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3801	. Palermo United Cemetery in Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., The Monument base has been re-cemented; Very clear inscription reads: In memory of GEORGE B., son of Joseph & Mary Simons, who died Apr 14 1850: in the 24 years of his age. Note: That there are two separate stones: for Geo. B and Geo. E, both died 1850. - P J Ahlberg 2012. - - -	SIMONS, George B .1 (I909)
3802	. Palermo United Cemetery Monument, banded with aluminum, reads Mary Margaret, wife of Joseph Martin, a daughter of Mathias & Jane Teetzel, died Mar 12 1850, Aged 18.7 yrs ( ? faint). . Morton Hill Cemetery, Michigan, also lists: Mary M Teetzel 1833 - Mar 12, 1851. Compare with other burial's of Jane & Mathias's children. - PJA - - -	TEETZEL, Mary Margaret .II (I291)
3803	. PARKER CASTLE, Water Street, Perth Amboy. Oldest house, built in 1723. Tall clapboard with front brick section added in 1789 to the house that was once the site of the most desirable in town. Three story wood tower overlooks the Raritan Bay. . At the time of his death in a naval battle, brother Capt. James Lawrence was concerned with his 2 widowed sisters & their children. Elizabeth & Ann Lawrence had looked after James when he was a child. - - -	LAWRENCE, Anne .ii (I372)
3804	. Parker, Edward W, b. Feb. 10, 1794; founder & first president of Corn Exchange Bank, N.Y.C; J. Irvington, N. X., July 26, 1871. m. April 28, 1818, Maria Smyth Parker; b. Perth Amboy, N. J., Feb. 2, 1794; d. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 8, 1834, dau. of John, of James Parker & Gertrude Skinner, of Rev. William Skinner & Eliza Van Cortlandt; her mother was Ann Lawrence, sister of Capt. James Lawrence, of the Chesapeake. Issue: . Edward, b. March 27, 1819; m. (i) Minerva Warner Harrison; m. (2) Penelope Parker; d. 1892. . Anna Parker, d. in infancy. . John Parker, b. 1820; d. 1849. . Lewis, d. young, . James Lawrence Parker - b. April 19, 1826; m. Charlotte Tiffany Morse; d. Oct. 3, 1878. . Carroll, b. Oct. 29, 1828; m. Harriet Elvira Kellogg; d. Feb. 18, 1877. . Ann Lawrence Parker, b. Nov. 6, 1832; m. Samuel Colman, Newport, R. 1. - - -	DUNHAM, Edward W (I619)
3805	. Pearl E Morris, On 4 may 1905 at Detroit she married Austin Kenneth Bryant b 14 Oct 1879 at Bristol Eng. & died 9 Nov 1908. Their children are Wm. Bryant, b 28 Feb 1906 & Gertrude Sara Bryant b 4 Oct 1904. - - -	MORRIS, Pearle Evelyn (I360)
3806	. Perth Amboy is a combination name; Perth town, named after the Earl of Perth, Scotland & Amboy Point where it was located. . 1776 Jul 13, Sat. Ordered, Mr. Michael Kearney have leave to remove to Burlington, on his parole not to depart from thence further than 6 miles on the east side of Delaware, till the further order of Congress. Ref: Minutes of Provincial Congress & Council of Safety, NJ . 1784 Mar 20 - Confiscated Property, NJ Middlesex Co. Final judgement entered in favor of the State previous to 3rd Feb, 1783, to wit: No. 1, A house & lot of land lying on the north side of Smith St., No. 4, A lot of land lying on Piscataway road, known by the name Dodworth's Lot; also one-this of a propriety in in the Eastern Division of NJ; No. 5, A lot of land adding the river Raritin, formerly David Demarst's; No. 6, The Maison house & Lot where Philip Kearney, Esq. deceased, used to dwell, together with a lot of meadow land near the barracks, situated at Perth Amboy, also sundry other lots of land in & near Amboy; No. 7. A farm near Perth Amboy, Est. 140 acres, good improvements thereon; a large quantity of fresh meadow bounding north side of Raritan river, commonly called Newill's farm; No. 8, A farm situated on the south side of Raritan river, est. 240 acres, with a large body of salt meadow; No. 9, Two lots of land & premises purchased by Philip Kearney Esq. R Runyan; The before mentioned lots shall be exposed at public sale on Mon. Apr 26, at the house off John Hampton, innkeeper, Perth Amboy; No. 15, One fourth part of undivided tract of land, plantation, good improvements, situated at Six Mil Run, North Brunswick, est. 250 acres; Sell at public sale Mon. 3rd May, Mr. Thomas Stilwell, innkeeper at South River Bridge, all being a part of the forfeited estate of Philip Kearney, jury, Perth Amboy. Ref: New Jersey Gazette, Trenton, NJ, published 1784 Apr 20. Tues. Note: The properties in Monmouth County of Michael Kearney, Philip Kearney, Francis Kearney were confiscated by the State of NJ. . MICHAEL KEARNY, Jr. was a gentleman of great social prominence & a merchant in Perth Amboy, the brother of Major Francis Kearny (q. v.) & born there Nov., 1751. He was imprisoned for his loyalty for 6 months in NJ (?) . He was the owner of 2 farms on the banks of the Raritan Rver. For 5 years he served as a volunteer in New York, first in a Company formed in 1778 by Captain Williams & afterwards in the Militia Volunteers. He served also as searcher of imports & exports in New York. He returned to Perth Amboy at the close of the War. This Loyalist was the owner of the boat "York," which was impressed into the American service & used in capturing the vessel "Blue Mountain Valley." (Force, "Am. Archives," Ser. IV, Vol. IV, p. 1492). He died Feb. 24, 1791. He had nine children, one of whom was Commodore Lawrence Kearny, who died Nov. 29, 1868. (A. O. 13:12; A. O. 12:14, ff- 3-229; A. O. 12:101, f. 340; Jones's "St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy," pp. 348, 355). Ref: Loyalists in NJ in the Revolution, Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. . Brother-in-Law Robt Boggs, Esq. was executor of Michael Kearney's will, now in the possession of NJ Historical Society. . Commissions for Claims for Loss by American Loyalists, Memorial of Michael Kearney, late of City of Perth Amboy in America. Native of American & has always been a zealous Loyalist. That he stood forth decidedly in conjunction with his Brothers at the Dawn of the Rebellion in sport of the Constitutional Authority of Great Britain. He was deprived of his liberty by the provincial Congress of NJ & held until the arrival of the Kings forces in the Autumn of 1776 when your Memorialist joined them & resided there until their departure, when he retired with his wife, children to New York where he acted assistant in the Superintendents Office & as an officer in the Kings Militia Volunteers. The whole of the Rebellion he never solicited or received any pension or allowance whatever, but supported himself & family entirely by his salary & by borrowing money which he is unable to pay at present. That on the final Evacuation of NY by his Majestys Troops in December 1783, your Memorialist went & resided in New Jersey the the advice of his friends to recover his property. Not any of it was then sold & to prevent himself & family from becoming a burden to the British Gov. But not withstand his good intentions & his mot unmerited endeavors has proved abortive & all his Estate, both real & personal has been confiscated & sold inconsequence of his Loyalty to British Gov. Signed, London 1 July 1786, Mich. Kearny, Junr. Schedule & Estimates of Estate of Michael Kearny, Jurn, Merchant, from the will & codicil of his father, theta Philip Kearney Esq., Deceased & his late wife's will from the late Samuel Leonard: [Summary} No. 1. Mansion House of his father Philip Kearney, Perth Amboy, Gardens, orchard, barns, coach house, stables, £2400 currency, $716 / £1200. No. 2. A Farm formally Saml. Newels? Amboy, on the banks of the Ration River, 160 A, Sable, 2 story dwelling house with 3 rooms on floor, good cellar the whole a large dairy house,...£1170 No. 3. Farm on Raritan River, 818 A, made by Philip Kearny £880 No. 4. 29 A. valuable meadow ground, Barrachs in Perth Amboy, £435 No. 5. 36 A, adding first River, £`120 No. 6. 2 Tracts of Limber land, Sussex Co., on Delaware River, £75 No 7. a water Lot & Store House, Perth Amboy, by the oaths of Jams. Parker & john Johnston, Esq., £500 No. 8. Farm purchased by Philip Kearney, valued at £2400 No. 9. Portion of Tract of Land Walpack, Sussex Co., NJ, £120 No. 10. Land S. river of Raritan , 520 A. Timber, 20 A. salt meadow from his wife's grandfather, Samuel Leonard, deceased. Affidavit of John Lawrence, £1350 = Real Estate £4504.14.11 Sterling Personal Property, various Bonds, Mortgages: £537.2.3. Money Expended by the Claimant since he has been disposes of his property in 1776, exclusive of his salary received, £1932.156, Total Amount Sterling £5944.3.7. Ref: AMERICAN LOYALIST CLAIMS, Many various claims, & deeds presented, sworn testimonies, Pages 213 to 128, Volume 014 Evidence, NJ. . Michael Kearney, U.E. Native of Virginia, he lived in a mansion in Perth Amboy which had belonged to his father. Michael was imprisoned in NJ from July to Dec. 1776. He joined the British at Penn., served in the New York City militia. In May 1786 in was in England to hear his claim against his Estimated losses of £5,591 but was awarded £2,248 sterling. He arrived back in NJ to find his property had been confiscated but not yet sold. . Built in 1781, KEARNY COTTAGE was the home of one of Perth Amboy's most important families. Commodore Lawrence Kearny was responsible for initiating the "Open Door" policy with China in 1842. The house museum displays objects once belonging to the Kearny Family & also has a large collection of Perth Amboy artifacts including maps & drawings. The Kearney House, High Street, Perth Amboy. Built 1780, Two-story frame building, painted dark yellow was moved in June 1838 to Catalpa St., Hayes Park. NJ Supreme Court Case Files: Numerous examples, including: Cunningham, Waddell; Kearney, Michael, Esq., Monmouth 1768. Trover Case # 20921. Kearny, Michael Captain, Carmichael, Alexander, Hunterdon Co., 1787, Debt. . 1791 Feb. 3 - WILL of Michael Kearny, Michael, of City of Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co.; Wife, Elizabeth, % or an equal share in whole of estate with my 7 sons: Sons, John, Philip, Michael, Robert, James, Francis, & Lawrence Kearny, an equal share of the other Ys of estate. Executrix: Wife, Elizabeth Kearny. Witnesses: Sarah Skinner, John Skinner, Revaud Kearny. Proved July 8, 1791. Ref: NJ Wills, Lib. 32, p. 449; File 78r5-7820L. Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	KEARNY, Michael Esq. (I21)
3807	. PETER TILTON, son of John Tilton, 2. He is not mentioned with the other children of John Tilton, 2, on the Quaker birth records, but is called son, by him in his will & said not to be of age at the time will was made. He is called brother, in the WILL of John Tilton & named by him as one of his executors. . 1705 June 5. He Signed, with the rest of the relatives, as a witness at the marriage of his brother, Samuel, 12, to Patience Allen. . 1717 Nov. 6. His name occurs again in this same prominent position, as a witness, when his brother, Daniel, 14, marries Elizabeth Powell. & it was at his house, in Middletown, that his sister, Esther, married William Lawrence Oct. 15, 1719. His second intentions of marriage were published, in the Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting of Women, Nov. 5, 1722, with Lydia Bills. I suspect she was a sister to that Elizabeth who joined with Peter Tilton, as his wife, in conveying land, Dec. 2, 1717, when the witnesses to the deed were Thomas Bills, David Allen, Thomas Bills, Jr. & John Louis Pintard, in other words that this Peter Tilton, 13, married, first, Elizabeth Bills & second, in 1722, her sister, Lydia Bills. But that is merely a supposition. . 1750 Apr. 19. WILL of Peter Tilton, of Monmouth Co.; proved Mch. 28, 1761, mentioned: Daughter Abigail Potter, £50; son Daniel Tilton, £100; daughters Lydia Tilton & Hannah Tilton, each, £50; son Amos Tilton, whom he makes executor & residuary legatee. Inventory £720-1 2-0. Issue: Abigail Tilton born Sep. 22, 1723; died prior to Feb. 4, 1808; married Joseph Potter. . Daniel Tilton, born Nov. 5, 1725; died Aug. 21, 1780; married, Elizabeth xx. Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records give dates of his birth & death, death of wife, Elizabeth & dates of birth of their children Rhoda & Lydia. Issue: 1. Lydia Tilton born Oct. 13, 1762; married Abner Rogers. 2. Sarah Tilton, of Middletown; married, Nov. 15, 1780, Burlington Meeting, Aaron, son of Edward & Sarah Barton, of Mansfield. 3. Rhoda Tilton born Sep. 4, 1759. . Amos Tilton born Oct. 6, 1727; died Oct. 15, 1765. AMOS TILTON, son of Peter Tilton, 13, was born 1727; died 1765. He made his will 8, Oct., 1765; proved Oct. 17, 1765; of Middletown, weak, etc. & mentioned: sister Abigail Tilton, wife of Joseph Potter, who had Daniel Potter, who received "my silver buckeles & money scales;" Lydia Potter who received silver studs & buttons; brother Daniel Tilton & his daughters Lydia & Rhoda, who received "my silver teaspoons marked A.T.," & china dishes; sister Lydia Tilton; sister Hannah Tilton; Nathan Tilton, his kinsman; loving kinsmen Elihu Williams & Edmond Williams, executors. Witnesses: Obadiah Tilton & Richard Lawrence. . Lydia Tilton born May 15, 1731; will made Feb. 4, 1808; proved Mch. 28, 1812. 1808, Feb. 4. - WILL of Lydia Tilton, of Middletown; proved Mch. 28, 1812, mentions: sister Hannah Lippincott; niece Lydia Wolcott, daughter of sister Abigail, deceased; niece Lydia Roggers, daughter of brother Daniel Tilton & wife of Abner Rogers; Robert & Meriam Tilton, son & daughter of Obadiah. Executors: Peter Wolcott & his son Joseph. Daughter Hannah Tilton: . 1766 Nov 4 - John Lippincott, son of Nathaniel Lippincott of Chester Twp., Burlington in Western Province of NJ, yeo; & Hannah Tilton, daughter of Peter Tilton, deceased of Middleton, Monmouth Co., Eastern div. Province NJ, in a public Meeting in Shrewsbuerry, on 4th day, 11 month 1766. Ref: Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting. p37, Book 1. . Hannah Tilton born Oct. 27, 1735; married, Nov. 4, 1766, John Lippincott. Hanna died married, Nov. 4, 1766, as his second wife, John, son of Nathaniel & Mary (Engle) Lippincott, born Aug. 31, 1737; died Nov. 7, 1780. . 1808, Feb. 4. - WILL of Hannah Lippincott; proved Mch. 28, 1812. Issue Abigail Lippincott born Dec. 15, 1772; died, at the age of 15 years. Amos Lippincott born 1776; died young. - - -	TILTON, Peter .3 (I1813)
3808	. Phebe Willson, wife of David, Yonge Street Meeting House, four of her children, John Israel, Hugh & Sarah Willson, were registered with the Yonge Street Meeting of Friends. Ref: Book H-15-1, p.2. . Phebe a birthright member of the Society of Friends, & was disowned by the Creek Monthly Meeting 17 Sep 1794 for "going out from the plainness & keeping company with one not of our society," presumably David Willson. . Quaker Canadian Yearly Meeting, Yonge Street: David Willson, East Gwilimbury Twp, York Co., one District, paper Cnada, being the 2nd son of John Willson & Catherin his wife of Clinton Twp. Dutchess co, NY State, born 7th of the 6th month, 1778, & Married to Pebe Titus, daughter of Isrea Titus & Shar his wife of Beekman Tw, Duthcess co, NY Satr, her being on the 18th day, 10 month, 1777. Sons & Daughters born unto the above names David Willson & Phebe his Wife, e as follows: John Willson 28d 8m 1797 Isreal Willson, 5d 12m 1799 Hugh Willson 22d 8m 1802 Sarah Willson 5d 4m 1804. Page 93. Ref: Quaker Archives & Library of Canada, Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). . 1790 Clinton, Duchess, New York Census Augustine Titus, Males 3, Boys under 16Y 2, Females 5 [Total 10 Persons], & next person is John Willson, Males 3, boys under 16Y - 2, Females 6 [Total 11 Persons]. . 1781 May 23, Meeting House at Creek, Phebe Titus, witness at the marriage of Ruth Hull & Stephen Keese. . 1784 Aug 26, Meeting at Nine Partners, Phebe Titus, Witness at marriage of Hannah Thorn & Samuel Holmes. Monument White peaked marble stone, badly eroded, set in concrete slab. 24 wide, 42 inches high. Inscription: In memory of Phebe, wife of David Willson who died January 14, 1866. Aged 88y 3m. To a great age my life has been Although my body's gone; My mind was like the olive green And fruit was seen thereon. O may my prayer forever live In my redeemer's mind: And may the Lord a blessing give To those I leave behind. - - -	TITUS, Phebe Ann (I2)
3809	. Philip Kearny was a member of Assembly. First wife was Miss Ravaud, Lady Barney Dexter. They had 4 Kearny children: Philip, Elizabeth, Susannah & Ravaud Kearney. . 1742-74 -St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, Vesteryman. . 1862 Aug 9 - Promotion of Gen. Kearney. Gen. Philiip Kearney of this State has been appointed a Major General of volunteers, his commission dating from July 4th. This is an act of justice to a brave man. The many friends & admirers of this brave Jerseyman will be gratified at the a cation of the authorities in recognizing gallantry & merit. Ref: Newark Daily Advertiser Newspaper, NJ. . Monday, the 31st ult., died in an advanced age, at his seat at Amboy, Philip Kearney, Esq., many years an eminent lawyer at that place. His death is universally lamented. Ref: Rivington's New York Gazetteer, No. 121, Aug. 10, 1775. . Notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Philip Kearney, Esq., deceased, late of Perth Amboy, by bond, bill or otherwise, to pay off the interest due on the same; & all persons who have any demands against the said estate are requested to "bring in their accounts that the same may be settled & paid. To be sold, for want of employ, two likely negro men, one of them about 26 years of age, a complete groom & coachman & used also to house-work. The other about 30 years of age, a valuable house-servant, who understands gardening, & all other country work. ISABELLA KEARNEY, Executrix. Ref: New York Gazette, No. 1250, Sept. 25, 1775. . 1770, April 25. WILL of Kearny, Philip, of Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co.; Wife, Isabella, all the land which was formerly her father's, & land joining thereto, which I bought since our marriage, & both being in Perth Amboy, on west side of High Street; also the land on the north side of Courtland Skinner's farm. If she dispose of none of the lots, then I give the same to my son, Michael; & I give the house & lots where I live, & the pasture lot opposite the Barracks, which I bought of John Stevens the 1st of May, 1762; also the farm where Samuel Nevil lately lived, formerly belonging to Peter Sonmans, which I lately bought at Sheriff's sale, which bounds the north side of Rariton River; also the farm & salt meadow, which bounds the south side of said river, where William Pricket now lives; also 2 lots which I lately bought of Resia Runyon, near the same, to my said wife, while my widow. I also give her £500, & the use of household goods, but, if she marry, then I give her % of the goods & the rest to my daughters, Sarah, Isabella & Joanna, when they are 21. I also give my wife a wench that I lately bought of Widow Bidden. Son, Phillip, the ground rent of £9, arising out of the house & lot in Philadelphia, near the old church, now or lately belonging to John Lawrence, which was given to me by my grandmother, Elizabeth Brittain; also the ground rent of the wharf, & brick house which I lately gave to him, which he sold to Joseph Donnalson, was also given to me by my grandmother: also the lot of ground I bought of John Martin, & his wife, Mary, lately belonging to the estate of my father, for which I have a deed dated 10th of Aug., 1764, lying in Perth Amboy, on the north side of Smith Street, & bounded on the east by David Gosling & on west by Alexander Cams; also the stone house & water lot I lately bought of Doctor Peter Sonmans, lately belonging to the estate of George Frazer, deceased; also the land I bought of Samuel Nevill, by deed the 16th of Nov., 1762, lying on Piscataway road, & which said Samuel bought of John Dadsworth; also the land I bought of David Demarest, 6th of Aug., 1763, & bounded on south by Rariton River, formerly Peter Sonman's. Whereas I purchased of Timothy Hay, & Mary, his wife, formerly Mary Robertson, by deed the 10 of Sept., 1734, % part of Vs part of 1/24 part of a Propriety in East Jersey, I give the same to my son, Phillip; also the sum of £1,000. To son, Ravaud, the house which I bought of John Hull, where he now lives, which joins the house where Thomas Skinner lives; also the pasture lot which I bought of Elizabeth Leslie & George Willocks Leslie, & lies on the Piscataway road; also the land on the west side, which I bought of Andrew Johnson, deceased; which 2 lots are a part of a lot patented to Robert Barcley; also the lot I bought of Samuel Fleming; also the farm on the south side of Rariton River, which I bought of John Mott the 4th of March 1752; also the salt meadow joining thereon, & as far north as Stephen Skinner's ditch; also that land in Sussex Co., taken up by me in right of John Harrison, deceased, & joining land belonging to Martin Ryerson; also land I bought at Sheriff's sale in Sussex Co., 21st Dec. last, & lying on the Delaware River. To daughter, Elizabeth Skinner, the wife of Courtland Skinner, £200, which is in the joint stock of Old South Sea Annuity, now in the name of John Anthony, mill merchant in London. I have an Exchequer Annuity in London of £42 per annum, now in trust for Ferdinand Ravaud, & I give the same to my kinsman, James Kinsey, of Burlington, attorney-at-law, in trust, for the use of my daughter, Susanna Stevens, the wife of Richard Stevens. Whereas John Parr, late Sheriff of Philadelphia, by deedpoll, 8th of May, 1767, for £405, sold to me 2 negro boys & some goods, I give same to James Kinsey, in trust, for the use of my daughter, Susanna Stevens. Whereas I have lands at Barnagate, in Monmouth Co., which I hold In partnership with William Burnet, & also land near Six Mile Run, in Middlesex Co., & other lands which I hold in partnership with Doctor Lewis Johnston, I give V4, part of said lands to my son, Philip, & 14 part to my son, Ravaud, & V4, part to my daughter, Elizabeth Skinner, & 14 part to kinsman, James Kinsey, in trust, for my daughter, Susanna Stevens, but, if she be dead, then to my grandson, Philip Kearny Skinner. Whereas I have 1/6 part of land in Wall Pack Township, in Sussex Co., by virtue of a deed from Samuel Nevill, dated 10th of Feb., 1755, whereon there is supposed to be a copper mine, I give the same to my sons, Philip Kearny, Ravaud Kearny, Michael Kearny & Francis Kearny. Whereas, I have several freehold rights, & parts of rights to lands in Woodbridge Township, I give same to my son, Ravaud Kearny. Sons, Michael & Francis, each £500, when 21. Daughters, Sarah Kearny, Isabella Kearny & Joanna Kearny, each £1,000, when they are 21. Kinsman, James Kinsey, land in Sussex Co., joining to his land, taken up by me in the right of John Harrison, deceased, of 133 acres. Grandson, Philip Kearny Skinner, all that lot in Perth Amboy, near Coles Point, facing the Bay, which I bought of the Executors of William Plumsted, & also that lot on the north side of Smith Street, which I bought at Sheriff's sale, lately belonging to the estate of Joseph Leigh, deceased, by deed dated 15th of Aug., 1764; also 100 acres in Woodbridge, which I bought by Sheriff's sale, late the property of Samuel Moore, deceased, by deed 7th of July, 1760. The rest of my lands I give to my wife during her life, & then to my sons, Michael and Francis. Executors: wife, Isabella, & Andrew Elliot, of New York City. Witnesses: Jaines Stevenson, John Johnston, Alexander Watson. . 1775 Aug. 2. Codicil. I have lately bought lands, which I give to my children. Witnesses: Gertrude Barberie, Thomas Bartow, John Johnston. Proved Aug. 11, 1775. Lib. L, p. 256. . 1780 July 26. Kearney, Philip, of Amboy. Int. Adm'r: Col. Wm Bond. Fellow bondsman: Thomas Peterson; both of Sussex Co." Witness: John Phillips. Lib. M, p. 88. Philip's father Michael Kearny, surrogate of New Jersey, Oct. 24, 1720. - - -	KEARNY, Maj. Gen. Philip .II (I613)
3810	. Phoebe H Willson daughter of William Willson & Hannah Briggs. Hugh D & Phoebe are first cousins. . 1838 Jan 10, Hope, Phebe H Willson & Phebe D Wilson to Sir Francis Bond Head on behalf of Hugh D Willson & John Willson. XRef: Hugh D Willson, for transcription. - - -	WILLSON, Phoebe H (I56)
3811	. Piscataway's name derives from various Native American works, including, "it is getting dark, place of dark night, great deer river, & division of the river. There was for a long time a flourishing shipping trade at the community known at Raritan Landing. . John Wilsons, the younger, his eare marke is a crop 1 the Right eare & 2 slits in the crop & one halfe penny the under side of the Left eare Recorded to his son Joseph Willson the June 21, 1837. Historical & Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2. . 1735-6, Jan. (Earlier) inventory of £23.4.9 includes loom & tackling, share coming from Estate of Mary Willson, mother of John Willson. Made by John Bennem & George Walker. Ref: Monmouth Wills, New Jersey. Complete reference not found, perhaps attached to below Will, NJ Will Lib C, Vol. XXX. . 1737 Mar 15, WILL of JOHN WILLSON of Middletown Twp., Monmouth Co., Gentleman, being aged. Eldest son, John, Loom & tackling, now in his possessions. Sons, James & Andrew. Sons, Joseph & Benjamin, lands granted to them by testator by deeds of Apr 22, 1727. Son, Benjamin, negro man Monk, negro woman Pegg & her son Robin. Daughter Susanna, Daughter Joan, box the testator kept his writings in, pewter platter that was her grandmother’s & as much pewter as the rest of my daughters already married have. Granddaughter, Hannah Disbrow, residue to daughters, Sarah, Hope, Joan, Elizabeth, Mary & Susannah. Executors: Thomas Morford, Esq, & sons James & Benjamin. Witnesses: Lambert Willson, Benjamin Colman, Mary Disbrow, Robert Dondesworth. . 1737 Apr 9. Codicil. Mentions sons Benjamin & daughter Susannah. Witness: Robert Dodsworth. Proved May 19, 1737. Ref: New Jersey Calendar of Wills, Lib C, p. 164. . 1737 April 25 - Willson, John, of Middletown, Monmouth Co. Int. Inventory: £246.08.5) includes 35 lbs. tobacco, negro woman & child £45, negro man £20, debts due from William Lawrence & Richard Gibbons. Made by George Taylor & John Teunisson. Lib. C. p. 164. . 1745 Feb - WILL 1745 Feb. 18. WILL of Thomas Kearney, of Monmouth Co., merchant; Wife, Catherine, To son, Thomas, land bought, November 19, 1717, from Elisha Lawrence; land in Middletown, bought of John Willson & wife Hannah. . 1666 Dec 11 - A contract made by Capt. Philip Carteret, Governor of the Province of New Jersey, John Ogden & Luke Watson, of Eiizabethtown, of the first part, & Daniel Pierce, of Newbury, Massachusetts, & his associates, of the second part. Four score pounds sterling for tract of land known by the name of Arthur Cull, or Amboyle. Purchased from the natives 28 Oct 1644. The first settlers came to Woodbridge in the later part of the summer of 1665 & were a portion of the company of 30 English people who came to NJ with Gov. Careret. A number of family were drawn by publishing from New England. The Governor's ship, The Philip, returned to England & returned the following year with other emigrants with implements & seed for tilling, planting. Each lot contained 500 Acres of upland & meadow; towns 6 or 8 miles square. Liberty of conscience in religious worship was to be allowed. …they were to have authority to impose fines on criminals inflict corporal punishment by stocking, ducking, pilloring & whipping not more than 20 stripes. Ships sailed back & forth from nearby Elizabethtown to England, bring thence friends, letters & needed supplies. PISCATAWAY HISTORY: Founded in 1666, Piscataway Township is the 5th oldest town in NJ & 50th oldest town in USA. It in lied the most of Somerset County & the future Middlesex County across the Raitan River. Ref: Piscataway Public Library - - -	WILLSON, John (.Second, As Is Known) (I545)
3812	. Place of Birth? Granddaughter Mrs. Rebecca Lawrence Corrao, says her father Richard Lawrence Jr. was born in Canada & HER MOTHER, Mary Lizy Simons Lawrence, was born in Pennsylvania, however, Mrs. Bildad Simons had already arrived in Canada by 1804, well before Mary Lizy's birth in 1813. Thus Mary Lizy Simons was born in Ontario. As well we don't know Mrs. B. Simons' own surname, so it is difficult to verify if she meant her grandmother & not her mother, was born in Pennsylvania, or if indeed another member of the family scrambled the details given to the census taker. - PJA. * The Census 1880 Benton Harbor, Michigan, for daughter Mira Lawrence Grow, repeats that her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence, born 1813, Canada, Widowed, Father born Connecticut & mother born Pennsylvania. XRef: Further statements, that Mrs. Bildad Simons was born in Pennsylvania are found on the Census 1900 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Granddaughter Rebecca Lawrence Carrso & Census 1880 Benton Harbor & Census 1900 Ann Arbor, MI. Marriage: Estimated by 1797 - Her son John was born 1798 & son Joseph Simons was born 10 April 1800 in Connecticut, before they arrived in Saltfleet Twp., Upper Canada (near Hamilton, Ontario) in 1804. - P J Ahlberg 2010. * MRS. BILDAD SIMSONS "The white woman had just crossed a fence to enter a lonely part of the woods to pick lettuce when she was captured. It is stated that one of the Indians inflicted one of their cruelest tortures on the poor woman by "Scalping" her. The dear old mother, grandmother & Christian woman died in her agony on the spot & her tragic death caused the greatest grief by all the white inhabitants in the scattered district." "Cecil Hiram Norton told his grandson that Bildad's wife was out picking lettuce with her daughter when the Indians attacked. The daughter tried to pull her mother to safety."  . Family history of the Norton & Robinson relates that Bildad's wife had just crossed a fence to enter a lonely part of the woods on the farm which they were granted, when she was captured*, which might have provided the motivation to move away from their home. Again time & location are unknown. Ref1. Obituary of her grandson, George Wilkinson of Palermo, died 28 Nov 1916, Milton Champion & Hamilton Spector Newspapers, Ontario. Ref2. Mrs. G B (Joan) Hooks, 137 Stewart St. Oakville, Ontario L6K 1X8 (1982.) Notes1: If indeed Mrs. Simons was indeed born in Pennsylvania, an estimated date of death might be between 1812 - 1825. Note2: Bildad Simons was at Lot 30, Con 1, Trafalgar Twp. . Bildad Simons was clearing new land just recently negotiated Aug 2, 1805, the Mississauga Tract Purchase, between the Natives of Ontario & the Upper Canada Government. One could image a scenario of some disgruntled, or dispossessed natives hostile to the new settlers. Or perhaps the murder(s) was related to the reason Simons left their home in the United States. . It is further noted that family history says that either Bildad himself, or one of his sons* was also shot & killed while riding his pony to a grain mill in Niagara by unknown parties (i.e. Ancaster Mill?). Unusual co-incidents for Upper Canada, eh? = Conjecture compiled by, PJ Ahlberg, 2010. . 1809 Mar 22 - Respecting Lots 17 & 18, Con 2, Trafalgar, south of Dundas St., applied for by Mr. Wm. Cooper. Lot 17 is vacant Lot 18 Crown Reserve, excepting the stream of the Sixteen Mile Creek which passes throughout both Lots & which the Indians have reserved to themselves, as well as the low lands on each side. Signed, Wm. Halton, Secretary to Lt. Governor. Ref: UC Sundries C4505, P 746. Archives of Canada. . 1809 Aug 4, Trafalgar Lots 31 & 32, Con 2, 200 A. each. The 12 Mile Creek runs thou' these lots have waters & banks are reserved by the Indians. When removed [from Crown Reserve Lands.], these lots will be valuable locations. Ref: UC Sundries, C4506, p.20. . 1809 Aug 22 York, Survey General's Office Report: Wm. Smith's conduct, on the New Purchase on the 12 Mile Creek: Wm. Smith was granted 200 A, by an Order In Council, 5 Jan, 1086. Soon after obtaining this order the Grantee, without sufficient authority, began to occupy & improve a Lot on the 12 Mile Creek in Township now called, Trafalgar & committed such such excesses thereon that the Mississauga Indians, who had not as yet made their Deed of Assignment to this majority, complained thereon & when they, a short time thereafter completed their Deed, they conveyed to themselves the Lands on the said 12 Mile Cr., of which that occupied by Wm. Smith, was part. . 1806 Sep 8, Wm. Smith was allowed to locate on Lot Number One, Con 3 of Dundas Tract, Nelson Twp. On 9 Sept. Wm. Smith was permitted to locate 200 a. of land in any part of the Province which might be open for that purpose, Signed, Chewett & Ridout. Verification Baptism: . 1802 Feb 26, Elizabeth Simons, of Bastion & Margaret. . Baptisms in Niagara, by Rev Robert Addison: These 8 were baptized in Grimsby /40 Mile Creek: 1815 Jul 13, Walter Crooks, of Wm Crooks & Mary, Jonathan Pettit, of John & Mary Elizabeth Smith, of Issac & Elizabeth, Martha Moore, Wm Henry Moor, of Jonathan & Martha, > Mary Simmons, of Bastion & Margaret, sponsors, Andrew & Sarah Pettit. Sarah Maria Nelles, of John & Sarah Sarah Pettit, of Abraham & Elizabeth. Rev. Robt. Addison, was the minister from St. Mark's Anglican Church at Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake,) Ontario. He signs his name as Minister of Niagara, he was military chaplain & also acted as chaplain to Parliament both in York & Newark. - - -	SIMONS, Mrs. Bildad (I1241)
3813	. Plum Valley, Missouri A discontinued post-office, (1867-1910) & trading-hamlet in Piney Township; now completely abandoned. Named by William Wilson, who found wild plums growing in the wilderness. He later planted more trees. . 1880 Pinery Twp., Texas Co., Missouri Bill Wilson, b 1840, Missouri Elisabeth Wilson, b 1842 Canada William Wilson, b. 1871 Missouri John D. Wilson, born 1872, Missouri F E Wilson, female, b 1872, Missouri Joseph Wilson, b 1877, Missouri Alfred Wilson, b 1879, Missouri. . 1899 May 11 - Mrs J W Wilson visited her daughter Mrs Williams of Big Pinery, Saturday & Sunday. Ref: Houston Herald Newspaper. . 1920 Census, Texas Co., Missouri, Born 1847 Canada, age 73, married Spouse: James W. Wilson Daughter, Clara M. Wilson. . Missouri Certificate of Death #7452 Elizabeth Wilson Died. 19 Feb 1930, at Bucusus, Piney Co., Texas Co., MO. Aged 83y 9m 2d., born Toronto, Canada, Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Patterson, both of England. Died of Bronchopneumonia & old Age. Burial at Emery Cemetery, 19 Feb. 1830. - - -	PATTERSON, Elizabeth (I10)
3814	. Proprietor of Sterling's Hotel, Norwood (Greenwood), Ontario from 1847 until his death in 1862, Joseph Sterling married Judith Sisley & together they had nine children.  . Smaller (Cement?) Monument: J.C. STERLING DIED 8th of the 1st Month 1862 AGED 52 Years. . 1850 Aug 24, JC Sterling Licensed Auctioneer, Whitby, Orders received at this Office [i.e. At the newspaper.] Ref: Whitby Reporter Newspaper, p1. Whitby Chronicle Newspaper: . 1857 Jun 4 - NORWOOD HOTEL, Greenwood, Pickering Henry Coultons respectfully informs the public, that he has taken the above well known Hotel which he has altered & improved to suit the public conventions. His table & his liquors will not be surpassed by any other Hotel in the Province. Good Stabling. . 1857 Jul 1857; 1857 Dec 30; 1858 Jan 7 & 1858 Apr 1. J C Sterling, Auctioneer, A duplicate book of Mr. Sterling's Auction Sales is kept at this office. All orders left at the Chronicle Office will be attended to with the strictest punctuality. Residence Centre Street, near the Court House, Whitby. (p.1) Advertisement. . 1858 Jul 22, Auction business continues attended in all parts of the Country. JC Sterling. . 1858 Mar 9th, Whitby. BRICK HOUSE TO SELL OR RENT. That commodious Brick Cottage with Brick kitchen, Sable & sheds, occupied at present by Mr. Joseph C Sterling & situated on Hill Street, Town of Whitby. This Cottage consists of 4 rooms in the main building & 2 bedroom on the kitchen there is also attach to the kitchen that could be made lots bedrooms. An excellent garden of about a quarter acre of land, a good well & a cellar, full sized house. This property will be sold cheap & on good terms of payment, Apply to Joseph C Sterling, Proprietor, or James Wallace, Whitby. Ref: Whitby Chronicle. Published 1858 Mar 18 & MAY 20-27, Jun 17, Thursday. . 1858 May 20. GREENWOOD FAIR The annual Quarterly Fair will be held at the village on the first Wednesday in the month of June, being the 2nd day of the month. There will be a conveyance at the Duffin's Creek Station on Tuesday night & Wednesday morning to bring Toronto butchers & strangers to the Fair, free of charge & return with them afterwards. J C STERLING. Ref: Whitby Chronicle, p3. Advertisement . 1858 Jul 1 - Nov 4. JOSEPH HIMSELF AGAIN! at the OLD NORWOOD HOTEL, GREENWOOD. (Pickering). J. C Sterling begs to inform his friends & the public, that he has resumed the business at his old Hotel, Greenwood, where all who travel in that direction, will be sure to find good treatment at his hotel. The house has been newly renovated & painted & nothing left unsatisfied to supply good accommodation on fair days. . 1859 Sep 9. Auction Sales. Mr. Sterling's book of Sales kept here as usual. Days appointed & terms made at the office of this paper. Auction orders received & arrangements made for other Country Auctioneers Sales. Auctions Sales to Come Off: Thos. Pierdon, L13 Con 2, Whitby Sept 19, JC Sterling, Auctioneer; John Cowie, L21, Con 5 Pickering, Thomas Love's Sale of Horses, Farm Stock, Implements, Household Furniture Etc, Sep 23, L20, Con 3 Whitby; WE Ladell's, at Thompson's old Tavern, Pickering; Mrs. Dows, extensive Sale of well-bred & farm stock, Glenham, Whitby. . 1858 Oct 21 - No. 12 is out! THE POKER!! For Sale At George Yule's Book Store. Joseph Himself Again! at the Old Norwood Hotel, Greenwood. J C Sterling begs to inform his number of friends & the public, that he has resumed his business at the old Hotel, Greenwood, where all who travel in that direction will be sure to fined good treatment at his hands. The house has been newly renovated & repaired & nothing left unattended to supply good accommodation on fair days. . 1859 Nov 25 - Auction Sales to Come Off: Credit Sale of Farm Stock etc., on Lot 46, con 1, Pickering, the property of Jno. Lipsey & Wm. Matthrews, J C Sterling, auctioneer. w Fuller's sale of Farm Stock, at Broughton, Sat. Dec 3, 1859. John Hyland's sale of Farm Stock, Lot 3, Con 2, Whitby, on Mon. Dec 5, 1859, J C Sterling, Auctioneer. . 1860 Mar 24 - Schedule of Returns & Convictions, before Justices of Peace for Ontario Co, transmitted by Justices. Prosecutor: JC Sterling, Defendant: M Jebston?, Nature of charge: Breaking wagon, Mar 10, 1860, Date of Conviction, by Justice: A. Fullerton, Fine paid: £3 23 Feb. 1850. Complaint. . 1859 Sep 29. JC STERLING, Auctioneer. All orders in reference to Auction Sales may be left at the Watchman Office, where alone in Whitby arrangements can be made for day of sale, terms. Sale attended to in all parts of the county. Ref: Whitby Watchman Newspaper & Semi-Weekly Chronicle, Whitby on 30.12.1859, & regularly, 1861. - - -	STERLING, Joseph Catharine (I950)
3815	. Rebecca gives her father's name as Richard D Lawrence & their mother as Mary R Simonds (& Simmonds). . Place of Birth: Rebecca's first marriage registration says she was born in Toronto, which is, first of all, entirely possible. Her father Richard Lawrence, Jr. moved around Ontario a fair bit. In 1843 he was living with Uncle Wm. L. Willson in Vaughan Twp. - which was Lot 26, right beside where Grandfather Richard Lawrence, Sr., was located - all very close to Toronto. In addition other relatives lived in the Town of York. It is not currently known exactly when Richard Lawrence, Jr. left his land in Gosfield Twp., Ontario, where some or all of Richard & Mary Eliza Lawrence's children could have been born. - PJA 2011. 1. Michigan Marriage Registration #72, 1869 Nov 11, at St. Joseph, Michigan, WILLIAM THORP PROCTOR, Residence: Benton, Mich., Age 23, born 1846 in Yorkshire, England, Labourer; married Miss Rebecca Lawrence, Born Toronto, Canada. Residence Bainbridge, Mich., Age 16 /1853, by Rev. John B Fairbank; Wit: Joseph Silvers & Susan Proctor, both of Benton, Michigan. Note1: Wm. Proctor remarried in 1884 & Rebecca remarried in 1885. Rebecca will remarry William Proctor for a second time in 1912. . 1882 Jun 2 - Circuit Court Proceedings. Rebecca Proctor Vs. William T. Proctor divorcee decree granted. Complainant allowed custody of 4 minor children. Ref: Paw Paw The True Northerner. 2. Michigan Marriage # 4188, Bangor, Van Buren, 1883 Aug 8 Rebecca Proctor, age 30, born 1853 in Canada, resided Bangor, Michigan. married ISSAC FOWLER, resided Bangor, Age 40, born 1843 in New York. Married by Albert B Cochron, Minister of the Gospel. Wit: Emma L Cochran & Mary E Phillips, both of Bangor. 3. 1900 Jun 14th Census Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., Michigan CHARLES CARRAO, born Mar. 1859, Age 41, married for 15 years in 1885, born Tennessee, Occ: Restaurant. Rebecca Carrao, wife, b. Jun 1853, age 46, married 15 years in 1885, born Canada English, her father born Canada English (i.e. Ontario); her mother was born in Pennsylvania*, 1858 Immigration Year, 42 years in the USA. Wm. Proctor, Step-son, born Jan 1872, age 28, b. Michigan, Parent born Canada Eng., Occupation: Cook. Note2: *Her mother Mary Elizabeth Simons was born 1815 in Canada. Her grandmother's name is unknown, so it is difficult to verify if she was thinking about her grandmother been born in Pennsylvania. Note3: Census 1900 Census appears to be in conflict with the below Michigan Marriage Certificate: . 1892 Aug 11, A L Jackson Not Expected to Survive the attack of heart trouble with which he is suffering, the Milwaukee St. coal dealer, is much worse today. Mrs. Jackson has been visiting relatives in Ohio, was telegraphed for. The sick man is being cared for by Mr & Mrs. Charles Carrao, of the Order of Unity, of which Mr. Jackson is a member. Ref: Jackson Citizen Patriot. . 1894 Mar 16 - Mrs. CC has an unique souvenir from the California mid-winter fair, presented to her by her father-in-law, C.G. Carrao, of Boston. It is a pure silver miner's shovel, 4 inches in length, with a miniature nugget of virgin gold on the blade & the handle is surmounted by a grizzly bear, wrought in gold & suitably inscribed. The workmanship is perfect & is a very unique novelty. . 1894 Aug 13 - Mrs. Charles Carrao spent Sunday at Eden. Ref: Jackson Citizen Patriot. * 1895 Jan 26 - Mrs. Charles Carrao has returned from Benton Harbor, where she was summoned by the illness of her mother. Ref: Jackson Citizen Patriot, Michigan. * 1896 Feb 10 - Mrs. Charles Carrao, wife of the proprietor of the Portland cafe, while assisting the cook today, was burned on the face & arms by hot grease which splashed from a dish on the kitchen range. Dr. Kimball attended Mrs. Carrao, who was painfully thought not seriously burned. Ref: Jackson Citizen. . 1899 Dec 25 - Mrs. Rebecca Carrao & husband C L Carrao were witnesses sat the second wedding of her sister Myra Lawrence. Also their cousin Rev. James Hamilton performed the marriage. . 1900 Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co. Census Charles Corrao, age 41, b Mar 1859, Tenn., Restaurant, e Huron St. Rebecca Corrao, age 46, b June 1853 Canada, 15 years married, 4 living children, her father b. Canada, mother b Pennsylvania, Landed 1858, 42y in US. Wm. Proctor [Jr], son, b Jan 1872, age 28 Michigan, Cook. . 1902 July 17, Thurs. - Mrs. Myra Grow is entertaining her sister, Mrs. Charles Carrao of Ann Arbor. News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan, p4. . 1904 Apr 13, Wed. Alderman Goodyear moved that license money to the amount of $69.25 be returned to Mrs. C L Carrao; a warrant to be drawn for the same. Ref: Ann Arbor Daily Times. 4. Michigan Marriages, on 1912 May 6, Grand Rapids, Kent Co. Rebecca Lawrence Carrao, age 57, born 1855 in BENTON HARBOR, MI., resided Oklahoma, Occupation Cook, daughter of Richard Lawrence & Mary Simonds (Simons); Married THREE* previous times, married WILLIAM PROCTOR, age 67, 1845 in England, resided Gd. Rapids, Farmer, son of Mary Bailey & Ilbertson Proctor; married THREE previous times. Wit: Wm. Geldersma & Dennis Colleton, both of Gd. Rapids. Note4. Wm. T Proctor's re-married before on 5 July, 1884. . 1912 May 8. Romance Bared By Marriage License Proctor & Divorced Wife to Try It Again- Their Fourth Experience When Wm. Proctor walked into the county clerks office & procured a marriage license today he gained a permit to rewed a former wife after an intervention of incidence of a somewhat romanic nature. The issuance of the license marked the determination on the part of 2 persons to strive once more for the happiness which did not materialize during a former experience in wedlock. The little story of their lives has rather a dramatic setting to say the least. Mrs. Rebecca Corrao of Oklahoma is the other principal in the narrative & becomes the wife of Proctor for the second time. He now is a resident of Grand Rapids two & it is said he intends to make his home there. When the 2 walked to the alter this time it was their 4th experience of this character. It appears that Mrs. Corrao was Proctor's 2nd wife. But somehow their married existence was not productive of the happiness they had hoped for & finally they were divorced. Both decided to go their own way, but fate did not so decree. Both married again & began life anew. Years interceded & Proctor's wife died. Mrs. Corrao's husband died also. Thus did their fortunes run along parallel lines. The 2 once more felt the need of each other's companionship. Their paths of life which were diverging gradually began to close & their second wedding is the culmination. Proctor is 67 & his wife is fifty-seven. . 1915 Aug 7, Tues. Court Notes: An answer has been filed in Circuit court by the defendant in the case of William C Proctor against Rebecca Proctor. . 1915 Aug 24, Sat. Discontinue Divorce Case: Last July, William Proctor began a divorce action in circuit court against Rebecca Proctor. Tuesday afternoon a stipulation was filed with the county clerk discontinuing the case. The parties have made up their differences & have decided to continue their matrimonial relations. Ref: Grand Rapids Press. Note5: Rebecca Lawrence Proctor remarried Dec 1916 to Martin Hooker. . 1915 Dec 31 - Circuit Court, Rebecca Proctor has filed a bill for divorce against Wm J Proctor on charges of cruelty. They were married in May 1912 & have no children. Ref: Grand Rapids Herald Newspaper. . 1916 Mar 31. News of the Supreme Court, Lansing, Mich. Circuit Court, A deposition has been filed with the county clerk by Charles Marriott, in the case of Rebecca against William T Proctor. Ref: Grand Rapids Herald Newspaper. . Michigan Divorce Record 20131, Marriage 1912 May 6, Grand Rapids, Rebecca Proctor, Spouse William T Proctor. No children. Her complaint Application 1915 Sep 12; Final Action 1916 Jul 17, Alleged cause for Divorce: Extreme cruelty, Was the case contested, yes. Granted Absolute. 5. Michigan Marriage #4000, on 1916 Dec 26 at Grand Rapids, Kent Co. Rebecca Proctor Lawrence, Age 63 /born 1853 in Canada, Residence Grand Rapids, daughter of Richard D. Lawrence & Mary E. Simons, Time previously married TWICE, married MARTIN HOOKER, born Kent Co., MI., Age 53, born 1863, Residence Grand Rapids, son of Edward Hooker & Emma Greenman; Time previously married TWICE; Married by Harry L Rosswell, J of. P. Wit: Arthur H Jones & Dana Kirk, both of Gd. Rapids. . Michigan Divorce Record # 20131, Date of Marriage 1912, May 6 Grand Rapids, no children, Her complaint of 1915 Dec 30, Uncontested. Granted absolute 1916 Mar 20, Extreme Cruelty. . 1919 Apr 16 - Court Notes. Divorce was granted Tuesday afternoon by Judge M I Dunham in superior court to Mrs. Rebecca Hooker, whose husband, Martin Hooker, is in prison. Ref: Grand Rapids Press, printed 1919 Apr 16. 6. Michigan Marriage #7995, on 1919 Apr. 16 at Grand Rapids, Kent Co. Rebecca Hooker Lawrence, Age 57* /1862 Canada, Resided Gd. Rapids, born CANADA, housekeeper, daughter of R. D. Lawrence & Mary E Simons, Previous marriages TWO, married CHARLES F. WEBB, Age 54 /b. 1865, born Ohio, resided Gd. Rapids, Paperhanger, son of Henry Webb & Mary Mercer, Previous marriages: TWO. by John C Loucks, J. of P. Wit: Wm. & Norman Proctor*, both of Gd. Rapids. Note6: * Rebecca appears to have gotten 9 years younger. *Son Wm. Proctor & grandson Norman. - PJA. . 1920 Census, Charles Webb, Boards with 2 other men from Ohio at 528 Ottawa St, age 56, married (alone) factory Labourer. . 1920 Jan 3 Census, Grand Rapids, 135.5 E. Fulton Ave. Wm. Proctor, his wife Vera, son Norman & wife Marie & Rebecca Webb, Roomer, age 67/1853, Landed 1860, American citizen 1870; hospital cook, also Ella Petosk . 1923 - 263 Plainfield NE, Rebecca Webb, (Widow Chas.) Roomer, Printer Press feeder. age 35y/ 1885 Michigan. [Boarded with Rebecca previously 1920.] . 1922 Jul 11 - Mary Rebecca Webb has filed suit for divorce in circuit court against Charles T Webb, alleging cruelty. Arraigned before Judge Major L Dunham. Ref: Grand Rapids Press. . 1920 Grand Rapids Directory: Res. Rebecca Webb, r. 135.half Fulton E. . 1920 Charles F Webb, res 89half Market Av NW, Grand Rapids. * 1923 Polks Grand Rapids Directory: Webb, Rebecca, Widow Chas., r. 1263 Plainfield Ave. NE. * 1923 Grand Rapids Directory: Webb, Mary E, rooms 149 Grand Ave NE. Note7: The published Directory of 1923 would have data collected from the previous year 1922. . Michigan Death Certificate 38230179. Rebecca Webb, 5731 Forsyth Ave, Detroit., widow of Charles Webb, Born June 6, 1853, Aged 70y 2m 12d, housework, Father born Canada, but parents names unknown, Died Aug 18 1923 Detroit, of Acute Nephritis, contribute Mitral regurgitation, for 2 years. Death informant: Mrs. Maria Marriott, 5731 Forsyth [i.e. daughter Lillian Proctor Marriott's family]. Buried Evergreen Cemetery, 8.20.23. Note to Researchers: This is different person: Directory: Wm T Proctor (Rebecca), lab. h 727 S Chactaw Av. Namely Wm. Thomas Proctor, b 1859, Missouri, married Rebecca Ann Wigal Proctor, 1855-1929. All research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	LAWRENCE, REBECCA Mary .2 (I1450)
3816	. Richard Lawrence's New Brunswick Land Petitions indicate he was single March 1786 at Queensborough & married by August 1789 on the Miramichi. They could have been married by her father, a Justice of the Peace for Miramichi, or perhaps by an Anglican Minister in transit on the Miramichi, who had baptized a Willson child [Jonathan Willson 1783 & John Willson.III, born 1791?] Further Research: However, also retained for further search: St. Andrews Church, Long Island. 1780 Oct 5, Married, Lawrence Mary & Lawrence, Richard. Vol. xxx, Page 56. This seems this would be too early for this Mary Willson. . UC Land Petition 63, L Bundle 4 c 1808 p241 York, daughter of John Willson, [MARY WILLSON,] Richard Lawrence. . To His Honor Peter Russell, Esq., president of the Government of Upper Canada etcetcetc. In Council: The Petition of Richard Lawrence of the Township of York. Humbly shows That your Petitioner is a Loyalist & came from Nova Scotia about 3 years ago, [1794] that he is married to Mary, the daughter of John Willson, Esq. of Kings Mills on the Humber, who is also a Loyalist. That your Petitioner's wife having never received any Land, your Petitioner prays your Honor would be pleased to grant him 200 Acres in right of his said confer & is in duty bound your Petitioner will ever pray. Richard Lawrence, York, 22 June, 1797. Envelope: Ordered 200 Acres to wife of Petitioner as DUE, 1778 Dec 24. [Daughter of an Empire Loyalist.] Ontario Land Registry Abstract Vaughan Book 185, Lot 1, Con 3, Vaughan Book 185, p4 . 1802 May 17, Patent, Crown, to Mary Lawrence, All 200 A . 1821 Feb 21, B&S, Richard Lawrence et ux, to John Guthrie, £100, All. Note1: As of 2018 this land is now 1900 Steeles Ave. West, Fairbanks Lumber Co., Concord, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario. As of 2018 this land is now 1900 Steeles Ave. West, Fairbanks Lumber Co., Concord, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario. -PJA Note2: Husband Richd. Lawrence had other land at Lot 1 Con 4, also the adjacent, Lot 25 across on Yonge St in York Township. In others words, all located on Steeles Avenue: First East at Yonge & Steeles to Dufferin St.] . 1801 Children's schoolhouse, Condition of Yonge Street: Lot No. 25 west & east complied with, Lot 25 East Side of Yonge Street; nothing done to the street & a schoolhouse erected in the centre of the street. This is the end of the Township of York. Ref: Report to Surveyor-General D W Smith on the condition of Yonge Street in 1801, by John Stegmann, formerly a Hessian officer. . On page 427 of Scadding's memoirs, he tells us that Elisha Pease taught in this early schoolhouse. XReference: E. Pease was a witness of the WILL of John Willson, Jur. in 1818 & also John Johnston, 1852. Note3: The schoolhouse was built in the road allowance in front of the Lawrence's property so the children could find it & not getting lost in the woods. Just a few lots away, Jacob Cummer tells us a black bear was digging up his garden. - PJ Ahlberg. . DAUGHTER & WIFE of a TAVERN KEEPER: Mary Willson Lawrence & her children, had much experience at Taverkeeping. Husband Richard Lawrence held a UC licensed tavern located on Yonge Street north. She & her friend, as noted below, Mary Thompson visited Miss Elizabeth Russel when Thompson was employed by the sister of THE most prominent & powerful man in Upper Canada. From extracted stories from Ely Playter's Journal we may see what life was like a woman tavenkeeper in early Upper Canada: . 1806 Jan 11 - Thinking it was a tavern, Ely Playter & a companion mistakenly stopped & stayed over night at Mr. Miller's house. Implicit in the mistake at Millers & throughout his journal, is a parallel understanding that household life intersected with public life in taverns. . 1802 May 2 & Sept 29 - Mary Thomson*, Playter's journal's Miss T - also lived at his house. She was the daughter of a substantial farm family from Scarborough Township. Her father, Archibald, was a master stonemason & a Justice of the peace from 1806. Nothing about her presentation in the journal suggests less than respectable young womanhood. It is difficult to account for her presence in the tavern rather than on her family's farm. [Scaboro Museum, 2016]. Certainly not a servant in the house, she socialized within the same circles as the tavern-keeper & came & went as she pleased. Playter mentioned her almost exclusively in the parlour usually in the context of polite sociability, but once he noted, I seated myself by the Parlour fire & finished my letters to Mr & Mrs Rogers, it was one o'clock in the morning before I retired to bed. Miss T sat at her work till I had finished writing. This brief reference & others, imply Mary Thompson may have worked in the textile trade from Playter's tavern & continued so working after marrying John Scarlett of the Humber. Tavern-keepers placed tea tables in their parlours. Nor did anything about the emphatically public nature of their homes work to exclude the women of tavern-keeping households from local networks of female friendship & association: The Tavernkeepers' daughters, Player saw Miss Beman, the Miss Jarvises, & Miss Robinson on their way home as they had been visiting & he gave my Sister's Compliments to her as they had requested in their letter" In their taverns these women crafted a female space for sociability, into which they also welcomed men. Ref: Women, Men, & Taverns in Tavern-Keeper Ely Playter's Journal, by Julia Roberts, Guelph. Note4: Mary Thomson's husband-to-be, John Scarlett was granted in 1817 Apr 2, Lot 19, south side of Richmond, that is across the street from husband Richard Lawrence. Ref: Town of York Abstracts, p263. . 1837 - Toronto & Home District: . 1799 - Population 224; 1800 - Population 1127. 1818 - Population 8,459. Date & place of burial of Mary Willson Lawrence is unknown. Last known whereabouts of Mary Lawrence was noted in her daughter Mary Ann Lawrence's UC Marriage Bond of 10 August 1819, where permission to marry was obtained at Long Point in southern Ontario. Rebecca Lawrence says her father died when she was very young & she was reared by an older sister, implying perhaps that Mary Willson was dead between 1821 & 1831 when her husband died & thus making Rebecca about 16 years of age - not so 'very young'. Richard Lawrence was an inn keeper in the Long Pointe to Harwich, Ontario, until his death about another 1 years later, about 1831. A separate Willson Family Tree may be found at Ontario Ancestor; & also Rootsweb.com: John Willson of New Jersey & the Kings' Mill, Ontario. - - -	WILLSON, Mary DUE (I88)
3817	. Richard Lawrence's New Brunswick Land Petitions indicate he was single March 1786 at Queensborough & married Mary Willson by August 1789 on the Miramichi. They could have been married by her father, a Justice of the Peace for Miramichi, or perhaps by an Anglican Minister in transit on the Miramichi, who had baptized a Willson child [Jonathan Willson 1783 & John Willson.III, born 1891?] Further Research. However, also retained for further search: St. Andrews Church, Long Island. 1780 Oct 5, Married, Lawrence Mary & Lawrence, Richard. Vol. xxx, Page 56. This seems this would be too early for this Mary Willson. . UC Land Petitions Bundle, L4 /63, York, daughter of John Willson, [MARY WILLSON,] Richard Lawrence. To His Honor Peter Russell, Esq., president of the Government of Upper Canada etcetcetc. In Council: The Petition of Richard Lawrence of the Township of York. Humbly shows That your Petitioner is a Loyalist, & came from Nova Scotia about three years ago, [1794] that he is married to Mary, the daughter of John Willson, Esq. of Kings Mills on the Humber, who is also a Loyalist. That your Petitioner's wife having never received any Land, your Petitioner prays your Honor would be pleased to grant him 200 Acres in right of his said confer & is in duty bound your Petitioner will ever pray. Richard Lawrence, York, 22 June, 1797. Envelope: Ordered 200 Acres to wife of Petitioner as DUE, 1778 Dec 24. [Daughter of an Empire Loyalist.] . 1802 Feb 21 The Crown granted Mary Lawrence, Lots # 1, Con 3 & Con 5, 400 Acres in Vaughan Twp. & was sold on 1 March, 1821 by Richard Lawrence. Note1: Richd. had other land at Lot 1 C4. also the adjacent, Lot 25 across on Yonge St in York Township. In others words, all located on Steeles Avenue: First East at Yonge, & Steeles from Dufferin St. to Kipling Ave., in Vaughan]. Verify with map please.] . 1801 Children's Schoolhouse, Condition of Yonge St.: Lot No. 25 west & east complied with, Lot 25 East Side of Yonge Street; nothing done to the street & a schoolhouse erected in the centre of the street. This is the end of the Township of York. Ref: Report to Surveyor-General D W Smith on the condition of Yonge Street in 1801, by John Stegmann, formerly a Hessian officer. - On page 427 of Scadding's memoirs, he tells us that Elisha Pease taught in this early schoolhouse. XReference: Pease was a witness of the WILL of John Willson, Jur. in 1818. Note2: The schoolhouse was built in the road allowance in front of the Lawrence's property so the children could find it & not getting lost in the woods. Just a few lots away, Jacob Cummer tells us a black bear was digging up his garden ... In other school reports, a Mrs. Lawrence as an early school teacher in Thornhill. - PJ Ahlberg. . DAUGHTER & WIFE of a TAVERN KEEPER: Mary Willson Lawrence & her children, had much experience at Taverkeeping. Husband Richard Lawrence held a UC licensed tavern located on Yonge Street north. She & her friend, as noted below, Mary Thompson visited Miss Elizabeth Russel when Thompson was employed by the sister of THE most prominent & powerful man in Upper Canada. From extracted stories from Ely Playter's Journal we may see what life was like a woman tavenkeeper in early Upper Canada: . 1806 Jan 11 - Thinking it was a tavern, Ely Playter & a companion mistakenly stopped & stayed over night at Mr. Miller's house. Implicit in the mistake at Millers & throughout his journal, is a parallel understanding that household life intersected with public life in taverns. . 1802 May 2 & Sept 29 - Mary Thomson, Playter's Journal's Miss T - also lived at his house. She was the daughter of a substantial farm family from Scarborough Township. Her father, Archibald, was a master stonemason & a Justice of the peace from 1806. Nothing about her presentation in the journal suggests less than respectable young womanhood. It is difficult to account for her presence in the tavern rather than on her family's farm. [Scaboro Museum, 2016]. Certainly not a servant in the house, she socialized within the same circles as the tavern-keeper & came & went as she pleased. Playter mentioned her almost exclusively in the parlour usually in the context of polite sociability, but once he noted, I seated myself by the Parlour fire & finished my letters to Mr & Mrs Rogers, it was one o'clock in the morning before I retired to bed. Miss T sat at her work till I had finished writing. This brief reference & others, imply Mary Thompson may have worked in the textile trade from Playter's tavern & continued so working after marrying John Scarlett of the Humber. Tavern-keepers placed tea tables in their parlours. Nor did anything about the emphatically public nature of their homes work to exclude the women of tavern-keeping households from local networks of female friendship & association: The Tavernkeepers' daughters, Player saw Miss Beman, the Miss Jarvises, & Miss Robinson on their way home as they had been visiting & he .gave my Sister's Compliments to her as they had requested in their letter" In their taverns these women crafted a female space for sociability, into which they also welcomed men. Ref: Women, Men, & Taverns in Tavern-Keeper Ely Playter's Journal, by Julia Roberts, Guelph. . Toronto & Home District, published 1837: 1799 - Population 224; 1800 - Population 1127. 1818 - Population 8459. . Date & place of burial of Mary Willson Lawrence is unknown. Last known whereabouts of Mary Lawrence was noted in her daughter Mary Ann Lawrence's UC Marriage Bond of 10 August 1819, where permission to marry was obtained at Long Point in southern Ontario. Rebecca Lawrence says her father died when she was very young & she was reared by an older sister. Implying perhaps that Mary Willson was dead between 1821 & 1831 when her husband died & thus making Rebecca about 16 years of age - not so 'very young'. . Richard Lawrence was an inn keeper in the Long Pointe to Harwich, Ontario, until his death about another ten years later, about 1831. . A separate Willson Family Tree may be found at Roots.com: John Willson of New Jersey & the Kings' Mill, Ontario. Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	WILLSON, Mary , DUE (I18)
3818	. RICHARD LAWRENCE, son of William Lawrence, 17*, was born in 1720. He married, first, by license dated Sept. 16, 1747, Elizabeth Steele, second, Alice Bunting. Note: Was Richard Lawrence years old when married in 1747 - PJA. - - -	STEELE, Elizabeth Still (I68)
3819	. Richard Patterson was farming in Belwood, GARAFRAXA TWP., as originally Henry Catchpole had been. By 1839 Henry Catchpole & family were one of the early pioneers to relocate to the new growing City of Guelph, in Wellington County. It is possible that Mary Ann could have gone to be near her mother for the birth of her children, but her place of living & growing up would have been Belwood. Also Douglas, as Belwood was then named, remains a small farming place, so people would give the name of the nearby thriving City of Guelph as their living location. - PJA 2011. . Misses Caroline & sister Sarah Patterson both married in 1871, 6 months after the death of her father. Sister Elizabeth Patterson had married in 1869. . Texas Death Cerficate: Caroline Sitton, Pyote, Texas Born March 10 1854, Aged 85y 5m 15d, wife of C S Sitton. Born Guelph, Ontario, d/o Richard Paterson of King Lin, England, & Miss Ketch Poal, b London, England, Cause of Death: Carcinoma of stomach, onset about Oct 1937, & senility. Original homesteader of Pyote, Texas. . After his marriage, Cicero followed the blacksmith's trade until 1876, when he moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he followed his trade for about a year. Moving then to Searcy County, Arkansas, he worked at his forge until 1885. While in Arkansas, he shod the horse of Jesse James. Then he returned to Texas & embarked in agriculture, locating first in Wilbarger County & later in Baylor County. Going in 1897 to what was then Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, he crossed the Red River 13 times. When he first arrived in Oklahoma Territory, he & his family lived in a dugout. This was where his son Fitzhugh was born. One time when he needed food for his family, he ran into Judge Roy Bean (the law west of the Pecos). The Judge offered him a half a beef if he would butcher it. Later he found out the beef didn't belong to the Judge & he could have been hanged. He took a prominent part in the development of Elk City, & served as its first postmaster, living a mile & a half away. Returning to Texas in 1901, Cicero Silas, associated with his son Ransom, entered into the mercantile business at Afton, Dickens County, under the firm name of R. L. Sitton & Co. Selling out his interest in the firm in 1907, he moved to Pyote, Texas. His wife said she was not moving again, so he erected the first house in the new town. . Census 1870 Jul 17 Missouri, Caroline Patterson 16 y /b 1854, home, Born Canada, Parents foreign. . State of Missouri, County of Texas. This is to certify that I solemnized the rite of matrimony between Circero S Sitton & Miss Caroline Patters, the 6 day of August AD 1871. Signed Joseph Motdeau. . 1880 Census, Saint Joe, Searcy, Arkansas C S Sitton, Age 2, born 1851 Alabama, Blacksmith, Married, Father b. Alabama, Mother b. Georgia. . Caroline, age 25, b 1855 Canada, wife, Parents both b England James R Sitton, age 8 / b 1872 Missouri, son R L Sitton, Age 5 / 1875, Missouri, son G N Sitton, Age 10 /b 1879, Arkansas, son. Alternate Spelling: Carolyne. Her father Richard Patterson spelled her name as Caroline. - PJA . 1910 Apr 25 Census, Pyote Justice Precinct, Ward Co., Texas Sitton Caroline, Age 56, married 39y =1871, 6 of 14 children still living, both parents b. England. also present, Cicero S Sitton, George N, Monroe, May, & Fitzhugh L Sitton. Andrew J Sitton & wife Adelia; Ranson L Sitton & wife Pink, dau. alma & son Cicero. & brother-in-law, Frank Squares Age 11, . 1930 Apr 3 Census Pyote City, Ward Co. Texas Carolyn P Sitton, wife, 72/b1854 at 17 years old /1871 in Canada English, parents both English, *Landed 1860 Missouri. Note: Her father Richard Patterson signed papers indicating he was already in Houston, Texas County, Missouri by *June 1856. Caroline would have been only seven at that time. - PJ Ahlberg. . 1936 - The 82 widowed Caroline is called upon to deliver a neighbor's baby because the baby won't wait for the doctor. Ref: Granddaughter, Jewell Moreland Scot, 1995. . 1995 GRANDMA SITTON DOES IT ONE LAST TIME The view from the second & top floor of the square, red brick school was a panorama of my world, the town of Pyote - the town where I was born & lived until I was t13 years old, the town my grandparents helped found in 1907. Behind the school was the lonesome black highway, running off to Wink, through the mesquite, red sand & greasewood. The same common black highway led into “town”- the sparse business section at the intersection with the Bankhead Highway. It did not touch me that this colorful highway ran from the Atlantic to California; my world was in view. In 1936, I knew every struggling family left adrift in Pyote & could locate their simple houses from my perch. Only a few houses were located on the broad, graded, dirt streets, laid out in perfect squares by some long ago ambitious politician.  Most houses were at the end of trailing ruts of roads. I could see my house & the well-worn trail leading to it from the school. Across the way from my house was Aunt Pink & Uncle Rance’s house with its tangle of barbed wire fences & wooden gates. Beyond it, & through their pasture, was the neat home of my friend, Almira Lewis. At another angle from my house, down a rutted road, there is Aunt Aurie & Uncle Fitz’s large square house built on two-foot posts, with a neat crawl space hide-away underneath. Grandma’s new house is beside them, built so she could be close to Uncle Fitz, now that she is alone & 82 years old. My friend Betty Elsner & her family live in grandma’s old home, one of the first built in the town & located just off the highway, on one of the wide, graded bare streets. The sky is clear, blue & clean; the air is fresh & scented with greasewood. Immediately across the wide, graded bare street from the school is a row of 2 room houses, built sparsely, close, & painted green in a town of unpainted wood. The oil field workers line up to squash their growing families into these 2 room houses. My classmate, Nell Lakey, lives in one of these refuges with her brother, father & pregnant mother. He is a driller; consequently, he drives a large shiny, new car. As is the practice at noon, we students wait for class to recommence standing, staring out the open windows in the study hall. We see Nell’s father get in his shiny, new car, throwing rocks as he tears off. We watch the car sling toward town, but then it makes a sharp left turn going toward my house, then a right that leads nowhere but to Uncle Fitz’s & Grandma’s houses. He abandons the car at an odd angle, climbs through the barbed wire fence & runs to Grandma’s house. In just a few minutes, he hurries Grandma out, in her bonnet, but still tying on her clean, white apron. He opens the gate, puts her in the car, & retraces his route to his two-room home in our close view. Grandma climbs out of the car & scurries into Nell’s house.  The reason for the unfurling drama dawns on us. Nell gets excited. “Mother is having her baby! Mother is having her baby." The bell interrupts our drama & we drag off to class. At the end of the school day, we wait at the one-rail school boundary fence while Nell runs across the wide, graded dirt road & comes back immediately to tell us she has a new sister & Grandma Sitton delivered her because she could’t wait for the doctor from Pecos.      - by Jewell Scott, Memories of Pyote, USgenwebsites, org. - - -	PATTERSON, Caroline (I8)
3820	. Richard Townley arrived in the colonies in 1683 with Francis Howard, Lord Effingham, governor of Virginia He left Virginia for Elizabethtown where he me Lady Elizabeth Carteret, marrying her in 1684. No prenuptial agreements were signed, before this wedding. Townley was an Anglican and a Jacobite, a support of James II. Townley immediately became a leader in the community. He offered his home for services by Rev. John Brooke, an Episcopal priest. The house was the brick house built by Sir Philip Carteret for his bride. Col. Townley donated land for St. John's Episcopal Church in 1711. . 1698, Flushing, Queens Co., New York, "An exact list of all ye inhabitants' names withing ye Towne of Flushing & p'cincts and old & young freemen & servants white, black & coloured:" Debora Lawrence, William Lawrence. . Rev. Edward Vaughan followed Rev. Brooke in 1707. He married Townley's step-daughter Mary Lawrence Emmot, a widow. Ref: New Jersey's First Capital, 1664-1775, by Jean Rae Turner, Richard T Koles. Mary Lawrence's first husband & was Mr. Emmot. - - -	LAWRENCE, Mary .i (I537)
3821	. Richard Vanderburgh .2 first married 17 Oct 1816, Richmond Hill to Elizabeth Fulton; Richard Vanderburgh.2 second married, 1846, Richmond Hill to Phoebe Vernon, d. 10 Jan 1888, aged 77 years & buried with husband Richard in Richmond Hill Presbyterian Cemetery. . 1816 Jun 17, York, Isaac Arnold, of Markham, Bachelor married by special license by Rev. John Strachan to Amelia Vanderburgh. Wit: Richard Vanderburgh & Hannah Playter. . [Grandson] Peter Vanderburg, Lot 24 Con 2, is descended from a UE Loyalist family, who came from Pennsylvania. US, His father was Richard Vanderburg, who was born in Markham Township, his parents being amongst the very earliest settlers there. Peter was also born in Markham in the year 1817. In the year 1843 he purchased the farm in Vaughan, where he still resides. In 1843 Peter married Mary Ann Marsh, of Canadian birth, & daughter of the late James Marsh, of Markham Township; by this marriage he has 7 children. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church, & is a Conservative in politics. (Vol. II, p. 370) . 1831 York Almanac & Calendar: 1st North York Militia: Lieutenant William Willson from April 1, 1828, Lieut. Richd. Vanderburgh from Apr 8, 1828. . UCSundries, Petition for pardon in the case of High Treason, Polly & J.C. Devins, 200 Signatures, inc., William Lyon MacKenzie*, Isaac Devins, Wm. Munshaw, Elisha Lawrence, Jonathan Langstaff, Richard Vanderburgh, John Langstaff, Andrew Peterson & T & Ed. Sheppard, Joseph Bloor. Note: Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion, had fled Canada after the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, Toronto, on 7 Dec 1837. Mackenzie must have mailed in his signature for the petition. Ref: C9824, Image 758. Quarterly Session of Peace, Home District: . 1845 Jan 7, Fri. Grand Jury, Alexander P Clarence, Charles C Lawrence, Richard Vanderburg, James Playter, James Marsh, Miles Langstraff: Queen VS John Thompson. Larceny, brought in a True Bill. Tavern licenses ordered. . 1857 Jul 3-21 - Letters in Richmond Hill Post Office, Richard Vanderburgh. Signed, M. Teefy, Postmaster. Ref: York Ridings Gazette Newspaper. . 1857 Dec 18 - Melancholy Accident: John Marshal, a laborer of this place met with a most unfortunate accident yesterday afternoon, in a thrashing machine at Mr. Richard Vanderburgh's. He was oiling the cylinder when the sleeve of his smock was caught by the band & he was thrown with great violence against the machine. His head struck & a portion of the scalp was torn off exposing the bone; his side and arm are a good deal contused. Dr. succumb was promptly in attendance & dressed the woods, after which Marshal was removed on a stretcher to his residence. His situation is critical. Ref: York Ridings Gazette. . 1858 Jan 1 - To the Editor of the British Tribune, Sir, the unfortunate man, John Marshall, who was severely mutilated by the threshing machine, on the premises of Mr. Richard Vanderburgh, at this place on the 17th alt, only survived his injuries about 20 hours, He was a native of Leven, Yorkshire, England, was 30 years of age, leaving a widow, but no family. The above was a case of sheer accident, every many employed at the time being sober & cautions. Really it s deplorable to read the often recorded machines accidents in the journals of the province, a vast number of them through gross neglect or mismanagement. Men at such jobs muster in number to drive the work, & often have too much whiskey allowed, they then meme insubordinate & quarrelsome, instead of bent animated & good tempered. How many instances of fighting & he most beastly scenes of drunkenness are there on record? The writer has known divers of time, men lead from the machines to a heap of straw, to sleep of intoxication. It is no wonder that an awful catastrophe should occur under such a state of things, the wonder is that accidents don't oftener happen, for the majority of such grievous accidents take place from a want of proper order & precaution. Another source of great danger often ending in deplorable consequences, is skipping backwards & forwards & crossing to examine & oil the works, the machine all the while in full speed, the operator probably clad unloose apparel, which adds 10 fold to his danger. I hope the above his will not be thrown away by the prudent man, the imprudent always receive good advice, unthankfully, Yours, A Farmer. Ref: York Ridings Gazette Newspaper. . 1860 June 20, Richmond Hill. Advertisement. I hereby bear testimony that I have tried Sanderson's Rotating Harrows, on my summer fallow, last Saturday & Monday & have found them up to all that Mr. Sanderson represents them to be. They are NOT any heavier draft than the common harrow do the work to my utmost satisfaction. I confidently recommend them all who require implements of the kind. Signed, Richard Vanderburgh. Ref: York Herald Newspaper, Pub. 1860 , Jul13, Sep 21 & Nov 3. . 1861 Agricultural Census, York Twp. Richard Vanderburg Jr. Con 1, Lot 42, 190 Acres. . 1861 May 10, Markham Council, Mr. Mash appointed Fence Views for the ensuing year: Ward 2, Richard Vanderburgh. Ref: York Herald Newspaper. Verify identity: . 1877, 19th Inst. Dec, at the residence of the bride's mother, by the Rev. Isaac Campbell, Of Richmond Hill, Andrew Stephen Russell, to Letitia, eldest daughter of the late Richard Vanderburg, all of Markham. Ref: York Herald, pub. 1877 Dec 27. . BRONZE PLAQUE, RICHMOND HILL: Richard Vanderburg House, circa 1833, Lot 43, Con. 1, Markham, was purchased in 1805 by Capt. James Fulton, a United Empire Loyalist, from Captain Richard Lippincott, a hero of the American Revolutionary War. Richard Vanderbugh, son of a UEL, married Captain Fulton's daughter, Elizabeth, in 1816. They settled here in 1833 & built this fine clapboard house in the Georgian architectural tradition. A rear extension was added about a decade later of accommodate the growing family, giving the house its distinctive saltbox design. The house was relocated a short distance east from its original 32 Hillsview Drive site. Vanderburgh House, 32 Hillsview Rd., Richmond Hill, Toronto, Ontario. The house was of log construction & some original logs can be seen in the basement. The Vanderburgh House is a 2 storey clapboard, salt-box shape house that was built in the early 1800's by Richard Vanderburgh. Captain James Fulton who was a United Empire Loyalist & the first Justice of the Peace in the area, bought Lot 43, Concession one (later known as the Vanderburgh property), which was on the east side of Yonge Street in 1805, from a Captain James (Richard) Lippincott, who left Richmond Hill to live in Toronto. Captain Lippincott also a United Empire Loyalist & hero of the American Revolutionary War, was awarded over 3,000 acres of land in York & adjacent townships for services to his country. Lippincott received the patent for Lot 43 in the 1st concession of Markham Township in 1797. Fulton was very popular in the military-noted for his splendid horsemanship & soldierly bearing. When the American Revolution broke out, Fulton raised a company of Dragoons, paying a guinea (about $2.50) a head, at his own expense. Fulton went to New Brunswick, then the Bay of Quinte area, before buying the farm in Richmond Hill, where he served as the town's first Justice of the Peace. Fulton also participated in the War of 1812 between Great Britain & the United States. Due to his age, he could not take an active part in the war but he showed his loyalty by serving bread & cheese to the soldiers at Fort York. Early in the war, Sir Isaac Brock had inspected a muster parade of York volunteers gathered at the Fulton farm. During the war, with the Americans threatening to capture the town of York, Rev. John Strachan sent his family to the Fulton farm to take refuge. Captain James Fulton had a daughter, Elizabeth who married Richard Vanderburgh in 1816. Richard Vanderburgh's parents were also United Empire Loyalists who had come to Markham Township around 1800 from Poughkeepsie, New York when Richard was an infant. Richard Vanderburgh, born December 17, 1797, spent all his life farming in Richmond Hill, first on the west side of Yonge Street on land he bought from his father in 1815. He had also been involved in the skirmish at Montgomery's Tavern in December of 1837. (The one where Colonel Robert Moodie was killed) Richard Vanderburgh died in 1869 at the age of 72 & is buried in the Richmond Hill cemetery. After Elizabeth & Richard were married, he went about building a house on part of the Fulton farm land, which he later owned, for himself & Elizabeth. Richard & Elizabeth had 6 children; Peter, Clarissa, James Fulton, Eleanor Elizabeth, Richard Jr. & John. By 1832 Richard Vanderburgh acquired James Fulton's (his father-in-law) farm. He built a large house using the foundation of Fulton's 16 by 20 foot log house. The front part of the house was built in 1833. The new house of yellow & white, was of Georgian style, typical of many of the grand houses being built in New England. The rear extension, which gives the house its "salt-box" appearance, was added on after Richard Vanderburgh's second marriage. After Elizabeth died in 1840, Richard married Phoebe Vernon in 1846. Richard & Phoebe had 4 children; Leticia, William Henry, Sarah Jane & Charles Moses. After Richard died on January 26, 1869, the farm was taken over by his son, William, who ran it until his death in 1908. Around 1910, the house's floor plan was altered, adding a centre hall. The original plan is believed to have the front door open directly into a spacious parlour with a winding staircase. The house was kept within the family until 1915 when James Hunt & his family bought it. Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Middleton had lived in it as well for a short period of time but James Hunt was the last man to have farmed the property. In the time period in which this house was built most people were living in log cabins, therefore it was considered almost a luxury home. The house was built in a Georgian architectural style with a symmetrical front - a central door surrounded by an equal number of windows. The front door is solid & consists of 6 panels with reed pilasters above the door. The other doors are paneled as well & once had square locks. The windows are multi-paned with plain board frames, common in that time period. The yellow siding, trimmed with cream paint on the outside walls & Indian red doors were a popular combination in the 1840's - 1850's time period. The house once had a huge fireplace with a stick chimney-poles laid one on top of the other, later plastered with clay. Any bricks used & seen were supposedly yellow in colour. When the hunt family lived in the house, there was a veranda which ran across the front & down the sides of the house. The veranda floor had been made out of brick except for a small wooden part which constructed a trap door. There had been walnut & other large trees surrounding the house earlier on, as well as a barn which had burned down. The period picket fence that now stands in the yard was built to add the final touch to the restoration. The original address of the house had been 32 Hillsview Drive, Richmond Hill. In the 1970's a developer had purchased the property & had to demolish it. But when the developer applied for a permit, the permit was denied & restoration started instead. In 1983, the Ontario Heritage Act declared the house a heritage building & it is now a historic site. In 1986, the house & property was sold to Tridel Corp, who continued the restoration with the help of LACAC (Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee) who contributed to such detail as reproducing the period window panes. The house was moved because it had to make way for an underground garage for condominiums. The house is still in the same area & is on part of the original Vanderburgh farm. The same orientation in relation with Yonge Street was also kept. The house, now a town building, is over 170 years old & the present occupants of the Vanderburgh house are: The Richmond Hill Chamber of Commerce who moved in on April 25, 1989. Ref: Richmond Hill Town, Ontario. . PETER VANDERBURGH son of Richard Vanderburgh & Elizabeth Fulton, was born on 29 Sep 1817.32 On 12 Apr 1843, he married MARY ANN MARSH (1825-1900). He owned Vaughan township, concession 2, lot 24, north half, from 1850 until his death. He died on 23 Nov 1888 & is buried at Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Children: i. Marjorie E., b. 11 Mar 1844, m. William Glass, d. 12 Apr 1931. 1 daughter & 2 sons. ii. Lucy E., b. 7 Jul 1846, died in infancy. iii. James M., b. 28 Jun 1848, m. Alice Ann xx. iv. Mary Hannah, b. 27 Jul 1850, m. Henry Clay Pritchard, d. 20 Jun 1906. 2 sons & 3 daughters. v. Margaret A., b. 3 Mar 1853, m. David Hislop, d. 1939. At least 5 sons & 2 daughters. + vi. Richard Alexander, b. 6 Jan 1857, m. Elizabeth Mary Gibson. vii. Sarah Maria, b. 1 Nov 1859, m. Mr. Boyle, d. pre 1888.33 viii. Alfred Ernest, b. 9 May 1862. Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	VANDERBURGH, Richard .2 (I772)
3822	. Richmond Hill, York Twp., councillor for a dozen years. He wrote a Municipal Manual, which guide to municipal law. W Half Lot 3, Con 1 east Yonge Street, Toronto. . 1863 Master of Arts, University of Toronto, . 1863 commended Law studied (death of father John IV cut short further study) . 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. Willson, Arthur, Twp. clerk, land conveyances. & Egerton Wilson, farmer. Willson, A L - freeholder, Con 1 Lots, 20 & 3 Eglington. . A. L. Willson, M.A., real estate agent, 37 Arcade, is the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Willson, grandson of a U. E. Loyalist, who settled in the County of York at the period of Governor Simcoe's Administration. On coming from the United States his great-grandfather first settled in New Brunswick; thence he went to Niagara, removing afterwards to his location on Yonge Street, in York Township. Mr. Willson was the fourth son of Captain Willson, & succeeded his father in the offices of Township Clerk & Treasurer for said municipality, which offices they held continuously for half a century. The Willson family are related by marriage to several of the pioneer families of Toronto. Ref: History of Toronto & County of York, Ontario, by Charles P Mulvany & Graeme M. Adam. . 1866 - A L Willson & son, Real Estate Exchange Office 7 Yonge Street, Arcade. Among the oldest & best known firms in this city in the real estate line is that of A L Willson & Son, who have been in business since 1866. They hold a representative place in their line of business & are thoroughly reliable in all real estate matters. Mr. Willson was formerly Clerk & Treasurer of the township for 14 years, his office was located at the old Bay Horse Hotel. He is a Master of Arts, University of Toronto. He took a full course of study in law with the firm of Eccles & Carroll & his son, M C R L Willson, belongs to the 5th generation in descent from U E Loyalists formerly settled in New Jersey. After the war their property was confiscated & they moved to New Brunswick, from whence they, with 12 other families came to Toronto with Governor Simcoe. Among their family connections are the following well-known York Pioneers: Cummings, Fisher, Lawrence, Mitchell, Ashbridge, Etc. They are gentlemen well known & highly esteemed in the community. Ref: Industries of Canada: Historical & Commercial Sketches of Toronto & Environs, by M G Bixby Publishers. Note1: Five Generations, 73 years onward, & the family history is still passed it on as it happen. Note2: * * It was Arthur L Willson, as Registrar of York County who signed the birth registrations. Hence a great many registrations are in Arthur's handwriting. . 1869 Aug 27 - the first marriage reported for the Division Registrar for West York, (Arthur Wilson, Esq) under the new Registration Act, was made by Rev John Bredin on 19 Inst. The happy couple bing Rev Geo Mitchell, BA & the accomplished Miss Agnes A ticket, adopted daughter of Mrs Jackes, of Eglinton. Ref: York Herald Newspaper, published 27.8.1869. c. 1843 Rev. J Harris, son-in-law of Jesse Ketchum was a minister of Knox Church. He retired on a pension & went t live on a farm owned by Jesse Ketchum, opposite the Driving Park, at [Blue / Pine]? Hill, a little south of the ravine This farm had been originally owned by Mr. Wilson, an ancestor ofArthur Wilson, Reeve of York. . 1871 Scarboro Township Riding Council: James M Lawrence, Richmond Hill P.O., Clerk for Vaughan Twp. . 1871 Feb 24 - 15th The Re-Union. Tues. envy last, Richmond Hill Mechanics Institute Hall, decorated with banners & flags. Attendance was large, respectable. Programme including, song by Arthur Willson. . 1873 Apr 7, Monday- York Township Council, met at Prospect House, Eglinton. Long report, inc. communications rec. from County Treasurer. Dr. T Armstrong certified John Bonner required treatment the General Hospital. Council asked to prevent hotelkeepers from selling liquor to habitual drunkards. Twp. engineer reported on Don Bridge at Todmorden embarkment. Wanting tavern license are Wm Magill, T Newman, D Lennox & H Hopcroft. Robert Moore praying for aid for James Murray. Claim for sheep killed by dogs. Request to make arrangements with Mrs. Stinson for the maintenance of a foundling child. Next council: Prospect House, 4.28. at 11 o'clock. Signed, Arthur L Willson, Clark & Treasurer, York Twp., Willowdale, April 10, 1873. . 1873 Apr 25 - A L WILLSON, Clerk & Treasurer of York Township being about to remove to Eglinton. Will sell his private residence at Willowdale, Yonge Street, 7.5 miles from Toronto. Terms easy, for particulars apply to Signed, Arthur L Willson, Willowdale, P.O. April 2, 1873. . 1879 Dec 9 - Presentation. Tuesday evening 6th inst. a very pleasant gathering took place in the Wesleyan Church, NewtonBrook. Ladies of the congregation furnished a Social, but when the large audience were invited into the vestry, they found a repast that, for variety, delicacy & costliness, it would be difficult to excel anywhere. Entertainment by the choir, accompanied by music from the new organ under the accomplished leadership of Arthur L Willson, Esq., M.A. executed some choice selections of sacred mush. Brief added delivered by W W Cummer, Esq. who was unanimously called to the chair & Rev. James Montgomery. Mr. Willson came forward at this stage of the proceedings & read a handsomely engrossed & highly eulogistic address to the Rev John Breeding, Superintendent of the circuit, accompanying it with a purse enclosing the handsome sum of $102, a gift from the congregation. Mr. Bredin meet many friends from the various parts of his circuit, as also to recognize a goodly number of old friends from his last field of labor. Ref: York Herald Newspaper. . 1881 Newmarket & York Twp., Directory: Willson, A. L., Eglinton, Con 1, Lot 3, Free holder, & Wilson, A. L., Res. Eglinton, Con 9 West, Lot 27, Whitchurch Twp., York Co., Freeholder. . 1889 Jan 18, Friday, County Councils. According to statue the country councils of Ontario meet on Tues. Jan 22nd to elect a Warden. York Twp. A L Willson, S T Humberstone, C Peterman, John Morgan. Ref: Stouffville Tribute Newspaper. . Arthur L Willson buried with infant daughter Edith were buried at Newtonbrook Methodist Church (Yonge & Church Streets, in Willowdale there is a small Remnant of the grave yard with some monuments). They were reburied at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in 1940's when the land was redeveloped). . 1886 Mar 16 - Arthur L. Willson - Toronto - Respecting payment to Mr. Alexander Stibbard for arresting & conveying one William McGeagh from Toronto to Regina - $180.52 Ref: Archives of Canada: RG9-II-A-1. Vol Box number: 181. File A3425: Dept Militia, Dept Minister, Corr. Publications by Arthur L Willson, Ref at the Library & Archives of Canada: . Cdn Municipal Journal, at the Guardian office 1891/2; . Assessment Act, Public Schools Act & Separate Schools Act,1898; . Arthur L. Wilson - Toronto - Claim for books supplied Lt. Gov. Dewdney, 1897/10, . Public travel: the law relating to bicyclists, horsemen, pedestrians/compiled & annotated by Arthur L. Willson; including the important legislation of 1897. . Willson's municipal by-laws with statutory references & forms, 1880 . OBITUARY: Willson, On Thursday, morning, March 9th 1899 at 321 Preston Avenue, Arthur L. 4th son of the late J. Willson, of apoplexy, aged 61 years. Funeral Saturday at 2 o'clock to Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Ref: THE GLOBE, TORONTO MARCH 10, 1899. . Sadly to note also, his elderly mother Margaret Lawrence Willson died 48 days after her son, Arthur L Willson. - PJA. Ontario Land Registry Abstract Book 91, p318 Lot 30, Con 1 ESY, Markham [renumbered as Lot 5] . 1808 Apr 8, Patent, Crown, to Stillwell Willson, All 190 Acres. . 1882 Oct 6, Grant, Arthur L Willson et ux, to Wm. Thomas, $1, Parts A. Ontario Land Registry Abstract North York Book 1, Ontario Land Registry North York Book Abstract 1, p22-24 Lot 3, Con 1 East Yonge Street [ then York Twp., now City of Toronto]. . 1835 July 27, Bargain&Sale, Hon Wm Alan, to John Willson [the Third], £350, All 190 Acres. . 1835 Sep 23, B&S, John Willson, to John Willson, £250, S Half Acres. . 1836 Apr 5, John Willson et ux, to Jesse Ketchum, £100, Part S 10 A. . 1835 May 28, John Willson, to John Willson {what?], £250 South Half . 1935 Sep 25, B&S,John Willson et ux, to Jesse Ketchum, £625, 87 Ac. . 1839 Jul 19, John Willson, to Jesse Ketchum £625, Part 87S, . 1872 Oct 22, Grant, John S Stibbard eteu, to Arthur L Willson, $3000, Part 4 Acres on Yonge St. . 1872 Oct 22, Mtge, Arthur L Willson, to Wm. Jackson etal, $2000. Part W half, 6? Acres on Yonge St., district, 17661. . 1874 May 29, Grant, Arthur L Willson, to Egerton Willson, $3000, Pt W 4ac. . 1874 Nov 25, Grant, Egerton Willson to Sarah A Willson*, Part subject o mortgage; . [ *i.e. Mrs Sarah A Mitchell Willson, wife of Arthur Lawrence Willson]. . 1874 Nov 26, Grant, Egerton Willson, to Sarah A Willson, $5000, Part subject to mortgage. . 1880 Oct 26, Sarah A Willson to Rev W M Pinhon, $1,000, Part WH subject to Mortgage # 18770. . 1882 Mar 30, Disc. Mort., Rev Wm. Hirst et al Expors., to Sarah A Willson, $1000, PW 4ac. . 1885 Feb 27, Disc. Mort., Wm. Jackson et Exors., to Sarah Q Willson, $2000.,Pt 4 ac. . 1885 Feb 28 - Sarah A Wilson & mar., to Confederation Life Assurance Co., $5,000 Part W half. . 1885 Sep 19 - Sarah A & Art L Willson, to Eliza J Kerrison, $800, Part 1 Quarter 4 Acres, subject to mortgage, Dis 4759. . 1887 Sep 19, Sarah A Willson, to Jos Watson, $1300, Pt Quarter Ac. & Disc. Mort, 1889 Mar 9; . 1889 Apr 5, SA & AL Willson to Arthur L Wilson, $1.00, subj to mgt. . 1889 May 7, ALW & SA his wife, to Joseph Watson, $800 . 1889 Dec 17 Mtge. ALW & SA wife to Jos Watson, $1400 & $800, Part Quarter, 4 Acres. . 1889 Apr 8, P Dis Mtg, Conf Life Ass. Co. to S A Willson, Part Mortgage 17621. Lot 20, Con 1 West Yonge Street, North York Book 108, p3-5. [Yonge & Finch Ave. W] . 1800 Sep 4, Patent, Crown to Jos. Johnson, All 200 Acres . 1822 May 23 B&S Trust, Stillwell Willson et ux, to Wm. Allan, 5 shillings, ALL. . 1854 Nov 8, B&S, Andrew Davis et aux, to Jacob Lawrence, £275, Part 1. . 1867 Feb 14, Grant, Andrew Davis, to Peter Lawrence, $525, Part 15 Acres; . 1867 July 9, Quit Claim, James Hugo, to Arthur L Willson, $1., All; . 1867 Jul 19, A.M., James Metcalf et ux, to Arthur L Wilson, $750, Part; . 1875 Oct 23, Arthur L Wilson et, to Mary J Thayers, $2900. Part; . 1876 Jan 14, Arthur L Willson eux, to Peter G Gibson, $600, Part; . 1881 May 14 , Grant, Peter Lawrence etux, & Mary his wife, to Geo Cooper, $5000, Part 15 annum, W 45A) . 1894 Nov 28, D.M., Peter Lawrence etux, to Geo Cooper, $2300 Pt. (. 1913 Mar 1913), Thomas H Willson, to Fred J D Smith, $65,000. Part 11A.) . Transcripts by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	WILLSON, Arthur Lawrence .v (I61)
3823	. Robert Boggs Blauvelt, b Feb 13, 1832, died Feb 2, 1911, Mr. Blauvelt volunteered early in the Civil War serving with the 7th Reg. NGNY., & later with another New York regiment. He was also employed as a clerk in the War Office at Washington for many years he was an insurance broker in New York City. He resided at New Brunswick, N. J., a man highly respected in the community, of who it was said: "He walked uprightly, worked righteousness, & spoke the truth in his heart." Ref: The history of St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey: the oldest congregation of the church in the state of NJ. - - -	BLAUVELT, Robert Boggs (I1524)
3824	. Robert broke his leg while working at the Welland Canal in 1827. A letter in Sept. 1827 stated that 2of his children had died and he was unable to perform settlement duties. . Heir & Devisee - Mulmur Twp. Lot 13, Concession VII EHST. Location Ticket dated September 29, 1825. There was a petition from Robert's wife Margaret to obtain title to the land. Her husband had died at Thorold in July 1832. Ref: McCutcheon Pioneers, Alice M. Burke, Pub. Eldon Township, Ontario. - - -	MCCUTCHEON, Robert .1 (I316)
3825	. Robert is the son of Robert of Sarah Jane Johnston &John Henry Leavens. . 1883 Apr 3 - The Cradle, Leavens, In Esquesing on the 3rd inst., the wife of John Leavens, of a son. Ref: Acton Free Press, 20 Nov 1884, p3, col 3 . . 1891 Census Esquesing Twp., Halton, Robt. Levins, age 8/1833 Ontario, Methodist. - - -	LEVINS, Robert Charles (I1197)
3826	. Robert Morris Boggs was a photographer & lived at New Brunswick, N. J. He married Oct. 16th, 1851, Helen Smith Garretson, daughter of Rev. John Garretson, Rector of the Reformed Theological Seminary, of New Brunswick, NJ. She was born at Middleburg, N. Y., April 7th, 1829. Robert Morris & Helen (Garretson) Boggs had issue: Clarance Lawrence Boggs b. at New- Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 16th, 1853; m. Nellie C. Rosenblatt. Robert Morris Boggs. J,R., b. Oct. 15th, 1855. Caroline Amelia Boggs, d. in infancy. John Garretson Boggs, b. May 11th, 1866; m. Hazel May Elliott. Lewis Dunham Boggs b. April 4th, 186S; m. 1st, Gretchen Muller; 2nd, Constance Hunn. - - -	BOGGS, Robert Morris .3 (I1870)
3827	. Robert was the son of Margaret Kerr Patterson & Henry Burton 1806-1881. Henry Burton was a stonemason, Hawick, Roxborough, Scotland. Osgoode Hall. Henry Burton emigrated in 1828 to Little York. Toronto Gore Lot 13, Con 9. . Robert was the youngest son & was born on Lot 13 Con 9, Vaughan. . 1883 Apr 5 - A Valuable Horse- Mr John Bell of L'Amaroux sold the stallion "Sampson" a short time ago, to Robert Burton of albion for $2,000. This horse was imported by Mr Bell in September 1881. He is a well-built heavy-draught horse, 3 years old, stands 16.5 hands high & weights 1900 lbs. Ref: York Herald newspaper, Richmond Hill. . Robert Burton, Lot 13, Concession 9, was born in the year 1852 on the lot which he now owns & cultivates. He is the youngest son of the late Henry Burton, who was one of the earliest settlers in this part of Vaughan, & was a man well known in the neighbourhood. Mr. Burton, Senr. was originally from Scotland & on emigrating to Canada settled first in little York, removing to Vaughan in the year 1834, where he resided until his death in 1881, at the age of 75 years. Robert Burton married in 1860 Margaret Lawrence, daughter of Mr. Isaac Lawrence, of Toronto Gore, by who he has 3 children. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church & is a Reformer in politics. Ref: History of Toronto & County of York, Ontario, Volume 2. The Liberal newspaper, Richmond Hill: . 1930 Aug 28, Woodbridge Century Burton in Canada Lot 13, Con 10. . 1935 Jul 4, Burton Call Ancestors Remembers at Reunion on Dominion Day. - - -	BURTON, Robert Young (I199)
3828	. Robt. Montgomery, married secondly, June 22, 1788, Elizabeth, daughter. of Dr. James Newell of Allentown whose wife was Elizabeth Lawrence, & had 2 children. Mrs. Montgomery died May 21 1845, at the age of 93 years. Robt. Montgomery had died some years previous to this on July 5, 1828. He was buried at the old yard at Allentown. Leaving no son, he was succeeded in the representation of the family by Austin Montgomery, the son of this brother. Ref: The Curio, Vol. 1, 1888. Note1: Mrs. Montgomery would be Miss E Newell. Elizabeth Lawrence was her mother. - PJA 2010. . Children of Robt. & Elisabeth Lawrence Newell are: 1.Esther Montgomery married her cousin Samuel Cooke Newell in 1817. Their children Elizabeth Newell Married Wm. Passmore; Sarah married Bennington Gill, Robert, d. age 11; Lucy married Theodore Stagg; and Hetty Newell married Geo. W. Watson. 2. and Lucy Montgomery d. 1856, married Samuel Cook Newell. . 'The Eglinton, NJ folk of those days were first Aunt Lucy, Miss Lucy Montgomery; she was Robert Montgomery's daughter, & the sister of my grandmother, Esther Montgomery Newell, and it was she who inherited Eglinton. . Then there was Cousin Eliza Lawrence; Elisha Lawrence was member of the General Assembly of New Jersey in 1721, his daughter Elizabeth Lawrence married my great-great-grandfather, Dr. James Newell, and Cousin Eliza Lawrence was the daughter of Elizabeth Lawrence's brother.' Note2: Again apparently miss named by the author, Elizabeth Lawrence was the mother, and Elizabeth Newell was their daughter. Ref: Those Paris Years, by Samuel N Watson, 1936. - - -	NEWELL, Elizabeth (I1151)
3829	. Roszel Family Hold Reunion on Sunday, July 18th A reunion of the Rossellini family was held at the home of Mr Mrs. George Wilcox Jr, RR1, Erin, on Sunday July 18th. A pleasant afternoon was spent by all & a buffet supper was severed on the lawn. Those present were Mr Mrs James Brown. royal Oak, Michigan; Mr Mrs David Roszel, Guelph; Mr Mrs Comfort Roszel & Margaret, Georgetown; Mr Mrs Thomas Rotz, Kenneth & Jimmie; Mrs Winnifred Roszel, Mr Mrs Elmer Roszell, Wayne & Gail, Acton; Mr Mrs Roy Harding & Gordon, 4th Line Erin; Mr Mrs Victor Harding, 3rd line Erin were unable to attend. Ref: Acton Free Press. - - -	ROSZELL, John COMFORT (I413)
3830	. Safety Borden, born Sept. 6, 1682; died, November, 1757, in Bordentown, N. J. married Martha. He is supposed to have married his first cousin, a daughter of Capt. Safety Grover, whose name is unknown. She may have been this Martha, or perhaps be married twice. . 1683 - He was appointed Ensign in the local militia. . 1686, July 21 - The Proprietors, of East Jersey, granted to Safety Grover, of Middletown, 68 acres, in said town, South of his father's land; 32 acres of land, S. W. of his father's land, on the Navesink River and another piece, of 20 acres, on the East side of Shoal Harbor , West of his father's land. . 1687/8, January - Safety Grover was one of the bondsmen of Hanna Gardiner of Middletown, administratrix of her late husband, Richard Gardiner. . 1688 - In deeds of this date, he is called Capt. Safety Grover. . 1691, Mar 8 or 28 - Safety Grover bought of Richard Hartshorne, 20 acres, which, with two hundred acres of upland adjoining, was patented, Nov. 23, 1676, to Charles Haynes. . 1692, Mar. 5 - He was commissioned Lieutenant, of a Foot Company, in Middletown. Book C., Commissions, p. 180, Trenton, N. J. . 1701 - He was mentioned as Capt. Safety Grover. in the uprising against the Court, sitting at Middletown. . 1711 - Elisha Lawrence of Freehold, late of Middletown yeoman, sold to Safety Grover of Middletown, yeoman, for £3, three acres, lying at the East side of Shoal Harbor. . 1711, Feb. 19 - WILL of Edward Taylor of Freehold, yeoman, son and heir to Edward Taylor late of Middletown, deceased, sold to Safety Grover, of Middletown, gentleman, for £3, one acre, of meadow, at Shoal Harbor adjacent to the above mentioned land. . 1720, Dec. 5 - Gawin Drummond of Lochaber, in Shrewsbury, Gent., sold, for £5, to Safety Grover, Gent., and William Winter, yeoman, both of Middletown, ten acres of his seven hundred and five acres, to be taken up in right of his Propriety, formerly Thomas Cooper 's and which, he, Drummond, bought from Obadiah Bowne, Aug. 21, 1714. . 1721, Feb. 27 - He was a Juryman. . 1724 - He was appointed, by the Court, an Overseer of the Highways, for Middletown. . 1726 - He was a bondsman for James Grover, apparently his son. . 1727 - He appeared, as Capt. Grover, in an old account book. There was a Mercy Grover, one of the witnesses to the will of Thomas Applegate Sr., of Middletown, Feb. 1, 1698-9. Note: Was she the wife of Safety Grover? Issue: 1. HANNAH GROVER, daughter of Safety Grover, 4, married William, son of Edward Taylor, the first, of Middletown, N.J. William Taylor and his wife, resided at Freehold, N. J. He was born 1688, and died 1767, leaving a will proved Oct. 12, of that year, in which he set forth that he was a resident of Upper Freehold, and mentioned among others, his wife, Hannah, and his brother-in-law, James Grover. 2. James Grover, resided Middletown, NJ. . 1733 - James Grover was indicted for fornication; pleaded not guilty. Bonds signed by himself and Safety Grover . . 1737 - James Grover, Jr., was prominent in local politics. Holmes ' Journal. . 1740, Dec. 9 - James Grover, Jr., recorded his cattle-mark, formerly Walter Wall 's. . 1748 - James Grover was a deacon in the Baptist Church, Middletown . . 1754 - James Grover was appointed a Justice, in Monmouth County, N. J. . 1769 - James Grover was prominent in Baptist Church affairs, in Middletown . . 1774, July 19 - He was one of the Committee sent, from Monmouth County, to the Provincial Convention held at New Brunswick . . 1777 - Justice James Grover was suspected of being a Tory, and because of his supposed sentiments, was rebuked by the church, which he bluntly told was rudely trespassing upon his individual rights, and was lodged in jail, at Bordentown, pending an examination before the Governor and Council of Safety. 3. Two, Daughters 5. Mordecai Grover [?] And perhaps other children; among them, supposed, Elizabeth, wife of John Bowne, cordwainer. . Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -	BORDEN, Safety (I1630)
3831	. Sarah Catherine Lawrence, daughter of John & Mary Lawrence was born on Wednesday about 4 o'clock in the morning on 8th Day Aug 1810. - On 5 July 1825, at York, mother Mary Rezeau Lawrence swore she saw her husband, John Lawrence when he wrote down their children's names & birth dates. . 1825 July 5 - I hereby certify that Eliza Ann Lawrence & Sara Catharine Lawrence are personally known to me & I believe from this appearance that the time of their respective births as stated, is true. Signed, York. James Miles, JP. . After their father died Eliza Ann & Sarah Catherine were put on the Compassionate Fund for £11 each in 1824. . Brother John R Lawrence, Jr wrote during the 1837 Rebellion that Sarah C was not married yet & was waiting for Cousin Valentine Harden Tisdale to come, presumedly from, Norfolk Co., Ontario. At this time Sarah C. appears to having being living with her brother Abraham Perine Lawrence up in Gwillimbury N Township, near Aurora, ON. X-Ref: John Rezeau Lawrence Jr. for complete transcription. - PJA . 1850 - Sarah C Lawrence, Lot 42, Con 1. Ref: Directory of Inhabitants of York. Note1: It is quite without exception for the 1850 Directory for Sarah Lawrence to have her own listing in the book & as well as with no designation such as Miss Lawrence. etc. Brothers Alexander & Charles C Lawrence resided in a separate house on the same Lot 42 Yonge Street. - PJA . 1852 Census - Sarah C Lawrence, Lady, Age 35, b 1816 St. Johns, New Brunswick, English Church, living with brother Charles E Lawrence. (Single.) One story frame house & one-story frame shop or store. Mary Mulville, 19y., servant, b. 1833 Ireland. . 1852 Agricultural Census, Vaughan Twp., Sarah C Lawrence: Lot 42, Con 1, 1 Acre, 1 cultivated acres, Garden/Orchard 1 A, Potatoes .5 acre produced 10 bu., Pigs 3, Butter 50 pounds. Note2: Sarah Catharine Lawrence, born 8 Aug 1850 N.B. Daughter of Lieut. John Lawrence, U.E. (Lawrence Avenue, Toronto) & sister of; Charles Earl Lawrence, 1802 NB - 19 Dec 1868 Richmond Hill, Lot 42, Con 1 WS Yonge St., Clothier factory & carding & fulling mill. . 1859 Apr 21, Yonge Street. House & Lot For Sale: That House & Lot situated on the road leading to Mr. Arksey's Mill, on the 1st. Concession of Vaughan, with in a few rods of Yonge Street, with a good rough cast house, stable, garden & a fine orchard. For particulars apply to S. C. Lawrence on the Premises. Yonge Street April 21, 1859. Ref: York Herald, 22 Apr 1859, p2, weekly to 9 Sep, 1859, p. 3. [i.e. Just before the unsettling events to follow. - PJA] Ontario Land Registry, Book North York 170, page 127 Lot 6, Con 1 EYS . 1846 Jan 10 , Bargain & Sale, Chas E Lawrence et ux, to Sarah C Lawrence, £150, P Half Acre, 25 ch, W from NE angle. . 1856 Apr 26, Mortgage, Sarah C Lawrence, to John Duncomb. £50 Pt half acre. Ontario Land Registry Book 153, p80. Lot 42, Con 1 West Side Yonge, Richmond Hill . 1818 Jun 13, WILL, John Lawrence, to Mary Lawrence stall, All acres . 1846 Jan 10, B&S, Chas E Lawrence, etux, to Sarah C Lawrence, £150, Pt Half Acres, NE angle. . 1856 Apr 26, Mortgage, Sarah C Lawrence, to John Duncomb [a magistrate], £50, pt. Half acre. . 1860 Aug 1, Letters remaining at Richmond Hill Post Office: Miss Lawrence. . 1862 Jan 1 - 31st - Letters remaining at Richmond Hill Post Office: S C Lawrence, M Teefy, Postmaster. . 1862 Aug 29, Miss L A Lawrence [G. A.?] & S C Lawrence. Ref: York Herald Newspaper. . 1861 Census, Vaughan, Vaughan Twp., brother CE Lawrence S. C. Lawrence, born N.B., Church of England, Age 44 /1817, [which is incorrect.] Frame house 1.5 stories. Willa Tullman, labour, Canada, Age 18, non-family member John Gaven, labour, Ireland, RC, age 21, non-family member Wm & Mar Menaugh, labours, Canada, age 28 & 27. John Archibald, name is crossed out - Deaths in1860, 31, Kicked by horse. [presumably age 31]. . 1861 Agricultural Census, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario Sara C Lawrence, Con 1, Lot 42*, 1 acres, 1 Acres in 1860, 1 Acre Orchards or Garden; Half Acres produced 20 bushels Wheat; 1 milch cow; 4 sheep; 40 lbs. Butter. Note* Other part of Con 1 Yonge St. Lot 42 belongs to brother Charles E. Lawrence, A. Perine Lawrence. Obituary * 1866 Nov 23, Died at Richmond Hill; on Friday the 23rd instant, Miss Sarah Catherine Lawrence, aged 56 years. * 1866 Dec 18 Tuesday- Auction Sales, Cash Sale of Household Furniture etc, on the premises of the late Miss Sarah Catherine Lawrence, Sale at 11 am. H Smelsor, Auctioneer. Ref: York Harold newspaper, published 1866 Dec 14. ___________________ - ___________________ . 1859 Sep 2, THE RICHMOND HILL TRAGEDY: X-reference & continued from her nephew, William Henry Lawrence, eldest son of Charles Earl Lawrence. MISS SARAH CATHERINE LAWRENCE, of Vaughan, on being sworn said: I went to Mr. Moore's house on Saturday evening last, she had borrowed some articles of Jewelry from me on the Thursday previous to getting her likeness taken in & I called to get them, she was scrubbing the floor, it was immediately after sunset, she said to me "I thought you were dead", she said this I believe because I had been very sick; she asked me to go into the room & see Burns' as he was sick in bed; I did so; I heard her moving about in the kitchen; I heard a noise as if a person fell; I afterwards seen her on her hands & knees as if scrubbing, she appeared to fallen forward & then look towards me, I seen her face, she did not appear to have hurt herself. She was afterwards in the Cook-house. I wanted to get my articles of jewellery & go home & thinking she was not able to get them I proposed getting them myself; I thought she was the worse of liquor! I have been to the house several times & never saw her that way before; I have never heard that she was in the habit of drinking; she attempted to go from the cookhouse into the dwelling house. She struck herself against the door; I saw no marks on her face then; she was using an iron pot for scrubbing out of; she did not complain of being weak or sick. JAMES BURNS recalled: I remember Miss Lawrence coming in to see me; I heard no noise while she was there, Mrs Moore used a large binn for holding water for scrubbing on Saturday evening; then scrubbing in the bedroom. * After hearing all the evidence bearing on the case & after careful deliberation, the following verdict was returned: "That Mary Ann Moore came by her death from inflammation of the bowels, caused by violet blows & kicks inflicted by her husband, Robert Moore, on Saturday 27, August." Ref: York Herald, Richmond Hill, 9 Sep 1859, p. 2. - Slightly abbreviated to limit duplication. Research & transcript by PJ Ahlberg 2015. - - -	LAWRENCE, Sarah Catharine .viii DUE (I254)
3832	. Sarah is the daughter of Rebecca Hutchinson, ( b. 1632 Nottinghamshire, England-d 3.12.1687, Salem, Mass.) & James Bogart Hadlock (1617 Raydon, England-15.11, 1678 Salem, Mass). * William Simons. Timothy Simons made guardian unto Joseph Simons a minor under 14 years of age son of William Simons late of Enfield, Decd., date 19 Mary 1743. 1746 Apr 8 - Joseph Markham of Enfield chose to be guardian to Benjamin Simons a minor over 14 years of age & one of the heirs of William Simons late of Enfield, Decd., p 331 . 1805 Oct 29 - Benjamin Simons, Will, presented 1805 Nov 16 Children: Benjamin, Isaac, Edith Fargo, Silas. Anna: her wearing apparel given to Benjamin's children. p 355 . . Monument inscription: In Memory of Sarah ye wife of William Simons who died Apr 5, 1739 AE: 81Years. Brown (sandstone) monuments with 2 squares & swirly frame, Mrs Sarah Simons. Transcripts by PJ Ahlberg 2017. Thank you. WILL of her father, James Hadlock Sr.: In the name of God, Amen: the 14 day of November 1678: I James Hadlock, Senior, Salem, Essex Co., New England, being sick in body but of perfect memory, thanks be to God: I give & commit my soul unto Almighty God, And now for the settling of my temporal estate which God hath given me: Unto my son James Hadlock the land he formerly improved from a tree standing at the end of the stone wall upon a line to the round hole in the swamp westerly containing about 4 acres, my gray mare, my musket & sword. Daughter, Mary an acre of land joining to James on the southward side & £5, Daughters Hannah, Sarah, Rebecca, £5 each. Rebecca my wife, my housing & land that is not above disposed, & my goods, cattle & chattel to enjoy and posses - Until my son John comes of age or 21y, John shall have the one-half of the improved & half the unimproved land; House to remain to my wife during her natural life & then rebound to my son John: Daus. Hannah and Sarah shall half of their legacies 50s. within one year; the following dau. Mary to receive her whole £5 legacie. Executrix & Executor: Wife & son John. My loving friend Nathaniel Ingersol & Samuel Gibbs to be my overseers. Signed, Israel Porter Nathaniel Ingersol & Samuel Gibbs James HISXMARK Hadock, Sr. Ref: Hadlock Family Tree. - - -	HADLOCK, Sarah (I2881)
3833	. Sarah Willson, born 5 Apr 1804, daughter of Phebe & David Willson, Yonge Street Meeting House, Book H-15-1, p.2. Ref:  Quaker Archives & Library of Canada, Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). . Monument white marble plinth, 20” square 7” high, and squared column, 13.5” square, 81” high. Inscription: Sarah wife of John Reid, & daughter of David and Phebe Willson. Died April 18, 1853, aged 49y 18d. Long may my name in memory live The pains and grief I bore: My prayer I to my children give, And I can give no more. My name engraven on this stone For all mine house to see Although I now do lie alone You'll come and lie with me. - - -	WILLSON, Sarah .2 (I18)
3834	. Short Sketch of the James Marshall Terry, by Ellen Terry Blundell, a Granddaughter: My grandfather Terry was the last born child of Parshall & Hannah Terry. He was born January 1, 1830, at Albion, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Nauvoo with his parents. Grandfather came to Utah with his parents & settled in Cache Valley. He moved to Draper & then to Rockville, Washington County, Utah. Here he was a member of the Mormon Bishopric for 15 years. He had a beauti­ful home, fine horses, great herds of sheep, a vineyard & orchard. He was road supervisor, Washington County Selectman, 2 terms, beginning in 1883, Veteran of Walker & Captain of Black Hawk Wars. Grandpa Terry was a tall finely built man, with kindly blue eyes, & a long white beard, almost to his waist, ever since I have known him. He was interested in families, names, & loved little children. Grandpa was born in Albion, Ontario County, Upper Canada, [York Co., Ontario] on January 1, 1830, the youngest son of Parshall & Hannah Terry. She came from Canada and settled in Nauvoo. They were driven from Nauvoo, & came across the plains when grandfather was 19 years old. This was in 1849. Grandmother Mary Richards was born in Toronto, Home District, Upper Canada, May 14, 1837. With her parents John Kenny & Agnes Hill Richards, (died May 17, 1902, Hinckley, Utah.) . 1842 Sep 20, she came to Nauvoo. . 1816 July 27, she crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, & wended her way to Winter Quarters, now Florence, Nebraska. They went back to Pottowattomie County, Iowa, where they remained until the 22nd of April, 1851, then started across the plains, arriving in Salt Lake City, September 22, 1851. They settled at east Mill Creek. Grandmother Terry was 14 years old when she walked across the plains. [b.1835] . 1856 Nov 2, grandmother Mary Richards married grand­father James Parshall Terry & they moved to Draper where the Terrys lived. Mary Richards Terry was 19 & James Parshall Terry was 26 at the time of their marriage. . He went only as far as Pacific Springs, which was 800 miles, to help his sister's family. At that place the weather was too bitter & he turned around & went back to Winter Quarters. He journeyed all the way to Utah the following year. . 1902 May 17, Aged 65y, Mary Richards Terry died. . 1918 Aug 12 James Parshall Terry died. Ref: History of James Pharsahll Terry, by Marcia Terry, daughter of David Terry, 1952. - - -	TERRY, James Parshall Sr. (I2954)
3835	. Sibbald, MARGARET, Christened 1794 MAY 21, Auckland St. Andrews, Durham, England, d/o Thos. Sibald & Mary Harriot. . Marriage: Sibbald, MARGARET, 1812 Feb. 17, Auckland, St Andrew Anglican Parish, Durham, England, Married Walker, John of Durham, England. Marriage Bond for Durham Diocese, England 1812 Feb 17 on with day appeared personally John Walker of British Auckland in the County & Diocese of Durham in {Surrogate court?] & being Sworn on the Holy Evangelists, alleged & made Oath that he is a minor & intends to marry Margaret Sibbald of British Auckland in the County & Diocese of Durham, aforesaid, she is also a minor. He prayed a license to solemnize the said marriage in the Parish Church of of St. Andrew, aforesaid, deponent, that she the said Margaret Sibbald hat had ever usual place of above of the space of 4 weeks last past, On the Same Day the said John Walker was sworn before me John Faceon, Surrogate, Signed, John Walker. [In hand writing:} Upon the same day appeared personally John Walker Sr, the matrimonial & lawful father of John Walker the younger, aforesaid, minor & Thomas Sibbald of Bishop Auckland the natural & lawful father of her the said Margaret Sibblad a minor, & made Oath that they are consenting to the side intended marriage, Stood before me, John Bacon, Surrogate & Bacon Pastor?, Signed, John Walker, Thos. Sibbald. Know all Men, by the Present, that we John Walker of Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham, Cartwright, & John Londsale of Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, aforesaid, Sen?sel are bound firmly obliged to Sir Thos. Bernard, Barnoet for £200. 17 Feb 1812, the condition of the Obligation is such that if the above said John Walker, a Bachelor & Marg. Sibbald, a spinster now licensed to be married together, Signed, John Bacon, Surrogate. Note: Margaret Sibbald age 17y 11 26d. & John T Walker Jr. age 19y 8m 16d. . AUCKLAND is the site of the Bishop of Durham's Place of residence, dating 1242. The origin of the name Auckland, which is shared with West Auckland & St Helen Auckland is obscure & its earliest recorded form being Alcleat, a Celtic word meaning cliff on the River Clyde. Alcleatland was interpreted by the Vikings as Auckland which means separate land. The place has sometimes been called oakland, because of the well wooded countryside. Ref: www.englandsnortheast.co.uk . THE DIALECT & ACCENT OF THE LAND OF THE ANGLES: One of the most distinctive & best known features of the North East is its famous dialect which is a very important feature of the region's heritage. It is still distinguished by its often musical tones & peculiar words that often originate from the ancient languages of Germanic & Scandinavian Europe. They were the Angles & Saxons, a fierce sea-roving pagan race originating from Angulus (now in southern Denmark) & Saxony (in northern Germany). Over the centuries the old Anglo Saxon language changed beyond recognition with the gradual introduction of Latin, Norman-French & other foreign influences. The Anglo-Saxon `Northumbrian' dialects of North Eastern England take a number of forms which are often loosely termed `Geordie'. Distinctively Geordie & Northumbrian words are more than 80 % Angle in origin, compared to standard English, where the figure is less than 30 %. The dialects of the region take numerous forms such as the Geordie of Tyneside, the Northumbrian dialect, the Wearside dialect of Sunderland & parts of Durham & the south Durham & Teesisde dialects. For example a Geordies calls ALD WIFE is a woman whether she is married or not is an 'Old Woman'. A Geordie may say Aaal Larn yer (meaning I'll teach you) which meant to teach you. Certain Geordies & Northumbrian Geordie words like Dede, Coo, Cloot, Hoot Wrang, Strang & Lang are in fact the original Anglo-Saxon pronunciations for Dead, Cow, Clout, House, Wrong, Strong & Long. . The Bishop Auckland's accent seems to be closer to Darlington & similar to Teeside. Historically the Teeside area was separated from neighbouring regions, cut off by a strong natural wooded ravine area & the marsh flood plain of Sedgefield. Ref: www.englandsnortheast.co.uk - - -	SIBBALD, Margaret (I24)
3836	. Siloam Methodist Church, usually called the Brick Church. An early Sunday School class of 1896, was taught by Miss Melissa Johnston. . 1932 Sept. Acton. Miss Melissa Johnston, of Rockwood, is visiting with her sister, Mrs J H Reed. Ref: Acton Free Press. . 1956 May 24 - OBITUARY, Miss M J Johnston Dies in 90th Year Miss Melissa Jane Johnston, who lived in Acton almost all her life was interred in Fairview cemetery Tuesday after funeral service at the Rumley Funeral Home. Miss Johnston who lived with her sister, Mrs. W G Gamble, on Park Ave., passed away on Saturday. She would have been 90 year of age next month. Eldest daughter of the late Robt. P Johnston & Martha Leslie, she was born in 1866 in Erin Twp. She was a member of Acton United Church & Rev Gordon Adams officiated at the funeral. Pallbearers were Lloyd; Wil & Elmore Johnston; Clarence Gamble, Friends & neighbors carried the floral tributes. Interment was in Fairview cemetery. Surviving are sisters: . Mrs W G Gamble, Mary, Acton; Mrs E H Near, Ida, Toronto; Mrs A D Bridges, Margaret, Victoria, BC; & a brother, Robert Johnston of Rockwood. Predeceasing her were Richard Johnston; Charles B Johnson; Mrs Smith Nellis, Julia; Fred O. Johnston; & Basil L Johnston. Ref: Acton Free Press, 24 May 1956, page 4, column 1. . 1956 May 24 May 1956, Died Johnston At Acton on Saturday, May 19, Melissa Jane Johnston. Interment in Fairview cemetery. Ref: Acton Free Press, page 10, column 3. - - -	JOHNSTON, Melissa Jane (I1267)
3837	. Sitton, Henry Cicero "Blackie": Newspaper Obituary & Death Notice El Paso Times (TX) - May 22, 2001 Deceased Name: Sitton, Henry Cicero "Blackie" Sitton, Henry Cicero "Blackie", graveside service: 11:00 A.M. Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at Memory Gardens of the Valley Cemetery, in Santa Teresa, NM. Interment: Memory Gardens of the Valley Cemetery. Arrangements by Sunset Funeral Home West. Ref: El Paso Times, page 2B. . HENRY CICERO ''Blackie'' SITTON: Newspaper Obituary & Death Notice El Paso Times (TX) - May 21, 2001 . HENRY CICERO ''Blackie'' SITTON, 82, passed away on May 19, 2001 in Austin, Texas. He was born May 12, 1919 in Tyler, Texas to Jack & Elizabeth Carter. Both parents died soon after his birth & he was adopted by Charlie Messer & Nora Garner Sitton. . Blackie served in the Navy during WWII. He was a mechanic & owned ''Blackie's Garage'' at Doniphan & Thorn in the Upper Valley for 9 years in the 1950's, & also served as the Chief of the Upper Valley Volunteer Fire Department. After closing the garage, he worked for the University of Texas teaching mechanics about automatic transmissions. General Motors hired him as a service representative for Chevrolet Motor Division & later was an instructor in several General Motors Training Centers, retiring in 1985. Blackie was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Fanny P. Sitton, & grandson, James Paul ''Jimbo'' Sitton. . He is survived by his sons, Jim H. Sitton & wife, Mary Ann of El Paso, & Nick B. Sitton & wife Ann of Austin, Texas grandchildren, Judy L. Allen of Hempstead, Texas, Mindy A. Sitton of Austin, Texas, Jo Ann Sitton of Memphis, TN, Brent A. Sitton of Austin & 6 great grandchildren. Visitation will be Monday, May 21, 2001, from 5 to 7 P.M. at Sunset Funeral Home West, located at 480 N. Resler. Graveside Service will be held Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 11 A.M. at Memory Gardens of the Valley Cemetery in Santa Teresa, NM. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the James Paul Sitton Memorial Fund c/o El Paso Community Foundation, P.O. Box 272, El Paso, TX 79943-0272 or Hospice of Austin, 2820 E. Martin Luther King Blvd, Austin, TX 78702. Services entrusted to Sunset Funeral Home West. Ref: El Paso Times, May 21, 2001. - - -	SITTON, Henry Cicero BLACKIE .2 (I194)
3838	. Son of Judge Samuel Barnes Gookins & Mary Caroline Osborn Gookins. Husband of Cora Donnelly Gookins. Father of Shirlaw & Marguerite. Artist. Samuel apprenticed himself to John W. Osborn, editor & publisher of the Western Presbyterian, the first newspaper published in Terre Haute. Samuel intended to pursue a career as a journalist & became engaged to John Osborn’s daughter, Mary, but was persuaded by Amos Kinney, a Judge of the Circuit Court, to pursue the legal profession & he entered Judge Kinney’s office.[5] Samuel served as postmaster of Ripley County in Delaware in 1851 before his election to the Indiana Legislature in 1852 & his appointment in1854 to the Superior Court of Indiana, where he served for three years. Ref: Illinois Historial Art Project. . 1875 Jun 25 - Wabash College of New Haven, The reunions of the literary societies followed. President of the Lyceum & Hon Newton Morgan, of the Calliopean. xx that the life-size portrait of Prof. John S Campbell to be painted by James F Gookins, of Chicago, be secured & hunt in the society hall. Campbell & Gooks are alumni both of the college & the society. The portrait will cost $1,400. Ref: Cincinnati Daily Gazette. . Muster: Fifer, Co. I, 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry (3 Months Service). Remains interred in grave.  . James Farrington Gookins, b in Terre Haute, Ind., Dec 30, 1840, d at Hotel Navarre, New York city, May 23, 1904. He was educated at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., & received MA degree, 1877. He enlisted, Apr 1861, in Col Lew Wallace's 11th Indiana Regt., & was assigned staff duty in General Wallace's Hq, Apr 1862. He was artist correspondent for Harper's Weekly at various times from 1861 to 1874 in this country & abroad. James F. studied art at the Royal Academy, Munich, Bavaria as a pupil of Rab Wagner & Carl von Piloty, 1870-74, & also in Paris; London & Vienna. He was asst. commissioner of the Vienna Exposition in 1873. A charter member of the Chicago Academy of Design, he was Director 1875-78 & again 1881-83. He was founder of the Indiana School of Art in Indianapolis & director of it, 1877-80. He authored the Lakefront plan for the World's Fair in Chicago & promoted legislation therefor from 1882 to 1892. He acted as secretary of the Indiana State Soldier's & Sailor's Monument commission at Indianapolis from 1887 to 1889. From time to time he contributed articles on art & kindred subjects to many American & European newspapers & periodicals. From 1893 to his death in 1904 his time was largely spent in preliminary work in the formulation & financing of the enterprises of the Chicago Subway Arcade & Traction Co. of which he was general manager. The claim has been made that the 53 miles of subway in place in 1926 was the result of a theft of his original plans for a freight subway in Chicago. He has been said by critics of art to have been one of the world's greatest painters of flowers, though trained as a figure & portrait painter. He took great delight in painting flora & the illustration of legends of fair mythology. With Walter Shirlaw, he made 2 trips from Chicago to the Rocky mountains after the Civil War, for the purposes of study. He was the first to paint a picture of the mountain of the Holy Cross, & was noted for his landscapes of the Rockies, & of the Swiss & Italian Alps. Among civic interests he was instrumental in securing adoption of legislation to build the Indiana State House; induced Stuyesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central RR, to build a sea wall which made possible the creation of Chicago's lake front park; & he gave Marshall Field the idea of the great Field Museum on the Lake-front. From 1861 to his death he was afflicted with a partial lack of hearing & chronic neuralgia arising from Civil War injuries. . 1870 June 14 at the First Congregational Church at Terre Haute, he m. Cora Donnelly, dau. of Peter Metz & Matilda Donnolly. She had the reputation of being a great beauty & was painted several times by her husband as well as several of the great Munich painters, among them Piloty. Three of his portraits of her are now in the Sheldon Swepe Art Gallery in Terre Haute. Cora was b July 18, 1847 & died in Chicago, Aug 1, 1917. Issue: i. Shirlaw Donnelly, b Munich, Bavaria, Sept 16, 1873, m in Chicago, Sept 22, 1917, Alto Close Chamberlin, dau of George Boyd & Mary Virginia Chamberlin of La Fayette, Ind. & Chicago. ii. Marguerite Ethel, b Chicago, Jan 9, 1877, d in Chicago, Mar 22, 1914. M in Chicago, 1913, Benjamin J. Jorris. iii. Samuel Barnes, b Chicago, 1880, d about July 1881. . (Data from a MS by Shirlaw D. Gookins, dated Apr 2, 1926 - this MS is in the Terre Haute, Ind. Public Library. See also: Burnet, Art & Artists of Indiana, p 84, 115-121. 173, 371). Ref: An historical & genealogical sketch of the Gookin family of England, Ireland, & America. Gookins, Richard N. (Richard Newton, 1921-(Main Author) 1697853 Item 11 pg. 65 22. - - -	GOOKINS, James Farrington (I740)
3839	. St. Edmund Parish Birth Register, File # 12605 Alice Walker, born 29 Dec 1806, Baptism 3 Jan 1807 Daughter of Jane Barker, & John Walker, Abode Sedgefield, Blacksmith NOTE: Fifth daughter of John Walker, native of Masham NRY [North Riding Yorkshire] & his wife Jane, daughter of Joseph & Jane Barker of Sedgefield Parish. St. Edmund Parish Marriage Register # 268, File # 12962 Alice Walker of Sedgefield, on 30 Mar 1837 married by License, John Welch of Sedgfield. Wit. Robt & Elizabeth Walker. [i.e. her brother & sister]. Eight Welch children. 2nd husband Chapman Robinson. - - -	WALKER, Alice .2nd (I40)
3840	. St. Edmund Parish Register, File # 12608 John Walker, Born 17 Aug 1812, Baptized 18 Aug 1812 Sedgefield Son of Alice Barker & William Walker, Currier. Eighth child and the fourth son of William WALKER of Sedgefield & his wife Alice, the daughter of Joseph and Ann BARKER of Sedgefield. - - -	WALKER, John .iii (I218)
3841	. St. Edmund Parish Register, File # 594 George Michael Walker, Baptized 8 Sep 192 by Curate Joseph Arrowsmith, Son Margaret & John Walker, Sedgefield, Sedgfield, Carpenter.. . 1857 May 18, Geo. M. Walker sold to Calvin M Question unnumbered Lot 2.3, Erin. Ref: Permanent Building Society. . 1861 Apr 12 Census Erin, Welllington Co., Ontario George M. Walker, Wagon maker, 37 y b. 1824, one cow, four pigs, half Acre, Frame house. Church of England. Mary, 30 y b 1831, Scotland,* . George, born Upper Canada, age 7 b 1854, school Robert Walker, born Upper Canada, age 3, b 1858, Church of England. Note1*: Her tombstone reads, 'Died 4 May 1863, Be kind to the children'. . 1861 Agricultural Census Erin Twp. Con 8, Lot 13, 5 Acres, 5 A under cultivation, 5 A. cultivated 1860. --- $400; Farm Value --- 5 A. of Wheat produced 7 bushels. . 1871 Hamilton City Directory Walker, Geo., wagon maker & blacksmith, h. Rebecca, bet John & Catherine. . 1871 Apr 7 Census Hamilton, St. Patricks Ward Robt. Walker, 50 y /1821, b. England, Carriage maker, Meth. New Connexion & wife & 4 children & George M Walker, 48y / b 1823 England, Widowed, Plough Maker., Ch of England Robert Walker, 12y /1859, born Ontario, School, Ch. of England. . 1871 Lovells Province of Ontario Directory Walker Geo. M., of McMillan & Walker Walker, John S., Foundry. . 1871-1872 Wellington Co. Diretory, Erin: Walker, Arthur, hardware; Walker, Geo. M. (McMillan & Walker).; Walker, John S, foundry & machine shop. . 1875 Hamilton City Directory.1, Walker, George, Carriage painter, bds. 130 Hunter East. . 1875 Hamilton City Directory.2, Walker, George, Carriage painter, 130 Hunter East*. Walker, George H, traveler, S S Main, cast of Argo >VERIFY SAME GH WALKER? Note2: Hunter St & Maiden lane intersect after the #23 Walnut St. Fire Engine House. Hence, G H Walker is living a short block from brother Wm H Walker, at 11 Walnut St. Note3: However, on the 1877 Hamilton Directory, at 130 Hunter, only SS Ross, marriage trimmer, is recorded. - PJA . 1885 Union Publishing Co. Farmers Directory: George Walker, harness maker, Erin. . 1885 Gazetteer of Ottawa Walker, George M, of Donald McMillan & Walker Agricultural implements, carriages waggon makers ERIN. ON. . 1891 Apr 15 Census Arran Twp., Bruce Co. George Walker, 68y /1823, Farmer Robt. A Walker, 32y / 1859, B Ontario, Ch. of England, Farmer Mary J Walker, 30y / 1861, B. Ontario, Ch. of England. . Hillcrest Tara Cemetery in Tara, Bruce Co. reads: WALKER George M Walker, Sr. 1822 - 1892 George Walker Jr, 1854-1935 His Beloved Wife Elizabeth McKiddie, 1858-1931 Their Dau., Alberta 1886 - 1907 Robert A Walker, 1858-1941. Burial plot is at the edge of an interior gravel road. Note4: Actual burial place is either with his wife Mary Darroch, in Erin Pioneer Cemetery, or here as listed this his son George Walker Jr. & family. - - -	WALKER, George Michael .3rd (I36)
3842	. St. Edmund Parish Register, File #14066. Joseph Barker, Baptized 10 Jul 1772, Son of Jane & Joseph Barker, Abode Sedgefield. . 1798 Land Tax Redemption Joseph Barker, Sedgefield, Durham, Occupied by John Walker, tax £2,5 pd. 1799 Mar 21. - - -	BARKER, Joseph Jr. (I193)
3843	. St. Edmund Parish Register, File #14066. Rebecca Barker, born 25 May 1804, Baptized 4 Nov 1804. Rebecca is 3rd child of Geo & Hannah BARKER of Sedgefield. . Thirteen children of Rebecca & Thomas Young are: . Thomas, b. 1826, Hannah, Margaret.1, Joseph, George, John B., Elizabeth Beatrice, John b. 1841, Baker, Ann Birbeck, George Robt., William, Thomas James, Margaret.2 born 1856 & George Robert Young, born 1860. - - -	BARKER, Rebecca (I349)
3844	. St. Edmund Parish Register, Register # 383, File #12608. John Sibbald Walker, Baptized 10 Mar 1819, Curate Wm. Middleton, Son of Margaret & John Walker, Carpenter, Abode Sedgefield, Durham County, England. . HAMILTON QUARTER SESSIONS Walker, Thomas, 1838 June, - Plaintiff, - Page 12, Walker, John, 1839 March - Plaintiff Walker, John, 1847 /8 DEC 24, Plaintiff Thomson, Jane, 1843, June 12, Plaintiff, Page 18. . 1840 Jul 14 Assessment Hamilton Town: John Walker: Framed one story dwelling; 1 Male,1 Female, Total 2. Note1: Son Edward R Walker must have been born after July 14, 1840. - PJA. . 1841 May Assessment Hamilton Town: John Walker: 1 Adult, 2 story framed dwelling: 1 @ 60£. - Total Assessment 85£. . 1842 Assessment Hamilton Town: John Walker, John Street, 6 houses before Cherry St.: Total 4 persons assessed at £100. John Walker, Catharine Street, one adult. (nil assessment). i.e. John Walker Senior & Junior. ] . 1843 ASSESSMENT HAMILTON TOWN. (TWO Separate Entries for:) John S Walker, 2 Lots, 2 Story, Additional fireplace, Mr. Bowen, Landlord, 200£ Thompson [Thompson crossed out] Mrs. Walker, 1 female, Martial landlord, 60£ . . 1846 Smith's Canadian Gazetter, Province of Canada West: Erin, 32,447 Acres are taken up, 7,945 are under cultivation, Tipis holy & stoney. There is a small settlement in sw of twp. called McMillen's Mills, where are a grist & saw mill, tavern & blacksmith shop & between 4-0-50 inhabitants. There are 1 grist & 4 saw mills in two. Crown lands are open for sale at 8 shillings per acre. Speed River, a branch of Grand River, An excellent mill stream, 2 grists & saw mill. . Hamilton Coach & Carriage Factory, King St. Hamilton. - 70 hands (workers) Ref: Possible location for apprenticeship for both John & brother George M Walker. . 1849 Smiths Canadian Gazetteer, Erin, A small settlement in SW of Twp. called McMullen's Mills, grist & Saw mill, tavern & blacksmith shop, 7 between 40 7 50 inhabitants. . 1850 - First road was planked from Trafalgar, Esquesing & Erin Road from Oakville to Stewarttown. . 1853 - Stations in 15 locations, from Arthur... Erin ...Wellesley, all of which I have been able to visit during the winter. Want of roads is a difficulty. From Milton I walked through the woods a distance from 10 miles in summer between two stations. In winter it is 16 miles by a round about way. . Rev. W. W. Bates for Rockwood & Erin. . 1859 Ontario Directory, Erin, Canada West, Tp. Co. Wellington. Go to Guelph on the GTR. Population about 300. 1873, Erin Population 600. Ref: The New Work in 1859: being the US & Canada. . 1859 Oct 19- Erin Agricultural Township Show Fair, Erin Village. . 1861 Census Erin Village, Wellington John S Walker, B 1819 England, Blacksmith, 2 half Acres, Concrete 2 stories house Jane Walker, b. 1821 Ireland; Margaret, b. 1858; Robt., b 1853; Sarah Jane, b. . 1857; Mary Walker b. 1858; Arthur Walker, Apprentice, Age 17, Residing with Wm M Kenney, tinsmith, Erin. . 1864 Sept 15th, from the Guelph Advertiser from Erin village says ...there are scores of farmers in township who have not a sheaf in the barn, the weather having proved so very unfavourable for harvesting. The crops, however, are very good all around here. Ref: The Canada farmer, Volume 1. . 1865-71 Canada Directory, John S Walker Foundry & Machine . 1865-66 Mitchell & Co.'s Canada Classified Directory: Blacksmith, Erin: John S Walker & Iron Foundries & Machines, Erin, ON., John S Walker. . 1867 Walker, John S., founder, Ref: Wellington Co. Directory. . 1869 Province of Ontario Gazetteer & Directory Erin - A village situated in the Twp. of Erin Co. Wellington, 20 miles from Guelph, the county town, 35 miles from Toronto & 12 m. from Georgetown, the nearest station on the Grand Trunk Railway. Stage to Guelph 20 miles. Fare 75¢. Daily mail. Money order office & Savings' Bank. Population 600. Walker, John S., foundry & machine shop. . 1871 HISTORY OF ALL SAINTS CHURCH (Travel Conditions & John Walker):The Church of England is glad to learn there signs showing of vitality in the pretty village of Erin. The congregation was also without a clergyman for a considerable time, but in the fall of 1865 Rev. Johnstone Vicars was put in charge. (Undated Extract: Guelph Advertiser). . 1866 July 23rd, All Saints Parish Hall: Church Building Committee, Present Rev J. Vicars, Messrs. Cornoch, Steward, Walker & Campbell. Mr. Aldian, a builder of Guelph will draw up specifications plans for $5. It was moved by Mr. Walker. Seconded by Mr. Stewart that the plans of the Church now exhibited the plans are suitable. Carried. Moved by Mr. Walker, seconded by Mr. Campbell that Mr. Cornock be treasurer & Mr Carbury, Secretary Carried. Messrs. Cornock & Walker were appointed to request Mr. Campbell, the surveyor, to measure the land. Signed, John Vicars. (Mr. Cornock is the land benefactor.) All Saints Anglican Church, 81 Main Street, Erin ON. Ref: Rev. Francis Tremayne, Travelling Missionary, North York Public Library, 6 Fl., Toronto. More church records may be found at, McMaster University Libraries, under the Anglican Diocese. . 1871 Lovells Province of Ontario Directory Erin, Ontario, population about 500. Stage coach from Erin to Guelph 75¢ for the 20 miles., Stage coach from Erin to Guelph 75¢. Thirteen miles from Georgetown railroad station. Walker, Geo. M., of McMillan & Walker, Walker, John S., Foundry. . 1871 Oct 27, FERGUS NEWS RECORDER Newspaper: Garafraxa Ploughing Match: 20 ploughs entered - Mr. Walker's (Erin) plough was a favorite with many. It made a good cut, good turn up, good fearing & good finish. . 1871 Erin, Wellington Co. Census, (p67): John S Walker, Age 52 /1819, Born England, Church of England, Blacksmith, married Elizabeth Walker, 42 /1829, Born Ireland, Ch. of England, Sara J Walker, 15 /1856, born Ontario; Chars H. 14 /1857; Mary Ann, 12/1958; James W Walker Age 3 /1868. . 1871 Lovell's Dominion Directory: Toronto Street Railway: Route - St. Lawrence Hall to Yorkville & St. Lawrence Hall to Lunatic Asylum. . 1871-1872 Wellington Co. Diretory, Erin: Walker, Arthur, hardware; Walker, Geo. M. (McMillan & Walker).; Walker, John S, foundry & machine shop. . 1875 Wellington Co. Directory & Gazetteer, Erin, Wellington Co. Erin A village situated on lots 13, 7, 14, 9th & 10 Con., Erin Twp., on the proposed line of the Credit Valley Railway. contains 9 stores, 4 hotels, grist mill (a second one will be built shortly, saw mill, carding factory, 2 foundries, 3 blacksmiths' shops, carriage factory, 4 churches, stave factory & law office, distant from Charleston station of the T.G & B Railway, 8 miles; from Georgetown, GTR station 13 miles, from Guelph the County Town, 19 miles, Mail, daily, stages leave for Georgetown on Mon., Wed. & Fridays, for Guelph. Montreal Telegraph Co. has an office here. Population 500. . Erin Foundry, by John S. Walker. Size of building 60 x 82 feet, employs 7 men. . Walker, John S, Foundry. * 1876 Oct 26 - Erin Fall Exhibition, Tues. 17 Oct: Implements: Gang plough: 2nd prize, J S Walker. . 1877 Oct 25, Erin Exhibition: A large number of people, numbering around 3000 people, ventured through the almost incessant drizzle & such prevailed during the whole of last Thursday., Implements: Gang Plow: 2nd. prize, J S Walker Cultivator: 1st. prize, J S Walker; Wooden harrow: 1st. J S Walker; Set horse shoes: 1st, J S. Walker. Domestic Produce: Honey in a comb: 1s. J S Walker & Strained honey, 2nd. prize, J S Walker. . 1878 May 16 - There is now a daily mail between Guelph & Erin Village. Ref: Acton Free Press. . 1879 Co. of Wellington Gazetteer: Erin, an import postal village. 18 miles from Guelph. The proposed line of the Credit Valley RR runs through the village.There is a good foundry, a flour & Grist mill, & extensive woollen mills mfg. Tweeds, Full- Cloth, blankets, flannels etc. Plain & Colored yarns. * Walker & Son, blacksmiths. [i.e. John S Walker & Charles Walker] . 1879 Dec 23, Tues. - John S. Walker, of Erin village, died suddenly on Wednesday morning in a car on the Credit Valley Railway. [= Wed., Dec 17, 1879.] Ref: The Globe, Toronto. . 1880 May 1 - Erin Council - Pursuant to adjournment the Municipal Council of Erin Twp. met at Devier's Hotel Hillsbury, at ten o'clock. The Reeve in the chair & members all present. The matter in dispute between Wm. Young & John Walker in reference to the road leading to John Walker's house was called, when a long discussion ensued between the parties. Moved by Mr Reid, second by Dr. McNaughton, that the Reeve be instructed to take legal advice in reference to this road allowance & report was early as possible. Carried. Ref: Guelph Daily Mercury newspaper, published 1880 Jun 30. . 1879 Dec 17, Obituary. Sudden Death in Erin Mr John Walker Drops Dead We regret to learn of the very sudden death this Wednesday morning of Mr. John S Walker, of Erin Village, & the oldest & most respected resident in the place. Mr. Walker was known far & wide as the proprietor of the Erin foundry. On Wednesday morning he intended to go to Fergus or Elora, & left his house about half past 6 o'clock for the ballast train on the Credit Valley Railway. He was only in the car about 5 minutes when he expired. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause of his death. As we said, Mr. Walker is very old & respected resident of Erin, being in business there for many years. He was in good health up to the time of his death. The deceased never took a very active part in public matters, but he had always the interests of Erin at heart & he will be much missed, not only by his own family, but by the people in the village & township, by whom he was greatly respected for his genuine manliness & honesty. Ref: Guelph Daily Evening Mercury, pub. Dec 17, 1879. Wed. . WILL of JOHN SIBBALD WALKER: Three living grandchildren of deceased Geo Walker, & 6 living children; Edward (the administrator); William, Arthur; Mrs. Geo L Briggs (Margaret Ann); Robt. H & George Walker; Edward, "eldest son". His, "mother is Thompson, a long time lunatic in Toronto. " Note2: The lawyer representing the 4 children of his second companion, Elizabeth Walker, petitioned that the Will's administer present an undoubted security bond (i.e to ensure the corrected distributions to the second family too. ) No distribution was recorded in the administration papers, however, the envelope WILL had the Value as $2,5000. Edward Walker gives the assesses as $2,000. Since at least 1877 son Charles H Walker had already been working this his father operating the Erin Foundry & Machine Shop. . Tall tombstone with iron on top, reads: In memory of John S Walker who died Dec. 18 1881. Aged 61y 8mo 19 days. Erin Union Cemetery. . 1879 Dec 17 Ontario Death Registration # 15745, Wellington Co. John Sibbald Walker, Died Dec 17 1879, 60 years, 10 mo., 9 days; Machinist, Born Country Durham, England, Died of Heart disease, Dr. McNaughton, Signature of informant Charles Walker, his son, Machinist, Erin., Reported 30 Dec 1879, Church of England. . 1906 WELLINGTON COUNTY ATLAS WALKER, John Sible, was b. Durham, Eng., & came to Hamilton in 1827 with his father, Thomas Walker, & the rest of the family. Thomas Walker later returned to England & secured a situation as Supt. of the bridge building department of the Great Western Railway & died in England. John S., after learning the blacksmithing trade in Hamilton, went to Slabtown.* He had m. Jane Thompson who resided with Sir Allan McNabb. After about 2 years, in 1842, he moved to Erin Tp., settling in Erin Village, where he started the first blacksmith shop, & his brother George started a waggon shop opposite. He soon started a foundry ran by horse power for years. Later he sold out & moved to the present Walker foundry site, where he followed his business & made the celebrated Walker plow, the first iron beam, & iron handle plow in Canada. He also made buggies & cultivators & used to shoe the oxen in the district. He never sought municipal or political honours; was a Conservative in politics & a member of the English Church. Issue: Edward (d. Guelph), William (d.); Flesherton; Arthur, Toronto Junction; George, (d. Erin); John C.; Mrs. G. L. Briggs, Tara; & Robert H., Calgary. Note3: Slabtown was near St. Catharines, now Merriton, then noted for the Welland Canal & Welland-Western Railway. This flourishing town was located on the line of the Welland Canal on part Lots 10, 11 & 12, Con 9 & 10 Grantham Township. The town was created out of 4 small communities named Centreville (1826), Westport, Protestant Hill & Slabtown. Ref: Cultural Heritage Assessment Report. Wentworth Co. . Granddaughter, Ruby Walker told the story of her grandfather, John S Walker's death: They came & called my grandfather to come & repair the train. The engine would not start. He was a blacksmith, but in Erin village he was the expert on machines, like a garage mechanic. This was an important event & Grandfather, was running up the street in Erin to the 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 called him to repair the train. He ran huffing & puffing up to the Erin train station. He grabbed the handle to pull himself up onto the engine & right then he was struck with a heart attack.  P.S. This would have been before Ruby was born in 1899. So this story must have been a oft repeated story retold with much emotion. Ref: c. 1982, As told by daughter, Ruby Walker to her grandniece PJ Felker. . The Credit Valley Railway was given a hearty welcome one night as it arrived on its way thro' to Elora. I am told it was in October 1878. What a giant is seems. I remember how frightened we children were. A sad event of that evening was the sudden death of Mr. John Walker Sr., one of Erin's most prominent businessmen. He was hurrying to see the first passenger train through Erin when he collapsed & died. The evenings excitement was damped by sorrow for the family of Mr. Walker who had a foundry works, wagons & blacksmith shop on Main Street. . Two of his sons carried on for many years; Mr. Charles & James Walker, who married with 2 ladies named Hamilton, but no relation to each other. Charles's wife was a daughter of Richard Hamilton who kept a grocery store on Main Street, & strange to say, his clerk was a John Hamilton of no relation to either Walker or Hamilton the grocer. - as recounted by Florence Baker, in the mid 1940's wrote her memoirs of the time she lived in Erin during the 19th & 20th century. Ref: Gleanings From Memories By Paths of Erin - Part Seven, by Harry Smith. 1871. - - -	WALKER, John Sibbald .6th (I22)
3845	. St. Edmund Parish Register, Register # 758, File #12608 Margaret Ann Walker, Baptized 30 Jan 1825, by Curate Joseph Arrowsmith, Daughter of Margaret & John Walker, Carpenter, Abode Sedgefield. . St. Edmund Parish Register, Register # 499, Margaret Ann Walker, Died 15 July, 1825, Sedgefield. Buried by Curate Joseph Arrowsmith. - - -	WALKER, Margaret Ann .i (I209)
3846	. St. Edmund's Parish Register, File #12605 Baptized 16 Sep 1792, Parents Jane & John Walker. . 1798 Land Tax Redemption Joseph Barker, Sedgefield, Durham, Occupied by John Walker, tax £2,5 pd. 1799 Mar 21. . Hamilton City Directory: Thomas Walker, Nightengale St., 1833 Settlement, nativity, England, Wagon Maker. . 1834. A D Ferrier's Reminiscences, from lectures delivered to Farmers & Mechanics Institute, Fergus in 1864. Ferrier recalls his travels starting in 1830-1834: 1834 Jun. Ferrier visited Niagara Falls, St. Catherines to Hamilton, Ontario In 1834 Hamilton was quite a small town & there had ben a fire in the main street, & the ruins were still standing. Burleigh's Hotel was the best at that time.The corner of John & King Sts was occupied by a neat little cottage, garden inferno & large orchard adjoining, & there were not a dozen houses between that the next. The only public building of any pretension was the Court House. There was nothing very inviting abut it & the road to the lake was very bad. There was great trouble insurer for want of wanter. Ref: Sketches of the Early Days of Fergus & vicinity, 1919. ONTARIO, CANADA CENSUS & ASSESSMENT: (some without column headings, making interpretation difficult): . 1835 Census & Assessment, Hamilton Town, Ontario John Walker: 1 male; 1 male under 16; 2 females under 16, Total 7, Church of England: Eight. Rentable Property £20. Note1: this doesn't add up correctly. . 1837 Census John Walker: 6 Males; 1M> 16F>16; 1F Total 11 [i.e. Doesn't add up] . 1837 Assessment Hamilton: John Walker: Framed 2 stories £35; 1 Mich Cows £3; Rentable £110. 'In the same apartment bldg. Some of those in this app. owning lots in the town: The persons residing in the country: Doctor Casy. . 1838 Assessment & Census: John Walker: 1 Town Lot; Frame One Story; Grist Mill wrought by water with one of stones: 1; Merchant storehouse: 2; Closed carriages with 4 wheels: 4; £60. . 1840 Assessment Hamilton.1 of 2: John Walker, Cherry Street Lot, Between John King & John St.: Framed under 2 Stories: 1; Milch cows 1: Closed carriages with 4 wheels: 2. . 1840 July 14 Census.2 of 2, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, CANADA: John Walker Males above 16 years: 3 [i.e. John Sr.; Geo. Michael; John Sibbald Sr., or perhaps Robt. Walker.] Males under 16 years: 3 [ Infant Edward Walker, b 1840. Females above 16 years: 2 [Marg. Sibbald Walker, Jane Thompson Walker. Females under 16 years: 2 [Marg. Walker, Jr. Total: 10 in family. . 1841 May Assessment Hamilton Town: John Walker, 2 men, 2 boys, 1 Female, 6 girls (column?) Total 6 [repeated]. . 1842 Assessment Hamilton Town: John Walker, John Street, 6 houses before Cherry St.: Total 4 persons. Assessed at £100. John Walker, Catharine Street, one adult. nil assessment [i.e. John Walker Senior & John Sibbald Walker, Junior. This is also the last record found for John Thomas Walker.] Thomas Walker later returned to England & secured a situation as Supt. of the bridge building department of the Great Western Railway & died in England. . HAMILTON QUARTER SESSIONS OF PEACE, ONTARIO Walker, Thomas, 1838 June, Plaintiff, Page 12, Walker, John, 1839 March 14, Plaintiff, Walker, John, 1847 /8 DEC 24, Plaintiff, Thomson, Jane, 1843, June 12, Plaintiff, Page 18. Note2: Further research for details is needed. - PJA. . 1906 WELLINGTON COUNTY ATLAS, Ontario, Canada: WALKER, John Sible, was b. Durham, Eng., & came to Hamilton in 1827 with his father, Thomas Walker, & the rest of the family. Thomas Walker later returned to England & secured a situation as Supt. of the bridge building department of the Great Western Railway & died in England. . 1861 Census Great Aycliffe, Co. Durham: John Walker was living with his niece Jane Welch & her son Geo. E Welch. . 1871 Census - John Walker, born 1792, in Sedgefield. In the Census 1871 Darlington Union Workhouse shows a widower who meets the profile of our John Walker. There was a rather large population for the workhouse was reconstructed from the bishop's palace, which had fallen into neglect. The year of John's birth 1792, is remembered as the year Sedgefield's streets were filled with two feet of hail that fell on July 17th, damaging many houses & windows. The Parish Church, dedicated to St. Andrew, occupies a commanding position on what was formerly the site of an early Saxon church. The erection of this most interesting structure may be said to date from the early part of the thirteenth century. It is cruciform in shape, consisting of nave, aisles, transepts, spacious chancel, south porch & western tower. The lower stage of the tower is connected with the nave by a fine arch consisting of three chamfered orders, resting on octagonal responds. The parish register commences in 1558. Ref: History, Topography & Directory of Durham, Whellan, London, 1894. John Thomas Walker was called John in England. In Canada is was his family referred to him as Thomas, but he continued to sign his name John Walker. Ref: John's own Birth Registration; Marriage Bond & Birth Reg. of sons John S. & George M. giving his name as John Walker; & the Wellington Co., Ontario, Atlas, the family refers to him as 'Thomas'. Additionally in the Hamilton, Ontario Census he uses the name of John. . Auckland includes Archdeacon Newton, Auckland St. Andrews, & St Helen, Armpton, Binchester (old Roman), Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland & Pollards Lands, Blackwell, Bolam. Hadrian's Wall, which is not too distant, was built c.122 AD, to separate the Romans from the Brignates & Caledonia Tribes. These tribes where the original inhabitants of Britain & thus neither English or Scot. . 1801 is population was 1,184 & In 1821 the population of Sedgefield Twp., Durham was 1268 persons. . Sedgefield stands on rising ground John Walker & family learned their trades in the heart of the ancient village of Sedgefield which was founded by the Normans. The old Roman road, Cade's Road, runs northward, just skirting Sedgefield. By 1828 the village manufacture agricultural implements like saddlery, four milling an shoemaking. Sedgefield in North East England is were rail travel was first start in Sept. 1825 with Geo. Stephenson's famous Locomotion Number One. . 1887 Gazetteer for Sedgefield, is a market town & is 9 miles from Durham City. The town has also a grammar school, MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, & an old market cross. Fairs for cattle are held in April & Oct. The Durham Count Lunatic Asylum is nearby in the township. . SEDGEFIELD, Durham Co., Yorkshire. (Stockton District) Includes twp. or civil parish: Bishop Middleham, Bishopton, Bradbuy & the Isle, Butterwick & Oldarcres, Chilton, Confoth, E & W Newbiggin, Elstob, Embleton, Ferryill, Bishburn , Foxton & Shotton, Garmondsay Moor, Great & Little Stainton, Mainsforth, Mordon, Preston le Skerne, Sedgefield, Stillington, Thrislington, Timdon, Woodham. The extensive parish of Sedgefield is divided into 7 townships: 1, Hardwick, Sans & Layton; 2. Bradbury & the Isle; 3 Mordon; Foxton & Shotton; 5 Butterwick inc. Old Acres; 6. #Embleton, inc. Swainston & the Mortons; & 7. Fishburn. In 900 AD there were 20 Villain-farmers each of whom held two ox gangs, & contributed with their harvest to the poor. Ploughing Matches, at which prizes are given, are occasionally held at Sedgefield, for the encouragement of agricultural labourers. Sedgefield means the open land belonging to Cedd. - - -	WALKER, John THOMAS .2nd (I23)
3847	. Stanley Park, Erin The Park was named for Stanley Long who was drowned at the Park at an early age. Stanley Park was named in his memory. Pavilion - First dances were held in a two-storey building east of the wharf. It later became a restaurant, with the rooms above being offered for rent to holidayers from the city. The boat-house at the wharf also had rooms above for rent. Other owners of Stanley Park were: J.J. Carroll, Isaac M. Teeter, Harry Austin, Jeff Hamilton, J. Henderson, who sold in 1967, to Upwell's Ltd., with Charles Overland as Manager. The park was sold to Isaac Teeter in 1908. Harry Austin bought from his father-in-law, Teeter, in 1916. Austin built a new dance pavilion in 1922, & was soon billing the famous "Cornhuskers" Orchestra, & others, as well as local musicians, Bill Bush & Harry Gear. Soon it was extended in size. Through the 1920's & early 1930's the dances on 24th of May were very popular, as well as the Fall Fair Dances on Thanksgiving week-end. Young people came for miles from every direction. Yes, I was there. JFH. In the 1940's, Upwells replaced all the original cottages, & built a new dining room, the original having been destroyed by fire. 1936 Jul 2,Erin Lawn Bowling Club, Sec. Treas., C K Overland, Tournament at Grand Valley rinks. Queen Overland, won 4th prize . 1936 Aug 6, Bowlers won prize at Dundalk, on Wed Jul 29, C K overland & Queen Overland. . 1936 Aug 27, Bowlers Won First Honors at Orangeville rinks, C K Overland, sk, & Queenie Overland. . 1937 Jul 22, LawnBowlers Won at Grand Valley, Mr Mrs C K Overland, Miss Queenie Overland & Mr T C Foster competed in a mixed fours bowling tournament at Orangeville on Tues. evening. They report a pleasant evening. . Charles Overland married Frances Kathleen Sutton, 1894 - 1975. . Charles Overland's obituary stated that he owned & operated Stanley Park from 1945, until his death in 1982, & that he built Hilltop Lodge & developed the Golf Course. Present owner of the golf course is James Holmes. Ref: History of Erin Village. - - -	OVERLAND, Charles Kirkwood .3 (I396)
3848	. Susannah married 1717 in NJ, Joseph Borden. b 12 May 1687, Middletown, NJ. Ref: Boston Transcript 1906-1941. . Verify: Their children: Amy Borden.1, born 1723, Bordertown, Shrewsbury, NJ Joseph, 1 Aug 1719. . Hannah, b 1711 Bordertown, Burlington Co., NJ who married John Lawrence born Monmouth & died 1767, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co., NJ. . Rebecca, b 1717 Middletown, NJ Abigail, b 1727 Farnsworth Landing (Bordertown), NJ Amy.2, born 1723, Bordentown Ann Borden, b 1718, Middletown. . Children of Joseph Borden & Susannah Grover are: Jonathan Borden, born Apr. 14, 1690. David Borden, born Mar. 8, 1692. Samuel Borden, born Apr. 8, 1696. . SUSANNAH GROVER , daughter of Joseph Grover , 2, married Joseph, son of Benjamin & Abigail (Grover) Borden, born May 12, 1687; died Sep. 22, 1765. . 1787, Mch. 16. "Silvanus Grover, of Middletown, a Quaker, affirms that he is well acquainted with the state of Joseph Grover his grandfather's family. That his grandfather had 6 daughters, legatees to the said Joseph Grover by his last will & testament, to whom he bequeathed all his proprietary rights, of whom Susannah & Hannah were two. . Susannah intermarried with Joseph Borden, by whom she had issue one daughter, Rebecca, who married Joseph Brown, reputed heir of Susannah Borden, & thereby inherited her mother's share of her grandfather's rights. . Hannah married James Seabrook, & had a son, Daniel, reputed heir of James & Hannah, & the said Daniel had issue, with others, Thomas Seabrook, who is the reputed heir of Daniel his father." - - -	GROVER, Susannah (I1108)
3849	. The 1892 Biography of Alexander Hamilton says his grandmother died when Rebecca was but young & she was raised by an older sister. The most like possibilities for the 'older sister' could be: 1. Elizabeth Lawrence Tarbox, living in 1821 at Caledon East, Peel Co. & fairly close to James Hamilton at his farm in Chinguagousy Twp., Peel; or is Rebecca was still in Toronto with: 2. Second eldest sister, Margaret Lawrence Johnston, who lived at 179 King St. East, Toronto, which is based on Richard Hamilton, Rebecca's eldest son's statement that he was born in Toronto. King St. was a principal street in Toronto, where indeed, James Hamilton would have done business with the Canada Land Company. . DOB 1815; UCLP at age 18, Married c 1833, at about age 18; First child at c. 19 years old. UCLBooks, 1833 Feb 7, Thursday, York Council Chamber, Present Peter Robinson, Geo. H. Parkland, Jos. Wells. Rebecca Hamilton, Petition H179, Wife of James Hamilton of Toronto, Yeoman. Praying for a grant of 200 Acres of land, as the Daughter of the late Richard Lawrence, formerly of York, an U.E. Loyalist. Recommended. Ref: UCLBook, C105 p 354. Note1: Rebecca was age 17y 9m 3d. . Upper Canada Land Petition #179, 1818 Apr 14, Patented: 1833 Jul 4: Lot 7, Con 18, Garafraxa Twp., [Gore District], Wellington Co., Ontario. * [ later transferred to EAST Garafraxa Twp, in Dufferin Co.] Witnesses to Oath of Rebecca Hamilton, Page 179a, C2052, Home District (Toronto), We, D'Arcy Boulton the Quarter Chairman & Steven Washburn … Clerk of the Peace certify that Rebecca Hamilton personally appeared at the general quarter Sessions of the Peace in & for said Home District this day & is recognized by the Magistrate to be a Daughter of the late Richard Lawrence of the Township of Harwich in the Western District of London, formerly of the Twp. of York, deceased, who retained his Loyalty during the late war [1812] without suspicion of without suspicion of aiding or assisting the Enemy. Dated at the Court House of York (Toronto), the 28th day of February, 1833. Quarterly Session of Peace, Home District: . 1833 Feb 28, Thurs. Present D'Arcy Boulton Jun, Esq. Chairman, Grant Powell, Esq. JP, Clerk of Peace having reported to Court that the Grand Jury summoned them for 1 O'clock this day. Report of David Gibson, Surveyor of Hwys. granted. Rebecca Hamilton appeared in open-Court & was recognized to be the Daughter of the late Richard Lawrence, deceased, an United Empire Loyalist, whereupon a certificate was signed. . 1834 Dec 19, UC Sundries, Petition of Rebecca & James Hamilton of the Twp. Nassagaweya, Petitioner Rebecca Hamilton, the daughter of a UE Loyalist received a grant of Lot 7, Con 18, Garafraxa Twp. Petitioners are residing & cultivating a lot of land in Nassagaweya Twp. , upon which he has nearly 40 Acres of improvement. In consequence of possessing this farm, they are from the distance of the grant, unable to quit their present residence & become occupiers of the Garafraxa Lot. Yet your petitioners part to allow a deed to be issued, upon the grounds they are already settlers in the very District in which the grant is, the value of the same is of importance to them, for the provision their family. Should it be the pleasure of your Excellency to grant them title, the land will be improved by having the power to let it on lease, otherwise your petitioners cannot occupy in person the Lot & will be subject for forfeiture. Signed for Jas. & Rebecca Hamilton, City of Toronto, 29 Dec 1834, Tos. Talbot. Envelope: Referred to Comm of Lands to report therein. 31 Dec 1834. . Cannot be granted under present regulations.1835 Apr 8, John Robison, Com. of Crown Lands Office, Toronto. Forward the report. Ref: UC Sundries C6884, p1279. Note2: Lot 18 SW Con 7 was granted 1824.9.21 Patent to Ann Headly & the NE half patent was granted 1824.922 to Jesse Meredith. . Land Registration Office Dufferin County, Lot 7, Con 18, East Garafraxa Twp. Abstract Book B20, p42. . 1836 Mar 11, Patent, crown to Rebecca Hamilton Hamilton, Rebecca. . 1836 Jun 16, Registered 1836 Jun 29, BN&S, James Hamilton & his wife Rebecca Hamilton, to James Pattulo, 200 Acres. . 1879 Mar 28, Bargain&Sale James & Robert A. Pattullo, to Kenneth Pattullo, [to both each]. All the timber on 10 acres with right of way. Note3: Purchaser: James Pattullo. Others settlers began to arrive at an early period, doubtless sent forward by the enterprising Land Agent at York. In the autumn of 1820 Alexander Pattullo, native of Prestonpems, near Edinburg, but more recently a resident of Glasgow, arrived at Rockside, having left behind him his wife & family of 3 sons & 2 daughters, wile he spied out the land & prepared a home for them. In a letter from Paisley dated Apr 2, 1823 he stated that a young man James Pattullo who was about to emigrate to Canada & intended to settle in Caledon along with his father who had preceded him, offered to convey letters. Ref: Rockside Pioneers. . Biography: At James Hamilton's death there was nothing left for his wife & family of 7 children, all of whom were under age. It was in this crisis that Alexander Hamilton's sterling character made itself evident. Though but 18 years old, [1854 or 55], he assumed the care of the family & until the day of his death none of them ever went to him in vain for assistance of any sort. His devotion to his mother was particularly beautiful, & even when the others were able to contribute to her comfort he never yielded his privilege of being the first to bear burdens in her behalf; & this even when hard times often made it difficult to provide for his own family as he wished. Husband James Hamilton died about 1856 to 1858. 'He might have become a wealthy man if he had not placed too much confidence in his friends & wreaked his own fortune by going security for others.' So this would have been a timely investment for him or the widow Rebecca Hamilton. Perhaps the tollgate didn't live up to expectations for development. In the meantime, son Rev. James Hamilton moved to Michigan & number of close relatives were also in Michigan too. . Rev. James Hamilton, Jr. "God-fear mother dedicated him to the service of the pulpit before he was born" in Feb. 17, 1843, Trafalgar, Ontario. . -. * XRef: This biography continues at 1892 & 1912 Biographies of Alexander Hamilton & at James Hamilton. Note4: Husband James Hamilton died in 1855 probably in Esquesing Co., Halton County, Ontario. Rebecca had moved to Flamborough Twp., Wentworth County by the time son James Hamilton was baptized a Methodist. By 1856 son Richard L Hamilton was living alone in a log cabin near Acton, Ontario. He was working as a carpenter, no doubt earning money to help support his family. In 1864 Alex Hamilton went to Ohio & afterward to Michigan to make fruit farm to Saughatuck, MI. Mary Jane Hamilton landed in the US in 1866 so it would seem probably she would have lived with her mother Rebecca, at least up to that time. . 1859 Flamborough West, Canada West., Tp. in Co. Wentworth. For office Post office see: Strabane. Ref: The New World in 1859: Being the US & Canada. . 1861 March Census, East Flamborough, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Broken Part Lot 14, 2nd East Concession, Rebecca Hamilton, age 46, Toll House, W. Methodist, Widow, One half story frame house. *Family member ABSCENT on Census day. Alex Hamilton, Age 23, b 1838, Nursery Agent, born Upper Canada, W. Methodist. Richard Hamilton, Age 26, b 1835, Carpenter, born Upper Canada, frame house. *Family member ABSCENT on Census day. Mary Jane Hamilton, Age 22 b1839, Labourer Hadassah Hamilton, Age 19, 1842 UC [No occupation listed], *Family member ABSCENT on Census day. James Hamilton, Age 17 b1844, Nursery Agent, attending school. *Family member ABSCENT on Census day. Wm. J Hamilton, Age 15 b1846, Labourer, attending school. Rebecca Hamilton, Age 7, b1854, attending school. . Description of Flamborough tollhouse: Neighbor murdered previous to Rebecca Hamilton taking up the house which was: The tollhouse is quite a small room & the ceiling is very low & usually a lock was applied to the door. Woodrack rails, likely cedar, surrounded the tollhouse; there was plenty of room in the shanty to stoke a blow with the stick; a 6 o'clock sounded in neighboroughood! Undoubtedly there would be quite a bit of gossip about the tollhouse where Rebecca & family lived. . 1857 Jan 29th, Extracted from a previous coroner's murder inquest that took place: The day previous at a shan't on the New Waterdown road, near Burlington Heights, where John Lawry killed another man supposed to have gone to the shanty for the purpose of robbing awry of his money. Lawry is about 60 years of age & Hopkins near as old. John Smith, a teamster, was going out to the woods for cordwood & was passing the toll gate about 6:30, Wednesday morning when the toll keeper called after him & his comrade that John Hopkins came to the tollhouse about an hour before daylight that he had a letter for the toll keeper who then let him in Hopkins had a stick in his hand about 4 feet 6 inches long such as used woodrack rails & made a blow at him the tollkeeper, John Lawry. There was a fierce encounter till he succeeded in getting the stick & gave Hopkins blows to the head. Witness saw no blood on the floor. The toll keeper wanted to send word to the Watertown police. John Gilmour resided on the hill about 100 yards from the tollhouse. Half an hour after sunrise Lawry came up the hill & called there was a dead man there near the door. He went to the house where he was told the same story. Lawry looked wild & he was glad to get out of the house, he did not appear to be drunk. The tollhouse is quite a small room & the ceiling is very low. The deceased's cap & handkerchief were lying at his feet. Gilmour asked how the deceased fall. He finally said the fell on his back, but the witness could see from the head wounds he would fall on his side. He had struck him 5 or 6 times after he was down, knocked out 2 teeth & he was determined to rub out the marks. Lawry was a nice man, a very quiet neighbor, Never saw either of them worse of liquor. Witness has frequently seen the deceased this winter, but never saw the muffling on his feet before; had seen the shawl tied on his head, as if to keep off the cold. There was plenty of room in the shanty to stoke a blow with the stick, but not much blood on the floor inside, measuring about 3 or 4 inch broad. The previous day Hopkins was in witnesses house said he had broke his axe & said he to go to Hamilton to borrow one. Ann fully deposed she slept at her son-in-law Hopkins' house on Tuesday night. He was going to Hamilton to borrow one. Thinks Hopkins could be about Gilmour's when the 6 o'clock bell rang. Hopkins had worn rans on his feet sine the thaw. Dr. Ryall deposed the deceased's body had contusions on head, face, 2 on thumb, & extensive 5 fractures into the brain. John Flynn deposed the deceased told him David Smoke proved to lend him an axe & would leave the axe or word at the tollhouse. [No further followup found, but he did not do jail time as by the 1861 Census he is the toll keeper outside of Waterdown on what is now called Waterdown Road. Back in those days Snake Rd. was called the Waterdown Rd. or the road to Waterdown] Ref: Toronto Globe & Mail Newspaper. Note5: One can imagine the widow Rebecca Hamilton taking up residence in this toll house where the neighbors would no doubt remind her & her family of the infamous history of this toll house. Lock you doors! GANGES, Michigan . 1878 - Allegan is county seat, 3,000 inhabitants on the Kalamazoo river, 25 miles nw of Kalamazoo, 2 Grand Rapids railroads pass through Allegan. 3 flouring mills, 2 saw mills, 2 planning mills, 1 foundry & 1 woolen mill. It is an excellent farming twp. & near the lake the land is devoted chiefly to the cultivation of peaches. In the spring of 1880 the number of peach trees reached 84,000, of which 30,000 were 445 years old over. The fruit of Ganges is mainly sent on the Chicago W Michigan Railroad. It was of her son Alexander Hamilton who started these very fruit trees. - PJA Ref. Polk Michigan State Gazetteer. . 1887 Michigan Crop Report, Ganges. Large meteor seen through the fog on evening of May 23, first appearing in the east. 45 degrees above the horizon, moving north. Optical phenomena, Ganges 2 May: Solar halos were observed (i.e. weather - planning forecast); Hails 31st May. This phenomena would have been much discussed in the neighbourhood. - PJA.] . 1888 Jan 7, Benton Harbor. Mrs. John Teetzel died' Wednesday, aged 74 years. . 1888 Jan 5, Mrs John Teetzel whose death was noted our least issue, left 7 children. Funeral will occur on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Hamilton, of Peachville, Michigan, a sister of Mrs Teetzel, accompanied by her husband & son Alexander, arrived yesterday afternoon. Note6: Rather than her late husband, it was her son Rev. James Hamilton, junior, along with Rebecca's other son Alexander Hamilton.) There are several 'Peachvilles' in Michigan. Allegan is the 'Peach Belt' growing area of Michigan. - PJA . 1890 Michigan Death Registration: Registration #1600, died 17 Feb 1890, widow, aged 74y 11 months, Ganges Twp., Allegan Co., Michigan. [Born 17 Mar 1815, compared with her Monument date, equals born 4 May 1815. ] Cause of Death: Slow paralysis. Born Canada, parents Mary & Richard Lawrence. Note7: Rebecca Lawrence-Hamilton was living with daughter Mary Jane Wanner at the time of her death. Transcripts & reach by PJ Ahlberg, U.E., Thank you. - - -	LAWRENCE, Rebecca DUE (I95)
3850	. The family consisted of a sister, Eliza McCutcheon who was married to William Glover & living in Darlington Township at the time. There were Glovers living in Mono & Mulmur Townships & some had moved to Darlington and Brock Townships. Eliza McCutcheon Glover also claimed Hugh's land but was unsuccessful. Ref: McCutcheon Pioneers, Alice M. Burke, Pub. Eldon Township, Ontario. - - -	MCCUTCHEON, Eliza (I153)