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- Jacob is the son of Mary Ann Cummer & John Willson.3rd.
. 1846 Smith's Canadian Gazetter, Province of Canada West:
Goodrich, Huron District, on Lake Huron. Laid out in 1827 by Mr. Galt, of Canada Company, Town is handsomely situated. A harbor has been constructed, but the piers are now getting out of repair. A lighthouse is jut about being erected by the government. In 1827 a road was open to Wilmot Twp., also to town of London.
States run twice a week fro Goodrich to London & Galt. The steamboat Goodrich called here on her weekly trips from Windsor to Owen's Sound. A fishing copy was established here. 5 churches, a stone jail & court house & Canada Company offices are kept here. Post 4 times a week. Population 659. Experts for 1844 were small but doing the spring of 1845, about 12,000 buses of were are ship. One grist, 2 saw mills, bulling mill & carding machine. There is a tavern on the Bayfield road, 4 miles south of Goodrich.
. The Willson home was not far that that of Judge Reed's Tavern on the now vanished Hibernia Terrance. This was the terminal for the stages which travelled from Hamilton up through Kitchener, Galt, Guelph & Stratford. The Canada Company stage started in 1841 & was still operating in 1855. Jacob obtained employment driving stage, probably through his father's connections with the Canada Land Company & continued to do so for some years. Eliza & Jacob's first child, Oliver Creedon was born there in Oct 1837, to be followed by 4 sons & 2 daughters, the last in 1856.
The stage business was probably dwindling about this time & Jacob was now over 40. In 1862 Jacob purchased Lots 14 & 15, Maitland, in Colborne township, not for from Goderich. The land was not too productive & it was not easy to make ends meet so Jacob followed the family pattern of many mortgages. The house on the property burned down many years ago.
In Dec 1886 Jacob purchased 3 lots, 14, 15 & 16, Range F, Section 5, in Maitland Cemetery."
.1848 Mar 15, Goderich. Astray, Came into the enclose of the subscriber, on the Glebe Lot, Maitland Road, about Sep 15 last, A RED Heifer, with white face & legs, 2 years old. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges & take her away, otherwise the heifer will be sold to defray expenses, according to State made in such cases & Provided, Jacob Willson.
. 1848 Apr 28, Goderich. Notice: The 2 year old Heifer, as advertised for some weeks past in the Huron Signal as having strayed into my premises about the middle of last September, will be sold by Profit Asufied? on the Glebe lot, Maitland Road, at 2 oclock, on Sat. May 6, to decay expenses. Signed Jacob Willson.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1848.4.18
. 1849 Dec 4, Caution to the Public. Lost at the residence of the subscriber, Con 2, Goderich Twp., about the end of November last, a Promissory NOTE made by one jack Wilson in favor of John Galt, legal or bearer for £11 15s & due on 8 Nov 1849, sit. Robin Elliot & John Healy. This is therefore to caution nay person finding or receiving the said Note, that the same is still the property of the subscriber & he has not assigned to any one & the same may be delivered to D Watson Esq., Barrister, Goderich or the subscriber, John Gallager, 2nd con. Goderich Twp.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1850.2.14.
. 1852 Census Hay Twp., Huron County, Ontario:
. Parents & children are on separate pages. (Wm. Wilson on the bottom of page is not part of this family.}
. There appears to be 2 log houses. Eliza, Jacob & son Oliver, are recorded in this frame house - which is a tavern. On the Census 1861 they were living in a frame one story house.
. This stage coach-tavern was on the Lake Huron Road which would be a perfect location for the tavern relay station on the long trek up north to Bruce Peninsula.
. 'The land in this township is of a superior quality, with the exception of a narrow pine & cedar swamp running length of Township on 4th & 5th Concessions. Also a Cranberry Marsh on the beater part of 8th & 9th conn. There is a Settlement of French on Lake Shore, Centre of Twp. is occupied by Germans & G. Britain. Canada Company's selling price of their lands in 15 shillings currency per acre. Improved farms sell from £2.10.0 to £3 an acre. Signed, John Shirrny?, Enumerator.
. 1880 Colbourne Township, Ontario, Voter Polling Subdivision 1, ncluding Benviller Village, the Falls, Seaforth, Carlow, Milburn, Nile, Auburn, Goderich, Shepardton: Willson, Jacob, Lot MC, Con 10, Owner.
. 1885 Oct 9. Colborne. Our old pioneer, Jacob Willson, met with a painful accident last week. He was returning from the funeral of this granddaughter, Miss Ida Allen of Lucknow, & in alighting from his buggy at his own gate, his horse moved forward throwing him violently to the road. He sustained some severe west & was carried to his home in a unconscious state. He was obliged to rest in bed for several day, but is again as his usual self. [Sorry this article is slightly misprinted at the end to the page. - PJA]
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1885.10.9.
. Obituary1: 1890 May 21 - Jacob Willson, At Crosswell, Michigan on the 21st inst., formerly of Colborne township, aged 74 years.
Ref: Huron Expositor newspaper, pub.1890.5.23.
Obituary2: 1890 May 21 - Jacob willson, one of the pioneer settlers of Colborne Twp., & father of Mr O C Willson & MrsJas Scott of Seaforth, died at his home in Croswell, Mich., on the 21st inst. Mr. Willson was widely known among the old residents of the county & was everywhere universally respected. he was 74 years of age.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich.
. He was a school trustee at Maitland. After the death of his wife Eliza Ann, Jacob moved to Crosswell, Michigan. - - - [1]
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1816 - 1890 (74 years)