lives, for though they could see no one both said they felt that their movements were watched. Rand's parents, who are well to do country folk, live at Vanceburg, Ky. Rand worked on the Phelan building for a time, but was discharged. He went to work as night clerk at the Hotel Martinet. He had lived at the Martinet since the earthquake. About September 7, Rand disappeared and at the urgent request of anxious parents in Vanceburg, J. Mackie, proprietor of the Martinet, advertised for the missing man. No trace of Rand was found until his capture yesterday morning. . Photograph & Diagram of Edward J. Rand; the thief captured in tunnel & diagram showing; the course which he took in reaching the safe of the Moset Gunst cigar store - The saloon of Tarbox & Tobin is just over the spot at which Rand was captured. The safe it directly overhead. Rand went down the hotel stairs to the basement, over the partition, through the passageway to the tunnel entrance under the saloon to a, brick wall, through the wall, which he partially demolished, under the cigar store, until the safe was directly overhead, and; then up through, the flooring. Rand confessed having overheard much conversation in the saloon concerning himself 'while peeking through an opening. Ref: The San Francisco call. (San Francisco [Calif.]), 28 Jan. 1909, page 16. . 1909 May 17 - I have sold the saloon at 1101 Gery St, owned by Tarbox & Tobin. . 1909 Nov 14 - sold to Tarbox & Tobin, 20 Ellis St. Saloon. . 1910 Jun 14 - Temporary Injunction. The tearing down of the frame building at 20 Ellis St., which is the saloon to Tarbox & Tobin has been halted yesterday by Pasquale G Cirella, owner of the bootblack stand occupying part of the frontage. Tarbox & Tobin sold their saloon to Ryan & Dewitt who are preparing for the erection of a oder place by demolishing the frame building. Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - | TARBOX, Benjamin Laidley (I2864)
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| 17905 | Page Two: 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 colony, Lord Selkirk had used his troops under his authority as a magistrate to seize Fort William & arrest Nor’Wester William McGillivray & his two 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. 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 three 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. 1816 Jun 19th, the Trial by Grand Jury take place a the (old) Court House on Richmond in the Town of York, (Toronto). Trials 1 & 2: The prisoners brought down from Fort William, after the lapse of nearly two years were arraigned as follows: "Paul Brown & F, F. Boucher, for the murder of Robert Semple, Esq., on the 19th of June, 1816. Johan Siveright, Alexander McKenzie, Hugh McGillis, John McDonald, John McLaughlin & Simon Fraser, as accessories to the same crime. Cooper & Bennerman, for taking, on the 3rd of April, 1S15, with force & arms, eight pieces of cannon & one howitzer, the property of the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Selkirk, from his dwelling house. In each case the verdict was "not guilty." Trial 3. The Earl of Selkirk was not present at any of the trials. The Jury found by the Grand Jury for "conspiracy to ruin the trade of the NorthWest Company;" a verdict £500 damages for having been seized & false imprisonment by the said Earl of Selkirk in Fort William, 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: Lord Selkirk, members of the 'Family Compact' the two Boltons, Allan, Robinson & Baldwin; the 2 northern explorers MacKenzine & Fraser; & many of the Lawrence-Willson neighbors. 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 Junior, because they 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 1812-13 at the Battle of Fort York. - PJA 2011. - - - | WILLSON, Lieut. John Jur.2 (I13)
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| 17906 | Pages 396, 396A and 397, British Library, London, 1896 | Source (S17)
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| 17907 | Paisley St. Convulsions after operation. | WALKER, Elsie May (I253)
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| 17908 | Palermo | WILKINSON, Joseph (I2528)
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| 17909 | Palermo, Halton Co. | PATTERSON, Maria (I1894)
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| 17910 | Palermo, Halton Co., Ontario | NORTON, Michael Grant (I2523)
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| 17911 | Palermo, Halton Co., Ontario. | ROBINSON, Gladys Agnes (I2522)
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| 17912 | Palermo. | NORTON, Hiram Clark .1 (I1068)
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| 17913 | Palermo. | WILKINSON, Elizabeth (I1029)
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| 17914 | Palermo. Buried with parents. | WILKINSON, Charles Ray (I2525)
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| 17915 | Palermro. Black monument with large scroll/ cylinder on top. | NORTON, Cecil Hiram Tennyson (I1590)
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| 17916 | Pallion, North Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland. | SHEPPARD, Isaac (I606)
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| 17917 | Palmero is adjacent to Milton, ON. | SIMONS, Joseph Sr. (.3rd.) (I482)
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| 17918 | Palmero, Halton Co., Buried with parents. | WILKINSON, Morley Ray (I2524)
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| 17919 | Papa died of heart failure, whilst running to the Erin train station to repair the engine on the inaugural trip of the Credit Valley Railroad. The train would not start again so John was considered to be the Erin mechanical engineering expert so they cal | WALKER, Charles Henry (I89)
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| 17920 | Papa. | OLINGER, Thomas LAWRENCE (I1752)
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| 17921 | Paragraph from Sam Singletary (FLSAM@aol.com) e-mail 9-30-02: " I just spoke with my Daddy and he remembers Aunt Birdie well he said she used to come and stay with them from time to time. He told me, about the time his youngest brother Herschel fell on the wood stove and burned his face really bad and how they went and got Aunt Birdie to talk the fire from his face. He said she sat behind the stove in a chair holding Herschel who was around 4 or 5 at the time and kept mumbling something all day and most of the night. Within a couple of days he was good as new and it left no scars." | SINGLETARY, Birdie Lena (I15)
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| 17922 | Paralies. Lyles St., Aurora | SISLEY, Bowley (I1423)
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| 17923 | Paralylis, Arterio sclerosis, 2 y. | HAMILL, Elizabeth Annie Minerva (I617)
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| 17924 | parents b. in Quebec of Irish descent | UNKNOWN, Florence Jennie (I4164)
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| 17925 | parents b. Ireland, Wm. immigrated 1851 OCCUP: lighthouse keeper SURNAME: listed in 1901 census as SITTLINGTON | SETTERINGTON, William (I4163)
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| 17926 | Parents b. Ukraine: Caroline Buih | BUTTE, Caroline (I123)
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| 17927 | Parents b. Ukraine: Caroline Buih | BUTTEE, Caroline (I419)
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| 17928 | parents born in USA. | TILDEN, Levina (I4299)
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| 17929 | Parents born Ireland (?) | HILLOCK, Esther Leverton (I69)
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| 17930 | Parents both born South Dakota / 1920 Census. | BEST, Marie Ann MARY (I359)
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| 17931 | Parents consent, under age boy born 6 mo. later. | Family (F33)
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| 17932 | Parents of Isaac are Watson Playter & Priscila Waterman. . 1770 Nov 1 - Letters remaining in the Post Office, Philadelphia: Mr Playter. Ref: Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, Penn. - - - | PLAYTER, Isaac (I188)
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| 17933 | Parents of Samuel are Hugh McConachie b 1827 & Catherine Sisley 1826 9 14 of York Co., Ont. . 1866 - Dunbarton - A post village in Picking twp. settled in 1853 having one Common School, 9 Miles from Whitby, Population120. Ref: MITCHELL GAZETTER & DIRECTORY. - - - | MCCONACHIE, Samuel (I174)
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| 17934 | Parents referred to her as Jane. | ROY, Elizabeth Jane ELIZA Jane (I21)
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| 17935 | Parents resided with Icylena & her family. | OSBORN, Icylena (I1774)
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| 17936 | Parents resided with Icylena & her family. | OSBORN, Icylena (I786)
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| 17937 | Parents residence South Huron. Alt Loc: Twin Lakes, Indiana. | PROCTOR, William T. WILLIE .3 (I1461)
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| 17938 | Parents supporter of Abraham Lincoln & driven out of Alabama because of their antislavery stance. Moved to Illinois then Missouri until after the Civil War & then to Arkansas. Twenty-five years in Pyote, Texas: . 1870 Texas Co., MO., Upton Twp., page 486B. (SITTEN) . 1850 Nov 15 Census, Walker Co., Alabama, Twp. 12, p308: James Sutton, 22, 1850 Alabama, Farmer Sarah R Sutton, 22, 1828 Georgia George W Sutton, 2, 1848 Alabama CiceroS Sutton, 2 months, Alabama. Census 1860 - Winston Co., AL. Twp. 12, Range 9, page 1223B. Census 1870 - Plum Valley, Texas Co., Upton Missouri: Sitten . 1880 Census Arkansas, Searcy District 175 St. Joe G W Sitton, 32y. / b 1848 Alabama, father b. Alabama, Mother Geo. Rozene Sitton 34, wife, Sarah Sitton 13, Willis M Sitton 10, N B R Sitton 8, M M J Sitton 5, C H Sitton 2. Census 1910 - Ward, Texas, 2 J-PCT, Cicero F Sitton1850 Alabama White Male Census 1920, Pyote, Texas Cicero S Sitton, 68y, Alabama, father b Georgia, mother b Georgia, labour, on steam railroad; Caroline Sitton, 65y b. Canada, parents b England; Noah G Sitton, 39y, b Arkansas Blacksmith, Own shop. Fitzhugh L Sitton, 21y, b , Oklahoma Chauffeur, United Mail Service. Cicero S Sitton was a member of the Mason. (Blacksmith) . 1899 Jun 29 - A postoffice has been established at Crowe, Roger Mills County, OK. with Cicero S Sitton as postmaster. Ref: Minor Capital News, Dallas Texas. . 1902 Jan 18 - Coriscana, Texas - the building occupied by Sitton 's grocery store, on North Beaton Street caught fire early Friday morning & Mark Lane was suffocated by the smoke which filled the second floor. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp. Ref: Waxahachie Daily Light Newspaper, Texas. . 1907 Cicero S. Sitton & his sons opened a store, a 3 day barbecue was held, & most of the town lots were sold. A school petition was circulated at the barbecue, & later a one-room school building was constructed. The Sitton Mercantile safe may be found in the Pyote Museum. (2006). Pyote began as a siding & telegraph station constructed when the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. laid rails from Fort Worth westward toward El Paso in 1881. Even with access to a steam railway, the site initially known as Pyote Tank did not develop economically for a quarter century. Then in 1906 local ranch owners sold 200 Acres alongside the railroad to Pyote Town Development Co. The next year, Cicero Silas Sitton, came to the proposed new town & opened its first store. In the meantime the town site Co. hosted a 3 day barbecue, during which time it began selling town lots to prospective residents & businessmen. In time Pyote grew into a local ranch supply center with a hotel, restaurant, lumber yard, barbershop, school, & post office...In 2000 town possessed only one building still standing amid the ruins & foundations of dozens of others. Ref: More Ghost Towns of Texas, By T. Lindsay Baker. . 1910 Nov 21 - Kermit, Taxas will soon have telephone connection with the T & P Railroad at Pyote; the line now owned by Sitton Mercantile company, of that place & some citizens of Duval, is to be extended to Kermit. It is said that the Sitton Mercantile company of Pyote, will soon begin the erection of a large business house at Kermit. Ref: El Pasco Herald Newspaper, Texas. Census 1930 Pyote Texas. - Cicero Sitton, Head aged 79, /b 1851, married age 20, Blacksmith. Caroline P Sitton, 76y, B. Canada, married age 17, Landed 1860 [correct date: 1856] G Noah Sitton, 50y, single, b Arkansa. - - - | SITTON, Cicero Silas .1 (I13)
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| 17939 | parents Ukraine: Caroline Buih | BUTTE, Caroline (I71)
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| 17940 | Parents were born in Sweden. | SCHUNSTEDT, Freda (I299)
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| 17941 | parents were Daniel Brittain (died 1733) and Elizabeth Powell | BRITTAIN, Mary (Mercy) (I2218)
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| 17942 | Parents Wm. McC & Margaret Hayes of Arthur Twp. 10 Jan 1872, Georgetown Congregational Church Matthew SMITH Jr., 28, Welland - Niagara, Erin, s/o Thompson SMITH & Harriet WARDELL, married Mary Ann McCUTCHEON, 23, Arthur, Erin, d/o William McCUTCHEON & Margaret HAYES, Witn: Hugh R. SMITH & Eveline SMITH, both of Erin. - - - | MCCUTCHEON, Mary Ann .3 (I150)
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| 17943 | Parents. Lily Roland & Wm. Morris, Laborer. | MORRIS, Lottie Kathleen (I1291)
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| 17944 | Parents: 1774 Newton Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey Charles Rozal & brother, Joseph Rozal are listed as a taxpayer in 1774 in Newton Twp., Sussex County, NJ. Charles & (wife) Mary first purchased land in Newton NJ Feb 10, 1783 from Martin Ryerson (16+ acres.) Charles Roszel & Mary second purchased land in Newton NJ April 13, 1795 from Abraham Eldridge (112+ acres). Two Roszel brothers married two Felker sisters: Nathaniel Roszel married 25 Oct 1809 to Christina Falker. George Roszel married 1810 to Catherine Felker. . Nathaniel Roszel emigrated with his parents from Pennsylvania (like after the close of the Revolutionary War) to the Smithville area of the Niagara escarpment 1800. War of 1812 at Queenston Heights & Lundy's Lane. . Muster roll & pay list: 4th Regiment of Lincoln Militia, Detachment under command of Maj. Rich. Hatt: Nathaniel Rozell - 25 April - 12 May, 1813 Inclusive, 39 days. Note: Lewis Felker, nephew, also served with him. . Captain Henry Nelles, detachment of the 4th Regiment - Lincoln Militia May 22, 18 to May 30, 1814. . 4th Regiment, Lincoln Militia under Captain Henry Nelles Nathaniel, George & Eldger Roszell . 1814, May 23-29th, Fort George, Engineering Dept. & Fort George & Ft. Niagara. . Abraham Nelles, detachment of the 4th Regiment, Lincoln Militia: July 4, 1814 to July 28, 1814 (Nathaniel was only there July 18th.) - Transcript by PJ Ahlberg, 2015. 3 Roszel brothers, Nathaniel, Eldrich & George were given grants of land in Erin Twp. Geo. & Nathaniel received Lot 2, Con 6, but their deeds were drawn for Lot 1 Con 7. in the Hamlet of Ballinafad. Left with the practical considerations of caring for Charles Roszel, than a little toddler, re-marriage was almost immediate - on 10 Jan 1813 (three months to the day after Christeen's death he married Hannah Fowler who had been born in 1793.) . War of 1812, 2nd York, 4th & 5th Lincoln Reg't. Militia: 1813 Apr 25 to June 2. 30 days. Private Lewis Felker, 1813 Apr 25 - June, 45 Days. . Wellington Co. Land Registry Lot 1, Con, Erin Twp., 16 Nov 1821 Nathaniel Roszel. . 1898 Peacock School S 4, Ballinafad, by Jim Shorthill, Nathaniel Roszel, a native of Pennsylvania, was the first white settler in Erin Twp. He took land at Lot One, Con 7 in Nov 1820. On Nov 11, 1821, his son Benjamin, the first white child was born. It as here the hamlet of Ballinafad sprang up, & her Erin Township began. Mr. Roszel gave land off his farm for a church, cemetery, school, temperance hall & parsonage. All of these were on the seventh line corner ad across what is now the town line. . 1906 Wellington Atlas Having found horses almost useless in the wilderness, Nathaniel sent his team of horses home to his brother George, only to be returned to him later. These were likely the first horses in Erin Twp. . 1824 Census, Roswell Nath. 4 males, 1 boy, 4 women, Total 9 ( This was the very first assessment taken in Gore-Erin Twp.) . 1827 Assessment, Nath. Rosswell, Eldrige, Rosswell . 1825 Apr 18 Assessment Census Erin Twp., Wellington Roszel, Nathaniel, 5 Males over 16, 3 Females over 16, 1 boy, 1 girl, Total 10. . 1826 Apr 11; 1829; 1830 Assessments: Nath. Roszel, Eldridge Roszel. . 1831, 1832 Assessments: Nath. Roszel, Eldening, Charles Roszel. . 1839 Assessments: Nathaniel Roszel, Charles Rosswell. . Monument Inscription: "Here lies the boy of Charles Rozel who was born the 5th of April 1742 & Departed this Life October 25th 1817. Aged 75 years, 6 months & 20 days. Note: Red sandstone monument is in excellent condition in 2013. Typical style of a New Jersey monument. Was this stone brought to Ontario for Charles Roszel? ... or perhaps the monument could have been chisel in New Jersey, but also strongly resembles the work of John Solomon Teetzel, a fellow German who left New Jersey for Palermo, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario. - PJ Ahlberg. First Settler Came in 1821 Where Ballinafad is now. Pioneer days at Ballinafad were levied by Ernest Rot when he spoke at the first memorial served there on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 12. nathaniel Roszell, a native of Pennsylvania, was the first settler in Erin Twp. He came with his family from Smithvile in Nov 1821 & settled on Lot 1, between the 6th & 7th line, where the hamlet of Ballinafrad later sprang up. Benjamin Roszell was the first white child born in Erin Twp, on Nov 11, 181. the first revival meeting of the settlers was held i Mr Roszell's home. Jos Hilts & brother William moved into northern Esquesing abut the same time as the Rozell's moved into Erin. About 4 years after the founding of the settlement, the scattered population concluded to put up a log building that would serve the double purpose of school & meetinghouse. They held a meting & laid there plans & a shot time a very comfortable school was ready for use on the corner of Nathaniel Roszell's farm just across the road from where the store now stands. In this school, religious services were held for a number os years. Mr Roszell also gave land for a cemetery, a church, a temperance all & a parsonage. the first church was the Methodist, just west of the cemetery in the year 1841. Near it was the Temperance Hall, which is a very old building. Ref: Acton Free Press newspaper. . 1845 May 9. Ballinafad. A meeting was held for the purpose of appointing 3 trustees for the cemetery. A deed was drawn up between Nathaniel Roszell & his Wife Hannah, "in the Township of Erin, in the county of Waterloo, in the Wellington district, in the prince of Canada". The trustees were Obadiah Roy, Archibald Patterson & Jos Hilt. Witnesses present were Donald McMain & Arthur Thompson. The same of 5 shillings was paid for the land. Ref: Reprinted, Flesherton Advance newspaper. Wellington Country Atlas, 1906 ROSZEL Family. The founder of this family in Canada was Chas. Roszel, who came from New York State about 1800, & set. on a farm on the Sixteen road in Gainsboro Tp., about two miles from Smithsville, where some of the descendants still live. Five of his sons served in the war of 1812, & were in General Brock's command, but escaped without wounds. Nathaniel, Eldrich & George were given grants in Erin Tp. for their services, getting 100 acres each on payment of $26 to defray expenses of deeds etc. George & Nathaniel were to receive lot 2, con. 6, but the deeds by mistake were drawn for lot 1, con. 7. In November 1820 George & Nathaniel came to Erin Tp., but George did not like the country, so sold his 100 acres, east half, Lot 1, Con. 7, to Nathaniel, who stayed there. The journey was a hard one, as they had to cut their way in from Georgetown, & the difficulties of the trip can be judged by the fact that the path they cut to their locations was nine miles in length, & the journey now is made in 6. They brought horses with them, but finding them of little service, Nathaniel sent his home with George, & they were returned to him later; these were probably the first horses in the township. Eldrich Roszel came to Erin Tp. in the spring of 1821, & set. on his grant, the west half, Lot 2, Con. 7. Nathaniel was b. July 3, 1878, & came with his parents to Gainsboro Tp. He served in the war of 1812, & was in the battles of Queenston Heights, & Lundy's Lane, where he waded through blood to his shoe tops. In the fall of 1820 he set. on the l& grant which he received for his services. He was the first settler in the township of Erin. He used to clear 8 acres of land every winter, & was conscientious & a hard worker. In the early days he took his grist to Jones' mill on the 6th line of Esquesing. He was a Methodist, & his house was headquarters for the ministers in the early days, & he gave ground for the church & cemetery. He was a Reformer in politics, & in the first elections, went all the way to Palermo to vote the freehold ticket. He m. on Oct. 25th, 1809, Christeen Felker, who d. on Oct. 10, 1812. On Jan. 10th, 1813, he m. Hannah Fowler. Issue: Charles P., Carrick Tp.; Jacob, b. & d. in 1812; Jane, b. 1814, m. John Sharp, of Acton; James, b. 1815, set. Hatchley; Ann, b. 1816, m. Thomas Ismound, Erin Tp.; Joseph, b. 1818, set. Elma Tp.; Hannah, b. 1819 (d. infancy); Martha, b. 1820, m. George Havens, Erin Tp.; Benjamin, b. Nov. 11, 1821, was the first white child b. in Wellington Co.; Solomon, b. 1824, Erin; Christeen, b. 1826, m. William Sayers, Erin Tp.; Stephen, b. 1829, Erin Tp.; Nathaniel, b. 1834, (d. infancy); George, Wilson, b. 1835 (d. infancy; & Wilson, b. 1839, (d. infancy); George, b. 1832, occupies a part of the homestead. He m. Alice Vanatter of Erin Tp. Issue: Mrs. E Hilts, Norval; Sarah, (d. 24), Mrs. Comfort Thompson, Hiram & Elijah (d. infancy), Mrs. Robert Wood, & Ira, Erin Tp. Benjamin Roszel, who was the first white child b. in Wellington Co., was b. in Erin Tp., in 1821, on Lot 1, Con. 6, & practically passed his life in that Tp. He never sought or held municipal office, & was very much respected. He was a member of the Methodist church, & a Liberal in politics. He m. Elizabeth O'Reilly, who d. at the age of 66, while he d. at 76. Issue: George A., Charles H., m. Hannah Awrey, set Erin; John H., m. Isabella Tolton, set. Erin; Mrs. Wm. Mooney, William J., m. Margaret Aitcheson, set. Erin; Mrs. Duncan McArthur, Mich; & Benjamin, who first m. Miss King, & second Annie Whiteside, & set. Erin. . George A., was b. & brought up in Erin. He owns 150 acres, lot 23, con. 7, Eramosa, upon which he resides, & also 50 acres, lot 21, Erin. He carries on mixed farming, & has acquired his property by his own exertions. He is a Presbyterian & a Liberal. He m. Catharine Howe. Issue: Mary E., William H., John E., Charles, George, Howard, James, Irvin, Mary P., & Herman. - - - | ROSZEL, Nathaniel A .1 (I389)
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| 17945 | Paris, ON. | TISDALE, Peter HERBERT Lawrence (I1311)
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| 17946 | Paris, ON. | CARPENTER, Rachel MARY (I1160)
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| 17947 | Paris, ON. Buried with husband Walker C Tisdale. | HOLLAND, Mary E (I1638)
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| 17948 | Paris, ON. Buried with wife Mary E Holland. | TISDALE, Walker Charles (I1312)
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| 17949 | Paris, Ont. | TISDALE, George Harden (I1310)
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| 17950 | Paris. | JACKSON, Marion Boyd (I618)
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