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twenty-five years a postmaster there, and is now at
Arrisot. The youngest son, Edward Burritt, is in
Nevada, U.S. The daughter was married to Ben¬
jamin Chaffey. She resides at Hastings, Ontario,
and has a family of six children. Besides those
not. living, I have sixteen grandchildren, and
twelve great-grandchildren. Mrs. Kilborn, after a
married life of sixty-two years, died in October,
1877.
The two succeeding years after the beginning of
the Perth settlement, I had the contract for the
transport of all the stores and supplies made by the
government to the settlement; some five or six
hundred loads.
settlers, their baggage, seed, etc., transported from
Brockville to the settlement, cost the government
three dollars and a quarter per hundred; the next
two winters the direct road being opened, it was
done for from one-half to three-quarters of a dollar
per hundred.
In 1828, I was elected with the late William Buell,
Esq., to the Parliament of Upper Canada, receiving
about 1,000 votes of the 1,200, the whole polled. At
the expiration of that Parliament, I had moved to
Kilmarnock, on the Rideau Canal, which was then
being constructed, and commenced business there
Before the next election, a very respectable depu¬
tation of my former constituents from the County of
Leeds, was sent me, with the request that I would
again stand for the ensuing election, which I had to
decline, and Matthew M. Howard was elected in my
place.
I have been a merchant in trade about twenty-five
years, and about the same length of time engaged
in the Quebec and American lumber trade. I have
held the following offices, not one of which did I
solicit or ask for :—
In 1818, Ensign rst Regiment, Leeds Militia: ap¬
pointed by Samuel Smith, administrator.
1530—Captain 4th Regiment Leeds Militia; Sir
John Colborn, Governor.
1831—-Justice of the Peace.
In the fall and winter of 1837 and 1838, I was on
duty in command of a company of volunteers at
Gananoque, six months.
1841—Major 2nd Regiment Leeds Militia; Lord
Sydenham, Governor. ©
1846 — Lieutenant-Colonel 8th Regiment Leeds
Militia; Lord Cathcart, Governor.
1847—Lieutenant-Colonel ;
Lord Elgin, Governor.
1849—Commission in Oueen’s Bench; Sir John B.
Robinson, Chief-Justice, |
1852 — Postmaster, Brockville; Hon. J. Morris,
Postmaster-General.
1853-4-5—-Associate Judge of Assize, Brockville.
I was placed on the Half-pay List by the British
Government, in 1825, in connection with all the
officers of the Incorporated Regiment, and which
I now receive ; and, so far as I can learn, I am the
of age on the 27th of June, 1878.
THE WEATHERHEAD FAMILY.
Samuel Weatherhead was born in Barbadoes, West
Indies. At an early age, he ran away from home,
taking passage in a merchant ship for England,
During the voyage the merchantman was captured
by pirates, who held a consultation as to the advisa¬
bility of making the captives walk a plank into the sea,
under the plea, that “dead men tell no tales ;” but,
by a small majority, it was decided to spare their
lives. The crew was then divided, one half being
transferred to the pirate ship. The merchantman
was taken in tow and the voyage continued. Ina
few days a fierce storm arose which parted the
ships, and, as the merchantman was never heard of
after, it is supposed that she went down with all
on board. Fortunately for the subject of this
sketch, he was one of the crew taken on board the
pirate. Several of the captured joined the pirates,
but the majority refusing to do so, they were landed
the bucanneers. Ina short time asail hove in sight,
which proved to bea ship engaged in the lumber
trade and bound for Quebec, where young Weather¬
head was safely landed. Of an adventurous spirit,
Canada, and proceeded to Upper Canada, taking
up land a short distance below Maitland, where
he became a merchant. His eldest son, John,
Oficer in the war of 1812, and
afterwards Custom House Officer at Brockville.
During the war, the store below Maitland was
plundered by a marauding band of Americans. At
the battle of Crysler’s Farm, John Weatherhead
played an important part, having charge of the
skirmishers who led the Americans into the general
engagement. W. L. Weatherhead, of Westport,
another son, was engaged in the war as a militiaman.
The remaining sons were James and Alexander.
Was an
THE SHERWOOD FAMILY.
Justus Sherwood, who was a captain in the
Colonial Militia on active service during the Amer¬
ican war of independence, came into the Province of
Quebec about the year 1777, and remained at St.
John’s for some time. His second son, the late Mr.
Justice Sherwood, was bornthere. Justus Sherwood
afterwards settled in the Township of Augusta, on a