Detour Through History: Canada

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07 December 2023

Power Of Attorney

Kent County, Ontario, Probate:

Image 222
Notarized in Tennessee

24 November 2023

Bowman And The Loyalists Of America

Sufferings Of The U.E. Loyalists....(265 Bowman):

...dated February 15, 1875. "To the Editor of the Christian Guardian. " My Dear Sir — " At the request of the family, I have prepared, and I send you herewith, a brief obituary notice of Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman Spohn, only child of the honoured and widely-known late Peter and Elizabeth Bowman, near the village of Ancaster, in the county of Wentworth.

The delicate state of my grandmother obliged him to remain at home, while nearly all that remained lirm to their allegiance left for the British army. He was surprised at night, while his wife was sick, by a party of rebels, and with his eldest son, a lad of sixteen years of age, was taken prisoner; his house pillaged of every article except the bed on which his sick wife lay, and that they stripped of all but one blanket. Half an hour after my grandfather was marched off, his youngest child was born. This was in November. There my grandmother was, with an infant babe and six children, at the commencement of winter, without any provisions, and only one blanket in the house. Their cattle and grain were all taken away. My father, Peter Bowman, the eldest son at home, was only eleven years old. As the pillage was at night, he had neither coat nor shoes; he had to cut and draw his firewood half a mile on a hand-sleigh to keep his sick mother from freezing; this he did barefooted. The whole family would have perished had it not been for some friendly Indians that brought them provisions.

21 November 2023

William Powers In Land Book

Found in the Upper Canada Land Books, Reel C-104:

57 264 William Powers

17 November 2023

Cameron Letter, 17 November 1826

Daniel Claus and family fonds : C-1483:

D. Cameron To Warren Claus

341 (Image 356)

17 November 1826

...the Gores...your father thought of them almost to his last moment...

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

16 November 2023

Beaubien Mentioned

Quebec Gazette index card:

7981 Pierre Henry Dearivieres Beaubien mentioned

16 November 1820

15 November 2023

Captain Cameron, Image 279

Archibald McMillan and family fonds, H-1099 (Image 279)

Montreal 12 Nov 18_ _

"Captain Cameron's affairs in London have turned out better than he or his friends expected altho his agents in London became bankrupts...".

"...send you a hogshead sider which is now manufacturing at the Priest's farm near the Mountain." "I have not heard from Grenada from Mrs. Cameron since her departure...".