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William Morton fonds
CA ON00351 GA 60 · Item · 1850-1851

Manuscript poem entitled, "On Parting from My Sister and Her Children." Also included are two pencil drawings, one of which depicts a church and graveyard scene in a village located three miles from Dublin. The poem and drawings have been bound into a book. In the front cover of the book is a newspaper clipping of an obituary for Isabella Jane and Caroline Olivia Clare.

Morton, William
John Hunter Huston fonds
CA ON00340 F3405 · Fonds · 1827-1851

Fonds consists of personal marriage register for London District and in Lambton and Kent Counties in the Western District, 1839-1851. Also includes Rev. Huston's accounts, the names of family members and several poems in newsclipping form.

Huston, John Hunter, d. 1851
Donald Ross fonds
CA ON00340 F3356 · Fonds · 1839-1852

Fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1839-1852.

Ross, Donald, 1797?-1852
CA ON00154 2018.6.33 · Item · 1852

Item is a declaration of the shareholders of a new company named 'The Lake Ontario Road Company' in Port Britain.

Names mentioned:
Felix Powers
Daniel Brand
Joseph Haskill
Joseph Harris
Robert B. Marsh
Ralph Wade
Jonathan Brand
Thomas Wallace
Francis Little
Charles Meadows
John Barrowclough
C. F. Ruttan
William Glen
William Mounter (?)
William S. Gifford
Thomas Spry
? Dare (?)
Joseph Symons
Luke B. Jacob
George Lyall
Reuben P. Grant
William Potts
James S. Milligan
John Wade
Thomas Campbell
Robert Bedford
Robert Dean
Nathan Choat

(4 other signatures illegible)

Fonds · 1852-

The records contain the following series; Secretaries' and Treasurers' Records 1862-2016;
Awards, Newspaper Clippings

Ilderton Fair
CA ON00340 F201 · Fonds · 1846-1853

Fonds consists of printed textual minutes, 1846-1847, 1851, 1853; printed minutes on microfilm (including copies), 1846-1853. Minutes include reports of the Congregational Missionary Society of Eastern Canada (an organization connected with the Union), 1847-1853.

Congregational Union of Eastern Canada
Samuel S. Scovil fonds
CA ON00009 F 4280 · Fonds · 1842-1853

Fonds consists of six handwritten volumes which are ledgers or daybooks.

Volumes 1 and 2 are ledgers containing customers' names and their accounts. Volume 1 is also the ledger of Philip Wing & Co. kept by Samuel S. Scovil.

Volumes 3, 4, 5, and 6 are daybooks which contain records of goods purchased, their prices, and the names of customers. Goods sold include groceries and sundries such as cotton, tobacco, buttons, potatoes, butter, and raisins.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+4280?SESSIONSEARCH

Scovil, Samuel S., fl. 1842-1853
Henry H. Envelope
CA ON00154 2019.17.4 · Item · 1853

Consists of an empty envelope. Written on it says "Henry H. ? Esq. Port Hope, C. W" Stamped on it are "Paid 3, Quebec 15 1853, and Port Hope 19 Jan. 1853 C.W"

CA ON00009 F 4536 · Item · 1854

Item is a one-page letter in manuscript ink on blue wove paper from Tom Elice (or Ellis), a runaway slave from Kentucky, to Mary Warner.

Mr. Elice's letter expresses both the excitement of his freedom and the pain of leaving his loved one behind. He writes of his new country, tells of catching up with mutual friends from home, and mentions that 'the girls' have joined the Methodist Church. He asks to be remembered to his former owners, William and Betsy Ellis of Falmouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky.

Written from Chatham, Ontario, the letter appears to be a reassurance of safety after a journey via the 'underground railroad' through Ohio and Michigan, so-called 'free states' that nevertheless were bound by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, requiring all law enforcement officials to return runaway slaves. Bounties were posted on Tom and his six fellow fugitives, according to donor information.

The misspelling of the Ellis name suggests that the letter was written by someone else.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+4536?SESSIONSEARCH

Elice (Ellis), Tom
Clergy Reserves fonds
CA ON00003 F157 · Fonds · 1791-1854

Fonds consists of a collection of printed copies or extracts of correspondence, papers, and reports regarding Clergy Reserves, 1791-1854. Includes a circular, dated 1839, addressed: To a Christian Public and signed by many clergymen from Eastern Ontario defending the establishment of the Church of England in Canada and its rights to the Clergy Reserves (M76-16).

Clergy Reserves
Comfort and Greer fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 475 · Fonds · 1846-1854

Fonds consist of business records used by Comfort and Greer carding mill. This includes account books, receipts, a cash book and a legal document.

Comfort and Greer
Joel Kerbel collection
CA ON00311 PF233 · Collection · 1736-1855

Collection consists of mortgages pertaining to land transfers made in the Counties of Essex, Hereford and Worcester in England during the 1700s and 1800s.

Kerbel, Joel Anthony Leon, 1942-1995
CA ON00009 F 959 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1957] (originally created 1819-1855)

Fonds consists of a records of the Clergy Reserves Corporation, including a minute book, 1819-1835, by-laws and financial statements, 1820-1824, and a missionary register containing excerpts relating to missions of the Anglican Church in North West America taken from the files of the missionary register, London, 1813-1855.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+959?SESSIONSEARCH

Clergy Reserves
Robert Gourlay collection
CA ON00009 F 72 · Collection · 1773-1855

Collection consists of a mixture of materials about Robert Gourlay and his family, and records created by him and his family. It contains correspondence, genealogical charts, autobiographical notes of Gourlay, records regarding the Gourlay family in Scotland, records regarding the disposition of Gourlay's lands in Dereham Township in Oxford County, Canada West, as well as two replies to questionnaires submitted by Gourlay. Correspondence includes material regarding Mrs. Jean Gourlay and children of Robert Gourlay. Also included is correspondence of William Renwick Riddell, an early biographer of Gourlay, and correspondence concerning people possessing documents relating to Robert Gourlay. Correspondence also includes letters between Robert Gourlay and his first wife Jean (Henderson) Gourlay, and the children by his first wife (Jean, Jessie, Oliver, Helen, and Catherine). Most of Gourlay's letters to his family at this time were written from the United States when he resided in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Ohio. These letters refer to family matters, and Gourlay's struggle with the government of Upper Canada and the government of the United Province of Canada.

Material regarding the disposition of Gourlay's lands in Dereham Township consists of correspondence between Robert Gourlay's daughter Helen, and his second wife Mary concerning a dispute over the real estate. Other records include a promissory note, a bond, a discharge of debt, and memorandum of agreement between Mary Gourlay and Joseph Riddell concerning intent to convey land, and a power of attorney between Robert Gourlay and John Smith of Dereham.

Collection also includes miscellaneous items, including: the original prospectus of a newspaper called the Commonweal which was to be edited by Gourlay; replies from Trafalgar Township to questionnaires posed by Gourlay for the collection of data for the Statistical Account of Upper Canada; minutes of a meeting held by inhabitant of Haldimand Township including the chiefs of the Five Nations for the purpose of supplying data for the same account; newspaper clippings concerning the career of Robert Gourlay (three of which were written by Mabel Burkholder); a memorandum of biographical data concerning Robert Gourlay by James McIntyre; a typescript of excerpts of articles in the Ingersoll Chronicle concerning Gourlay's bid for election to the Legislative Assembly; notes on Robert Gourlay by Ethel Canfield; and an excerpt from the Illustrated London News, concerning the choice of Bytown as Canada's capital.

Collection also includes miscellaneous legal records, concerning the marriage between Robert Gourlay's parents, the marriage between Robert Gourlay and Mrs. Jean Stewart (nee Henderson), the estate of Oliver Gourlay, and the Gourlay family tree.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+72?SESSIONSEARCH

Gourlay, Robert, 1778-1863
CA ON00154 2018.6.7 · Item · 1855

Item is the 'Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Perrytown Mechanics Institute', written in 1855. Includes the names and signatures of those signing the constitution, a list of books purchased and their cost, and the bylaws.

Names Mentioned:

William Boland
James Dunbar
Joseph Wilson
John Murray
Samuel Corbett
Aaron Choate
James Wilson
Edmund Wilson
John Caldwell
John Dunbar
William Louis
James Gray
Richard Stephens