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- . UCLPetition 32, B7, Film 1621, p 713.
TO Lieut. Governor Peter Hunter, Petition of John Bostwich, Senr., on behalf of his son Lardner Bostwick.
Your petitioner is come to be a permanent settler in the Province & being desirous to settle together, prays would be pleased to grant his son Ladner Bostwick 200 Acres of Land, for which he is prepared to pay the whole of the Fees & as is duty bound, John Bostwick.
Envelope: Read In Council, the same day received, 11 Oct., 1804.
Recommended for 200 Acres of land. Peter Russell.
. Ticket of Location No. 12, In Council 11 October 1804.
Lardner Boswick, 200 Acres.
Regulations 6 Jul, 1804. John Small.
Nov 4 1804. No fees paid. This Ticket, therefore, returned, P.R. Registrar General.
. 1833 Town of York, 175 King Street, east of Yonge.
Note: 177 King St., was originally owned by in-law, Richard Lawrence, who was married to Mary Willson, d/o John Willson.
Obituary, Toronto August 15th 1834:
Envelope: Isaac Lundy Newmarket The postmaster at Newmarket will please forward this as soon as possible.
Read this to yourself before you read it aloud.
Dear Grandmother Uncle Aunt & Cousins.
Never did I sit down to write such unwilling news as what I have to communicate to you. I must do it as briefly as possibly.
Dear Grandmother your son is no more - My Father was seized night before last with the Cholera & in 14 hours was in his grave. He died happy & resigned. Mother & the rest of the family are as well as can be expected. George was not at home but up to Stoney Creek
[Ontario], we sent for him & we expect him to day. I cannot allow myself to make any remarks. Judge of my feelings we done everything which lay in our power to cure him but it would not do.
[pg. 2] The times are truly awful. Our friends are dying all around us. Business is at a standstill. Many are leaving the city. David Lackie, the baker, is dead. God only knows who next. 40 or 50 are dying a day. You will please communicate the import of this letter to Aunt Margaret & family.
Signed, Lardner Bostwick (Jnr.) crossed out),
Uncle Isaac. Be careful how you communicate this news to Grandmother. I would advise you not to come to the city till the plague is over. The Doctors are completely baffled as they cannot cure it at all.
Isaac Lundy Newmarket The postmaster at Newmarket will please forward this as soon as possible.
Note: As this letter indicates in 1834 a great many died in Toronto from major cholera outbreak. Some Willson-Lawrence in-laws include: Robt. Johnston, died 12 Aug 1834, (husband of Margaret Lawrence) - carpenter, residing on King St., very close to the Bostwick's home -
& her sister, Mary Ann Lawrence & husband Thos. Johnston, carpenter, likewise in 1834, living on King St. East.
In this City on 3rd Ot., George Hazleton White, builder, of Yorkville, & Mary, eldest daughter of the late Lardner Bostwick.
Ref: Christian Guardian Marriage Notices, published 1843 Oct 4. - - - [1]
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1774 - 1834 (60 years)