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Betts, Joseph (c. 1822-1885) was born in Nottinghamshire, England and came to Canada in 1837 as a soldier in 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment. This was in Kingston by 2 July 1838. He settled in Simcoe, Norfolk County and worked as a blacksmith. Joseph married Eleanor (Ellen) Hughes (1821-1902), a native of County Mayo, Ireland and had eight children.

The genealogy includes four generations in Norfolk and Brant Counties, Ontario and in Michigan. Surnames mentioned include: Key, Rehm/Rhem, Tristram, Hayes, Berry, Wait, Curley, Wilson and Wolfe.

Bezzo, Andrew  (c. 1787-  ) came from Lower Canada (Québec) to Norfolk County by 1818 when he married Sophia Beaupré, daughter of Long Point Settler Francois Charles Beaupré. The couple lived in the village of Port Dover, the north part of Lot 10, Concession 1, Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County.

John Baptiste Bezzo (c. 1790/2-  ) came from Lower Canada (Québec) to Upper Canada by 1819 when he married Julia Harriott Beaupré (daughter of Long Point settler Francois Charles Beaupré. The couple lived in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County. Julia died and John then lived with Orpha Rose in the village of Vittoria, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County.

The genealogy includes biographies and five generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Herrick, Wilson, Parks, Seward, Ellison, Brown, Lightfoor, Martin, Taylor, Robinson, McCreary, Wright, McVay, Bledsoe, Furr, Walker, Shaw, Terry, Swayze, Howick, Griffin, Jorgensen, Werrett, Howe, Post and many more.

Biddle, George (1802-1887) was born to Benedict and Sarah (Mathews) Biddle in Alveston, Gloucestershire, England. He married Pitman, daughter of John and Hester (Killmaster) Pitman (1803-1890). Following their marriage, George and Hester Biddle lived in Alveston, Gloucestershire, England, a village located near the east side of the Severn River about 10 kilometres north of the City of Bristol.

Hester’s uncle John Killmaster came to Upper Canada by 1814 and established substantial business interests in the village of Port Rowan in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County on Long Point Bay, Lake Erie. In 1851, Hester and her husband with their family, along with her brothers Francis and Samuel and their families immigrated from Alveston and joined their uncle in Port Rowan. George Biddle purchased a 50 acre farm in the southeast quarter of Lot 5, Concession 2, Walsingham Township situated on the north side of Concession 1 Road west of the West Quarter Line road and north of the hamlet of Erie View.

The genealogy includes ancestors in England and four generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Croome, Dufuid, Elliott, Reeves, Humber, Landsman, Denzer, Knoepke, Franklin, Hunter, Duncan, Loucks, Down, Corn, Reed, Douglas, Schweyer, Donaldson, Weiler, Smith, Yancey and many more.

Bigcraft, Benjamin See Beecraft, Benjamin

Billington, William (c. 1786-  ) and his wife Mary Wyatt (c. 1790-  ) lived in King’s Sutton, Northamptonshire, England and came to Canada West with their eight children before  1840. William married second on 28 Jun 1841, Hannah Tilley (widow), born in England c. 1785. In the 1850 Assessment of Woodhouse Township, William Billington had a ¼ acre home lot in Simcoe, a frame house under 2 storeys, 2 horses and 1 household dog all valued at 51 pounds. In the 1852 Census of Simcoe, William Billington was listed as a teamster born in England 66 with his wife Hannah born in England 67. Both were Episcopalian.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and Michigan. Descendant surnames mentioned: Buckley. Biddle, Pitman, Culver, Merritt, Thornton, Donnelly, Howay, Fox, Mansfield, McQueen, Mathers, Jenkins.

Birdsall, Samuel (1751-1789) was born in Kingwood, Hunterdon County, New Jersey to Jacob and Elizabeth (Whitson) Birdsall). He married Elizabeth Canby (1760-1840). Samuel and Elizabeth farmed in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania located along the west side of the Delaware River surrounding the town of Washington Crossing upstream Trenton, New Jersey. Samuel brought his wife and family to the Niagara district of Upper Canada and died a year later. Elizabeth Canby Birdsall was left widowed by the death of her husband and married second by 1790 John Darling (son of Joseph and Mary (Street) Darling), born near Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut on 12 May 1769, died in St. Johns, Thorold Township, Welland County on 23 Feb 1825.

In 1788 John Darling settled in the Niagara peninsula of Upper Canada where he came under the influence of Benjamin Canby, an entrepreneur with numerous business activities. Darling boarded with Canby and his widowed sister Elizabeth Birdsall.

Following their marriage, John and Elizabeth Darling made their subsequent home on 400 acres of land purchased from Benjamin Canby in the village of St. Johns in the Short Hills area of Thorold Township at the top of the Niagara Escarpment southwest of the town of Thorold. In 1792, Canby erected a sawmill on Twelve Mile Creek. Darling took over Canby’s sawmill and by 1808 built a gristmill and a fulling mill.

The genealogy includes ancestry in colonial New York and New Jersey, six generations in Ontario and western Canada, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned include: Shotwell, Davis, Little, Brown, Wilson, Webb, Wheeler, Clark, Turrittin, Walker, Hinton, Gochenour, Lymburner, Melick, Deming, Coleman, Ormsby, Park, Sharpe, Rolls, Fox, Duff, Green, Folger and many more.

Birdsell, Isaac (c. 1772-1827) was born to Benjamin and Rachel (Carpenter) Birdsall, in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. This surname spelling varied from generation to generation and among ancestral family members between Birdsall, Birdsell and Birdsill. The spelling most frequently seen for Isaac’s descendants was Birdsell. Isaac went with his parents to Waterborough Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick following the American Revolution and married in nearby Gagetown on 20 Jul 1788, Rachel Brundage.

The couple lived most of their life in Waterborough Parish and around 1825 went with their family to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada. Isaac Birdsall died intestate. His widow Rachel “Birdsill” and James Birdsill, eldest son, with Axford Bowlby and Henry B. Berdan filed for letters of administration over his estate stating that Isaac died on 8 Aug 1827.

The genealogy includes seven generations living coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned include Bowlby, Bowen, Cunningham, Wymer, Allen/Allan, Girling, Haviland, Knox, Miller, Young, Broughton, Curtis, Rouse, Plate, Van Schoten, Reagh, Davis, Fulkerson, Carson, Meharg, McDonald, Skeel, Appleton, Vance, Eaton and many more

Blackley, John (c.1806-1885) was born in Kirkcudbrightshire in the southwest part of Scotland on the Irish Sea and Solway Firth.and came to Canada sometime before 1836. He married Margaret Mutrie (1820-1886). She came with her parents from Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland to Canada in 1829 and grew up on the family homestead in Nichol Township, Wellington County south of the village of Ennotville.

The couple lived on Lot 22 Concessions 3 and 4, Eramosa Township, Wellington County residing beside Margaret’s brother William Mutrie. John Blackley farmed and taught school. 

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario, in western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames include: Mellor, Collom, Cribbis, Croft, Wilkie, McVinnie, Hampson, Vedder, Hanson, Holderness, Trathen, Elissko, Elliott, Gate, Edick, Clayton, Deakin, Sheppard, Demara, Armstrong, Thatcher, Walker, Hamilton, Laing; Cain; Gill, Horning, Wilson, Stroyer, Evans, Casey, Fisher, Fisher, Rice, Baysinger, La Rue, Inter, Kuester, Mcdonald, Rodeen, Street and many more.

Blakely, William Henry (1788-1841) was born in Connecticut to Daniel Blakely and lived in Canaan and Waterbury, Connecticut then settled in New York State. He came to Upper Canada by about 1821 and settled in Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada (Ontario). In 1840, William and Lucy moved to Van Buren Township in Wayne County, Michigan and William died the next year. Widow Susannah (Wharfield) Blakely married widower Alfred Merrill who was born in New York on 2 Sep 1806. Alfred Merrill came from New York with his first wife in 1837. They were among the first to settle in the town of Huron.

The genealogy includes five generations in Norfolk County, Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned include: Deming, Dains, Hale, Vennoy, Bullock, Hart, Scofield, Swearingen, Morse, Shear, Hooper, Hullgrave, Nichols, Carpenter, Harris, Howard, , Crawford, Foss, Green, Vanallen, Wolfram, Wilson, Bell and many more.

Blakeslee/Blakesly, Erastus (1807-1881) was born in Vermont or New Hampshire and married Lucinda Bingham. Following their marriage, Erastus and Lucinda Blakesly lived in Lisle, Broome County, New York then came to Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada by 1829. Erastus was a wagon maker and took up residence in the middle of Lot 12, Concession 4 on Angling Road in the area of Snively Road south of the hamlet of Boston. About 1855, Erastus Blakesly moved to Lowell Township, Kent County, Michigan east of Grand Rapids where he continued working as a wagon maker.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and the Midwest United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Camfield, Pursley, Cline, Taylor, Davey, Yeiter, Ryberg, Oberly, Sullivan, Warren, Watts, Forslund, Brown, Hall.

Blaney/Blayney, James (1766-1848) was born in the American colonies and Blaney travelled in the Haggarty and McCall settlement party from Basking Ridge, Morris County, New Jersey to Norfolk County, Upper Canada. The party, led by Donell (Donald) McCall reached the mouth of Big Creek on Long Point Bay, Walsingham Township on 5 Jun 1796.

James Blaney was given permission by Peter Russell, Administrator of Upper Canada, to occupy unspecified lands on 1 Sep 1796. He ran against Levi Lewis in the 1808 elections to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, but lost by one vote. Lewis lived at Saltfleet Township, Wentworth County near Stoney Creek, east of Hamilton so this item suggests that Blaney lived in that area at the time. James Blaney settled next on Lot 9 Concession 10, Charlotteville Township. This was located on the north side of McDowell Road and east side of Yuell Road. The hamlet of Blayney named for this family is located in the south part of the lot.

The genealogy includes five generations in Norfolk and Elgin Counties, Ontario, in western Canada and in Michigan and Florida in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned include Willson/Wilson, Powell, Smith, Mabee, Vail, Beal, Matthews, Plumb, Blow, Burkholder, Burroughs, Hogg, Cruise, Welham, Kozloski, Berry, Boughner, Pabey, Lantry, McCallum, Wallace, Challand and many more.

Blasdell, Isaac (1780-1855) was born in Germany in 1780. He came to Canada about 1794 and married Rebecca Misener daughter of Peter and Mary M. (VanWyck) Misener. He farmed on 50 acres of land in the southwest quarter of Lot 16 Concession 1, Beverly Township, Wentworth County on the north side of Governor’s Road about 2 kilometres east of the hamlet of Lynden.

In the 1852 Agricultural Schedule of Beverly Township p. 1, Isaac Blasdell was listed on 50 acres of land in Lot 16 Concession 1 with 40 acres cultivated including 20 acres in crops, 17 acres in pasture and 3 acres in gardens or orchards. The remaining 10 acres were wood or wild.

saac’s sons Isaac (1800-1875) and Daniel (1805-1884) succeeded to the farm. In the 1861 Agricultural Schedule of Beverly Township, Daniel Blasdall was listed on 50 acres of land in Lot 14 Concession 1 with 25 acres in crops, 15 acres in pasture and 10 acres in gardens or orchards. The remaining 25 acres were wood or wild. The farm was valued at $1250.

The genealogy includes four generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Clement, Smale, McLean, Hathaway, Vanderlip, Pepper, Montgomery, Jones, Hunt, Devereaux; Almy, McKinny, Lee, Ternan, Buschlen, Griffith, Nicol, Dixon, Taylor, Braithwaite, Eastman and many more.

Bonser, John (1789-  ) was born born in Colston Basset, Nottinghamshire, England to John and Ann (Hogg) Bonser. He married Ann Emerson and lived in Kinoulton, a village in Nottinghamshire, England located along Owthorpe Lane 10 miles southeast of the city of Nottingham. John immigrated to the United States with his oldest son followed by his wife and the rest of the family in 1829.

In the 1830 Census of Mount Pleasant, Wayne County, Pennsylvania p. 208, John Bonser was listed with a household of 1 male under 5, 1 male 5 thru 9, 1 male 10 thru 14, 2 males 15 thru 19, 1 male 40 thru 49, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5 thru 9, 1 female 10 thru 14 and 1 female 30 thru 39.

They then came to Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada by 1838 settling on the north part of Lot 12, Concession 2 located at the southwest corner of the present Highway 24 and Turkey Point Road south of the village of Walsh. He then settled on a farm in west centre of Lot 20, Concession 1 on the east side of Fisher’s Glen Road running north from Front Road and the hamlet of Fisher’s Glen on Lake Erie.

The genealogy includes ancestors in England and six generations in Norfolk, Elgin and Middlesex Counties, Ontario and coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned include Farr, Brown, Walker, Axford, Fenner, Lade, Misener, Lepien, Dobson, Smith, Ballantine, Holman, Schledorn, Wyatt, Fry, Gage, Van’t Hooft, Williams, Mack, Perry, Alden, Marvin and many more.

Boomer, William (1779-1858) and his wife Elizabeth (Wuttel/Wordell) Reed lived in Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York then brought their family from New York to Upper Canada about 1818 and lived in Mount Pleasant, Brantford Township, Brant County then moved to Windham Township, Norfolk County.

The genealogy includes six generations in Norfolk County, Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Bennett, Miller, Dacon/Daiken, Cantelon, Chambers, Chambers, Wilkins, Malcolm, Smith, Seabrook, Freeman, Buffy, Hunter, Lightfoot, McCombs, Carroll, Williams, Ackerson, Gilbeau, Murett, Kramer, West, Hunter and many more.

Booth, John S.  (1818-1910) was born in County Tyrone, Ireland on 1 Apr 1818 and his wife Elizabeth Condie came from Ireland to Canada West in 1850 and settled in Walsingham Township on a farm in Lots 19 and 20 Concession 14, Walsingham Township situated between the south side of the Middleton-North Walsingham Townline Road and Norfolk County road east of the hamlet of Wyecombe.

The genealogy includes four generations in Ontario and Manitoba. Descendant surnames mentioned: Daboll, Hunter, Pake, Curtis, Collings, Ryan, Pratt, Law, Foster, Robinson, Lauzon

Bostwick, Gideon  (1742-1793) was born in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut to Nathaniel and Esther (Hitchock) Bostwick. Though a Congregationalist by birth and training, he had become an Episcopalian while in College, and as early as 1764 he is spoken he is spoken of as a lay-reader in the church just erected for the Episcopal congregation which had been gathered in Great Barrington some two years before. He continued to be thus employed until late in the year 1769, when he went to England for orders. He was ordained Deacon on February 24, 1770, by Bishop Terrick, of London, and priest on March 11, by the same prelate, and returned to Great Barrington in June, with a commission as a missionary of the Society for the Propegation of the Gospel.

For the next twenty-three years he served as the minister of St. James’s Parish, Great Barrington, to the increasing satisfaction of his people, and moreover had charge of St. Luke’s Church in Lanesborough, more than twenty miles  to the north, and of two or three congregations across the New York border.

In the time of the American Revolution he adhered to the Royal cause. In the early 1790’s, Reverend Bostwick formed a settlement company for his parishioners and received from the Executive Council of Upper Canada a grant of Oxford Township, Oxford County, Upper Canada. Before completing the arrangements, Bostwick fell ill then died in Connecticut. His young sons John and Henry arrived in Upper Canada in 1797 followed by their older brother Adolphus by 1811. The three initially settled in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County. John afterwards founded  Port Stanley in Elgin County and Adolphus settled near Nilestown in Westminster Township, Middlesex County.

The genealogy includes ancestry in the New England colonies and six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Odell, Jacobs, Cone, Munro, Moses, Roberts, Waun, Willsie, Weldon, Cline, Smirl, Burnham, Crysler, Warren, Bradfield, Randall, Ball, Cole, Oakes, Merrick, Strong, Hazen, McQueen and many more.

Boucher, John M. (1794-1845) came from Ireland to Ontario before 1818 and married Mary. The couple lived in Chippewa, Stamford Township, Welland County where John served as a Methodist preacher. He settled in Townsend Township, Norfolk County about 1838. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Lambton Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Babcock, Goit, Culver, Earl, Smith.Boucher, John M. (1794-1845). A family tradition has it that John Boucher was run out of Ireland for being a Methodist preacher. He settled in Chippawa, Stamford Township, Welland County by 1818 when his first child was born. Later, he moved to Caistor Township, Lincoln County. John Boucher was mentioned in the Methodist Episcopal Recording Steward Book for the Niagara Circuit in 1835 and 1836 as an exhorter in Caistor Township, Lincoln County. They lived next back at Chippawa, Stamford Township until about 1838 when they moved to Townsend Township, Norfolk County.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario, British Columbia and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Babcock, Culver/Collver, Doherty, Goit, Robinson, Carpenter, Earl, Youmans, Smith, Richards, Armstrong, Stevenson, Ebaugh, Boyle, Ballard, Keith, Ervin, Sherman, Vasbinder, Hier, Kidd, Cook, Forward, McLeod and many more.

Bouk, Frederick Johannes (1777-1847), of Palatine German ancestry was born in Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York on 30 Mar 1777. He came to Upper Canada as a young man and in 1801 Frederick received a grant of 200 acres of land in Lots 219 and 220 Thorold Township. This was located on the east and west sides of Merrittville Highway between Port Robinson Road and Merritt Road. He sold this property to Frederick Smith on 22 Apr 1814. On 1 Nov 1822, he purchased from George Bowman 100 acres in the west half of Lot 28 and the east half of Lot 29 Thorold Township on the south side of Richmond Street east of Pine Street. Ormand Street South runs through the centre of the property and Beaverdams Road runs along its south side. The Welland Canal is located along the east side. He married Eve Bowman in 1804.

Johann Jacob Bouk (1779-1859), a brother of Frederick Bouck, was born in Scoharie on 6 Feb 1779. He came to Upper Canada as a young man and married Julianna Slough. In 1802 John Bouk purchased 5 acres of land in Lot 103 and 100 acres in Lot 102 Thorold Townshi, Welland County p. He subsequently added 100 acres in Lot 101 and 100 acres in Lot 104.  These lots were located along the north side of Holland Road with Kottmeier Road in the east and Merritville Highway in the west between Allanburg and St. Johns.

The genealogy includes ancestry in New York and six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Wormer, Townsend, Hoover, Hepburn, McCoppen, Smith, Reilly, Philips. Cook, Hensell, Wllis, Elliott, Silverthorn, Moisley, Ifland, Baker, Minnick, Cartwright, Terryberry, Stewart, Ball, Clark, Railton, Lent and many more.

Bowen, Cornelius (c. 1744-1797) was born in Fort Hunter, Albany County, New York to Cornelius Willemse and Maritje Victorse (Putman) Bowen. He lived in Tribes Hill, a rise of land in north part of the patent. Initially designated in Albany County, this was included in Tryon County when it was created in 1772 and then Montgomery County at its creation in 1784.

During the American Revolution, Cornelius Bowen was loyal to the British crown and joined Butler’s Rangers as a private in Colonel John Butler’s company. The regiment was stationed in Fort Niagara at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. In 1784, Cornelius Bowen settled on 100 acres of land in Lot 5, Concessions 1 and 2, Bertie Township, Welland County running west from the Niagara River. This is now located in the town of Fort Erie along the north side of Gilmore Road running as far west as the railroad tracks. Today Sugarbowl Park takes up much of Lot 5 Concession 1 and Oakes Park takes up much of Lot 5 Concession 2. The east part has been subdivided and developed for residential lots. The Fort Erie Public Library is located in the southwest part on Central Avenue.

The genealogy includes seven generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Plato, Davis, Baxter, Teal, Jansen, Anger, Billington, Aikins, Boughner, Smith, Hershey, Thompson, Gilmour, Atwood, Anthony, Abbott, Laur, Mills, Nelson, Wilkins, Raymond, Becker, Baloom, Snyder, Williams and many more.

Bowen, Daniel (1742-1819) was born in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey on 22 Apr 1742 and married Sarah Jane Daniel (1749-1835). During colonial times, Daniel Bowen lived in Roadstown, Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey where he worked as a ship joiner.

In the American Revolution he was a Loyalist and joined the British in Philadelphia in August 1777. He organized a unit of the Regiment of Loyal New Jersey Volunteers and was appointed a Captain. Following the war, Daniel settled in Nova Scotia where he received a 700 acre grant at Parrborough, Cumberland County. In 1789 he made a purchase of land in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia. In Jun 1811, Daniel Bowen and his son William moved to Burford Township, Brant County, Upper Canada.

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario and Michigan. Descendant surnames mentioned: Van Allen, Finch, Simmons, Lee, Devendorf, Hard, Nelles, Cheyne, Snyder, Lowing, Wagmer, Watson, Henrickson, Zarbock, Norton, Haskins and Alkema.

Bowlby, Thomas (c. 1766-1848) was born to Richard and Mary (Drake) Bowlby and baptized at Mansfield, Warren County, New Jersey on 26 Jun 1768. During the American Revolution, Thomas while still very young, served as a volunteer in Captain Thomas’ County of the New Jersey Volunteers.

Bowlby arrived in Norfolk County, Upper Canada in 1796. His decision to settle in Upper Canada was apparently influenced by Colonel William Francis who married Thomas’ older sister Catharine. Francis, a former Quarter-Master in the King’s American Dragoons went with the Bowlby family to Nova Scotia then in 1793 located his extensive land grants in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County. He actively recruited settlers from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to occupy the land. In the following land petition Bowlby noted that he “was one of William Francis’ settlers.”

Bowlby made his homestead on the north half of Lot 4, Concession 1 and the south half of Lot 4, Concession 2. This is located on the north and south sides of present Highway Number 6 about a kilometre east of Port Ryerse road and west of the village of Port Dover. In 1813, Thomas Bowlby received appointment as a Justice of the Peace in the London District Court, with local jurisdiction for Woodhouse, Walpole and Rainham Townships.

The genealogy includes his ancestors in England, New Jersey and Nova Scotia, and family members who also left Nova Scotia for Upper Canada with six generations coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Powell, Massecar, Huntsburger, Lee, Fairbanks, Flower, Reynolds, Hayes, Clement, Boyd, Fennell, Perley, Swinton, Harris, Ryamer, Sovereen, Ryerse, Carpenter, Lyons, Dobbie, Buck, Griffin, Roberts, Hannon, Smith, Boughner and many more.

Bowman, Adam  (c. 1731-   ) and his brother Jacob Bowman (1738-1815) were born in German Flatts, Albany County, New York about 1831 to Jacob and Elizabeth Bauman. Adam married Anna Maria Conrad (1740-    ), Jacob’s wife was named Elizabeth (c. 1739-1800).

In colonial times the brothers settled on their father’s land along Bowman’s Creek in the Town of Canajoharie, a township along the south side of the Mohawk River opposite Stone Arabia. They served in the British Army during the French-Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War (1756-1763). They then settled on land in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, northwest of Scranton. Their location was at the mouth of a creek that to this day is called Bowman’s Creek.

In 1777, Adam and Jacob Bowman were loyal to the British Crown and traveled to the British outpost at Fort Niagara located at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario north of present day Youngstown, New York. On 15 Jun 1777, they were serving in the Indian Department at four shillings a day. They joined Butler’s Rangers at its formation on 25 Dec 1777.

For his service, Adam Bowman was given a grant of 100 acres of land in Lot 20 Concession 1 and Broken Front, and 100 acres in Lot 18 Concession 2 in Grantham Township, Lincoln County. Jacob Bowman settled a 200 acre of land grant in adjoining Lots 57 and 59, Stamford Township, Welland County. The latter is located on the cliffs overlooking the whirlpool rapids on the Niagara River and the former on its north side.

The genealogy includes ancestry and five generations in Lincoln, Welland, Wentworth and Norfolk Counties and elsewhere in Ontario. It also includes descendants in Michigan and the Midwestern and Western United States.  Descendant surnames included: Schram, McDonell, Darby, Woodley, Beemer, Brown, Beckett, Clark, Snure, Berringer, Cook, Lane, Haney, Wilson, Johnson, Pressey, Lindsay, Fonger, McCready, Krick, Nelson, Smith, Putman, Mittlefehldt, Odd, Boyd, Montross, Hainer, Messmore, Dodge, Harris and many more.

Boyer, Heinrich/Henry (c. 1818-1879) was born in Württemberg, Germany and married Catharine Fluherer, daughter of John George and Catherine Margaret (Waker/Wecher) Fluhrer (1825-1910) born in Wiesenbach, Württemberg. They lived initially in Lincoln County in 1847 then by 1850 settled on 100 acres in the north half of Lot 37, Concession 2 South of Talbot Road in Middleton Township, Norfolk County located on the south side of 1st Concession Road one-half kilometer east of Rhineland Road and the hamlet of Rhineland.

The genealogy includes three generations in Norfolk, Haldimand and Waterloo Counties, Ontario. Descendant surnames mentioned: Staib, Kienzle, Bretzler, Orlowski

Bradshaw, Amos (1754-1801) was born to James and Ruth Lowther in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Amos and Adah Bradshaw were Quakers and belonged to the Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Following their marriage, they farmed in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania near the west side of the Delaware River on the northeast side of the borough of Doylestown. Amos farmed next in Solebury Township on the west side of the Delaware River bordering Buckingham Township on the northeast. About 1790, he moved to Plumstead Township, Bucks County bordering the north side of Buckingham and Solebury Townships. About 1800, Amos and Adah Bradshaw moved to Upper Canada and settled in Pelham Township, Welland County.

George Bradshaw (1762-1810), a younger brother of Amos Bradshaw worked as a blacksmith and farmed on 50 acres of land in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a British Quaker settlement on the west side of the Delaware River north of Philadelphia. George Bradshaw brought his wife and three children to Upper Canada in 1788 and settled in the provincial capital initially called Newark then in the 1790’s renamed Niagara Town. This is now the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. He had one acre of land in Lot 68 at the southeast corner of Queen and Victoria Streets. His sons settled in Ancaster Township, Wentworth County. Their location at Duff’s Corners and the  Bradshaw Cemetery are pictured below.

The genealogy includes ancestry in England and Pennsylvania and seven generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Beckett; Cummings; Thomas, Ellsworth, Cowee, Bowman, O’Reilly, Osman, Melick, Post, Smith, Sands, Conat, Kent, Crossthwaite, Bostwick, Sager, Ryckman, Vansickle, Myers, O’Connor, Durand, Field, Cotton, Haviland Craddock, Lynden and many more.

Bradt Family of early Ontario stems from three distantly related branches originally headed by two Norwegian brothers who pioneered in Albany and Schenectady, New York.Arent Andries Bradt (1732-1796) in Part 1 was born in Schenectady, Schenectady County New York to Andries Arentse Bradt and his wife Ariaantje Wemple. During colonial times, Arent Bradt was a cordwainer in the area of Schenectady where he owned considerable estates. He wrote in a later land petition that “after the Cessation of Arms his estates were sold for near a thousand pounds, of which the Americans were pleased to allow him only £120.” In the American Revolution he served in the King’s Royal Regiment of New York. Following the American Revolution, Arent and Eva Bradt came to Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1785. They settled on a home lot in the town of Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake) in Niagara Township, Lincoln County.

Christian Bradt (1763-  ) in Part 2 was born in Albany, Albany County, New York to Albert Bradt and his wife Elizabeth Lang. During the American Revolution, Christian served as a private in Butler’s Rangers. Following the war he married Elizabeth Vollick and settled on Lot 7 Concessions 4 and 5 in Louth Township, Lincoln County. His brother, Adrian Arent Bradt (1765-1843) married Sophia Vollick and settled on a crown grant of 200 acres of land in Lot 9 Concessions 4 and 5, Louth Township, Lincoln County located below the Niagara Escarpment and west 15 Mile Creek.

Johannes Bradt (1754-  ) was born in Albany, Albany County, New York to Jan Pieterse Bradt and his wife Maria Seger. During the American Revolution John Bradt was listed as a Private in Captain Peter TenBroeck’s Company of Butler’s Rangers. His brother Myndert (Minor) Bradt (1758-  ) served in Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara from 1777 until the peace of 1783. Following the war, he married Catharina (Kitty) Van Alstyn and purchased lot of 100 acres of land in Lot 120 Niagara Township, Lincoln County. A third brother Barent Aaron Bradt (1767-1852) had a crown grant of the broken fronts towards Lake Ontario, Niagara Township.

Includes ancestors and six generations of descendants in southwestern Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames included: Hutchinson, Burley, Stockford, Armes, McCoy, Thompson, Cooper, Radford, Leeming, McLennon, Fair, McTaggart, Lester, Perry, Hurson, Cainey, Johnson, Hines, Vollick, Shorter, Coleman, Belcher, Sparks, Morency, Lunt, Ross, Meloche, Fenn, Smith, Hopkins, Wendt, Patrick, Schemeskey, Trinder, Burton, Crider, Adams, Rankin, Hodges, Deblock, Randall, Gardner, Bauhaus, Parks, Howe, Stewart, Willis, McCollum, White, Fleming, Milmine, Purcell