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- settled on L35 C1 kn 1822
ran a tavern and stage coach station
Trowbridge/Nixon
[Guy St-Denis - Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township, p 45] [James Shelden sold what was left of L35 to Eli Trowbridge, an innkeeper, on August 14, 1827]
[HCM, p. 1029]: Eli Trowbridge, who was born in New York State, and was a man thirty years of age when he moved with his wife Miss Mabel Webster, to Westminster Township, Ont., in 1822 or '23. They settled on the First Concession, Lot 35, where his wife died three years later. Mr. Trowbridge then married Miss Mary Summers, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Bell) Summers, and became the father of one son - William Trowbridge., Mr. Trowbridge was the owner of 200 acres of fine farming land, which he cleared by his own individual labor, and was an industrious, hard-working man. He died in 1828 at the age of forty-two years.
[HCM p. 567] Michael McLaughlin brought the first spring wagon --wooden springs -- into Wesminster about 1823-4. Alvard Ladd had the first stage between Delaware and Ancaster, and held it until Eli Trowbridge took the route. Trowbridge lived where the present Nathan Griffiths's house stands, on Concession 1 of Westminster.
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1786 - 1828 (42 years)
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