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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 lummagnitude 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 contribute 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 engaged 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, February 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, following 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 :—
