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Grenville, and remained an active Magistrate up to
his decease. As a business man he was strictly
honest, industrious, enterprising and uncommonly
energetic, fearing no danger and ready to undergo
any hardship, both of which his business as a lum¬
magnitude of his business operations and the large
supplies of farm produce required in carrying on
his numerous lumbering establishments, he created
a market which was of incalculable advantage to
the early settlers, by whom he was held in great
esteem. He was a sincere member of the Church of
England, but was always ready and willing to con¬
tribute to other churches. He died October Ioth,
1842, leaving by his wife, Sarah Clough (born October |
29th, 1775; died May r5th, 1860), the following
children:
(1) Ruth, born February 17th, 1800; married
February 18th, 1824, to George Longley, of
Maitland, and had children ; (1) William Wells, born
March 29th, 1825; died December 26th, 1844; un¬
(2) George C., born October 29th, 1827 ;
She died
married.
(3) Sarah Maria, born February 8th, 1835.
October 4th, 1847.
(2) Sally, born June 16th, 1801 ; married January |
rith, 1826, to George Malloch, of Brockville, and had
children ; (1) Sarah Ann, born October rath, 1826 ;
(2) George William, born April 6th, 1828 ; (3) Ruth
Elizabeth, born July 1829. She died December
25th, 1835.
(3) Horace Clough, born October 31st, 1802;
married L. Blasdell, 1832, and had children : William,
Henry, Sarah, Emily, Lydia, Hiram, Warren, Julia.
(4) Maria, born October 7th, 1804; died January
1877 ; unmarried.
married Mary Hogan 1842, and had children:
Herbert, Clara, Alphonso.
(6) Isaac Brock, born July 30th, 1812; married
Elizabeth Reade, May 17th, 1859, and had children :
William, born March 2gth, 1860; Thomas Reade,
born June 24th, 1861 ; Ruth, born March 4th, 1866.
(7) Thomas Proctor, born Febuary sth, 1816 ; died
August r5th, 1816.
(8) Frances Adeline, born August 17th, 1817.
The descendants of William Wells, the first settler
in Canada, and his wife, Sarah Clough, now living,
are in number fifty-one, nearly all resident in
Canada.
Tue KINCAID FAMILY.
Archibald Kincaid was born at Bannockburn, near
Stirling, Scotland, on October 4th, 1780. He was
early apprenticed to the tailoring trade, which,
having learned he married and started business on
his own account. In the year 1804, he emigrated to
America, bringing with him his wife and two
brothers, John and Alexander, and a small stock of
goods, with which to establish business in America.
He came to Upper Canada and settled at the present
site of Brockville, which was then a wilderness. He
began working at his trade, taking in exchange for
work, pork, flour, etc., such things as he could ship to
Montreal and sell. After being in Canada two
years, he started to return to Scotland with his
wife, and was shipwrecked in the Straits of Belle
Isle, losing all he possessed. After wandering
about for two years, he again made his way back to
Upper Canada, and commenced working at his
trade at Brockville, which then contained but a few
houses, no streets or clearings having then been
made. He continued at his business, and, as the
country became settled, enlarged his trade, by which
he amassed considerable wealth. After some years,
having become too feeble to continue his business,
he removed with one of his sons to Yonge, near
Farmersville, where he died in the year 1865, aged
eighty-five years.
He raised a family of ten children, three daughters
and seven sons, of whom there are now but five
living, the eldest being James Kincaid, who resides
in Brockville, the other brothers and sisters having
all settled near Farmersville, where they are en¬
gaged in business and farming.
THE LonG Ley FAMILY, oF MAITLAND, COUNTY OF
GRENVILLE.
George Longley, the youngest son of William
Longley, born in 1788, at Newbiggin, County of
Westmoreland, England, removed to Canada in
1512, and settled in Quebec, where he entered into
He married, Feb¬
ruary 18th, 1824, Ruth, eldest daughter of William
Wells, Esq., of Augusta, County of Grenville, Upper
Canada. He removed to Maitland, Upper Canada,
in 1826, and carried on an extensive business in
lumbering, milling, and farming. He was elected
a member of the Provincial Parliament of Upper
Canada, for the County of Grenville, in 1828, having
been previously appointed a Justice of the Peace.
Mr. Longley took great interest in farming, follow¬
ing up all the latest improvements, and was one of
the first to import a superior breed of cattle into
Canada. He undertook a voyage to England, in
1842, for the recovery of his health, but died at
roth, in the same year. By his wife, Ruth Wells
(she died October 4th, 1847), he had the following
children :—