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- William is the son of Anna Dearer, & Wm. Marsh, Sur., 1743 Westchester to 30.12.1830 Markham, Ontario.
Note to Researchers: Marsh Family is recorded here were Willson & Lawrence much neighborly interaction. Additionaly Wm. Marsh married Maj. Alexander Montgomery.III & Rebecca Willson (dau. of John Willson Jr).
. 1797, UCLPetition Misc. M, Petitioner desirous to build in the Town of York. Wm. Marsh. Rec. 17 Nov. 1797.
UCLPetition 303, M Leases, C2235, pgs. 1216-1234 To Lt. Gov. Maitland, Summary 18 pages!:
. UCLPetition 303, Lease, Petition of Wm Marsh the Younger, York Twp., Blacksmith, is a native of the then British Province of New York, has relied in this Province about 22 years [1797], has a wife & six children. Desires of obtaining a Lease of Lot 15, Con 3, York Twp. East Side of Yonge Street, a Clergy Reserve. Signed, Wm. Marsh Junr. [undated].
Ontario Land Registry North York Abstract Book 11
Lot 17, 1EYS
. 1801 Aug 10, Patent, Crown, to Jacob Comar, All 190 Acres
. 1812 Jun 11, Wm. Marsh, SENIOR, to Leonard Marsh, £100, South 95A.
. 1805 March - Inhabitants of York Township:
Wm. Marsh, 1 Man, 1 Woman, 2 Females Over 16, Total 4.
Wm. Marsh, Jun, 1 Man, 1 Woman, Total 2.
A Record of the Marks of Horn Cattle, Sheep & Swine. For the Inhabitants of the Townships of York:
. 1807 March 2nd, Wm. Marsh June. - A Slit in the under part o.f each ear close to the Head.
Ref: York, Upper Canada Minutes of Town Meetings, Toronto Ref. Library.
. 1809 July 22, Saturday, Town of York. Seneca Ketchum Path Master on Yonge Street appeared to prosecute the following Persons, for refusing & neglecting to perform their Statute Labour.
Thomas & Wm. Hill, Walter Moody, Geo. Dennison.
William Marsh Sen‘. was fined by the Court one Dollar & all expenses.
WAR of 1812
. 1812 Dec 29. Capt. Thos Ridout's Company: Alexr. Montgomery & Wm. Marsh, Joined 29th for relief of Fort York company.
. 1819 Jul 13 - York, to Peregrine Maitland: Petition, Wm. Marsh, Lot 14, 3rd Con, York Twp., On the said Lot he has been at an expense exceeding $2000 & had erected a complete grist mill in a short time but that having overflowed Clergy Reserve on Lot 15 on 20 or 30 acres, humbly prays that you Excellence in Council will grant him a Lease of said, Signed, Wm. Marsh, Jr.
The undersigned inhabitants of the several concessions adjoining state the great distress & harm will accuse to the industry in neighborhood show the mill be closed & stopped, Petition signed by 45 persons, including Wm. Allen, John & c & John Montgomery & A M Montgomery Senr., Abraham Johnson, STILLWILL WILLSON, Chas. C Lunt, Henry Mulholland.
Envelope: Received from himself 10 Nov 1819.
. 1819 Jul 19, York. I certify that by the Oath of Francis Brock Jur, & Ed Brock, York Twp. who examined the Clergy Reserve, L15, C1, York East of Young Street that there is no White Pine Trees on this lot fit for his Majestys Royal Navy. Thos. Merritt, Dept. S.G. of Wood, [res. St. Catharines-Niagara, Ontario].
. 1819 Nov 9, The M, York, I certify William Marsh, the Younger, York Twp., Blacksmith (son of Wm. Marsh of the same place, a soldier during the American Rebellion in his Majesty's Provincial Corps called Ragouts? Rangers) did take the Oath of Allegiance.
. 1819 Nov 19. Petition of James McMillan, York Twp., late Sergeant 89th Reg., He presented a Petition in Council for a Lease L15, C3 EYS. He represented the valuable mill site & his eligibly for actual settlement. A Report of having fine timber thereon fit of Majesty's Navy. Council referred to apply to Thomas Merritt of Niagara, Deputy Survey General of Woods, to inspect the same & mark whatever trees were fit for masting, to producing the Woods Certificate for Lease.
McMillan rode three times to Niagara to see Merritt. He was to select 2 men that understood the nature of mast timber to minutely inspect the Lot & to take an Oath before a magistrates to grant him a Certificate. He did hire 2 men. He was advised a personal inspection as being the mode of obtain the lease. In this present month of November the inspection was performed. The paid the fees for the above.
Your petitioner further begs to state the other patina William Marsh, being giving to industry was promised a lease. Marsh strenuously solicited him to permit him to build a milldam. Only backing water on part of the Reserve, but should by no means exceed 2 acres & to reenumerate McMillan by cutting with his sawmill all the lumber on the Lot. He also with many professions of grateful friendship. McMillan did grant him liberty to build a dam, little imaging that in act of kindness granted under such circumstances as would ever have been tortured to such a sense as to hem made the foundation, to wrest the whole Lot from your Petitioner & repay him with a business scarcely to be paralleled.
McMillan spent nearly a lapse of 5 years, a great part of which was spend in writing & traveling for that sole purpose & closing him $100. Having spent such a such of money & time, to be given to an unworthy person who expects by a coup de main in treachery to benefit himself & family at the expense of your Petitioner. Signed, James McMillan.
Envelope: Read In Council, 1 Dec 1819. Ordered that William Marshall is to appear & given reason why the Lease should not be reminded.
1919 Dec 15, In Council. William Marsh is to pay $20 for the use of Mr. McMillan's Disruption for a Lease.
. 1819 Nov 8 - Thos. Merritt, Deputy, Surveyor G. of Woods: Certify that I have examined Lot 15, Con 3, York EY & there is no masting on it fit for the Royal Navy.
. 1819 Nov 17, MINUTE: L15, C3, EYS, Petitions of Mulholland, McMillan & Marsh:
Mulholland, proprietor of adjacent Clergy Reserve Lot, refused as a [sail] masting Reserve.
Marsh exchange Mulholland's Lot for the purpose of erecting a Mill, & has erected one, which over flows about ten Acres of the Reserve.
McMillan petitions for Lease & obtained a discharge of masting Reserve. The Board was of the opinion that Marsh being in place of the first petition Mulholland, is best entitled to the Lease.
. 1819 Nov 30, at Navy House [Niagara-on-the-Lake], Henry Mulholland, Twp. of York, Certify I have not sold or promised to sell any right, claim or interest, deed Lease or promise whatsoever for L15, C3 EYS to Wm Marsh or any other persons.
. 1819 Dec 2, York, James McMillan, late Sergeant, 9th & Glengarry Regiments, wants a lease.
. 1819 Dec 15, In Council: Leased to Wm. Marsh the Younger, York Twp., Blacksmith, Lot Lot 15, Con 3 EYS, Rent commences 20 Dec 1819.
. 1819 Dec 15, In Council, Memorandum by J. Beikie: Wm. Marsh built a Mill on the adding Lot of Mr. McMillan's industry to obtain a Lease. Upon payment of $20 to Surveyor General. for use of James McMillan Description, plus rent from 25. Dec 1819 to 24 Jun 1824, FIVE YEARS at $7 for Survey.
Envelope: Received from himself 10 Nov 1819. Lot 15, Con 3, York Twp. Survey General's Report: Clergy Reserve marked Masting Piece TREES FIT FOR MASKING - 140 TO 150 FEET HIGH. This lot was applied for License by Henry Mulholland, repot 1305. Also James McMillan also applied for a Lease. No License has been issued. Signed, Thos. Redoubt, Survey General.
1819 Nov 10 Petition of Wm Marsh Jr, permission rescinded, also James McMillain rescinded 1819 Dec 1. - . -
. 1835, UCLPetition 70 M19, C2215, To Lt. Governor John Colborne, UC.
I take the liberty of addressing your Excellency at the request of the church & principal members of St. Johns church on Yonge Street, in the Township of York for the purpose of offering to the notice of your Excellence a House & 5 acres of land which whey considered would make a suitable residence for a Clergyman which they hope soon to obtain.
The property is desirably situated adding the said church with a frontage of 30 rods on Yonge Street. It is a new two story frame house 30 feet by 20 plastered & brought cast on the outside, easily to be enlarged if necessary. The upper rooms are not finished. There is a good big building behind used as a cow house & stable, also an orchard planted of an apple trees, £50 would be the house in good suitable condition but to make an addition to it put a suitable fence round it. The land & finish all off in a serviceable manner would require from £100 to £130.
I considered the property in its present state worth £350 which mount i am silage to take in wild land or am willing to have the price to be settled by complement judges. The house with a small portion of the land for a garden was rented the past year for £15.
Signed, Yonge Street, York, July 31 1835, William Marsh.
Envelope: In Council, 26 August, 1835.
In order to ascertain the expediency of the exchange proposed within, a representation should he made by the Memorialist church xx? signed, John Strachan*.
Communicated 31 August 1836.
Note: Bishop John Strachan, Anglican bishop, was also a member of the governing Council.
Envelope: 1836 Jun 9, Toronto, Petitioner came to this country 1828, with a recommendation to the late Lieut. Governor [Colborne] for service to the Indians at the Narrows of Lake Simcoe in opening roads. Gov. allow him to occupy Lot 13, Con 11 & 12, containing 250 acres.
In Council 13 June 1836. The Council cannot recommend a departure in this for the usual support by Petitioners, but they see no objection to a patent issued for one of the lots on payment of the purchase money. Communicated 16 June 1834.
Research & transcription by P J Ahlberg. Thank you. 2015.
. History of Bothwell, which is east of Petrolia, (Ontario Historical Plaque):
Plaque Location: Chatham. Main St. & Elm St.
In Bothwell, on the northeast corner of Main Street & Elm Street:
. 1851 George Brown, founder of the Toronto Globe & one of Canada's Fathers of Confederation, purchased about house in this vicinity. The Great Western Railway ran through his property in 1855 and that year a station and a post office were opened. He had the town plot of Bothwell surveyed and by 1857 Brown and others had established several industries. The new community prospered until affected by the general depression of 1857-58 but revived by 1861 when a local oil boom developed. Brown was thus able to sell his holdings in 1865-66 for well over $250,000. Bothwell became a town in 1866 with some 3,500 inhabitants. By 1868, however, the oil industry had faltered and only in recent years has the community resumed its growth.
. William Marsh's body is buried on the Marsh homestead. (In the Wheeler's Lumber yard, in the south corner is the burial place of Mr. Marsh.)
Verify this William Marsh:
. Hugh Van Nostrand: I have a copy of a transcribed letter from my GGG Grandmother Susan Marsh to her husband William Marsh who was at the time working up at Lake Simcoe.
She first writes about going to Mr. Shepard to borrow a barrel or half a barrel of flour and would pay him back in wheat but he could not because he wanted to make up as much as he could to send to Montreal. Followed by this she writes about Mr. Shepard the Tavern owner sending a load of wood to her. - - - [1, 2, 3, 4]
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1766 - 1855 (89 years)