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- . UC Land Petition #7, Joseph Simons, Trafalgar 1819, p680, S Bundle 12. Ref: Film C2812.
To Sir Pelegrine Maitland, In Council,
Petition of Joseph Simons of Trafalgar Twp., in the District of Gore. Your Petitioner is the son of Bildad Simons of Trafalgar Twp., Jarman [Yeoman] &
is also settler in this Province, that you petitioner has reached his 22nd year of his age [b.1797] & wishes to become a settler in the wild lands, he never received any land or grant of land whatever under the Crown & humbly prays your Excellency will be pleased to grant him such a number of acres of the west lands of the land in this Province.
Signed, Trafalgar, February 22, 1819, Joseph Simons.
Envelope: The Petition of Joseph Simons for Land as a Settler. Rec. from himself. [i.e. Joseph took his petition himself to Toronto. - PJA]
Thos. Ridout, York, 23 Feb 1819, Entered into Land Book F? /T?, page 7, Ordered.
* Census 1823, 1824, 1825 & 1831 Palmero, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co.
. Census 1924: Lot 30, Con, 1 Acre cultivated, 42 uncultivated.
. Census 1824: L30, C1 SDS, 20 Actors uncultivated. NS [of Dundas street].
. Census 1825: L30SDS, C12: males over & 3 males under 16, 1 female over & 3 under 16, Total 6.
20 cultivated acres. ASSESSOR: Joseph Simons
Note: Repeat, census total reads 6 persons, inc. 3 LIVING daughters & a wife over 16 years - PJA.
. [1860, 1880 Maine & again in the 1890 Apr 20 Census Washington, DC. son Adelbert B Simons, Sr., says his father was born in Connecticut.]
. 1835 Sept 8 & 25 Aug 1835. Letters at the Nelson Post Office, (for Nelson Twp. Halton Twp. & East Flamborough, Wentorth Co.) Joseph Simons.
Ref: Dundas Weekly Post.
. Overall quality of these censuses are very poor, difficult to read to be certain. It is possible there are additional entries for the Simons. Also present on this film are in-laws, John, Mathias & Charles Teetzel. - PJA
. Upper Canada Marriage Bond # 5461, Volume 32, C6785 Item N 7882?
Joseph Simons & (Lawrence?) Wilkinson, both of Twp. to Trafalgar, Gore District, Gentlemen,
Marriage Bond, sealed at York on Faint:} September 1836 [?]
Widower, Residence: Trafalgar Twp.,
on 5 Sep 1836, married Mrs. Susan Wiles,?? widow.
Signed, Joseph Simons, Francis Wilkinson.
First wife: died March 1835;
Second wife: The Widow Susan, married 3 Sept, 1836, (unknown maiden name of Susan.)
The Palermo United Church original was a Methodist Church.
. Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828-1829, Joseph Simons.
Ref: Men of Upper Canada.
. 1838 March, Upper Canada Sundries, Index C9824, Image xxx, & Page 105939-40, p723, C6898.
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 who 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. Read in Council 20 May 1838 & pardoned upon giving into Bail for good for 3 years.
Ontario Land Registry Abstract Halton Co.,
Trafalgar Book 24, & p189-90.
Lot 30, Con 1 South of Dundas Street, Trafalgar Twp.
. 1808 Oct 18, Patent, Crown, to Bildad Simons, All 200 Acres;
. 1811 Apr 27, B&S, Bildad Simons, to Chas Teetzel, 90A, North Lot 30;
. 1812 Apr 20, B&S, Bildad Simons, to Joseph Smith, 20A, North Lot 30;
. 1824 Feb 16, Bildad Simons, to Joseph Simons, 20A, part South Lot 30;
. 1825 Dec 8, B&S, Jos Smith, to Chas. Teetzel 9.5A.
. 1828 Apr 3, B&S, Joseph Simons, to Daniel Becey?, 80A, Lot 30 South Half;
. 1828 Apr 3, B&S, Bildad Simons, to Daniel Becasy?, 100A S Half should be NDS;
. 1828 Apr 3, B&S, Chas. Teetzel, James Hopper & others, 1/2 & 20,
. 1830 NW Half
. 1845 Dec 21, Disc. of Mort., Richard Vyse, to Joseph A? Simons, 1/5 A, Part NW 1 Half.
. 1854 Mar 23, John Teetzel & Wife, to Aleucusedge Trxx?, fifth of an Acre, Half.
Lot 31, Con 1 SDS, p246
. 1836 July 16, Bargain&Sale, Wm Morse, to Joseph Simons. 1/5 Acre, Part of Front East;
. 1839 Jun 22, B&S, Joseph Simons, to Robt. Webster, 1/5 A Pt Front East.
. 1842 Census Bronte Twp., Halton Co.
Simons, Joseph, Bronte, Con 1 [no Lot number given].
. 1850 Jan 21 - Gore District Council, Meeting at the Oakville Temperance Hall, 5th Ward, SIMON's INN, Palermo.
. 1851 Palermo Canada Directory, A Village situated in the Township of Trafalgar & U. C. of Wentworth & Halton, C. W. distant from Hamilton, 15 miles, distant from Toronto, 32 miles usual stage fare, 2s. 6d. Population about 200.
PALERMO HOUSE HOTEL, J. SIMONS. SWITZER, H. M., postmaster & general. [also called Simons Inn.]
. 1851 May - By-law 48 Palermo to commute half of their statute labour & apply amount for construction of sidewalks. Residents petitioned May . 1852 & an extra levy was charged.
Commissioners: H.M. Switzer, Joseph Simons, John Soules.
. Palermo United Cemetery, with the above family.:
Polly Simons, was born July 20 1805, died 20 Mar 1819.
Note: Interestingly stone is banded with aluminum due to be cracked into two. Deeply chiseled, likely by made in-law, John Solomon, Teetzel, Sr., who was famous for his work. The monument was already weather mottled at the time of manufacture. - PJ Ahlberg 2012. - - - [1, 2]
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