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- Mathias is the son of Mary Tufford & John Solomon Teetzel Sr.
> Two Lawrences sisters married two Teelzel brothers :
. Hadassah Hester Lawrence married John Solomon Teetzel Jr.
. Jane Lawrence married Mathias Teelzel &
> Lawrence cousin married their sister:
. Richard Lawrence Johnston married Julia Ann Teetzel.
. 1838 March - Upper Canada Sundries, Petition of Eli Irwin, Twp. Whitchurch, for Pardon. Petitioner is a married man having a wife child. He was unfortunately taken a part in the recent troubles, used by desperate & unprincipled persons by shoe he was unhappily seduced from allegiances. Signed, Eli Irwin, March 1830, Jail of the Home District (Toronto).
Petition of Inhabitants of West Flamborough to Sir Geo Arthur on behalf of prisoners under sentence of high treason. Hundreds of signatures, including Richard Johnston [Sr.], Joseph Simons, Lorenzo & Mathias Teetzel, Charles Jr. & Sr., Teetzel & William Tarbox. Read in Council 20 May 1838 & pardoned upon giving into Bail for good for 3 years.
Ref: UC Sundries, Index C9824, Image 722 & Page 105939-40, p723, C6898.
. 1838 March - Upper Canada Sundries, Petition of Eli Irwin, Twp. Whitchurch, for Pardon. Petitioner is a married man having a wife child. He was unfortunately taken a part in the recent troubles, used by desperate & unprincipled persons by shoe he was unhappily seduced from allegiances. Signed, Eli Irwin, March 1830, Jail of the Home District (Toronto).
Petition of Inhabitants of West Flamborough to Sir Geo Arthur on behalf of prisoners under sentence of high treason. Hundreds of signatures, including Richard Johnston [Sr.], Joseph Simons, Lorenzo & Mathias Teetzel, Charles Jr. & Sr., Teetzel & William Tarbox. Read in Council 20 May 1838 & pardoned upon giving into Bail for good for 3 years.
Ref: UC Sundries, Index C9824, Image 722 & Page 105939-40, p723, C6898.1842 Upper
. 1842 Canada Census - Trafalgar Twp., Halton County, Ontario:
Tetzel, Mathias: Con 1, Lot 30, Carpenter, Canadians 2 & from USA, Canada 1842, married 2 persons, Moravians or Tonkers Rel. 5, 25 Acres, 10 cultivated.
. 1842 Wages in Upper Canada 1842: Carpenters - 6 s 10 p Halifax Currency per diem.
. 1846 Smith's Canadian Gazetter, Province of Canada West:
Palermo, village in trafalgar, situated on Dundas St, 30 miles from Toronto. Population about 200, Post every day. There stores, 1 foundry, 2 taverns, 2 wagon makers, 3 blacksmiths, 2 tailors, 2 shoemakers.
. 1848 Jan 12. Subscriptions or advertisement arrangements for the Wed. & Saturday, Globe Newspaper can be made from their agents, Western Globe Office, Postmaster J Dickson Jr & M. Teetzel.
Ref: Toronto Globe & Mail Newspaper.
. 1850 Palermo. An order called the Palermo sons of temperance was founded in 1850. Neighbors helped each other a long long ago. When ladies had babies nearby ladies would come to be midwives & help. There were bees too where niehgbours would help each other building houses & barns or quilting blankets.
Ref: Tweedsmuir Book III, by Nelson [Twp.] Women's Institute.
. 1851 Canada Directory: Post Master, general merchant & miller, Mathias Teetzel Milton, Canada West, in Trafalgar Twp., Halton County.
Owned Teetzel Block near Pine Street, Milton.
. 1853 Jun 25th -Attachment. Sheriff's Office, Hamilton. United Counties of of Wentworth & Halton,
~ Attachment, issued out to wit: 3 of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Beach, on the 2nd day of July, 1853 to me directed, against the estate, real as well as personal, of MATHIAS TEETZEL, an absconding or concealed debtor, at the suit of RICHARD BENNER & Charles H. Donnelly, for the sum of £270 15 S & 6 six pence, I have sealed all the estate, real as well as personal, of the said Mathias Teetzel, & unless the said Mathias Teetzel return within the jurisdiction of the said Court, & put in Bail to the action, or cause the claim of the said Richard Benner & Charles H. Donnelly to be discharged within 3 calendar months from the first day of the publication of this Notice, all 'the estate, real or personal, of the said Mathias Teetzel or as much thereof as may be necessary will be held liable for the payment, benefit & satisfaction of the claim of the said plaintiff, as well as for payment, benefit or satisfaction of the claim or claims of such other plaintiff or plaintiffs as shall or may take proceedings against the property or effects of the said Mathias Teetzel, within 6 months from the issuing of the above Writ.
E. CARTWRIGHT THOMAS, Sheriff United Counties of Wellington & Halton, Sheriff's Office, Hamilton, 6th July 1853.
Ref: The Canada Gazette Government of Canada. First published 11 June, 1853.3 688-13 & until 1853.10.8.] - [& response the above is: ]
. 1855 August 26 - initiated lawsuit against Edward Martin & John White of Milton, ON, 1856 - March 20 Typewritten Transcript handed down for TEETZEL vs. WHITE.
More researched need here.
. Left for Michigan between 1856 & 1860 Census Berrien Benton Harbor. Aged 49.
. Ten or more family members left Ontario to farm in Michigan:
Mathias Teetzel & Jane Lawrence & her sister Hadasah Hester Lawrence & husband John Teetzel.
Brother Richard Lawrence, Jr. & his wife Mary Lizy Simons with her brother Joseph Simons.
Lawrence first cousin: Alex Hamilton & James Jr., the widow Rebecca Lawrence Hamilton, & later on, sisters Rebecca Jr. & Mary Jane Hamilton.
Mathias & John's sister: Harriet Maria Teetzel.
In addition there were the Canadian born children the the above, who also moved to Michigan.
Sister Julia Ann Teetzel.1 married the Lawrence's first cousin Richard Lawrence Johnson, who stayed in Ontario.
. 1860 Aug 7 Census, St. Joseph, Berrien Co., MI:
Matthias Teetzel, b 1811, Canada West, Commission Merct., Jane 181 in Canada West; Eliz. J 1841, in New York; Julia A, 1843 Canada West, & Mary S J Martin, b 1850 Canada West.
. 1860 St. Joseph Berrien County, Business Directory
M. Teetzel, Storage & Commission Merchant
"Footnote: In 1860 you will not find Benton Harbor town or City, which later became known as the twin city to St. Joseph. Benton Harbor was mainly swampland & was bordered by the Paw Paw River, through which a canal was built, hence the "harbor" in the city's name The canal was opened in about 1862. In the early 1860's, the settlement was given the name of Brunson Harbor. In 1865 the name of the settlement was changed to Benton Harbor in honor of Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri Senator who helped Michigan achieve statehood."
. 1863 Jan - Dec., U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists:
Teetzel Mathias, St. Joseph - Sources of Income: MilRents. Valuation $350, Tax Rate 5 PC, Abstract Class A #241, Income Tax: 17.50.
. 1863 Jan., Detroit, Michigan Farmer, Volume 2, St. Joseph County, Cranberry Culture:
The culture of this fruit has been prove to be entirely feasible in many localities, & we believe there are many acres of marsh lands in this vicinity which can be profitably devoted to this berry, which always commands a high price in market. Mr. M. Teetzel of this village has about half an acre of land devoted to their culture in the Twp. of Benton, which now promises to yield very large profits on the outlay. Last week we made a careful inspection this ground with Mr. Teetzel in person. The land is ordinary marsh land. The 1st step in its preparation was to take off the surface to the depth of perhaps one foot. This new surface was then covered with a thin stratum of dry sand. The field is then ready for the plants which are obtained from marshes wherever they can be found & are set in rows about 10 in. or a foot ...A small creek running near is turned on to the field at pleasure by means of a dam & aqueduct, so that it can be submerged to any desirable depth.
. 1864 March 25. [No. 19] A Joint Resolution authorizing the name of a Register to the Steamer " Mohawk." Resolved by the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, & is hereby, authorized to issue an American register to the Canadian- built steamer " Mohawk," now owned by Warren Chapman, George Parmelee, & Matthias Teetzel, of Saint Joseph, in the State of Michigan: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall in anywise affect any legal proceedings now pending in regard to the said steamer " Mohawk." Approved, March 25, 1864.
Register to issue to steamer Mohawk. Ref: Michigan State Statues. Boston Daily Advertiser, 1864.5.31; San Francisco Bulletin, 1864.10.19; Flake's Bulletin, Texas, 1867.7.18.
. 1864, Apr 4, IRS Tax Assessment Lists:
. Teetzel, Matthias, St. Joseph. - Sources of Income: Rents. Valuation $350.., Tax Duty A. 3, Abstract Class # a Class B: 32. Duty Class $10.50. Total Income Tax Due: $10.50.
1866 U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists:
Lawrence, Daniel T. ,
. Income Tax # in Abstract 312, Valuation: $5, Tax Rate $15.60,
- Watch Abstract #272, Valuation $1.00,
- Watch Abstract # 23, Valuation $2.00.
- Piano, Abstract # 267, Valuation $2.00. Total: $20.60.
. 1865 Apr 26 - Mathias Teetzel died with a Will: Administrix: Jane E Teetzel, 18 Feb 1875, Inventory: Assigned to the Widow, $4, 42.20,
Chattels $194.50, Family expenses for one year $762.66, Money from sale $555, paid to Co. Treasure $100, Paid Johnson estate $700, Taxed pd. 1864-65 $304.25, Pd. act for Plaster, $300, sundry other acts pd. $622.35, Pd. Internal Tax 3 X 2237 - $67. Pad. taxes of 66. $64.06 Total $1414.09. Mrs. J Teetzel believes further $500 further future charges.
Ref: Berrien County Probate Court File 689.
. 1872 Feb 22 - Farm for Sale or To Rent. In the Village of Palermo, part of Lot 30, 1st Con. SDS, Trafalgar, containing 90 acres, 80 are cleared & in a good state of cultivation There are on the premises a good free house & good fame out buildings, a well of never falling water & a young orchard. for further particular apply to
Wm. Hager, Palermo, or to Wm. Teetzel, Watertown.
Canadian Champion Newspaper, Milton, ON, p3.
. 1954, May 4, News Palladium Newspaper, Benton Harbor, Michigan
More Lighthouse Lore, Editor,
Gen. Chadwick's close friend, who lived near the lighthouse was Mathias Teetzel. He was the contractor of the canal between Benton Harbor & St. Joseph. He bought & sold wheat. His sister was the late Dr. John Bell's mother. [i.e. Mary Green Teetzel.]
X-Ref: Viola Teetzel, for complete letter. - - - [1]
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1810 - 1865 (55 years)