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not a legalized surveyor, he had the instrument, and understood its practical use. He was ever ready to give his assistance and advice to the new-comer, and rendered great service in promoting the settlement of the county. He was made a captain in the first regiment of Leeds, becoming a magistrate when the first commission was issued. At that time, magistrates were legally qualified to perform the marriage ceremony ; and he probably united in the holy bonds of matrimony more individuals than has ever fallen to the lot of any clergyman in the United Counties, with the exception, perhaps, of the Rev. William Smart. “T have frequently heard him mention the circumstance of a young man asking him to perform the ceremony, at the same time confessing that he had no money, but promising to make a good wheat fan. The offer was accepted, and, in due time, the fan was delivered. An old man once came on the same errand, his offer being a corn basket, with oak splints, and so compactly made, that it was ‘warranted to hold water.’ It is needless to say that lie was made happy. “My father lived on the farm on which he first pitched his tent, and died there in 1826. I am peace. “The following are the names of many of the early settlers in the County of Leeds: Joseph White, Asa Webster, David Kilborn, Reuben Mott, Henry Mott, Conrad Peterson, Jonathan Mills Church, Edward Leehy, Henry Elliott, Bartholomew Carley, Livius Wickwire, Jonathan Wickwire, William Buell, B. Buell, Jonathan Buell, Samuel Wright, William Wright, Abraham Elliott, Adam Cole, John Cole, Jonathan Fulford, Captain Joseph Jessup, Six Mutchellore, Ensign Thomas Smith, Landon, Sr., Alexander Bernard, Henry Manhard, Lieutenant James Breakenridge, Ruggles Munsell, Matthew Howard, Stephen Howard, John Howard, Peter Freel, Terence Smith, James Miller, Daniel McEathron, John McEathron, Daniel Shipman, Joseph McNish, Levi Hotchkiss, Robert Putnam, James Cooney, Henry McLean, Robert McLean, Allan Grant, Joseph White, Jr.. William Clow, John Munroe, and Levi Comstock. “The distance from the Province line to my father’s farm, three miles below Brockville, was ninety-five miles, and to the port this side of Kingston, fifty miles. At the end of each mile was planted a red cedar post, having marked on it the number of miles from the Province line. This line of road was made some years after the first settle_— ——— cs —— = “For many years, the first and only legalized clergyman, within a hundred miles of this part of Province, was Parson Stuart, who was a member of the Episcopal Church. The next clergyman, I believe, was the Rev. Mr. Bethune, a Presbyterian clergyman, who settled near Cornwall. Next was the Rev. Mr. MeDowel, who located on the Bay of Quinte. He came from the United States, about the year 1800, and on his way stopped in the neighborhood of Brockville, where, at that time, I was teaching a common school. I believe that the first public prayer he ever made in Canada was at an exhibition of my school, on the day of his arrival. “In 1811, the Rev. William Smart arrived in Brockville, being the first minister of any denomination to settle in that place, or, for that matter, within fifty miles of it. “The first doctor was Solomon Jones, domiciled about seven miles below Brockville. He was one of the early settlers, and the first in point of education and respectability. “One of the first magistrates, and, after some wood, who had studied law with Lawyer Walker, in Montreal, for two or three years. He was the first lawyer appointed in the District of Johnstown ; Jacob Farrand, the first in. the Eastern District ; McLewen, of Kingston, and the father of the late Justice Hagerman, the first in the Bay of Quinte. The lawyers were all appointed by authority vested rizing him to appoint a certain number of persons, such as he considered qualified to discharge their duties— hence arose the by-words, ‘Heaven-born lawyers.’ “School teachers were often employed for three or six months only, as boys could not attend in the summer. “T recollect seeing pigeons flying in such numbers often, as to be knocked down with fish-poles. I saw where a near neighbor killed thirty at one shot. ‘When I was a boy, probably about thirteen or fourteen years old, I went, in the autumn, on a fishing excursion, to a place called Sandy Creek, on the south side of Lake Ontario, being in company with four men, in a Canadian batteaux. At that place, I saw ducks flying in immense numbers, round and over a marsh; when they rose, they made a noise like the roar of very heavy thunder. “Not many years since, I rode out with a gentleman to Temperance Mills, situated near Temperance. Lake, where a small spring keeps open all winter. The fish resort to the spring in the coldest weather. | ab 1 ment, but I have forgotten the year. [A rTP 5 ha * = =
