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Backhouse, John (1755-1827) was born to William and Margaret Mary (Hill) Backhouse in Lythe, Yorkshire England on 14 Apr 1755. He married in Quisborough, Yorkshire on 8 Feb 1777, Margaret Longbotham. John and Margaret emigrated from England in 1791 and settled in New Jersey. In the spring of 1794, they removed with their family to Twelve Mile Creek in Grantham Township, Lincoln County, Upper Canada.

John Backhouse petitioned on June 4, 1795 for a grant of land and received an order for 600 acres. In 1795, he had purchased a large stock of cattle and established a dairy “according to the English method”. He requested that his lands be located in the Long Point Settlement and received the permission of the Executive Council. Still at Twelve Mile Creek in May 1796, he gave his occupation as “dairyman” and noted that he “has begun with some success to establish a dairy” with forty cows. On Jun 15 1796, John Backhouse was recommended by Hon. Robert Hamilton for a Magistracy in the Home District.

In Jun 1796, Backhouse was granted 600 acres in Lots 17, 18, and 22, Concession 2, Walsingham Township, Norfolk County and his oldest son William preceded him there in September to make preparations for a saw and gristmill on Lot 17. He erected a sawmill in 1797 and a grist mill in 1798, both of them on Big Creek. After Margaret died, John returned to New Jersey to marry widow Jane (Moor) White, who with her husband voyaged from England with John and Margaret Backhouse.

The Backhouse property was located on Dedrick’s Creek, later renamed Spring Creek two miles north of present Port Rowan and is now the site of the Backus Heritage Conservation Area. The gristmill built by John Backhouse and the brick house built in 1853 by grandson John H. Backhouse still stand. The Conservation Area includes the largest tract of Carolinian forest in Canada. Covering 650 acres, it includes many unusual species including flowering dogwood, sassafras, cucumber, sour-gum and tulip trees.

The genealogy includes biographies and six generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Hutchison, Culver, Wrong, Kent, Plowman, Cook, Johnson, Smith, Taylor, Willard, Kenney, Nelson, Parker, Butler, Newman, Bristow, Lafortune, Bouk, Alexander, Ponting, Thompson, Dedrick, Holt, Barrett, Swayze, Bowlby, Atkinson, Rusling, Brown, Percy, McConnell, Scealy, Watts and many more.

Bacon, Benjamin (c. 1747- ) and his probable son Benjamin Bacon lived in Scipio Township, Cayuga County, New York then came to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada by 1812. The younger Benjamin Bacon returned to the United States and lived in Scipio, south of Auburn, Cayuga County, New York until 1815-17 when he moved to the area of the Welland Canal in Welland or Lincoln County, Upper Canada (Ontario). In the 1840’s he settled in Bloomsburg, Townsend Township, Norfolk County.

Bacon, Jeremiah (1737-1803) was born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts to Nathaniel and Sarah (Cobb) Bacon. He married Eunice Culver. They lived in New Jersey, and during the American Revolution was loyal to the British cause. They brought their family to Upper Canada in 1797. Jeremiah Bacon received a grant of 400 acres of land in Lots 4, 5, 6 and 7 Concession 1, Beverly Township along the south side of the Governor’s Road west of the village of Copetown. Jeremiah and Eunice returned to New Jersey and lived in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. Widow Eunice Bacon came back to Upper Canada and lived in Windham Township, Norfolk County.

The genealogy includes six generations in south western Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Granger, Moore, Johnston, Jacobs, Coombs/Combs, Kelly/Kelley, Vasbinder, Lewis, Austin, Pettit, Berdan, Newcombe, Wilson, Widner, Grant, Simon, McDonald, Snell, Griffin, Marlatt, Woolworth, Benedict, Robinson, Knight, Avery, Ross, Wallace and many more.

Bagley, John A. (1788-1821) married Anna Edwards (1790-1880) and lived in Clarence, Erie County, New York. After her husband died, Anna married Rev. Samuel J. Olney (son of Peter and Tabitha (Clarke) Olney), born in Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York on 21 Nov 1791, died in Armada, Macomb County, Michigan on 7 Jul 1869. They lived in Porter, Erie County and in Middlebury, Wyoming County, New York.

Some of the Bagley children settled and raised families in Norfolk and Haldimand Counties, Ontario. After Samuel Olney died, Anna joined her son Philander Bagley in Port Dover, Norfolk County, Ontario.

The genealogy includes four generations in Norfolk and Haldimand in Ontario, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Townsend, Morick, Jackson, Slaght, Pearson, Sternaman, Strohm, Sweet, Pond, Humphrey, Proper, Williamson, Smalley, Wiig, Fleishman, Longmore, Coenen, Whitehead, Wecker, Stahl, Converse, Allen, Eaton, LaPointe

Baker, Anthony was born in Massachusetts about 1750 and married Hannah O’Killey/Kelley (1753-1852). Following their marriage, the couple lived in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts where their oldest son Eleazer was born. They may have lived in New York immediately preceding the American Revolution. After the peace, the British evacuated the loyal families from New York to New Brunswick in several fleets of ships sailing from the spring to the fall of 1783. Anthony Baker, farmer from New York joined the exodus from New York City to St. John, New Brunswick. Anthony settled at Jemseg, Queens County, New Brunswick across the St. John River from Gagetown. In 1794, he moved to Hampton, Kings County, New Brunswick. 

Four of their sons joined the migration from New Brunswick to Norfolk County, Upper Canada. Jonathan Baker (c. 1775-  ) married Elizabeth (Gilbert) Carle (1774-1816) joined her father Norfolk pioneer Isaac Gilbert in his 1799 move from New Brunswick to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada. Jesse Baker (1784-1874) moved in 1806 to Norfolk County and married Anna Ebberson (1793-1870) then in 1815, Jesse located on Lot 28, Concession 7 on Talbot Road in Malahide Township, Elgin County. This was located on the north side of Talbot Road and west side of Carter Line. Simeon Baker (1792-  ) married Lydia Woodworth (c. 1788-  ) and followed had a grant of land in Wakefield, New Brunswick. He followed his brothers Jesse and Samuel to Malahide Township, Elgin County. Samuel Baker (1797-1865) came to Norfolk County with his brother Jesse in 1806 and married Lydia Mabee (1797-1880), daughter of Charlotteville Township pioneer, Oliver Mabee. the Talbot Settlement in Elgin County and farmed 100 acres in Lot 30, Concession 7 on the north side of the Talbot Road in Malahide Township east of the hamlet of Carter’s Corners. Elgin County

The genealogy includes biographies and six generations in Norfolk and Elgin Counties in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Swain, Hallett; Thompson, Becker, Chesterman, Dawson, Hunt, Orton, Ward, Orton, Jackson, Stilwell, Gillett, Scott, Abell, McHenry, Buckle, Vittum, Martin, Webb, Beck, Long, Hoch, Fick, Summers, Pauling, Munger, Hoover, Chalk, Will and many more.

Baker, Christian (1778-1841) was born to Henry and Anna (Sackrider) Baker in Saratoga County, New York and grew up in the town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County, New York, named for the shape of the lower elevation land north of the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers.

The first record of this pioneer in the Long Point Settlement, Norfolk County, Ontario, was his appearance in the 1811 Assessment of Charlotteville Township. On 5 Jul 1815, he purchased from Amos Weeks 100 acres in the north half of Lot 6 Concession 2 in Charlotteville Township located one concession north of the village of Forestville on the west side of the Charlotteville West Quarter Line Road and south side of the present Highway 24.

The genealogy includes parentage and five generations in southwestern Ontario and in western Canada and United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Smith, Squires, Barker, Gibbs, King, Wisson, Leroy, Brien, Moore, Masterson, Fulfer, Mather

Baker, Jacob (1731-1794) and his wife Anna Maria Magdalena Brecht (1738-1827) lived during colonial times in Heidelberg Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania then in 1779 moved to Quemahong Township, Bedford (afterwards Somerset) County, Pennsylvania where Jacob died. Widow Anna Maria and their children moved in several groups to the area of Black Creek in Willoughby Township, Welland County, Upper Canada. During the early years of the 1800’s the territory opening for settlement in Upper Canada was in Markham and Vaughan Townships along Yonge Street in York County north of Toronto (at that time a fledgling town called York). Jacob Baker’s widow Mary and her sons moved to Markham and petitioned for grants of land in the area. Son Henry George’s widow Mary Baker remained in Willoughby Township with her two sons John and Michael Baker whose genealogy is continued.

Includes biographies and six generations in Welland County, Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Lee, Sherk, Neff, Durham, Stockdale, Laur, Sider, Steele, Krafft, Noyes, Burger, Kennedy, Benner, Weaver, Stickles, Brackbill, Foreman, Woehl/Wale, Everett, Edgeworth, Zavitz, Colling, Jansen, , Draper, Thompson, Sauer, Dell, Morningstar, Babion, Hodgkins, Hannigan, Williams, Green, Bartman, Schleffel, Neurither, Huber, Hoffman, Fretz, Becker, Beam and many more. 

Baker, Sampson (1810-1868) was born in Cromhall near Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England to Slade and Elizabeth (Bick) Baker. He married in Cromhall on 24 May 1832, Sophia Daniels (1808-1886). 

There was a considerable migration from the area of Thornbury, Gloucester County, England to Norfolk County, Ontario started by Long Point Settler John Killmaster about 1814. Sampson and Sophia Baker joined the migration soon after their marriage and arrived in Norfolk County by 1833. They settled on a 150 acre farm in Lots 20 and 21, Concession 10, Charlotteville Township. This was located between the Concession 10 Road and the south side of present Highway 3 west of the town of Simcoe.

The genealogy includes ancestry in England and four generations in Norfolk County, Ontario, and in New York and Michigan in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Durham, Cantelon, Simons, Beemer, Strickler, Kinder, Murdoch

Baldwin, John William (1827-1887) was born in Hopewell Center, Ontario County, New York on 13 Sep 1827. He came to Canada West (Ontario) about 1848 and married Eliza Jane Hill (1826-1901).  They farmed in the west half of Lot 23, Concession 3, Walsingham Township, Norfolk County located on the north side of the Concession 2 (Tinkertown) Road about a half mile west of the Sixteenth Line a mile north of St. Williams.

The genealogy includes four generations in Norfolk County, Ontario and in Michigan, Illinois and California in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Beaupre, Smith, Hathway, Cove, Hainer, Irving, Crowley, Hyde, Fleming, Hampton, Whiting, Skirrow, Briggs

Baldwin, Joseph (1741-1807) was a son of Ephraim and Elizabeth Baldwin and born in Woodbury Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut on 4 Sep 1741. He married Mary Squire (1758-1843), daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Squire and the couple lived in the Town of Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut located along present Interstate 84 northeast of the Housatonic River and north of the city of New Haven.Joseph and Mary Baldwin moved with their family to Upper Canada (Ontario) about 1806. On 6 Jan 1807, Joseph Baldwin purchased from William Lockhart part of Lot 56, Concession 5, Malden Township, Essex Joseph Baldwin Sr. then passed the property passed to his son Joseph Baldwin Jr. This is located on County Road West at the intersection of Collison Side Road. Holiday Beach Road runs through the property to Lockhart Island on Lake Erie. All but the northeast part of the lot was situated in the Caldwell Grant Marsh.

Son Amos Squire Baldwin (1784-1848) married Ann Gilbert (1783-1830). Son James Russell Baldwin (1793-1855) married Barbara Ann Ulch (1812-1873) and farmed 70 acres of land in Lot 17 Concession G Colchester South Township. This is now located in the village of Colchester. Son Cyrus Baldwin (1796-  ) married Catherine Alley and moved with their family to the United States in 1845. They settled in Grant County, Wisconsin then in Alma Township, Jackson County, Wisconsin. Alma Township is located on the Mississippi River along the state line of Minnesota and southeast of Minneapolis.

Includes ancestors and six generations of descendants in Haldimand, Welland and Essex Counties and elsewhere in Ontario, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames included: McDonald, Iler, Lamb, White, Farbrother, McAlpine, Krauss, Woodford, Endicott, Hinman, Van Dusen, Allen, Stirtzinger, Seymour, Wilson, Atkins, Bailey, Feather, Schwartz, Wilkins, Beckmann, Paine, Morgan, Patterson, Haynes, Willis, Bruce, Jenkinson, Pavola, Matthiew, Dickhout, Potts, Doughty, Pease, Dahl, Iverson, Bremer, Bradford, Adams, Krick, Death, Fenwick, Moulds, McLean, Whiting, Kreutzig..

Ball, Jacob (1733-1810) was born in Schoharie, Albany County, New York on 9 Mar 1733 to Johann Peter and Anna Margaretha Ball. He married Maria Elizabetha Mann. Following their marriage, Jacob and Maria Elizabeth Ball farmed on lands he received from his older brother in Schoharie, Albany (now Schoharie) County, New York. About 1767 Jacob and Mary Elizabeth settled on a farm with 100 acres of land on Rensselaer Manor in the area of Berne about five miles east of Schenectady and about 20 miles west of the City of Albany.

When the American Revolution broke out in 1776, Captain Jacob Ball maintained his loyalty to the British cause and was fined and imprisoned by the Patriots for that support. In December 1777, Captain Ball’s oldest son Peter travelled to Fort Niagara, the British post at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario north of present Youngstown, Niagara County, New York and joined the Indian Department serving as a Lieutenant under Colonel Guy Johnson, formerly of Amsterdam on the Mohawk River. The following year, Colonel John Butler formed his regiment Butler’s Rangers from Loyalist soldiers at Fort Niagara, including Lieutenant Peter Ball.

Jacob Ball and his sons were among the early grantees and settled on an irregularly shaped unnumbered lot between Three and Four Mile Creeks to the southwest of the Town of Niagara along Niagara Stone Road in Niagara Township. The township lots numbered 70 and 115 and the west part of Lot 69 formed a line along the south boundary of the Ball property. The property ran west from Three Mile Creek to Four Mile Creek Road and north from The East and West Line. When it was surveyed the Ball property measured 862 acres and was given the name of “Locust Grove”. Jacob Ball and his four sons each held a one-fifth share in the property.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Germany and New York, biography and six generations of descendants in southwestern Ontario, Western Canada, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames included: Hutt, Clement, Nelles, Servos, Long, Donaldson, Secord, Dow, McFarland, Pyper, McKenzie, Rankin, Fleetwood, Pressey, Beckett, Coleman, Trott, Gamble, Cheyne, , Pfeifer, Harmsen, Dyer, Rosenhagen, Saxton, Bartlett, Herron, Sandham, Watson, Morse, Aldrich, Sullivan, Owen, Strong, Yeiter and many more.

Barber, John E. (1819-1901) and his wife Ann Elizabeth Barrett lived in Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, England a village about four miles north of Brackley. A stream flows through the village and another forms the southern boundary of the parish. The two merge as Farthinghoe Stream, a tributary of the Great Ouse.

John and Ann Barber came to Canada West (Ontario) in 1845. They lived first in Grimsby, Lincoln County then settled on a 100 acre farm in Lot 15, Concession 6, Townsend Township along the south side of Concession 6 Road east of Old Highway 24 northeast of the town of Waterford. 

Sometime between 1856 and 1861, they moved to the northern part of Charlotteville Township. By 1867, they were living in Lot 15, Concession 14, Windham Township near the village of Nixon. They lived afterwards in the town of Simcoe, Norfolk County.

The genealogy includes parentage in England and five generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Gifford, Gustin; Coates; Bint; Burgess, Eagles, Freeland, McClain, Chambers, Pew, Brown, Sloat, Sebring, Parker, Sitts, Schram, Winegarden, Slaght, Defields, Schultz, Swick, Whitehead, Coupe, Hasely, Mooer, McLeod and many more.

Barber, Samuel (1753-1801) was born in Morris County, New Jersey to Matthias and Jane (Foster) Barber) on 29 Jan 1753 and married Abigail Cozad (1758-1804. The earliest trace found of Samuel Barber was his name on the Ratable List of Roxbury Township, Morris County in 1783 at the stated age of 30. By 1786 he was a trader who also owned 60 acres of improved land valued at 10 pounds. By 1795 his land reached 220 acres, and in 1797, 272 acres as well as a fulling mill. In 1802 he was listed as owning a store.

With the money from the sale of their Long Valley farm, Samuel and Abigail moved their family to the Long Point Settlement in Upper Canada in 1800. n Samuel Barber purchased from Mordecai Sayles Lot 7, Concession 9 in Townsend Township, Norfolk County south of the village of Waterford along the east side of Blueline Road between Thompson and Cherry Valley Roads.

Still the owner of the mills in Roxbury Township, Samuel returned to New Jersey to settle his business affairs and departed for Upper Canada with a considerable sum of money but never arrived. His sons Matthias and John searched for him and the last trace was found at Easton, Pennsylvania.

The genealogy includes the background in New Jersey and six generations in Ontario, in Western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Sharp, Yeager, Wier, Smith, Gilbert, Olmstead, Kitchen, Ferris, Blackburn, Spera, Ferris, Phelps, Beal, Kitchen, Ramage, Green, Hazelton, hearer, Mabee, Turner, Walker, Renner, Cline, Beemer, Culver, Adams, McMichael, Courtnage, Fletcher, Lyons and many more.

Barnes, Jonas (1741-  ) was born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut on 11 Jul 1741 to Thomas and Rebecca (Cone) Barnes and married Anna Millard (c. 1758-1797)

During the early 1780’s Jonas and Anna Barnes lived in West Copake, a hamlet in Columbia County, New York located south east of Hudson and west of the Massachusetts and Connecticut state line. Jonas came to the Niagara District of Upper Canada in 1785 and settled on a 100 acre farm in Lot 71 Stamford Township, Welland County, Upper Canada. This was located on the north side of Dorchester Road between Dorchester and Montrose Roads. In pioneer times this area was entirely rural. It was subsequently subdivided and developed for residential and commercial properties. Today’s Queen Elizabeth Ways runs through the west part of the property.

The genealogy includes ancestry and six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned include: Steele, Montross, Doan, Elliott, Lemon; Teat, Smith, Warren, Thompson, Hobbs, Dennis, Hatch, Brown, Partlow, Norsworthy, Firman, Drew, Ordish, Ruhl, , Higgins, Riley, Tone, Gifford, Allen, Medcalf, Close, Anderson and many more.

Barnhart, John George (1775-1861) and his brother Jacob Barnhart (1779- c. 1869) were born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Peter Barnhart and his wife Mary Martha Boyer. John George Barnhart arrived in Bertie Township, Welland County by about 1800. In 1812 he purchased a 50 acre farm in the west quarter of Lots 13 & 14 Concession 14, Bertie Township. In 1846 and 1848, John Barnhart sold his farms to his sons then moved with them to Walpole Township, Haldimand County. In 1813, Jacob Barnhart purchased from his brother John 50 acres in the west ¼ of Lots 13 & 14 Concession 14 from the Niagara River, Bertie Township.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Germany and Pennsylvania, and six generations in Ontario, in western Canada, and from coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Shoup; Carver, Eberly, Sider, Shisler, Inman, Lull, Climenhage, Baker, Saylor, Cregar, Zimmerman, Bayne, Princing, Foreman, James, Sholler, Wallerwine, Haffner, Waldie, Dishaw, Pritch, Engle, Haun, Dean, Taylor, Sherk and many more.

Barnhart, John Jacob (1745-1822/4), Nicholas Barnhart, Nicholas Barnhart (1740-1803), George Barnhart (1744-1811) and Charles Christoph Barnhart (1765-1864) were sons of Johannes Bernhard and his wife Maria Gertraud Rau. Nicholas and John Jacob were baptized in Zion Lutheran Church, Loonenburg (Athens), Greene County, New York. George was baptized in Germantown Lutheran Church, Columbia County, New York. Charles Christoph was baptized in Round Top Lutheran Church, Pine Plains, Dutchess County, New York. All served in the Loyalist forces during the American Revolution and following the war settled afterwards in Cornwall Township, Stormont County, Upper Canada.

In colonial times George Barnhart leased a considerable 430 acre tract of land on the east side of the Delaware River in the area of Verplanksburgh (now Kelly’s Corners) in Ulster (now Delaware) County, New York. During the American Revolution he then joined Butler’s Rangers under Colonel John Butler and was captured and imprisoned by the Rebels. He joined the Indian Department in 1778 and served under Chief Joseph Brant. In 1780, he joined the 2nd Battalion of the King’s Royal Regiment of New York under Sir John Johnson and served as a Sergeant.

In colonial times John Barnhart leased 100 acres of land on the east side of the Delaware River in the area of Verplanksburgh (now Kelly’s Corners) in Ulster (now Delaware) County, New York. During the American Revolution he joined the Indian Department serving under Chief Joseph Brant. Barnhart joined Butler’s Rangers under Colonel John Butler in 1779. On 1 Feb 1780 he enlisted as a private in Munro’s Company of the 1st Regiment of The King’s Royal Regiment of New York until 1783.

The genealogy includes ancestry, biographies and five generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Marks, Smith, Gray, McDonnell, Phillips, Van House, Steinhoff, Waltenberger, Pilkey, Prior, Spears, Willson, Raham, Matthews, Cline, Wood, Johnston, Devitt, Applegate, Van Buren, Gast, , Steele, DeGlopper, Chipman, Stockton, Sills, Rombough and many more.

Barnum, Nathan (1732-1795), son of Nathan and Rebecca (Lockwood) Barnum, was born in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut. In colonial times Nathan Barnum lived on a 260 acre farm at New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. In 1776 when the American Revolution broke out, Nathan and Lois Barnum moved to Long Island where Nathan joined the British forces and served as an Ensign in Colonel Ludlow’s Regiment. Nathan wrote a lengthy story of his exploits during the American Revolution in a petition requesting restitution of his £50 per year pension for services during the war.

In 1783, following the peace, Nathan went in the Loyalist Exodus from New York to Nova Scotia then settled for a time in New Brunswick, finally moving to Upper Canada in 1793. Barnum explored the area in the vicinity of Long Point on Lake Erie in Norfolk County. In a land petition dated on 22 Sep 1793, he requested confirmation of a 200 acre lot he had purchased about four miles north of Turkey Point (Charlotteville Township) and 1,800 acres along both sides of Big Creek (Walsingham Township). In addition he requested 900 acres for his three sons on Pattersons Creek (Lynn River in Woodhouse Township) and land for his two daughters.

The genealogy includes ancestors, biographies and six generations in Norfolk and Elgin Counties in Ontario, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Clark, Kimber, Liger, Davis, Johnson, Henry, Huffaker, Whitney, Wooten, Carr, Middleton, Troxell, Palmer, Smithies, Johnstun, Gardner, Combs, Edgell, Duffield, Emmett, Day, Sprague, Wood, Higgs, Grawburg, Emery, Swartz, Kessenger and many more.

Barrett, Marks (c. 1775-  ) and his wife Elsjen/Else Conradt lived in the area of Oak Hill a hamlet in the larger town of Rensselaerville in Albany County, New York and once part of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck. Oak Hill is now in the town of Durham, Greene County. Marks Barrett took his family to the Long Point Settlement in 1811, settling in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County near the village of Port Rowan.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Finch, Dickson, Anderson, Ellis, Millard, Dickinson, Dennis, Raymond, Johnson, White, Morrison, Ross, Taft, Charlton, Fuller, Walker, Cartwright, Johnston, Fox, Jolliffe, Lemon, Osborne, Kircher, Ferney, Willis, Perry

Barton, John (1787-1842) was born in New York on 9 Apr 1787. He married in New York on 1 May 1806, Elizabeth Day (1787-1865. John and Elizabeth Barton came from New York to Upper Canada about 1815 and lived for a time around 1823 in Ancaster Township, Wentworth County. On 22 Feb 1831, John Barton purchased the north half of Lot 5, Concession 11, Townsend Township, Norfolk County. This was located along the west side of Culver Road and the south side of Concession 11 Road a short distance east of the village of Bloomsburg. Mount Pleasant Road (Old Highway 24) runs through the northwest corner of the lot.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Carpenter, Smith, Hall, Clouse, Day, Horning, Merritt, Cook, Bates, Brown, Herendeen, Hopkins, Helsdon, Crawford, Palmer, Mankin, Quick, Hamlett, Beeman, Patterson, Martin, Irwin, Pelch, Fischer, Johnson, Robinson and many more.

Bartow, Stephen, merchant and distiller, arrived in Charlotteville Township in 1799 and owned properties in Fisher’s Glen and the old District Capital of Charlotteville village. He moved to Yarmouth Township, Elgin County in 1810. One generation biography. 

Bates, Gilbert (c. 1797-1880) was born in New York to John and Hester Bates. Gilbert Bates and his first wife (name unknown) lived in Bedford, Westchester County, New York located west of the Connecticut state line and east of Peekskill and the Hudson River. Gilbert came to Ontario sometime prior to 1842 when he married the widow Margaret (Udell) Emery (1811-1898).

In 1850 Gilbert and Mary Bates lived in Lots 10 or 11 Concession 4 in the northern part of Townsend Township, Norfolk County. This was located west of the village of Boston. In 1852, they farmed in the north quarter of Lot 18, Concession 14, Townsend Township. This was located on the present Concession 14 Road south of the hamlet of Rockford and east of the Town of Simcoe.

The family moved to a farm in Wales Township, St. Clair County, Michigan about 1858. Wales Township is located south of present Interstate Highway 94 west of the town of Goodells. Gilbert and Mary Bates next lived with Margaret’s daughter Margaret (Emery) and her husband Leroy Phelps in Dayton Township Tuscola County, Michigan east of the city of Saginaw.

The genealogy includes ancestry and four generations of descendants in Norfolk and Essex Counties in Ontario and in Michigan and California in the United States. Descendant surnames included: Cotty, Christner, Schroer, Miller, Locke, Grove.

Bates: Includes several unrelated families of this surname:

Bates, John (1826-) came from the United States by 1849 when he married Mary Youmans. The couple settled in Townsend Township then in Delhi, Windham Township and finally in Walsingham Township. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County.David Bates (c. 1800-1877) married Mary Ann Hewett Howick and settled in Simcoe. Includes children and grandchildren.

Bates, George A. (1831-1895) was a son of Stephen and Mary Bates and born in Barton Township, Wentworth County, Upper Canada (Ontario). He married Elizabeth (Betsy) Jane Messecar, a daughter of John and Sarah Jane (Clouse) Messecar (1823-1891) and settled in Lot 11, Concession 9, Townsend Twp. east of Waterford. Includes three generations of descendants in Townsend Township an in Michigan. 

Bates, Joseph H. (c. 1798-1865) came from New Jersey to Upper Canada and lived for a time near Hamilton, Wentworth County until about 1820 when he moved to Townsend Township, Norfolk County. He married Phila Rogers (1805-1892) who came with her brother Orrin Rogers from New York to Townsend Township. Joseph was a hotel keeper then farmed in Lots 17 and 18, Concession 3, Townsend Township on the north side of Norfolk County Road 19 about one mile west of the village of Bealton and five miles east of the village of Boston.

The genealogy includes four generations in Norfolk County, Ontario and in Michigan, Nebraska and Missouri in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Smith, Dort