Notes:

Augustine is the daughter of Mary Smith & Richard Titus.

. 1800 Census Clinton, Dutchess Co., New York
Augustine Titus: Males 2, boys 10 -15y 1, Males 16-25y 1, Men 26-44y 1, Males 45+1y,
Girls 10 under 2, Females 16-25y 2, Women 26-44y.1, Females 45+y 1,
Number of members under 16: five, householders over 26y 4. Total 12 people.

Next person is:
John Willson, Males 3, boys under 16Y - 2, Females 6 [Total 11 Persons].


AUGUSTINE TITUS MORTGAGE DEFAULTS ON FARMS:
. 1807 Apr 28 - Whereas Augustine Titus & Waite, his wife & Richard Titus, all of the town of Clinton, did by a certain indenture dated 28 July 1803 to secures the payment of $750 with the interest thereof, mortgage unto George Peters Oakley of Town of Poughkepsie. All that certain tract of land situated in Town of Clinton, Duchess county, which in a certain indenture thereof made between Daniel S Dean & Ann his wife of the first part & the said Augustine Titus & Richard Titus of the second part, bearing date 25 May, 1803, is described as follows:

BEGINNING AT A WALNUT SAPLING MARKED STANDING at the 4 east corner of land formerly belong Daniel Ward, now in the possession of Zacheus Newcomb, thence other in side line 22 chairs & 7 links to a stake & stones between several saplings marked, these north 37 degrees east 23 chains & 63 links to a stake & stones, then forth 70 degrees 10 minutes east 5 chains & 44 links to a certain tree marked standing the west side of the said road, thence 59 degrees east 7 chains & 33 links to the lands belonging the said Augustine Titus, tense southerly & westerly in the line of said Titus' land, however it runs to the line between Nine-Partners & Beekman town, whence southerly in said line to the place of beginning containing 55 acres & 17 roods of land.
Also all certain indenture thereof made between the widow Sarah Ward of the one part & the said Augustine Titus of the other part bearing date 25 Nov 1784, is described as situated lying & being in Charlotte precinct as a aforesaid in a patent known & described by the name of the creator lowered Nine Partners Lot 9, in the 2nd for general division of said patent, butted & bound as following:
BEGININING AT A WALNUT that standing on the east side of the road that leads by Capt. Joseph Hick's to Oswego, thence north 86 degrees east 16 xx 14 links to a stake & sonnets 27 cans & 2 chains to a walnut tree marked standing near chain's line, thence south 2 degrees west 2 chains 89 links to at the above said road runs to the first mentioned bends or place or beginning containing 50 aces of land, said land is bordered on the north by the lands of the said Widow Sara Ward on the east ty land of the said Sarah Ward & the fourth by the lands formerly Col. Bateman's on Bateman's precinct & on the west by the above said road.
AND whereas desalt had been made in the payment of the above sum of money with the interest thereon according to the condition of the said indenture. Now I do hereby give public notice according to an act of the Legislature of New York State entitled, an act concerning mortgages passed 6 April, 1801, & pursuant to power continued inside mortgage that I will sell the above described premises with the appurtenances, at public venue at the Hotel of Garwood H Cunningham in Pougkeepsie on the 13 October, next, 7 o'clock the forenoon, & all execute a conveyance to the purchaser.
Dated April 2, 1807, George Peters Oakley, Emott & Oakley, Attory.
Ref: Pougkeepsie Journal newspaper.

. 1812 Feb 12. Letters of Administration, To Benjamin Titus, Town of Broome, Scholarie County, NY. Austin Titus died intestate; granted administration
- Benjamin Titus affirmed Augustine Titus was dead. He was old son. He had no Will. Signed Jon Ebhard, Surrogate Court.

Died:
WILL Probated 7 Feb, 1812..

Family/Spouse: Waite Giddley HALL. Waite was born est 1738 in Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., New York; died on 15 May 1803 in New York State. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary is the daughter of Waite Gidley Hall, Portsmouth, Newport, RI &
Augustine Titus, b. 1747.4.21 Westbury, Nassau, NY-2823 Broome, Scheharie, NY.

. Mary & Phoebe Titus were two Quaker sisters. Their father as a Quaker Elder & they were disowned upon marring the Willsons. Much latter the 2 Willsons became Quakers in Upper Canada, & eventually a member of the Children of Peace at Sharon, Ontario.

. 1790 Clinton, Duchess, New York Census
Augustine Titus, Males 3, Boys under 16Y 2, Females 5 [Total 10 Persons], & next person is
John Willson, Males 3, boys under 16Y - 2, Females 6 [Total 11 Persons]

. The children of Mary Titus & Hugh L Willson are:
John Hugh Willson, 10 Jul 1791 - 29 Dec 1863; 
 1. Richard Titus Willson, 5 Apr 1793 - 18 Apr 1878; 
2. Mary Willson, 26 Mar 1795 - 2 Aug 1869; 
3. Louisa Willson, 26 Mar 1795 - 2 Aug 1869;  
4. Catherine Willson, 22 Oct 1795 - 19 Nov 1855; 
 5. Augustine Willson, 4 May 1798 - 1798;  
6. Hiram Robinson Willson, 4 Dec 1799 - 30 Aug 1876;  
7. Hugh Henry Willson, 17 May 1803 - 22 Aug 1871;  
8. David Willson, 18 Aug 1807 - 13 Oct 1807;  
9. Alfred Willson, 3 Mar 1809 - 26 Feb 1888; 
10. Waite Ann Willson, 15 Aug 1811 - 3 Sep 1898.

. Obituary:
Died at Sharon, East Gwilimbury, on Wednesday, June 3, 1857, Mary, relic to the late Mr. Hugh Willson, aged 89 years, less 2 days.
The subject of this Obituary was born in duchess County, NY & immigrated to this country soon after the American Revolution. Her early education & ideas of mind was received amongst the religious under Friends, to which communion her parents belonged & many branches of her Fathers’s family have been & are conspicuous members. She maintained through all the vicissitudes of her long life, an unblemished reputation - remarkable for love, of quietude & the society of the good. Towards the close her mind seems to revisit the scenes of the childhood & youth & to mingle with the society of her Father’s house, where a recollection f early antidotes & familiar of early principles seemed to comfort her; & is several that from this stand point she took her view of her Heavenly home. The Lord granted me the privilege to visiting her several times previous to her death - to speak of Jesus - to read to her the previous promises & to pray of her. With others we stood at her bedside & with hearts lifted to the Father, of spirits, in humbleness begged that he would receive the dear depart soul, which seemed while stretching its opinion of light for its wondrous flight, to have left on the fair features an indication of salvation by shedding over them a smile of indescribable sweetness.
She lived to see the 4th generation of her offspring & has left behind her now living nearly all in this section of county, 16 children, including sons-in-law & daughters-in-law; 92 grandchildren, 90 great grandchildren & one great-great grand child. Her children & grandchildren are included the usual & respectable class of community. HHW.
Ref: Newmarket New Era Newspaper.

Transcripts by PJ Ahlberg. thank you. - - -

Died:
Verity 1857 or 1859.

Mary married Hugh Latimire WILLSON in c 1790 in Dutchess Co., New York. Hugh (son of John WILLSON and Catherine B KUHN) was born in Dec 1768 in Carrick Fergus, County Antrim, Ireland; died on 3 Jan 1828 in Sharon, E Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Sharon Burial Grounds. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary is the daughter of Waite Hall, Portsmouth, Newport, RI &
Augustine Titus, b. 1747.4.21 Westbury, Nassau, NY-2823 Broome, Scheharie, NY.

. Mary & Phoebe Titus were two Quaker sisters. Their father as a Quaker Elder & they were disowned upon marring the Willsons. Much latter the two Willsons became Quakers in Upper Canada, & eventually a member of the Children of Peace at Sharon, Ontario.

. Phoebe Willson, wife of David, Yonge Street Meeting House, four of her children, John Israel, Hugh & Sarah Willson, were registered with the Yonge Street Meeting of Friends. Ref: Book H-15-1, p.2.

. Phebe a birthright member of the Society of Friends, & was disowned by the Creek Monthly Meeting 17 Sep 1794 for "going out from the plainness & keeping company with one not of our society," presumably David Willson.
Ref: Quaker Archives & Library of Canada, Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Phoebe & Mary Titus were two Quaker sisters.

. 1790 Clinton, Duchess, New York Census
Augustine Titus, Males 3, Boys under 16Y 2, Females 5 [Total 10 Persons], & next person is
John Willson, Males 3, boys under 16Y - 2, Females 6 [Total 11 Persons].

. 1781 May 23, Meeting House at Creek, Phebe Titus, witness at the marriage of Ruth Hull & Stephen Keese.
. 1784 Aug 26, Meeting at Nine Partners, Phebe Titus, Witness at marriage of Hannah Thorn & Samuel Holmes.

. Monument White willow trees & inc. a monument design on monument, Inscription:
In memory of Phebe, wife of David Willson who died JMar 5, 1874. Aged 84y 7m 2d. Sharon, E. Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario- - -

Died:
Aged 88y 3d.

Family/Spouse: David L WILLSON. David (son of John WILLSON and Catherine B KUHN) was born on 7 Jun 1778 in Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., New York; died on 16 Jan 1866 in Sharon, E Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Sharon Burial Grounds. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Ontario Birth Registration #14358-71 (York Co.)
WILLSON, David Tomlinson, male, b. 7 Mar. 1871,
father - Richard Titus WILLSON, farmer; mother - Mary Jane TOMLINSON, infm. - R.T. Willson, North Gwillimbury Twp.

. 1804 Mar 15 - Letters uncalled for at York P.O. Richard Wilson.

. 1812 his father embarked for Quebec to engage in lumbering on the Trent. Their raft being wrecked near Kingston. Refitting in the Cataract Creek. War being declared [1812]. Two frigates brought there raft into Kingston. During the war he was stationed at Presque Isle Point & other places. He was placed in charge of 2 supply boats from York to Lake Simcoe & transparent provisions for the troops at the Sault St. Marie.

. 1813 Nov. he was hired by the Hon. Duncan Cameron, to manage the transporting of 2 boats up Yonge Street for trans-shipping supplies of flour & clothing to Ft. Michilmackinac, Michigan. The supplies were taken from Barrie by horses, to the head of Ft. Willow Creek, (E. Nottawasaga River. The 20 or so horses that carried the flour were taken from near Aurora to Barrie employing a Snake Island Indian guide. The frost set in & the supplies had to remain there until the next Spring.

. In the winter of 1814 he assisted Capt. Dennis, grandfather of Lieut. Col. J S Dennis, went over to Ft. Willow Creek & built lumber boats of the Lake service. In the Spring he was required at York to perform military duty. Peace was declared 1 Apr 1816.
His father-in-law, Mr. Emes, a son, a married daughter & her husband & an Indian were drowned crossing from Holland River to Roach's Point. After Peace, he returned to farming.

WAR of 1812 MUSTER
. 1814 May 15, York Muster Day: Priv. Richd. Wilson of Capt. Dennison Company who were captured at York on the 27th April, 1814. Signed, Lt Col. W. Chewett, 3 Yk. Militia, 1814.5.15.

. 1814 Mar 27 - Apr 16, Titus Willson, Days 21 pd. 1s 8p. discharged 16 Apr. Substitute for S Clark. Capt. Jeremiah Travis, 1st York Militia.
. 1814 Jan 25 - Jan 30, Titus Willson, Days 31, pd. £2 1s 4p. also, Garret Vanzantee Days 21, pd, 19s 5p, Public Service at York, 1 York Militia commanded by Capt. Reuben Richardson.

. 1814 - Mr. Willson became a member of the Order of Free & Accepted masons & continued to the day of his death & is supposed to have been the oldest member in the Dominion. Several loges from the neighbouring villages assembled in regalia to honor him. After this service his remains were taken to St. Paul's church where Rev Dean Givens performed the funeral Church of England Service. A large concourse of sorrowing fiends & relatives followed him to the burial place of his family, bar Sharon, East Gwillimbury.
Mr Wilson's family consisted of 12 children, 7 of whom survived him;
he left 61 (?) grandchildren, 78 great-grandchildren - 158 in all.
Ref: Newmarket Era Newspaper, Ontario, quarter page long.

. UCLPetition 215, W Bundle 12, C2954, p643.
To Samuel Smith, Esq., Administrator of Gov. of Province of Upper Canada, In Council,
Petition of Richard Titus Willson, East Gwillimbury Twp., Yeoman. Petitioner is a native of New York State, age 26 years [1894] resided in this Province upwards of 21 years [1799]; has a wife & 4 children. He has never received & Crown Land, & has means to improve lands, humbly pays for a land grant.
Signed, Richard Titus Willson, York, 10 June, 1820.
Envelope: Granted 12 Jun 1820, 100 Acres.
Note: The petitions of brothers John & Richard Willson are 2 weeks apart & both appear to be in handwriting of Richard Titus Willson.

. UCLPetition 11, W Bundle 4, C2963, p285
To James Earl of Elgin & Kincardine, Captain Gen. & Gov in Chief, Canada. Petition Richard Titus Wilson, East Gwillimbury Twp., York Co. Yeoman & Alfred Wilson, Innisfill Twp., Simcoe Co. Petitions lived nearly the whole of their lives upwards of 47 years in this part of the Province & having seen the rapid growth & advancement in agricultural in this section of the Province, especially West Gwillimbury, Tecumseh & adjoining Townships, & having from time to time for years past seen the difficulties & privations under which the inhabitants of this section labour for the want of sufficient water power, upon which to erect mills for the purposes of grinding grains & converting it into flour, for exportation. Have continued to enrich a standard & merchant mill for which undertaking, the Petitions team themselves full able & competent & with a view to that object have been making inquiry for the situation of the most suitable location upon which end such mill & fixed upon the front part Lot 110, on Yonge Street, Con 3, East Gwillimbury as the most eligible site for the erection of such mill. With a view of obtaining the said Lot 110, application to Mr. John Alexander, District Land Agent, Barrie. Petitions were unable to learn anything definite fro him, in regard to said Lot of land.
Wherefore your Petitioners pray your Excellency in Council, will well said Lot at such a valuation deem reasonable.
Signed, 1847 March 2, Holland Landing, R.T. Willson* & Alfred Willson
Note: Signature of Richard T Willson is precise but more brittle than the fluid signature of 1820. - PJA
Envelope: Lot 110, 1st Con Yonge Street is a Clergy Glebe, that might be sold at its estimated value. Signed, D B Papineau, 19 Mar 1847.

. 1831 York Almanac & Calendar, 2nd North York Militia: Captain, John H Willson from 10 Jun 1826. Lieut. Titus Wilson, from 7 Jun 1926, Aaron Playter from Jun 6, 1826.

. 1832, CHOLERA made its appearance in Canada. Death columns in newspapers became longer each day. The disease spread out on immigrant ships sailing from England & Ireland & also along the St. Lawrence. In a manuscript written by Titus Willson of Sharon, he relates that while working in the Coldwater district, cholera broke out among the large number of immigrants camped at Bass Lake waiting for their shanties to be built by the Government & a great many of them died. He tells that he himself contracted the disease & was carried on a litter to Orillia where he lay for 2 weeks. He was then taken in a bark canoe across Lake Simcoe to Holland Landing.
Ref: East Gwillimbury in the Nineteenth Century, Gladys M Rolling, 1978 Ref: East Gwillimbury in the Nineteenth Century, Gladys M Rolling, 1978. & New market Era Newspaper, 1951.7.5, p9.

. 1833 the Government contracted Mr. Willson to cut roads & a toll house. That year was noted for a dreadful visitation of Cholera. This scourge followed the emigrates. Mr. Willson toiled it & narrowed cost his life. For several years he was occupied in settling & improving the roads & life of settlers.
On the out breaking of the Rebellion in 1837, Mr. Willson's loyalty induce him to stand up for the philosophies of his ancestors. With his 3 sons, he joined the company raised by Col. Colter. At Toronto the Lieut. Governor commended officers with "This is Titus Willson, & a more loyal man does not live". He was elected as Reeve of East Gwillimbury on two occasions & several times as Reeve of Holland Landing.

For several years previous to his death, Mr. Willson's sight failed him. His tedious confinement was alleviated by the attentions of his late & affectionate family to whom he was warmly attached. He calmly contemplated death approach & prepared for it. Surround by members of the Temperance Society & himself always a intemperate man, he said he could not join them in their whole rule condemnation of pique, thought he was willing to abstain? how great a coarse it was then abutted.
Many years ago, when public duties obliged him to travel from Penetanguishene to where Barrie now stands, it was almost an unbroken wilderness, & he had to travel on foot throughout deep snow, in very severe weather. When several miles from a place of shelter he found his strength falling him & his feet so cold that he feared they would freeze. He had with him what travelers usually carried in these days, a small wooden keg called canine, containing spirits. Fearing if he drank the contents, it might injury him, contented the idea of pour some in this boots as an experiment, & to his delight he found it at once warmed his feet & so refreshed his whole system that he was enabled to reach a place of shelter. Perhaps the most rigid tee-totaler could not object to this mode of using.

. 1836 Mar 9, York Committee Room, Petition of E Kennedy. Witness: Titus Wilson examined. Lives in East Gwillimbury - saw the German settlers on the Sunday road in 1834, about 15 or 20 of them moving towards Nattwasauga, they were in a forlorn & destitute situation, no guide, no mode of conveyance, carrying the packs & wall children in a foot of snow. No means of making fire. Directed them to a shanty 2 miles away. Titus went to the Crows tavern to ask Mr. Kennedy to carry them provisions in the morning which they devoured in 3 minutes.
. George McCarthy, deposition: Corroborates the former evidence as to the distress of the German families. He gave them 2s 3p. - they bough a bushel of potatoes & divided them - was when Titus Wilson offered Settlers Agent Mr. Young, some pork & flour at a much less price than it would cost from Barrie & which he first agreed to take & afterwards refused - came down with Wilson when he presented the draft on Hawke for the road work done by him & which Hawke refused to pay. Wilson was put to considerable trouble & expense.

. 1835 Nov 12, Tora Township. We have carefully examined the work contracted for to be done in Thora, Eldon Twp. by Richard Titus Wilson with Wellesley Ritchie, Esq. on the part of the government Viz.
A road cut & leveled about 16 feet she's as to admit of the passage of sleighs & Waggons, from the Talbot River, Thora two, to Balsam Lake, the causewaying laid on string pieces, the high causewaying with abutments & string pieces as slo the bridges over the creeks & vines, & the House at Talbot R. & one at Balsam Lake, all of which we have found to be performed in a workmanlike manner & in strict conformity to instructions. Some additional causeway is necessary! having discovered several mud holes, that required to be finished off on the line of road. The above work has been done at the lowest possible rate & none of us would take the contract at so low a price.
Ref: Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, Second Session of the Twelfth Provincial Parliament, 1836, publisher William Lyon MacKenzie, Toronto.

. 1837 Toronto & Home District Directory :
Richard T Willson, Lot 13, Con 3, East Gwillimbury, York Co, Ontario.

. 1838 Jan, - Toronto Recognizance of Wm. Miller & Richard Titus Willson against Aaron Friel & Wm. Laughton, JP.
Home District, You William Miller acknowledge to each, the sum of £50 & you Richard Titus Willson acknowledge the sum of £50 to be levied of your goods & chattels, lands & tenements for the use of the Crown if default shall be made in the condition following, that is to say, if you Wm. Miller & you Richard Titus Willson appear before any of her Majesties courts of general goal delivery to give evidence when so requested to do so against Aaron Friel now forwarded as prisoner to Toronto charged with sedition & treasonable practices, then this obligation shall be void. Signed, W. Laughton, J.P.
Ref: UCSundries, Index C9824, Image 596; C /p102560-1.

. 1838 May 26 Upper Canada Sundries: C-9824, page 702, P702 index & C6898, Images 105375-82, p142:
Petition of William Reid for pardon. Petitioner is now a prisoner of Home District Goal (Toronto) changed with hit treason committed in this Province & a Bill of Insurrection (?) has been found. Your Petitioner is deeply sensible of the heinous office which he has committed against the laws of the country & desirous of remitting the only repression now in his power by avowal hoped that his case for Royal Clemency. Please take in to consideration he is an aged father, with a wife & 2 children wholly dependent upon him for support. He was deluded & mislead with false representations to take a part in the recent rebellion. That after your Petitioner was fully aware of the vile intention of McKenzie & his party, he tried to escape but was prevented. He did his utmost exertion to liberate those who were detained by Mckenzie as prisoners & actually did release the sad prisoners. He did finally escape from said McKenzie on Wednesday the day before the Battle on Yonge Street.
Signed, William Reid, Jr, 26 March 1838.
Read 21 May 1838. Entered into Bail for 3 years.
. List of Witnesses & places of abode & additions who are to be produced & examined however against Wm. Read the younger for High Treason, 20 signatures, inc. Richard Titus Wilson of Twp. of East Gwilliambury, Home District, yeoman, Robt. Baldwin, Alex. Wood, John G Spragge, David Bridgford, Jacob Snyder, Jacob Lundy.

. 1851 Agricultural Census, East Gwillimbury Twp., York Co.
R T Willson, Con 3. Lot 13-14, 100 Acres; 60 A under cultivation; 36 A under crops in 1851; 12 A Under pasture 1851;
2 A. Gardens or orchards; 40 A under wood or wild;
8 A. yielded 215 bushels Wheat; 3 A yielded 70 bsh. Barley.
3 Bulls, oxen; 3 Steers; 5 Milch Cows; 6 Calves/heifers, 6 horses of all ages, 14 sheep, 10 pigs;
300 Lbs. Butter; 0 Cheese, 0 Beef Barrels or Cwts, 16 Pork, Barrels or Cows; 0 Quantity of fish cured.
Remarks for E Gwillimbury: The soil in this land is generally clay, with a mixture of sand & limestone gravel in some parts. Generally very productive when properly managed. Midling well natured by springs. There is one heavy stream crosses the west end of the corner. I should think the land on an average is worth about £8 an acre.

Letters remaining in Richmond Hill Post Office:
. 1858 May 7, R Wilson.
. 1858 Jun 1st - Richard Wilson.
. 1858 Dec 10 - Richard Wilson, M Teefy, Postmaster.
Ref: British Tribune & York Ridings' Gazette Newspaper. Richmond Hill, ON. Published 1858 Jun 25, Friday.
. 1860 Apr 1 & 1861 May 1, R. Wilson.
. 1860 July 2 - Richard Wilson.
Ref: York Herald (Richmond Hill, ON), 13 Jul 1860, p. 3.

. Richard Titus Willson, wrote "Reminiscences of Richard Titus Willson" Published by the Newmarket Historical Society. As I recall, the handwritten copy may be found at the Richmond Hill Public Library, on Yonge Street.

Ontario Land Registry Abstract East Gwillimbury, Book 7, p153
Lot 15, Con 2, [Bayview Ave.] East Gwillimbury
. 1835 Feb 26, Bargain&Sale, Jeremiah Graham, to Richard T Willson, £150, 1 East Acre.
. 1853 May 9, B&S, Richard T Willson, to Emily Wood et all, £300, 1 Acre.

. 1858 Feb 20, Ward 1 Expenditure paid R Wilson for work on townline, Markham & York, £7.10s.
Ref: York Heard Newspaper, published 1859 May 20.

. 1859 Mar 18 - Magistrate for East Gwillimbury Twp., R. T. Willson, J. H. Willson.
Ref: York Commonwealth Newspaper.

. 1860 May 23, Wed. - Richmond Hill Fair - Entire Colts for General Purposes dropped in 1857, 3rd prize, Richard Willson.
Ref: York Herald Newspaper, Richmond Hill, published 1.6.1860.

. 1861 Agricultural Census, Markham,Twp. p 9540
Richard Willson, Front of Con 1, Part of Lot 57 & 52
Acres 54 [?}, Total held 100, Under Cultivation 40A, Uncer Crops in 1860 30;
Pasture 1860 10A, Orchards or Garden 1A; Woods or Wild 52A, Cashvalue of Farm $600, Implements & Machinery, $175;
Fall What 7 A Produced 230 Bu., Spring Wheat 6 A Produced 125Bu,
Peas 5 A Produced 150 bu; Oats 4 A Produced 160 Bu.,
Potatoes 2 A Produced 240 bu; Turnips 1.5 A Produced 170; Carrots 147 bushels, Hay 5 bundles of Tons.

Quarter Sessions of Peace.
. 1861 Mar 19, Special General Sessions, JP Weeler, Esq, Chairman. 92 present, including, Abner Arnold, R L Dennison, R T Willson, R E Playter, W Marsh, Rev W Strachan, John Wilson, 4th. Carried York & Peel Co., should separate from city of Toronto for judicial purposes. Sent to Legislature.

. 1878 Apr 26 - OBITUARY,
The Late Richard Titus Willson, Esq. (Slightly abbreviated version.)
Willson's memoranda his family was of Norman descent, come to England with William the Conquer, & settled in Northumberland. The family engaged in the linen trade till 1776, when his father Hugh William, emigrated to Poughkeepsie on the Hudson River, NY, then a British Colony.
"We came by sloop to Albany, thence by wagon to Schenectady. We there bought a boat. In this we passed up the Mohawk River as far as where Rome now stands & thence by military call & wood & we passed into Oneida Lake & down the river to Oswego - thence across the foot of Lake Ontario to Kingston" We emigrated in the wet month of April & found it extremely long & tedious.
We first settled on Wolf Island, opposite Kingston where we underwent severe trail. Then in 1810 proceed to East Gwillimbury where my family have since resided."

. Research & transcription by P J Ahlberg, 2014. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
Ref: Obituary Newmarket Era.

Died:
Aged 86 y., died of old age.

Buried:
East Gwilimbury Twp., Lot 7, Con 4.

Family/Spouse: Eleanor PNELOPE EMES. Eleanor was born on 12 Aug 1796 in Montpelier, Washington Co., Vermont; died on 9 Oct 1851 in Sharon, E Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Pegg Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
COD: Cponsumption, b. near Albany, NY State

Notes:

Hiram R WILLSON, married Caroline R McLeod, b 12. 2. 1803 - 28 Feb 1884.

Died:
Aged 76y 7m, COD Heart disease.

Buried:
Churchhill, Simcoe Co.

Notes:

Mary is the daughter of Phoebe Ann Titus & David L Willson.

Birth:
Alt DOB 15 Sep 1813.

Died:
Aged 31y 11m 21d. = 15 Sep 1816 VERIFY Aged: 34 11 21d = 15 Sep 1813.

Buried:
Died in childbirth, son John I Doan.

Mary married Charles DOAN, .1 in 1831. Charles was born on 6 Nov 1808 in Aurora, Whitchurch Twp., York Co., Ontario; died on 18 Jun 1895 in Aurora, Whitchurch Twp., York Co., Ontario; was buried in Aurora Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]