Notes:

G9/35 (formerly RG1 L3 Vol 204) [9 is the bundle number; 35 is the item number functioning like a page number inside the bundle] C 2029
I have a copy

Joseph Barton 1778 Lt Col 5th Batt NJ Volunteers 1779 1st Batt

Dated 3 Sep 1760, Samuel's Will had this say:
Item, I give unto my son Adam when he shall arrive at the age of twenty one years three hundred acres of Land adjoining and including My old plantation above mentioned but not to possess the old improvement until his Mother's Decease to him his heirs and Assigns for ever.

Item I give unto my son John When he shall arrive a the Age of twenty one years three hundred acres of Land Adjoining to Adams and including the mill and to Extend to the Rear Line Next to George Allens taking his Breadth until he hath the above quantity but not to possess the Mill until the above said Murrys Lease is Expired to him his heirs and Assigns for Ever.

In 1787, 46 families gathered at Log Gaol, New Jersey to make the journey to the border at Niagara. Of these families, 42 were from New Jersey, and four were from Pennsylvania. They included such names as Pettit, Lewis, Glover, two John Smiths, Chambers, Willcox, Nixon, Beamer, Green, Lawrason, Kitchen, Moore, Carpenter and Neil. The group reached Niagara in July 1787.

Adam and his brother John Green signed a document in Hardwick township, Sussex County, in May of 1789, in which they made petition for a tavern licence [(Ida) Crozier & Green, pg 18]

Lot 24, C4 Saltfleet, ON stretches from Ridge Road, above the Escarpment down to what would become King Street in the Village of Stoney Creek. This included what we today call the Devil's Punchbowl. The stream that drops over the mountain brow at this this point, flowing north into the lake is still the "Stoney Creek". This property was patented to Adam Green.

Adam married Martha SMITH in 1775. Martha (daughter of John SMITH and Sarah FREEMAN) was born in 1753; died in Feb 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The OC dated Dec 11, 1810 was the end of the process
C-2197 M9/194
"the daughter of Adam Green, a UE Loyalist" 20 Apr, 1810
"married to Andrew Muir"
"expects a grant of 200 acres"
"Thos Hamilton her agent"
I have a copy

Ann married Andrew MUIR on 10 Sep 1797. Andrew was born on 24 Oct 1763; died on 11 Nov 1855. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ANCESTRY: her death is scanned: MS935 R10 "Anna Pettet"


ANCESTRY: her marriage in 1820 is mentioned in William Yeager, "Marriages of Non-Norfolk Residents by Norfolk County Ministers 1830-1870", Norfolk Historical Society, Simcoe, 1981. Page 94



Andrew Muir (son of John Muir and Agnes Elder) married Anna Green (daughter
of Adam Green and Martha Smith) on September 10, 1797 in Stoney Creek, Ontario,
conducted by Robert Nelles, J. P.
Andrew and Anna MUIR's two youngest children (sibs of Anna Pettit, nee Muir) are found as follows:

ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Papers and Records
Volume 3, Published in Toronto in 1901
Pages 7-73
baptised at the 40-Mile Creek by ROBERT ADDISON, Minister of Niagara
Jun 2, 1806 Andrew Pettit Muir, of Andrew and Ann
Oct 7, 1812 Mary Elizabeth Muir, of Andrew and Anna

[From an old source, apparently reliable, but without citation, these two children
were born Apr 12, 1803 and Aug 1, 1812, respectively. Their older sister Anna,
below, is listed in the same source as being born on Jan 20, 1800, jiving with her death certificate]


Pages 74-85.
REGISTER OF MARRIAGES, TOWNSHIP OF GRIMSBY, U. C., COMMENCING AUG., 1817.
WILLIAM SAMPSON, Minister. [St Andrews, Grimsby]
N.B.-These are to be copied into the Public Register of Marriages
for the Township of Grimsby- this book being merely a Notitia Parochialis
for private use. WM. SAMPSON.
No.33. Andrew Pettit, Grimsby, widower, and Anna Muir, of the
same place, by licence, in Grimsby, 4th May, 1820.



#011484-74 (Toronto) George Chalmes PETTIT, 33, Grimsby, same, widower, farmer, son of Andrew & Anne PETTIT, married Edith Emily HALE, 27, Hamilton, Toronto, s, dau. of William D. & Sarah HALE, witn: -- HALE of Toronto, L. MUIR of Hamilton, married 17 December 1873, Toronto (Church of England)

Anna married Andrew PETIT, Jr. on 4 May 1820. Andrew (son of Andrew PETIT and Sarah SMITH) was born on 22 Oct 1790; died on 24 May 1874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lived in Hamilton and Montreal (after 1866) PETTIT - ANNALS

Her namesake neice (Charlotte Eliza Pettit) was witness at her daughter Sarah's 1877 wedding

005991 1877 (Lincoln Co- Grimsby Village) Robert Arthur ALEXANDER, 32, physician, Ontario, Grimsby, s/o James & Amelia ALEXANDER, married Sarah Harriett BOOKER, 25, Ontario, Grimsby, d/o Alfred & Eliza Ann BOOKER, witn: J. N. WADDLE, Hamilton & Charlotte E. PETTIT, Grimsby, 18 Dec 1877 Grimsby
MS 932 Reel 24

Eliza married Lt. Col. Alfred BOOKER on 16 Jul 1847 in Grimsby ON. Alfred was born on 14 Apr 1824 in Nottingham, England; died on 27 Sep 1871 in Montreal QC; was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal QC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]