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Were the regulation in force at the present time,
we fear the present genial gaolor would soon be
worn down to a skeleton.
CHAPTER AVII.
THE REAR OF LEEDS AND LANSDOWNE.
Tuis Township was originally settled by lumbermen,
who were attracted to that quarter by the large
quantity of pine and other valuable timber, found
Gananoque River. At an early date, spars and
masts of great value were cut and taken to Ganan¬
established a market.
The erection of an iron furnace at Furnace Falls
gave an impetus to the settlement, which was sub¬
sequently increased by the erection of flouring and
lumber mills at the same place. The completion of
the Rideau Canal, touching the municipality at
Seeley’s Bay, laid the foundation of agricultural
prosperity, by furnishing an outlet for produce,
and, at the same time, enhancing the value of
lumber, by opening, through Kingston, the American
market.
In 1816, the Rev. William Smart furnished the
following report, in answer to a series of questions
addressed to the several townships of the Province:
LEEDS.
Settled in 1786 (Front Part.) Land selling at $2
per acre. The iron works in a state of ruin.
The following list contains all the patents granted
in Leeds, up to the 31st Dec., 1802 :—
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TOWNSHIP OF LEEDS.
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=| Lot.| Name of Grantee. | Part of Lot.| £ [Date of Patent.
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II 2 ; E I-2 April 14th, 1798
53 Christopher Fornyea } W 1-2 | : gátak +e =f pe
3 |Godfrey Leod........ E 1-2 161|Mar. 26th, 1798
4 |William Dugan,...... W 1-2 100] April 21st, 1797
7 |Robert Macauley...,.. All 290} Dec. 3Ist, 1798
8 |William Sheriff. ...... W 1-2 148| Dec. 31st, 1798
8 |Joel Stone...... ree E 1-2 200!June 30th, 1801
9 |Sir John Johnson..... Pt May 17th, 1802
10 (Sir John Johnson..... Pt May 17th, 1802
It {Sir John Johnson... ..| Pt May 17th, 1802
12 |Sir John Johnson......| Pt May 17th, 1802
13 |Sir John Johnson..... Pt May 17th, 1802
14-15|Sir John Johnson. ....] AI IMay 17th, 1802
16 |Neil McMullan ...... All (May 17th, 1802
19 [Joel Stone....... abies Ft 200/June 30th, 1801
2} 4 (William Dugan...... W 1-2 100|April 21st, 1797
7 |Robert Macauley..... All 200] Dec. 3Ist, 1798 |
8 |Sir John Johnson..... S 1-2 May 17th, 1802
Io (Sir John Johnson......) S 1-2 May 17th, 1802
SRE Be a éden All 200|May 24th, 1798
20 jJohn Leahy.......... W 1-2 100/May 17th, 1802
aS! jMary Cline... 25... All 200/Dec. Ist, 1797
13 Patrick McDonald.... All 200/April 6th, 1797
Ree ER SRO S 65 6 os cde All 200| Mar. 23rd, 1798
| 17 |Jacob Farrand,... .... All | |200)/May 17th, 1802
(22 ichael Cook........ W 1-2 IoojMay 17th, 1802
66 23 Abel Fulford....... : All l200! Dec. Ist, 1802
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~BIOGRAPHICAL, wn
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DOCTOR JAMES SCHOFIELD.
Doctor James Schofield, born in Connecticut, U.S.,
(father of the late Major Ira Schofield, James
Schofield, Esq., and Doctor Peter Schofield), came
into Canada with his son, Ira Schofield, in 1795, and
immediately built an iron forge at Furnace Falls,
where he manufactured the first iron made in Upper
Canada.
When the war of 1812 broke out, Captain Ira
Schofield was at once called out with his company
and stationed at Gananoque, and afterwards at
Prescott. His father, Doctor James Schofield,
served in the force as a physician and surgeon ;
James Schofield being at the same time employed in
the Commissary Departmént at Cornwall.
Doctor Peter Schofield came to Canada in the
year 1800, remaining a few years, and returning to
New York, where, he became a member of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of that State.
When the war of 1812 broke out, he was appointed
At the close of the
war he removed to the County of Leeds, where he
settled and remained until his death in May, 1860.
He was appointed Justice of the Peace and a mem¬
ber of the Commissioner’s Court. In June, 1828, he
called a public meeting and delivered an address
upon Temperance at the close of the lecture organ¬
izing a Temperance Society (the first in the Dominion
of Canada.)
RECOLLECTIONS OF HIEL SLITER, Esa.
Mr. Sliter was born in the State of Vermont, on
the 13th of January, 1795, in the County of Rutland.
In 1801, his father left his family in Vermont and
visited Upper Canada, in consequence of the pro¬
clamation of Governor Simcoe, which contained an
offer of a free grant of 200 acres to each United
Empire Loyalist. Vermont, he
obtained a yolk of oxen, built a large sleigh, upon
which were placed his family and household effects,
and with this conveyance started for Canada. The
trip occupied nearly five weeks. When Mr. Sliter
settled in the Rear of Leeds, the nearest store was
kept by Daniel Jones, where Brockville now stands.
The place was known at that time as Snarlingtown.
Returning to
answer to the question, “ How did you live?” Mr.
Sliter says “ This is easier to ask than to answer.”
When we had ‘no tea,’ we procured a substitute
in wintergreen sage, or burned corn coffee. One of
our greatest difficulties was the grinding of the
corn. We were compelled to construct a mill
similar to that described in the memoir of Sheriff
Sherwood,
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