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Caldwell, John (c. 1744-1830) served during the American Revolution in Capt. A. McLean’s Company, New York Volunteers on Long Island, New York from 1777 to 1781. Following the American Revolution, John with his family went in the Loyalist exodus of New York. The family boarded The Prince of Wales which left the Hudson River, New York with the Joseph on 18 Oct 1783, bound for Conway, Nova Scotia, but wild winds and storms drove them off course. The Joseph arrived at Digby, Nova Scotia on December 10th, but The Prince of Wales was driven by the gale to Bermuda and wrecked. Among the survivors were the Caldwells whom the Joseph picked up in the early spring of 1784 and took to Nova Scotia. John, Sr. received land grants at Freeport and Broad Cove, Long Island, Nova Scotia.

His son John Caldwell (c. 1765- c. 1842) and his wife Hannah (Outhouse) lived for a time in New Brunswick then in 1796 moved to Upper Canada, among those whom Captain Samuel Ryerse applied for to settle at Long Point. Caldwell filed a petition dated 8 Jun 1796, stating that he was the son of a Loyalist, had a wife and two children, and requesting 300 acres of land. The Executive Council ordered that he receive 200 acres in the Settlement of Long Point.2 He was granted Lots 19 and 20 Concession 9, Pelham Township, Lincoln County in 1797, but turned it back as “it did not locate him west of the Grand River or Longpoint area”. Although he continued to own the land at Woodhouse Township, Caldwell moved to a 73 acre farm in the west half of Lot 2, Concession 1, Charlotteville Township located north of the village of St. Williams and northwest of Forestville. In 1817, he purchased Lot 22, Concession 9, London Township, Middlesex County then in 1820 he purchased Lot 30, Concession 2, Westminster Township, Middlesex County south of the City of London from his widowed sister Mary (Caldwell) Vail. He then made this his subsequent home.

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Outhouse, Tidd, McNeill, Dale, Rock, Burleson, Irwin, Hughes, Molbey, McCall, McDowell, Scales, Burley, Vary, Mater, Pyper, Spencer, Dutton, Marshall, Holden, Pearce, Teetzel, McLaren, Wingrove, Shaw, Streith

Camfield, Joseph  (1743-1824) was born to Samuel and Mary (Barnum) Camfield) and baptized in the First Congregational Church, Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut on 17 Apr 1743. During the French-Indian (Seven Years) War, in 1761 Joseph Camfield served in the Ninth Company of the Second Connecticut Regiment under Captain Thomas Pierce and Colonel Nathan Whiting.

Subsequently during colonial times, Joseph Camfield lived in the town New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts located in the lower Berkshires, dotted by several peaks. Several rivers, including the Konkapot, Umpachene and Whiting, flow through the town, all of which feed into the Housatonic River. The town lies along Massachusetts Route 183, which passes from Lenox and Great Barrington towards Sandisfield and the Connecticut border.

Joseph Camfield lived afterwards in Ballstown, Saratoga County, New York then later came to Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada, possibly with his son Ira Camfield who arrived by 1810.

Descendant surnames mentioned: Snyder, Smith, Anderson, Holmes, Willcox, Pegg, Cooper, Brown, Philpott, Epping, Ladue, Verbic

Carl, John (c. 1755-1836) was born to John and Freelove (Mitchell) Carl in Hempstead, Nassau County on Long Island, New York. Following the American Revolution, John Carl came to Niagara, Upper Canada from New York as a single young man and settled on about 50 acres of land in Lot 2 in the First Cross Concession on the Niagara River, in Bertie Township, Welland County. This was located on the south side of the bend in the Niagara River east of Thompson Road.

John Carl left his improvement in Bertie Township and found 440 acres of land in Lots 186, 203, 204 and 213 Thorold Township, Welland County. The first two lots were located along the north and west side of Chippewa Creek (Welland River) in the present village of Port Robinson. Lot 204 bordered on the west side of Lot 203 and Lot 213 was located to the south of Lot 204. Today the Welland Canal runs through the west side of Lots 186 and 203 and the east side of Lots 204 and 213. After the canal was constructed in 1828, the village of Port Robinson grew up on Lots 204 and 213.

The genealogy includes ancestry, biographies and five generations in south western Ontario, and in western Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Brooks, Phillips, Wallace, McCombs, Robbins, Blanchard, Misener, Young, Farr, Hederick, Rush, Overholt, Kelsey, Rolston, Swartz, Weaver, Hughes, Augustine, Hazen, Halton, Pierce, Holden, Wood, Bosse, Zavitz, Gould, Terreberry, Horton, Slater and many more.

Carpenter, Ashman (1725-1786) was born in Hopewell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey to Ashman and Lucy Amelia Carpenter. He married Mary Catherine Boyle (1735-1815), born in Maidenhead (present Lawrenceville), Middlesex County, New Jersey in 1735. In colonial times, Ashman and Mary lived in Hopewell, Sussex County, New Jersey.

In colonial times, Ashman and Mary Carpenter lived in Hopewell, Sussex County, New Jersey. Ashman was loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution and in 1788 moved to Upper Canada then died soon after in Queenston, Niagara Township, Lincoln County. His widow and children then settled in Saltfleet Township, Wentworth County and Grimsby Township, Lincoln County. Mary was said to have lived with her son Gershom until her death.

The genealogy includes ancestors and six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Pettit, Willson, Moore, Coon, Nelles, Henry, Pickard, Hagar. Noll, Dingle, Gates, Hill, Munn, McCall, Bowlby, Truesdale, Foran, Ryckman, DeCew, Morden, Ross, Hockenberry, Dickson, DeForest, Beedy and many more.

Carpenter, James (1800-1873) was born in England and came to Upper Canada before 1820 when he married his first wife Lucy Hoy (1804-1841). After her passing, James married second in 1842, Irena Groff. James and Lucy Carpenter settled in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County then moved to Malahide Township, Elgin County where their son Jabez Carpenter settled on and developed a former Crown reserved lot then died in 1855. James then lived in the nearby hamlet of Port Bruce, Malahide Township.

The genealogy includes four generations in Ontario and Michigan. Descendant surnames mentioned: Sifton, Van Alstine, Bedford, Hickock, Horse, Graham.

Carrow, Michael (c. 1780-1848) and his wife Mary Willson farmed in Windham Township then lived in Waterford, Townsend Township during the War of 1812-1815. Sometime before 1837 they moved to Charlotteville Township. After Michael Carrow died, widow Mary Carrow lived with her son John Carrow Esq. and his wife Charity on their farm, in Lot 11, Concession 11, Charlotteville Township. This was located between the south side of present Highway 3 and the north side of Concession 11 Road about 1 kilometre west of Turkey Point Road. The hamlet of Atherton and Atherton Cemetery are located in the north part of the lot.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and Michigan. Descendant surnames mentioned: Smith, Jenereaux/Genereux, Gilbert, Howey, Evans, Malcolm, Chandler, Weir, Withrow, Hunt, Barton, Carr, Wood, Spencer, Rowlands, Leask, Holloway, Street, Beckett, Osborn, Lickman, Boughner

Carter, Silas (1765-1856) was born in Morristown, Morris County New Jersey on 9 Jul 1765 and baptized in the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown on 19 Nov 1781. Although still quite young during the American Revolution, Silas Carter supported the American cause and substituted for his father in the Patriot Regiment of New Jersey Militia under company Captains Peter Martin and Ephraim Buckhover, commanded by Colonel Jacob Ford and Major Linley.   

In 1788, Silas Carter came to Canada and settled on a government grant of 250 acres of land in Lot !3, Concessions 1 and 2 with the broken front concession on Lake Erie in Bertie Township, Welland County. The property ran between the west side of Stonemill Road and the east side of Windmill Point Road from Dominion Road in the north to the shore of Lake Erie in the south.

The front of Silas Carter’s lot was on a point of land on Lake Erie where he erected a stone windmill in 1832 and this operated for many years. The location, originally called Carter’s Point, later became generally known as Windmill Point and bears that name today. Windmill Point Park is located in the centre of the lot.

Descendant surnames mentioned: Brown, Kier, Rose, Stringer, Woods, Westover, McEown, Nichol, Middleton, Lett, LaPraik, Paupst, Miller, Holbeck

Cartwright, Hezekiah (1781-1857) was nine years old when his father died in Sharon, Connecticut and he chose his mother as guardian. When he was sixteen, his mother remarried and moved to Upper Canada in 1797. In 1817 Hezekiah Cartwright was located by Colonel Thomas Talbot on 100 acres of land in the Talbot Settlement, the west half of Lot 11, West of North Road, Houghton Township on the east side of Bayham-Norfolk Boundary Road and south of Colonel Talbot Road and northwest of the hamlet of Kinglake. Cartwright’s Crown Grant was in Houghton Township, Norfolk County. He performed the required settlement duties and petitioned on 2 May 1835 for a grant of the lot.

On 2 Apr 1837, Hezekiah Cartwright purchased 100 acres of land in Lot 1 Concession 4, Bayham Township, Elgin County and set up a blacksmith shop. The location was situated along the west side of Richmond Road between the north side of Calton Line and the south side of James Line. Cartwright severed and sold small lots from the south part of the farm and the hamlet of Calton grew up.

“According to tradition, Hezekiah lived in a log house located on the road north of Calton and between the present locations of the Baptist Church and Calton Cemetery. Over a period of years, he sold his property in small parcels. The family attended the Baptist Church at Calton. The present church was not built until 1887, according to the June 30, 1907 edition of the St. Thomas Times-Journal. “A man named Cartwright” donated the land with the stipulation that title should return to the farm from which it came if the building were to be moved or cease to be used by the Baptists. It is said that Hezekiah died in 1857 and was buried in Calton Cemetery, but we have no documentation on this and no tombstone has been found. If he is buried there, the grave would have been in his own backyard, for (ibid) Bartholomew Timpany donated the first acre on land for Calton Cemetery in 1885.”

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned include Merritt, Pritchard, Swart, VanVelzer, Walker, Otto, Pelton, Cramer, Hewitt, Morse, Eveland, Helmer, Wagner, McNinch, Reshatoff, Duryee, Brink, Hartl, Landon, Fitzpatrick, Johnson and many more.

Cartwright, John (born est. 1770). Arriving in Upper Canada in 1793, John Cartwright was the original settler at the location of the present-day village of Port Rowan in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County. He showed an early interest in the Long Point Settlement, travelling with an exploration party headed by Benjamin Willson in the late spring of 1793. In a petition received by the Executive Council of Upper Canada on 12 Jul 1793, he with Benjamin Willson, etal., associates stated that he was desirous of settling between Long Point and Turkey Point. His name was marked on the petition as a good Loyalist and he was allowed a grant of 200 acres of land. It appears that John Cartwright then moved out of Norfolk County after 1801. This is a one page biography.

Cartwright, Richard (1759-1815), during the formative years in early Upper Canada (Ontario), was a prominent businessman, office holder, Judge, politician, militia officer and author. He was appointed a judge in the Court of Common Please in 1788 and in 1789 appointed to the land board of the Mecklenburg District. He was elected to the first Legislative assembly of Upper Canada in 1792 and was continuously re-elected until his death.

Richard was born in Albany, Albany County, New York where his father Richard Sr. had established himself as a pillar of the community in Albany. He owned a successful inn and a valuable tract of land near Cherry Valley. He was also deputy postmaster of Albany and active locally in the Church of England. Richard Jr. attended private primary and advanced schools where he studied “the classics and higher branches of education in preparation for the ministry, a plan that was ended by the outbreak of the American Revolution.

During the war, Richard Cartwright Junior travelled to Montreal, Quebec then to Fort Niagara at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario where he joined Butler’s Rangers as the secretary of the commander John Butler. He spent 1778 and 1779 in military incursions into norther New York and gained experience in military provisioning. About 1784, he married Magdalene Secord (1764-1827), daughter of James Secord a loyalist Lieutenant in he Indian Department and one of the early settlers west of the Niagara River. My own Secord ancestry gives me a relationship to the family.

In May 1780, Cartwright left the military to enter a partnership with Robert Hamilton. In 1781, Cartwright and Hamilton with the help of their principal suppliers James McGill and Isaac Todd of Montreal formed a mercantile partnership with John Askin of Detroit for the lucrative fur trade and the supply of the British garrisons settling afterwards at Cataraqui.

In 1783, Cartwright looked after the firm’s operations in eastern Upper Canada from a store on Carleton Island in Lake Ontario. In 1784 the Askin partnership was dissolved and Cartwright moved to Cataraqui on the mainland and his mercantile enterprise with Hamilton continued to flourish. In 1788, Cataraqui was renamed Kingston.

His son John Solomon Cartwright (1804-1845) was a lawyer, author, Judge, businessman, politician, farmer and architectural patron. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, representing Lennox and Addington Counties from 1836 until his death in 1845. Grandson John Robison Cartwright was Deputy Attorney General of Ontario. Another grandson the Right Honourable Richard John Cartwright was first elected as a Member of the Parliament of Canada in 1863, representing South Oxford and served as Minister of Finance from 1873 to 1878 then leader of the Official Opposition. He was President of the Commercial Bank of Canada. A great-grandson, John Robert Cartwright was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1949. He became Chief Justice in 1967, retiring in 1970. He was invested as a Companion to the Order of Canada in 1970.

The genealogy includes parents in England and New York and six generations coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Dobbs, , Cayley, Van Straubenzie, Beford-Jones, Rosher, Bayly, Dale, Vernon, Crosthwait, Leitch, Jameson, Telford, Emery, Matheson, Alexander, Fischer, Dunbar, Baker, James, Walker

Cassada/Cassady, Daniel (c. 1745-) was born in Ireland and lived with his first wife Mary in Ireland and had a son named Samuel and a daughter Rosannah born there. Daniel ventured alone to Pennsylvania seeking land for his family. The beginning of the American Revolution intervened and prevented him from sending to Ireland for his family.During the American Revolution, Daniel traveled from Pennsylvania and joined the Loyalist forces in Butler’s Rangers at the British post of Fort Niagara, located at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario north of present Youngstown, New York. 

Daniel Cassady located on 133 acres of land in Lots 75 and 110 Niagara Township located on both sides of Concession 4 Road (which no longer runs through) and along the north side of Line 3 Road. Four Mile Creek and Four Mile Creek Road runs through Lot 110. This is a short distance south of the present village of Virgil. He was joined here by his son Samuel and wife Mary who died soon after her arrival. Daniel married second Ann Dennis.

Descendant surnames mentioned: Field, Swayze, Whitten, Winslow, Eagleson, Nickerson, Freel, Sauter, Yeaman, Person, Durham, Heck, Kilbourne, Routledge, McNiece, Nix, Hughes, Huntington, Paull, Jenkins, Werzberger. 

Cattle, John (c. 1796-1877) and his wife Ann Blacker lived in Beverley, Yorkshire, England located north of the City of Hull and the Humber River near its mouth on the North Sea. The brought their family to Upper Canada in 1840 or 1841 and settled on 50 acres in the south quarter of Lot 19, Concession 13, Walsingham Township on the north side of Concession 13 Road and the east side of East Quarter Line Road. John and his son Edward added more acreage in the lot until they owned the whole 200 acres running along the East Quarter Line Road to Concession 14 Road. The hamlet of Wyecombe grew up in the southwest corner of the lot. Over the years the Cattle family donated the land for Wyecombe’s school, Methodist Church and cemetery.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and Michigan. Descendant surnames mentioned: Benson, Kniffen, Wilson, Hope, Wilkinson

Chadwick, Eli (1789-1844) was born in Bury, Lancashire, England on 3 Sep 1789 and lived at Huddersfield near Preston, Lancashire, England then came to Upper Canada in 1827. Eli purchased a farm in Lot 19, Concession 1 on the west side of Fisher’s Glen Road about one kilometre north of the hamlet of Fisher’s Glen in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County. He was a Baptist minister in the nearby village of Vittoria and started the Chadwick Academy in his home. Norfolk artist W. Edgar Cantelon painted a picture of Rev. Eli Chadwick and another of the Chadwick Academy. These are in the collection of the Norfolk Historical Society.

John Chadwick (1785-1848) was born in Bury. Lancashire, England to Jamesand Mary (Greenleaves) Chadwick). John and his wife Susannah lived in England and the United States until coming to Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada (Ontario) about 1832. They settled on 310 acres in Lot 21, Front Concession of Charlotteville Township east of present Fisher’s Glen. This was a former Crown lease property held by the Government of Canada then transferred to the Canada Company for sale to prospective settlers who performed required settlement duties and payments then applied for the deed. John Chadwick died before the title was issued for his farm. The Crown Patent for the entire 310 acres was issued to his son Joseph on 21 Mar 1851.

Samuel Chadwick (1800-1877) was also a son of James and Mary (Greenleaves) Chadwick. He farmed about 50 acres of land in the southeast part of Lot 1, Concession 12 and the north part of Lot 1, Concession 13, Windham Township, Norfolk County on the north and south side of Concession Road 13 at the present Highway 3 about 1 kilometre north of the village of Colborne.

The genealogy includes ancestry in England and five generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Smith, Jackson, Christopher, Scott, Livingstone, Sumner, Bain, Williams, Leggo, Grassett, Lea, Ryerse, Widner, Rush, Marston, Stevenson, Brook, Durward, Steacy, Dochstader, Langs, Bell, Culver, Fairbairn, Black, Jackson

Chambers, Ahijah (1755-1839) and his brothers Joseph Chambers (c. 1761-  ) and Isaac Chambers (c. 1762-1805) were born to Abijah and Elizabeth (Doty) Chambers in Byram Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.

During the American Revolution, Ahijah Chambers served as a Sergeant in the 1st Battalion of the New Jersey, Volunteers. He was captured in battle and confined as a prisoner for three years. He came to Canada about 1788 and was given a Crown Grant of 300 acres Crown Grant in Lot 2, Concession 1 and Lot 13, Concession 4, Saltfleet Township, Wentworth County, Upper Canada. He made his home on the former located on the east side of Fifty Mile Road and Lake Ontario east of the village of Winona.

Joseph Chambers settled on Lots 21 and 22, Concession 1 in Saltfleet Township and made improvements. He moved to Townsend Township, Norfolk County by 1801.

Isaac Chambers came to Upper Canada in 1787 and settled on Lot 23, Concessions 1 and 2, Grimsby Township, Lincoln County. Isaac and his wife Sarah (Slaght) Chambers inherited the James Slaght homestead in the east half of Lot 157 and the northeast quarter of Lot 162, Stamford Township, Welland County.

The genealogy includes ancestors, biographies and five generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Land, Pew, Carter, Conant, Mount, Carpenter, Morgan, Barnes, Gregory, McDonald, Teeter, Messecar, Roberts, Slaght, Light/Lite, Secord, Wymer, Lundy, Pearsall, Gould/Goold, Strohm, Harp, Millen, Kitchen, Decator, Wheeler, Hite, Wilson, Haney, Kipp, Moss, McCulloch and many more.

Chapin, Elam (1778-  ) was born to Charles and Mary (Smith) Chapin in South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts on 18 Oct 1778. He married in South Hadley on 15 Jan 1807, Mary (Polly) Eddy, daughter of Charles and Maranda (King) Eddy. Elam and Mary Chapin settled in Oakland Township, Brant County, Upper Canada by 1810.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Massachusetts and five generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Duncombe, Merritt, Church, Smith, Widner, Graham, Bates, Salters, Leonard, Brown, Scott, Nancekivell, Yeager, Valdois, Mount, Earle, Philips, Merrick and many more.

Chapman, Thomas (1787-1860) was born in Northamptonshire England on 6 Jun 1787. About 1808, aged 21 years old, Thomas Chapman joined the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot also called the Royal Scots and served in its 1st Battalion. First raised in 1633, the Regiment ranked as the most senior of the line regiments of infantry. In 1812, the regiment was re-titled as the 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots). In 1813, Chapman’s battalion was sent to Quebec for service in the War of 1812 between Canada and the United States and was present in the battles of Sackett’s Harbor and Buffalo & Black Rock, as well as the capture of Fort Niagara and The Battle of the Thames (1813), the battles of Longwoods, Chippawa and Lundy’s Lane, along with the Siege of Fort Erie and the battle of Cook’s Mills (1814).

Following the peace in 1815, Thomas Chapman took his discharge from the 1st Regiment of Foot and remained in Upper Canada. About 1818, he married Jane Buchner and following their marriage, Thomas and Jane Chapman lived for a time in Grimsby Township, Lincoln County then in 1838 their daughter Ann was born in Clinton Township, Lincoln County.

Thomas Chapman next farmed 130 acres in the north part of Lot 2, Front Concession of Woodhouse Twp. north of Port Ryerse. This was located on the present Radical Road about a mile east of present Highway 24.

The genealogy includes biography and five generations in Norfolk County, Ontario and in Michigan. Descendant surnames mentioned: McMann, Dell, Law, Smith, Porter, Cupples, James, Wells, Leslie, Charters, Hazell, Dixon. 

Charlton, Thomas (1778-1857). An important family in pre-confederation Norfolk and Brant Counties, Ontario was that of Thomas Charlton of Onondaga Township in Brant County. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland County, England on 18 Oct 1778 and baptized in All Saints Church, Thomas in adulthood established a grocery business in Castle Garth then on Collingwood Street in the city.

The family came to America on the ship Mentor, J. S. Wilson Mentor, in Liverpool and arrived in New York, New York on 5 Jul 1825. Thos Charlton 46, grocer was listed with his second wife Ellen Charlton 27, Michael Charlton, farmer 22, Dorothy Charlton 17, Margt Charlton 12, Eleanor Charlton 11 and Jane Charlton 11. Thomas and Ellen lived in Caledonia, Livingston County, New York then afterwards settled in Onondaga Township, Brant County, Upper Canada where he farmed on 200 acres of land in Lot K, Block 1, Onondaga Township, Brant County in the south part of a large bend in the Grand River on the east bank opposite the hamlet of Newport and south of Regional Road 18 and the City of Brantford. On the map from the 1875 Historical Atlas of Brant County, this was at the far left. Salt Springs Church pictured below is near the farm.

Descendant surnames mentioned include Settle, Senior, Gray, Horner. Rockwell, Martin, Donald, Kitchen, Samson, Robertson, Cannon, Rex, Compton, Trask, Woolcock, Westcott, McEown, Long, Bilger, McMillan, Salisbury, Stewart, Jolly and many more.

Charters, David Landsborough (1812-1901) was born to William and Jane (Landsborough) Charters in Hawkhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland on 12 Feb 1812. David and his wife Jennette Ferguson (1816-1898) lived in Hawkhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland a village on the east side of Paisley. It is on the Hawkhead Burn and White Cart Water, crossed by the Hawkhead Bridge. They came to Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Canada West about 1845 and settled on a 66 2/3 acres farm in the southwest part of Lot 21, Concession 5 on the north side of Concession 6 Road about 2 kilometers west of the County Line and south of the village Hartford.

The genealogy includes four generations in Ontario and Alberta and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Sewell, Lewis, Upthegrove, Coulson, VanNatter, Stickes, Kitchen, Granger, Brock, McCloy, MacCrimmon, Secord, Awde, Herman, Smiley, VanNatter, Graves

Chase, Walter (1801-1875) married in St. Thomas, Elgin County on 20 Sep 1824, Nancy (Ann) Secord a daughter of Long Point Settler David Secord. Walter Chase farmed on Lot 24, Concession 9, Malahide Township, Elgin County between Ron McNeil Line and Pressey Line about 1 kilometre west of the village of Springfield. In the Popular Rebellion of 1837, he took up arms under Doctor Charles Duncombe and was present when the rebels were defeated at Oakland. He then left for the United States, and, not long afterwards was captured in the pirate schooner, Anne, when that vessel made an attack on Amherstburg. He was taken prisoner and sent to Kingston but escaped and fled to Michigan where he and his wife Nancy settled in the town of Clyde, St. Clair County and then in Greenville, Montcalm County.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Evans, Swailes, Wesley, Stockwell, Higgins, Winus, Earle, Decker, Blanck, Ormsbee, Owen, Walker, Button, O’Neill, Wreggit, Beach, McKellop, Robinet, Horton, Bennett, Crites, McConchie, Baker and many more.

Chipps, William (c. 1801- by 1833). William Chipps settled on Lot 12 Concession 11, Charlotteville Township located between Highway 3 and Concession 11 Road about ¼ kilometer west of Turkey Point Road near the hamlet of Atherton. He died in 1832 or early 1833 when his widow remarried to Shubal Aldridge. When he came of age, William and Deborah’s son William Jr. succeeded as the head of the household and owner of the farm.

The genealogy includes four generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Brown, Cameron, Down, Curtis, Olds, Bronson, Reagh, Wilkinson, Livesay, French, Jennings, Trombley, Pipesh, Eymer

Church, Daniel (1775-1824) was born in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut on 28 Nov 1775 and married in Wilton, Mary Knapp (1773-1798). The couple lived initially in Norwalk then moved to Wilton, Fairfield County. Daniel and Mary Church brought their family to Upper Canada about 1820 and lived in Queenston, Niagara Township, Lincoln County where Daniel died. After Daniel’s passing, his widow Mary lived with family members and died in Stamford Township, Welland County.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Massachusetts and Connecticut and four generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Bartholomew, Howey, McNichol, Lake, Baker, Bennett, Miller, Whyte, Monteith, Wakefield, Rorback, Brown, Vanderburgh, Smith, Swain, Swayze, McGlashan, Balfour, Knapp, Keefer

Church, James (c. 1790-  ), son of Robert and Elizabeth (Giffin) Church was baptized in Little Sampford, Essex County, England on 14 Mar 1790. In the 1851 Census of Newport, Saffron Walden, Wimbish Parish, James Church was listed as an agricultural labourer born in New Sampford 61 with his wife Charlotte born in Ashden Essex 57 and children James 30 and Job 15 both born in Wimbish. James Church emigrated with his family to Canada during the 1850’s and lived in Vittoria, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County.

James Church’s brother Solomon Church (c. 1801-1869) was born in Sanford about 1801. Solomon and his wife Sarah lived in Saffron, Waldron, Essex County, England and their children were baptized in Bailey’s Lane Particular Baptist Church in Saffron Walden. They came to Upper Canada in late 1835 or 1836 and lived first in Walpole Township, Haldimand County then settled in Simcoe, Norfolk County by 1844.

Hugh Church (c. 1798-1871), son of John and Jane Church was baptized in St. John the Baptist Church, Thaxted, Essex County on 8 Dec 1798. Hugh and his wife Elizabeth Portway came to Canada in the early 1840’s and settled in Woodhouse Township then in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County.

The genealogy includes ancestors in Essex County, England and four generations in Ontario and Michigan. Descendant surnames mentioned: Collins, Marshall, Perkiss, Lemon, Shaw, Austin, Lorimer, Cable, Luscombe, Hodgson, Pettit, Myers, Hall, Ottley, Davis, Deller, Glanfield, Scott, Ryerse, Locke, Butler, Burgess, Bezzo, Gamble, Thompson, Swayze and many more.

Churchill, James (1831-1912) was born to Robert and Mary (Hodder) Churchill) in South Petheram, Somerset County, England and married Ann Caller (1832-1912). James was a farm labourer in South Petheram until 1864 when the couple came to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Canada West.

The genealogy includes three generations in England and Norfolk County, Ontario. Descendant surnames mentioned: Steele, Steinhoff, Wright, Ross and Fairley

Churchill, Levi (c. 1777-1866) was born to William and Chloe (Brown) Churchill in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut and arrived in the Long Point Settlement of Upper Canada in 1801 then entered the employ of Thomas Welch as a farmer. He was first mentioned in a letter dated 20 Mar 1802 from Thomas Welch to the Surveyor General.

Levi Churchill filed a petition dated on 10 Nov 1802, requesting a 21-year lease on Lot 10, Concession 4, Charlotteville Township and received the Executive Council’s approval. His lease dated 7 Dec 1802 was issued. On 14 Jun 1808, Levi was appointed Constable of Charlotteville Township. On 13 Dec 1809, Levi Churchill purchased from Titus Finch Lot 11, Concession 4, Charlotteville Township and sold 50 acres in the north part to Robert McLeod on 16 Jul 1810. The south part was located along the north side of Vittoria Road and the west side of Szucs Road south of the village of Walsh. Levi and Asenath Churchill moved afterwards to the south half of Lot 19, Concession 3, Townsend Township on the north side of Concession 3 Road and east side of Villa Nova Road about 1 kilometer north of the hamlet of Bealton. He settled later in Volinia Township, Cass County, Michigan

His nephew James Hoit Churchill (1806-1866) came from his birthplace in Whiting, Addison County, Vermont and settled nearby on Lot 15, Concession 5 then during the 1850’s Volinia Township.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Connecticut and five generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Knapp, Richards, Senchord, Haroun, Ruth, Graham, Leach, Hall, Southworth

Churchill, Nathaniel (1773-after 1852) was born to Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Rider) Churchill in Chebogue, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia and with his wife Eunice Elizabeth Kenney lived in New Brunswick then sometime after 1827 moved to Norfolk County, Upper Canada and farmed in Lot 15, Concession 4, Townsend Township about 1 kilometre east of the hamlet of Boston between Norfolk County Road 19 and Concession 5 Road.

Lemuel Churchill (1777-1859) a younger son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Rider) Churchill farmed near Woodstock, Carleton County, Nova Scotia. He moved with his family to Upper Canada in 1833 and settled for a while in Niagara Township, Lincoln County then Saltfleet Township, Wentworth County and Sweaburg, Oxford County.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Massachusetts, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and four generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Cook, Estey, Wilkins, Nickerson, Kitchen, Kenney. Schneider, Whitfield, Gerow, Gardner, Boyer, Chamberlain, Phillips, Halstead, Galloway, Swayze, Leeber, Swayze, Worden, Vessey, Stevenson and many more.

Chute, Oliver (1819-1896) and his brother William Foster (1822-1884) were born to James and Phebe Chute in Granville Township, Annapolis County Nova Scotia and came to Ontario by 1842. They farmed in Townsend and Windham Townships in Norfolk County, Bayham and Malahide Townships in Elgin County where William died. Oliver settled finally in Moore Township, Lambton County near Sarnia and died there.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and six generations in Nova Scotia and Ontario. Descendant surnames mentioned: Farnsworth, Brown, Rhodes, Covert, Parker, Raymond, Douglas, Poole, Fluria/Flora, Robinson, Kimball, Mills, Downs, Trim