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| 4753 | Ontario, Canada, Select Marriages. Archives of Ontario, Toronto
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| 4754 | Ontario, Canada, Select Marriages. Archives of Ontario, Toronto
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| 4755 | Ontario, Canada, Select Marriages. Archives of Ontario, Toronto
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| 4756 | Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay Lists. WO12/11960–11967, 11972, 12018–12033, 13295. Records of other administrative departments of the War Office. Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies. The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England. War Office and predecessors: Militia and Volunteers Muster Books and Pay Lists. WO13/3673–3717. Records of other administrative departments of the War Office. Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies. The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England. War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Confidential Print North America CO880/1–2. Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies. The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England. | Source (S106278695)
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| 4757 | Kirkenbuchduplikate Pommern. Digital images. Landesamt für Kultur und Denkmalpflege, Landesarchiv Greifswald. Greifswald, Deutschland. | Source (S655947446)
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| 4758 | “New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659–1947.” Online index and digital images. New England Historical Genealogical Society. Citing New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire. | Source (S661376854)
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| 4760 | =Ebenezer cemetery , McGillivray township, Ontario, Canada row 5-o old white marble | WAISTELL, Elizabeth (P51)
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| 4761 | > Ontario Birth Registration 032693 33 Freeman Felker, born 22 Aug., 1877 Son of Frederick Felker, carpenter, & Lavina Derkie, Informant: F Felker, Lot 16, Con 6, Registered 2nd October, 1877. Note: Laura & Freeman Felker were registered on the same date. . Early Members of the Methodist Church: Felker Freeman,1901 Norfolk St. member. (c. 1911-1917) Freeman Felker made a presentation from the Guelph Trades & Labour Council concerning the recent death when a scaffold broke in Guelph. Freeman Felker himself belong to the Moulders Union. . 1913 Guelph Trades & Labour Council: F W Felker, 114 Northumberland St., Guelph. . 1924 Oct 23, Fergus. Arnold Black & family, of Guelph, spent the weekend with friends in the village. Mr Freeman Felker, also of Guelph, visited friends in the village on Sunday. . Ontario Death Reg. Freeman Washington Felker, B. 22 Aug 1877, died Oct 31, 1932, of myocardial failure. Res. 118 Norwich St. Apt 9?, Guelph, Mother: Jane Monkman, Father Frederick Felker, Informant: Ivan Felker, Guelph, son. - - - | FELKER, Freeman Washington (I233)
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| 4762 | > 1796 Upper Canada Land Petition 42, Niagara, 1796, F Bundle 2, C1893, p786. Jacob Filker, Respectfully shews that your Petitioner is come to this Province with his wife, 3 daughters & exclusive of 3 sons of age to apply for land. That your petitioner is a native of Germany & came to America about 9 years ago*[ 1787] & has been resided in the State of New Jersey. Dated at Niagara, 2 July, 1796. Envelope: Recommended for 200 acres. Read July 14th, 1796. Ref: UCLP 42, F Bundle 2, Vol 185,. Note1: Jacob was he came to America about 9 years ago or 1787. However he is on the October 1774 manifest for Ship Sally, Johnann Jacob Welcker, Johann Jacob Welker. - P J Ahlberg. . 1796 Sep 26 Survey Lot 8, Con 6 Summary: Frederick Geen, Con 6, Lot 8, 60 year, born West Chester, NY, farmer, recommended 200 Acres. Assigned Lot 8,Con 6, but already settled by Walter Clandenin, & also climed by Jacob Filker: to Peter Russse, your petitoner bearing arms during the laste contest in American, having had the Minutes of Counil in Jan. 1796 fr land location, I made appliocation to the Survey Genearl's Office for L8 C6 Gainsboro. Entereed upon the same last spring. A few days ago I was informed that jacob Felker lately from ghe States made applicationfor land & through mistake it was entered to him. When Mr Smith [Survey General's Office] found that mistake he wrote MrFelker to give up the lot to me, but he has refused to do so. I have cleared about 10 acres, in a good fence, as it is distressing to be turned into the wilderness with my family. Singed Walter Clandenin, Gainsborough, 2 Feb 1797. We the subscribers certify that the above Walter Clandenin was clearned the 10 Acres & Felker has no improvement thereon. Singed John & Wm. Kennedy, Patrick McGraw, Jaems O'Conley, Jonathan Matthews, Carnalias Wardell, Peter Brant & JOHN FULKER. Fred Gee paid the patent fees for 200 A Gainsborough, Lot 7, Con 6, 14 Jul 1796. Note2: So it appears Fred Gee paid the patent fees on the NEXT lot 7, & not the lot he had cleared. . 1797 Aug 21, Michael Wardell, 37 y, born in the Jersies, carpenter, gave up all claim to EHald Lot 29, Con 5,Gainsborough, to jacob Fulker. . 1801 Jan 14, Memorial, Oath of Walter Clendenning, whereby, Michael Wardel has granted Jacob Filker a parcel of land, E Lot 29, 9 Con, Gainsborough. Signed Walter Clendenning & Jacob HISXMARK Felker. > 1799 May 8, WILL of Jacob Felker, is given in Lincoln County, Ontario, Surrogate Court Records: In the name of God Amen, I Jacob Felker of Gainsborough Township, Lincoln County & Province of Upper Canada, Yeoman, being in Perfect Health of Body, & of Perfect Mind & Memory, thanks be given unto God, calling unto Mind the Mortality of my body, do make & ordain this my Last WILL & Testament, in Manner Following & First of all I give & Recommend my Soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it, & my Body I recommend to the Earth, to be Buried in decent Christian Burial, at the discretion of my Executors & as touching Such Worldly Estate Wherewith it has Pleased God to Bless me in the Life, I give, devise & Dispose of the same in the Following Manner & Form. . First, I give & Bequeath to Mary my Dearly Beloved Wife, all my goods & Chattel, Lands & Tenements for her use During her life, . . Also I give the Sum of £5 to my oldest son Joseph to be paid out of my Estate when my youngest Child Comes of age. . & after my wife's death the Estate is to be equally divided among my four children for my son Lewis & Mary, Catherine, Christeen. Note2: As reported elsewhere, the original small ink commas between the names may have evaporated over the centuries & thus making their full names perhaps confused. - PJ Ahlberg. . Executors: I Likewise Constitute, make & Ordain my dearly beloved Wife, my son Lewis & John Felker be my Sole Executors of this my Last will & Testament, & I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disallow all & every other Former Testaments & Legacies, bequests & Executors, be me in anywise before Named Willed. Bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming their, & no other, to be my Last will & Testament in witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this 8th of May in the year of our Lord 1799. . Signed, Sealed, Published pronounced & Declared by the Said Jacob Felker as his Lastly Will & Testament in his presence & in the presence of Each other have hereto Subscribed our Names, Signed, Hocks HISXMARK Roy Catherine, HERXMARK Wardle John Kennedy The Four Children interxxn? before sign? Signed in German, Jacob Völckel, (Seal) & signed again in English, Jacob Felker. . 1799 September 27 - John Kennedy appeared before the Surrogate Court & testified that he was present when Jacob Felker signed his last will & testament. . 1835 Second Heir & Devisee Commission, John Felker, Saltfleet. Ref: Archives of Ontario. . Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - | FELKER, Johann Jakob Völckel JACOB .2 (I54)
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| 4763 | > Parents: James Wyckham Walker & Annie Letitia Hamilton. | WALKER, John Sibbald .13 (I76)
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| 4764 | > Research: 1850 Toronto Directory, Willim Osborne, Lot 14, Con 2, Toronto Twp.{York Co. or Peel ?} . 1852 Census Caledon East, Peel Co. says he was born in Canada. . 1861 Census, Caledon, Ontario, Age 17 years /1844, Lived with his Grandmother Elizabeth Lawrence Tarbox. . 1870 Benton Habour, Berrien Co., Michigan John Osborn, born 1846, Born Canada, carpenter Juditha Osborn, Born 1847, Ohio Daniel Osborn, born 1869, Michigan. . Great Uncle Daniel Lawrence, born Canada & Family is next door. Great Aunt Hadassah Lawrence Teetzel is just a few farms away. . 1887 Dec 23; 1888 Mar 30-Apr 6; & 1889 Sept 3 - Letters remains in the Benton Harbor Post office for John Osborne. . 1888 Apr 7 - John Osborn, of Benton township, recently purchased of Lemuel Moore, the later's farm in Sodus & moved thereto this week. . 1890 Apr 23 - Petit jurors drawn for the May term of the circuit court: John Osborne, Sodus. . 1895 Sep 14 - Petit Jurors crown this morning for the October tea of the circuit court. John Osborn, Sodus. . 1897 Jun 25 - Rev & Mrs James Hamilton visited the family of Mr John Osborne at Sodus Thursday. St. Joseph -James P Hamilton, the blind orator, will arrive in a few days to spend the summer with his parents here & will during his stay deliver a lecture on the winter he spend in Greece & his visit to the Queen. Note1: James Hamilton & John Osborne were first cousins, once removed. Ref: News Palladium Newspaper, Benton Harbor, Mich. . 1900 Jun 18 Census, Sodus Twp., Berrier Co., Michigan Osbourne John, b. Mar 1845, age 55 Canada, Father b. Canada, Mother b. England, Landed 1863, Farmer; Osborne, Judith, wife b. Apr 1846, age 59, married 31 years, b. Ohio, Father b. Canada, Mother England; Osborne, Frank, son, b. Jul 1871 Michigan, age 28, married 4 years, Parents b. Canada, Ohio Osborne, Daughter, May 1878 Michigan, age 22, parents Canada Eng. & Ohio Osborne, Mildred, Daughter-in-law, b May 1877 Michigan, age 23, Parents b. Canada Eng. & Michigan; Osborne, Ettie M, Granddaughter, b Jun 1896, Michigan, age 3, parents Michigan; Osborne, Gladys F, Granddaughter, b. Nov 1898 Mich., Age 1, parents: Michigan; Lawrence, John, Cousin, Jan 1844 Canada Eng., Age 56, parents born Canada English, Landed 1860 - 40 years ago; Farm labour. . [and 3 farms away is ] Osborne, William, Head, born Mar 1873 Michigan, age 27, Father born Canada Eng., Mother Ohio, Farmer; Osborne, Lena M, Wife, b. Aug 1881, Michigan, married 1 year, Parents born Michigan & NY. . 1907 Mar 23 - Sodus. John Osborne has rented his farm & expects to move to Benton Harbor. Benton Harbor April Bills Park Fund Labour, paid to John Osborne: . 1917 May 17, - $18.89 . 1917 Jul 12, - $50.22 . 1917 Aug 16 - $49.34 . 1917 Oct 11 - $54. . 1917 Nov 14 - $36. . 1918 May 16 - $51.45. . 1918 Sep 13, Cutting hay, $10. . 1919 Jun 12 - labor, $10.50 . 1912 Aug 31 - Mrs JJ Atkinson, Mrs D Crowley & Mrs John Osborne* & daughter Icylena* went to Waterliet this morning to spend Sunday. Note2: One or the other is a publication error: Juditha Lawrence Osborne would be Icylena's grandmother. Ref: News Palladium Newspaper, Benton Harbor, Mich. . 1918 Benton Harbor City Directory: John & Juditha Osborn, 639 E High, Park Tndr. . 1931 Feb 16 - John Osborn, long a resident of Benton Harbor, is ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs Ira Swisher, 920 Bishop St. . 1931 Feb 19 - John Osborne Pioneer Fruit Grower, Dies With the death of John Osborne, 85, lifelong Beriern county resident, one of the best known fruit goers in this section, Benton Harbor & Southewestern Michigan lost another representative citizen of this city, with legions of friends in the surrounding rural communities where he owned property & had lived at various times. Mr. Osborne died this morning at 5 o'clock at the home of his only daughter, Mrs Ira Swisher, 920 Bisho avenue. He had been ill 2 weeks with a double mastoid complication. 2 sons, Frank & William Osborne, Benton Harbor also survived & there are 6 grandchild 7 9 great-grandchildren. the funeral is annulled for Saturday at the home of the deceased, 639 E High street, where the son Frank & family resided. burial will be in Perl Grange cemetery wither the wife of the deceased, who died in 1917 rests. Mr. Osborne was born in Canada & would have been 86 years of age had helped until March 1. He came to Michigan in 1863, settling near Benton Harbor. Farms in Sodus, east of Benton harbor & note of this city were owned by the deceased, one of the prosperous farmer of the country who loved the soil & fruit orchards, not only as a sourced of living but as a landscape beautifier. Ref: News Palladium Newspaper, Benton Harbor, Mich. - - - | OSBORN, John (I1460)
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| 4765 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I753)
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| 4766 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I655)
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| 4767 | A 1757 manuscript by John Emley, an agent of the West Jersey Society, named the tenants living "westward of Pierce's Road" (the road from Pittstown to Bloomsbury; CR579 9 miles long). Among these tenants was listed Nathaniel Pettit. 1804 he became Ensign Pierce MOORE GRIMSBY - GRAND RIVER BAPTISMS http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/grimsby.htm March 29 ,1821: Mary, daughter of Pearce and Orpha Moore; Charles, son of Pearce and Orpha Moore; Dennis, of Pearce and Orpha Moore; William Kitchen, son of Pearce and Orpha Moore, 1821. March 2 Margaret Sarah, daughter of Michael and Mary Harris, Perth. (Entered on this day by REV. M. HARRIS.) March 04. Mary Young, daughter of Andrew and Anna Pettit, Grimsby. 14. Fanny Miller, negro, belonging to P. Ball, Esq., Niagara. 22. Gabriel Young, Grimsby. 23. Daniel Fields, son, of Gabriel and Amelia Young, Grimsby Amelia, daughter of Gabriel and Amelia Young, Grimsby 29. Elizabeth, wife of Charles Moore, Grimsby Phoebe, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Moore, Grimsby Mary, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Moore, Grimsby Margaret, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Moore, Grimsby Jonathan, son of Charles and Elizabeth Moore, Grimsby Lavinia, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Moore, Grimsby 29. Margaret Ross, daughter of William and Lydia Vanatta, Grimsby Mary Hixon, daughter of William and Lydia Vanatta, Grimsby Eliza Maria, daughter of William and Lydia Vanatta, Grimsby William Wilber, son of William and Lydia Vanatta, Grimsby 29. Mary, daughter of Pearce and Orpha Moore, Grimsby Charles, son of Pearce and Orpha Moore, Grimsby Dennus, son of Pearce and Orpha Moore, Grimsby William Kitchen, son of Pearce and Orpha Moore, Grimsby | MOORE, Pierce (I2799)
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| 4768 | A Baptist and a Reformer (his wife was an Episcopalian Tory) | WOOLVERTON, Dennis (I2782)
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| 4769 | a barber in St. Thomas moved to San Diego, CA in 1894 | BURWELL, William John (I318)
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| 4770 | a Blacksmith -the BSC stone spells it Courtis and he is buried with his son Charles W. Perkins -the birthdate on his death record indicates that he was born 6 months before his mother Betsy died, although the death record says his mother was Harriet McNames, his father's second wife. -1852 census: Curtis Perkins, 18, single, Universalist, living with parents (Harriet is the mother), 2 brothers, 1 sister, Uncle Caleb's family, widowed paternal grandfather; b. Ont. 1861 census: Curtis Perkins, 23, single, labourer, living at Westminster with parents, 3 brothers, 4 sisters; b. Ont. 1881 census: Curtis Perkins, 48, Blacksmith, living at Westminster with wife Sarah A., 1 son, 4 daughters; b. Ontario 1891 census: Curtis Perkins, 56, Blacksmith, living at Westminster with wife Sarah A., 1 son, 2 daughters; b. Ont. Perkins 3 | PERKINS*, Curtis (I1011)
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| 4771 | A blacksmith and feuer. 1798 tax roles show him as a smith in Chirnside, with his brother Peter (See Library Item 2). Instrumental in formation of a Reform Presbyterian Church 1793-1802 financial records of Chirnside United Secession Church show him as a donor most years, according to Jim Jeffrey's research in Scotland in May 2018 (email to John Cowan May 23). No earlier records were found, but later records did not include donations from Andrew Jeffrey. These records also list him as an officer of that Church. Martinmass donations 1799 show him as a donor, and the "Collector"(?) - see Library/Andrew Jeffrey Ancestors/Peter Jeffrey/2-Martinmass Donors 1799 Andrew Jeffery smith and feuar in Chirnside 12.2.1810 76 yrs. - engraved on gravestone in Chirnside cemetery BAPTISM: December 19 1734 Andrew son to Patrick Jeffrae smith in Risla | JEFFREY, Andrew (I54)
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| 4772 | A botanist | THOMSON, Agnes (I254)
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| 4773 | a Captain in British Navy came to Canada 1818, settled in Westminster 1824 (see notes for son John) [Guy St. Denis - Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township, p41] The next owner of the northern part of lot 46 in the first concession and broken front was John Stephens Sr. He was a native of Warwickshire, England who served as a midshipman for a number of years in the British navy. During the War of 1812 his family resided in Nova Scotia, but a year or so afterwards they returned to England. In about 1820 Stephens brought his family back to British North America and lived on a farm first in Nissouri Township, and then three years later, in adjacent London Township. On October 22, 1837 Stephens purchased William Bird's former farm from the St-George estate. After Stephen's death his farm passed to his son, John Stephens Jr. [The London and Middlesex Historical Society Vol. 22, Aumtumn 2013] John Stephens subsequently purchased 80 acres of Lot 29 together with some additional property in Westminster Township north of Base Line Road that eventually bacame Old South, culminating at Commissioners Road... The portion of his property that eventually became the neighbourhood under consideration was known originally as the Richmond Hill Farm. Following the death of John Stephens, this area was taken over by his son, Richard (1817-1903),... | STEPHENS, J. (I1054)
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| 4774 | A certain 1668Mary Pettit1754 had a Moore husband who died 1735 at Burlington, N. J., childless in 1727 (date of his Will) She married second Rev. Paul Watkinson (died 1752), Rector of [St Mary's Episcopal,] Burlington (N. J.) Church. The Moores and the Nelles families never connected south of the 49th parallel. They lived 200 miles apart [1680Rev Paul1752 witnessed the [1715] Will of his "father-in-law" 1645Nathaniel Pettit. 1645Nathaniel died Jun 1718. Rev Paul MIGHT have witnessed the Probate; Paul's only connection in 1715 was as the church rector?, BUT Nathaniel was a Quaker, and Paul didn't become rector until at least 1738. I totally doubt this] On May 15, 1753 Nathaniel Pettit [Jr.=Eliz Heath], Elias, and Jonathan were brothers named in the will of Mary (Pettit) Moore Watkinson of the city of Burlington, New Jersey. This will was proved Feb. 2, 1754 From pettit webpage: 72. Mary Pettit, died childless at Burlington, N. J., in 1754, having married first Samuel Moore and second Rev. Paul Watkinson, Rector of the Burlington (N. J.) Church, who witnessed his father-in-law, Nathaniel Pettit's Will. THIS IS SERIOUSLY MESSED UP On May 15, 1753 Nathaniel Pettit [Jr.=Eliz Heath] was named in the will of his sister, Mary (Pettit) Moore Watkinson of the city of Burlington, New Jersey. This will was proved Feb. 2, 1754 Who is Mary Reed? (supposedly the right wife, b 1651, but was married to a Samuel born 1645 and who died suddenly 25 Jul 1717, the son of Rev john Moore ) Mary REED is OK UNRELATED Who is c1630Samuel MOORE=Mary ilsley (Sam's father was Francis) son 1672Thomas Moore=Mary White (Tom's brother was 1674John=Hope Robbins/Mary Oliver) gson 1704Michael gson 1712Samuel gson 1718Jonathan | PETTIT, Mary (I2719)
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| 4775 | A certain Isaac supposedly went to Loudoun Cnty, VA before 1770 BUT NOT THIS ONE A certain Isaac died 5 Sep 1805, Washington, PA This Isaac got land at L1, C5 WindhamTwp THIS IS HIS NEPHEW: [1753]PETTIT, Isaac of Hardwick. 443S - W. 12 Jan 1787; Filed 23 Jan 1787. Wife: Mary. Sons: John, and youngest son, Jonathan. Daughters: Rachil, Elizabeth and Deborah. NOTE: All children minors. Others: Brother, Jonathan PETTIT [Jr.]. Executors: Wife, Mary PETTIT and bro, Jonathan PETTIT. Witnesses: 1754Abm. SHAVER, John MOOR and 1764Mary M. NIXON. Seven families in Sussex, under the leadership of Judge Nathaniel Pettit, decided to leave. These included his brothers, Charles and Isaac, his nephews Andrew and John Pettit, his niece Dinah, and her husband John Moore, and the latter's daughter and son-in-law Allan Nixon. In the spring of 1787 they joined a large band of other Loyalists, forty families from New Jersey and Pennsylvania totaling four hundred and ten persons, men, women, and children genforum.genealogy.com/pettit/messages/2586.html | PETTIT, Isaac (I2738)
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| 4776 | a clergy man Listed in the 1815 & 1816 assessment rolls of Oxford county | MCNAMES, Isaac (I53)
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| 4777 | a contributor to the erection of St. Andrew's church in London, 1868 | BOGUE, David (I1825)
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| 4778 | A dainty wedding took place at 4 o'clock at the home of Mr. Robert McCutcheon of Springhill which united in matrimony Miss Annie McCutcheon with Mr. Richard Jackson, both well-known & highly esteemed members of society in Springhill. the bride was attended by Miss May Jackson while the groom was ably assisted by Mr. William McCutcheon. The Rev. T.J. Johnston BA officiated. The guests comprised the near relatives of the contracting parties. We all heartily join in wishing the young couple long life & happiness. Ref: Acton Free Press. -Transcripts by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - | MCCUTCHEON, Ann .4 (I211)
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| 4779 | A death cert 3180 - age 46 years 3 mos 15 days. husband of Anna S. Hagaman. Son of Charles L. Hagaman of New Jersey and Sarah Fielder of New York. Lived in CA 4 years. Buried July 13, 1926 | HAGAMAN, Holmes (P651)
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| 4780 | A family tree complied by Virginia Lee Groves Kinney regarding her ancestors. Prepared by Virginia. John Cowan photographed it Feb 14, 2019 while meeting her. | Source (S103)
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| 4781 | A great deal of Canadian documents exist for John Willson, Esq., of which a selection is recorded here: Note: No reference can be found that John Willson, Esq. was ever called or used the name John Miller Willson. - PJA 2010. PART ONE: John is the son of Sara Ladner & John Willson, Senior. . * Deed (of unknown date) to John & James Willson for more land adjoining the first 100 Acres £29 - Jane & Rachel Drummond, only children of the Earl of Perth, Executed by Elias Bouodinot, Esq. Elizabeth Town, NJ. Executed Elias Boudion, Esq. lawyer, ElizabethTown, NJ. [Date as below??] * 1796 Dec 15, Tract of drowned lands along Wallkill, deeded to John & Samuel Willson from Joseph & William Sharp. (Deeds in the possession of Eva A Willson). Ref: "Line of Descent of George Roger Gilbert" . 1760 Oct. 16 - WILL of John Langstaff of Piscataway, NJ. To wife Mary & grandson John Langstaff, lands south of Ambrose Book. Witnesses John Willson, Jr. & John Arnold, Note1: The 2, Langstaff & Arnold, also went to Upper Canada, where they were amongst many New Jersey exiles located near each other on north Yonge Street, Toronto. - PJ Ahlberg. . John Wilson of Piscataway, Middlesex Co., Memorial, Summary now of Miramichi, Northumberland Co., 1786, joined troops at Woodbridge in 1777 in Forge Dept. Claim for 50 Acres & an house. Ref: Commission for Loyalist Losses. # 12 /16 /187 -192, 63/115 & 109/320. Jan. 1787. . Old United Empire Loyalists List Wilson John Senr., (Home District) From Staten Island. Came in a settler in 1878 with 3 sons. Ref: Appendix B. Willson, John of Piscataway, Middlesex Co., Memorial, now of Northumberland Co., NB, sworn St. Johns, NB, 1786. He fled to the Army at Perth Amboy in 1777. Schedule of LOSSES 81 Acres of land in Piscataway Twp., Middlesex Co., East New Jersey; 1 house, barn, out houses, Orchards, £1000; 3 Acres of Salt Meadow, £10; confiscated & sold by Congress; 5 Horses, £50; 9 Cows, £45; 4 young cattle, £8; Farming utensils & Household furniture £60, Total: £1173. New York currency. . 1784 May, Settled New Brunswick, Canada: John Wilson, Esq.: 8 in the family, 2 acres improved & a house. . 1789 - 11 Jul 1793. John Willson, Esq. Sr., JP was the first Registrar for Northumberland, NB, 1787 to 1793. John Willson & Family landed in New Brunswick, Canada in 1783 & was granted land on the Miramichi River, in Northumberland County. Gov. Thomas Carlton made him a Magistrate & Justice of the Peace. The salary for a magistrate in NB was £300 a year. His adventures there in this wild land would be enough for one lifetime, & to speak nothing of what preceded the Miramichi or what would come after. A full history with documentation may be found at North York Public Library, Toronto & the Richmond Hill Public Library may be found under Richard Lawrence, John Brown Lawrence & John Willson of New Jersey, NB & Ontario. by P J Ahlberg, U.E., May 2009. 1791 Nov. 18 - Upper Canada Proclamation, creating the new province; & John Willson had already visited Governor J G Simcoe in Quebec City by the 17 Jun 1792 when Simcoe arrived Montreal & then again 26 July 1793 when he arrived in Niagara, Upper Canada). . 1793 Apr 26, John Willson, JP, paid for a tombstone at Willson's Point, Miramichi, NB made for his grandson, Abraham Willson. . WHY HE LEFT NEW BRUNSWICK: Mr. Wilson further says, that when he left the Miramichi Settlement in the NB, he did it because the lands are not valuable for farmers & not worth clearing from the severity of the climate; that one of his sons-in-laws had already left the Settlement. Mr. Wilson says that a due care to provide for his family was the sole reason of this quitting Miramichi. He is his own person being better off there then he would possibly be elsewhere living almost without labour upon offices he possessed in that Country. A true statement, Signed, E B Littlehales, 16 July, 1794, Niagara. . 1796 UPPER CANADA LAND PETITION & REVOLUTIONARY MUSTER: UCLPetition 57. To John Graves Simcoe, Lieut. John Willson, Jur. He suffered much by this Rebel party (at the point of the bayonet) before the British Army Landed on Staten island, the making several attempts to join them but always hindered till when the British Army was Advancing [22 Oct 1776] from the White Plains (NY) to the Jersey. I then joined them at Woodbridge [New Jersey Dec 3, 1776] & went with them to Brunswick (NJ, Dec 16, 1776). I then entered into James Christies' employ [i.e. the Quartermaster ] as a Forage master & ran Many risks of my Life, being twice taken Prisoner & confined but maid my escape & returned to my service again, till when the army returned from the Jerseys to Staten Island, & embarked for the Head of Elk [river flowing towards Philadelphia, Dec. 1777] were my health would not admit of my going on board, to retrieved with my family on said Island where I continued till the commencement of the peace. I then embarked with my family for Nova Scotia (since New Brunswick), where I drew 270 acres in Northumberland where I served in Sivil Commission & offices under Governor Carleton till July the 19th, 1793. There I set out with 60 men, women & children (Including my own family) for Niagara where we arrived on the 7th of next October. ... He wants Lots 4 & 5 on the River Humber & Lot 30 on west side of Yonge Street. March 25th, 1796, John Willson. . 1777 Apr 26, OYSTER BAY, NJ: Upon the requisition of the Commissary General of Forage. You will be pleased to Detach a Captain, 2 Subalterns & 60 ranked & file, to cover and conduct a Foraging Party from the East end of Long Island & this shall be your sufficient Authority for so doing. Signed, T. Paterson. . 1777 Dec 6, NYC HQ: Captains having horses are permitted to draw one ration of Forage from the 10th instant till further Orders, no Forage to be drawn but for effective Horses. Ref: Orderly book of the 3 battalions of Lowlier, commanded by Brigadier Gen. Oliver DeLancy 1776-78 at NYC. . 1795, Jul 29 - John Willson, Junr. Town Lot and 400 Acres. Ref: YORK REPORT, Summary of Land Grants. Ref: C2980, Page 178, etc. . Schedule of grants to pay full fees to the Home District - William Jarvis Copy Books: Grant # 166 Wilson, John, Jun, 190 Acres, York, 12 Mar. 1794, U.E., Fee £3.5.2 Ref: Wm. Jarvis Papers, TPRL. . UCLPetition 37C, W Bundle 2, Microfiche C2950. Willson I, John Sur. UE, On March 16, 1810 John purchase York Town Lots 3 & 4 N side, Hospital Street for £100 & sold it at an apparent lost of £50, the next year to Jesse Ketchum. . 1800 Apr 8 * FIRST APPOINTMENT for the first HOME DISTRICT, Toronto, are Magistrates Wm. James, John Willson, J Small, J McGill. Ref: Toronto Sundries, Quarter Session Minutes. | WILLSON, John Esq., 1, Sur. (I1)
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| 4782 | A great deal of documents exist for John Willson, Esq., of which a selection are printed here. New Brunswick, Canada: John Wilson, Esq. Settled 1784 May, 8 in Family, 2 acres improved and house. John Willson & Family landed in New Brunswick, Canada in 1783 and was granted land on the Miramachi River, in Northumberland County. Gov. Thomas Carlton made a Magistrate & Justice of the Peace. The salary for a magistrate in New Brunswick was £300 a year. His adventures there in this wild land would be enough for one lifetime, to speak nothing of what preceded the Miramichi or what would come after. Please see the separate tree on Roots: Richard Lawrence, John Willson & John Brown Lawrence of New Jersey & Ontario. P J Ahlberg A book of the same title may be found at the North York Central Library & the Richmond Hill Public Library. . . WHY HE LEFT NEW BRUNSWICK: Mr. Wilson further says, that when he left the Miramichi Settlements in the NB, he did it because the lands are not valuable for farmers & not worth clearing from the severity of the climate, that one of his sons-in-laws had already left the Settlement. Mr. Wilson says that a due care to provide for his family was the sole reason of this quitting Miramichi. He is his own person being better off there then he would possibly be elsewhere living almost without labour upon offices he possessed in that Country. A true statement, Signed, E B Littlehales, 16 July, 1794, Niagara. . UPPER CANADA LAND PETITION & Revolutionary Muster: To John Graves Simcoe, Lieut. John Willson, Jur. He suffered much by this Rebel party (at the point of the bayonet) before the British Army Landed on Staten island, the making several attempts to join them but always hindered till when the British Army was Advancing from the White Plains (NY) to the Jersey. I then joined them at Woodbridge [New Jersey ] & went with them to Brunswick (NJ). I then entered into James Christies' employ [i.e.. the Quartermaster] as a Forage master & ran Many risks of my Life, being twice taken Prisoner & confined but maid my escape & returned to my service again, till when the army returned from the Jerseys to Staten Island, & embarked for the Head of Elk [River flowing towards Philadelphia] were my health would not admit of my going on board to retrieved with my family on said Island where I continued till the commencement of the peace. I then with my family embarked with my family for Nova Scotia (since New Brunswick), where I drew 270 acres in Northumberland where I served in Sivil Commission & offices under Governor Carleton till July the 19th, 1793. There I set out with sixty men, women & children (Including my own family) for Niagara where we arrived on the 7th of next October. ... He wants Lots 4 & 5 on the River Humber & Lot 30 on west side of Yonge Street. March 25th, 1796, John Willson . . The Kings Mill on the Humber ( The Old Mill, Etobicoke, Ontario) & Gov. Simcoe gave a License to John Willson & to John Brown Lawrence to build & operate the Kings Mill on the Humber River. Both Willson & Lawrence were lawyers who had done legal business together on occasion back in Burlington, NJ. As well both were friends of Gov. Simcoe. . In your letter of the 24th ult., 1829 you asked about one John Willson who died at Hope (Sharon, ON) about . This old man was called Squire Willson. He was David Willson's stepfather, my father's stepmother's second husband (Katherine Kuhn). Her first husband, also called John Willson, died about 1788 in Duchess County, New York). She soon after married Squire Willson who was a man highly respected. He came, I believe form NS in Gov. Simcoe's time & was by the Governor much thought of. He had a large family by a former wife, but none by this one. There are a number of great grandchildren, living in the Twps. of York & Scarborough. There was a grandson of his, John Willson by name, in the service of the Canada Company at the time of the settling of Goderich & neighborhood. When these old people became helpless, David Willson took them home & kept them until they died. They died poor but honest. They once had property which his children spent for them. Ref: Extracted from a letter of 5 December, 1869, Holland Landing Richard Titus Willson. An extensive biography of John Willson, UE. may be found on the Rootsweb.com & in a book in North York Central Library, Toronto under John Willson, U.E., by P. J. Ahlberg, U.E. - - - | WILLSON, John U.E., Sur. (I93)
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| 4783 | A great deal of documents exist for John Willson, Esq., of which a selection are recorded here: PART ONE: John is the son of Sara Ladner & John Willson, Senior. . 1760 Oct. 16 - WILL of John Landstaff of Piscataway, New Jersey: To wife Mary & grandson John Langstaff, lands south of Ambrose Book. Witnesses John Willson, Jr. & John Arnold. Langstaff & Arnold also went to Upper Canada, where they were amongst many New Jersey exiles located near each other on north Yonge Street, Toronto. - PJA . Old United Empire Loyalists List John Wilson of Piscataway, Middlesex Co., Memorial, Summary now of Miramachi Northumberland Co. 1786, joined troops at Woodbridge in 1777 in Forge Dept. Claim for 50 Acres & an house. Ref: Commission for Loyalist Losses. # 12 /16 /187 -192, 63/115 &109/320. Jan. 1787. . Settled 1784 May, New Brunswick, Canada: John Wilson, Esq,. 8 in Family, 2 acres improved & house. . 1789 -11 Jul 1793 John Willson & Family landed in New Brunswick, Canada in 1783 & was granted land on the Miramachi River, in Northumberland County. Gov. Thomas Carlton made John a & Justice of the Peace. The salary for a magistrate in New Brunswick was £300 a year. His adventures there in this wild land would be enough for one lifetime, to speak nothing of what preceded the Miramichi or what would come after. A more complete history may be found at North York Public Library, Toronto under Richard Lawrence, John Brown Lawrence & John Willson of New Jersey, NB & Ontario. P J Ahlberg, May 2009. . 1791 Nov., Upper Canada Proclamation, creating new province; & by . 1792 Aug 16 - In Quebec City John Willson visited Gov. J G Simcoe. (before Simcoe left for Niagara), who invited him to Upper Canada. . 1793 Apr 26, John Willson, JP, paid for a tombstone at Willson's Point, Miramichi, NB made for his grandson, Abraham Willson. WHY HE LEFT NEW BRUNSWICK: Mr. Wilson further says, that when he left the Miramichi Settlements in the NB, he did it because the lands are not valuable for farmers & not worth clearing from the severity of the climate, that one of his sons-in-laws had already left the Settlement. Mr. Wilson says that a due care to provide for his family was the sole reason of this quitting Miramichi. He is his own person being better off there then he would possibly be elsewhere living almost without labour upon offices he possessed in that Country. A true statement, Signed, E B Littlehales, 16 July, 1794, Niagara. 1796 UPPER CANADA LAND PETITION & Revolutionary Muster: To John Graves Simcoe, Lieut. John Willson, Jur. He suffered much by this Rebel party (at the point of the bayonet) before the British Army Landed on Staten island, the making several attempts to join them but always hindered till when the British Army was Advancing from the White Plains (NY) to the Jersey. I then joined them at Woodbridge [New Jersey ] & went with them to Brunswick (NJ). I then entered into James Christies' employ [i.e. the Quartermaster] as a Foragemaster & ran Many risks of my Life, being twice taken Prisoner & confined but maid my escape & returned to my service again, till when the army returned from the Jerseys to Staten Island & embarked for the Head of Elk [River flowing towards Philadelphia] were my health would not admit of my going on board to retrieved with my family on said Island where I continued till the commencement of the peace. I then with my family embarked with my family for Nova Scotia (since New Brunswick), where I drew 270 acres in Northumberland where I served in Sivil Commission & offices under Governor Carleton till July the 19th, 1793. There I set out with 60 men, women & children (Including my own family) for Niagara where we arrived on the 7th of next October. ... He wants Lots 4 & 5 on the River Humber & Lot 30 on west side of Yonge Street. March 25th, 1796, John Willson. . Schedule of grants to pay full fees to the Home District - William Jarvis Copy Books: Grant # 166 Wilson, John, Jun, 190 Acres, York, 12 Mar. 1794, U.E., Fee £3.5.2 . Willson I, John Sur., UE, UCLP W Bundle 2, 1796. Vol. 522, Petition #57, Yonge Street, Microfiche C2950. On March 16, 1810 John purchased a Town of York, Lot 3 & 4 N side, Hospital Street for £100 & sold it at an apparent lost of £50, the next year to Jesse Ketchum. - . - | WILLSON, John .1, Sur. (I803)
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| 4784 | A history of Van Buren Co., Michigan a narrative account of its its people, and its principal interests. | Source (S4)
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| 4785 | a lime burner Summers 3 | SUMMERS*, Edward Edwin (I878)
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| 4786 | A member of the Lindenwood Lutheran Church | GLAWE, William Wilhelm August (P227)
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| 4787 | a Methodist Episcopal minister | GRIFFETH, Alonzo Edwin (I311)
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| 4788 | a millner in Parkhill large family | GRIFFETH, John (I498)
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| 4789 | A Moore expert says Joseph was the son of Job Young and Hannah Barnes Another expert says Benjamin (born 1751) was the Connecticut son of Clemens Youngs and Lydia Knapp | YOUNG, Joseph (I530)
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| 4790 | A NJ Judge. Jailed 4 Apr 1777 to 28 May 1778 Rev. William Frazier baptized two children of Nathaniel and Margaret Pettit of Phillipsburg, Sussex Co., on Jan. 15, 1769 Probate: GS 1 Reel 648. | PETTIT, Judge Nathaniel UEL (I2734)
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| 4791 | A notable researcher of the Jeffrey family living near Cobourg in 1990. His reporting of facts are usually well documented, though original documents are not available to John Cowan. Many of his notes come from either Bill Campbell (via John D Jeffrey) or Jim Jeffrey. | Source (S147)
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| 4792 | A nurse at the time of marriage. In 1920 US Census (email from Tom Loghrin to John Cowan JAn 29, 2019) Jean was living at 207 E.University, Royal Oak Village, Michigan. Jean was a nurse and owned the home. William lived neraby - presumably they were separated, with the children living with Jean. | TAINTER, Jean I. (I492)
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| 4793 | a private with the Norfolk Militia in War of 1812; received a medal for his participation in the Battle of Detroit -son of a UEL -a blacksmith and farmer -moved 1853 to Sanilac, Mich. to be closer to children; returned to BSC for burial Teeple 5 [Guy St-Denis - Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township, p97] [Archibald] Burtch, who was thus the fourth individual involved with the lot [34, northern part, south of Commissioners' Road], was another American. He had married Susannah, daughter of Peter Teeple, a United Empire Loyalist, of Oxford Township. As a daughter of a Loyalist she was entitled to 200 acres. Soon after, Burtch and his brother-in-law, Edward Teeple, who was located on lot 33, went to Westminster to begin their settlement duties. Unfortunately, they were unable to find their respective lots and so returned home. On February 6, 1816 Burtch penned a letter to Surveyor General Ridout regarding the location of his lot and at the same time alluded to the claims of others to what he understood was his and Teeple's land. [p98] Edward Teeple helped Burthch to clear it and erect a house for which services he was paid $103. | TEEPLE*, Edward Manning (I100)
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| 4794 | A professor at Harvard University at the time of his Father's death (accoroding to an obit of Andrew S Jeffrey in Raleigh) See obit in Library/Andrew Jeffrey (1837-1910)/Item 2 | JEFFREY, Professor Edward Charles (I234)
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| 4795 | A replacement for an earlier sister of the same name? Living in Rochester in Nov 1831? See letter Andrew Jeffrey wrote to her parents in Dec 1831 regarding her sister's death. (Library/Janet Hall Jeffrey/Item 10) | HALL, Mary II (I415)
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| 4796 | a Reverend died age 40 | MCNAMES*, Silas Curtis (I13)
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| 4797 | a second date possible 3 Jun 1676 | Family (F2757)
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| 4798 | A shoemaker in Clackmannan Scotland when his dauughter Janet was born. See Library/Janet Hall Jeffrey/Item 7. He brought most of his family over to Canada in 1820, on the same boat from Quebec to Montreal as the Lyalls and Jeffreys (see Library/Andrew Jeffrey/Item 12 and John Cowan's email to Jim Jeffrey Nov 23, 2018). He was an early sherrif of Peterborough and Victoria Counties (see Library/Janet Hall Jeffrey/Item 12). | HALL, James II (I10)
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| 4799 | a sister of Alexandria McAdam, wife of Eli Griffith | MCADAM*, Jane (I384)
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| 4800 | A small son of Elias & Margaret Felker was killed in the bush by a falling tree limb. | FELKER, Francis E .3 (I370)
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