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eos Oe HISTORY OF LEEDS AND GRENVILLE. ee ee
JOHN WILTSE. While County Councillor, Mr. Kincaid was instru¬
Among the most successsul farmers of the County mental in procuring the establishment of the
is Mr. John Wiltse, residing on part of Lot No. 13, Farmersville High School.
8th Concession, Rear of Yonge. He was born in
1830, and married, in 1851, to Loretta, daughter of
James Wiltse, of the same township. Mr. Wiltse is
the son of Captain Joseph Wiltse, for many years a |
leading citizen of this portion of the Province; he
died at the residence of his son (John) in 1874, at
the ripe age of 92 years. Captain Benoni Wiltse,
father of Captain Joseph Wiltse, came to Canada, |
from the vicinity of Albany, New York, about the
year 1784, settling on the bank of the St. Lawrence,
below Brockville, and afterwards removing to
Yonge, On the farm of Mr. Wiltse is the primitive
causeway mentioned in the first chapter of this work.
Mr. Wiltse has six children: Irwin, born in 1852 ;
THE BATES FAMILY. %
Munsell R. Bates now resides on a farm of some
230 acres, comprising part of the 3rd Lot of the 8th
Concession of the Rear of Yonge, and other lands.
He was born in 1821, and married in 1851 a daughter
of John Brown, by whom he has one son, James (born
in 1853.) His residence, shown in illustration, was
the home of his grandfather, George Bates, who re¬
moved to Canada from Niscanny, New York, near
| the Connecticut line, in the year 1791, and took up
715 acres of land in the Rear of Yonge, the greater
portion of which is still owned by his grandsons,
Munsell R. Charles B. and George Murray Bates, Jr.
George Bates was born in 1766, and married in 1787,
resides in Newboro’; married a daughter of William | the maiden name of his wife being Patience
Freeland, of that place. Sarah, born 1856; married . Churchill, born in 1768. Mr. Bates died in 1840, his
J. F. Gallagher, of Newboro’. Sabra, born 1858;
Susan, born 1860; Isabel, born 1863; Adda, born
1867.
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wife surviving him 18 years. He had fourteen ‘
children, eleven of whom lived to a mature age.
Ezra Bates, born in 1792, died some years ago in the |
DUNCAN FISHER. west, leaving a large family, none of whom reside in
The subject of this sketch was born in Bathurst, | the United Counties. James Bates, born in 1793,
County of Lanark, in 1839. His father, Donald settled on the homestead and died in 1855, leaving
Fisher, a native of Perthshire, Scotland, settled in eleven children, nine of whom keene in Leeds
Bathurst in 1818, where he still resides. Mr. Fisher County. Sarah, wife of samuel Shipman, born in
married, in 1862, Ellen, daughter of Alexander 1797, died in 1822, and her twin sister, Elizabeth,
Mitchell, of Kingston, a Scotchman from Edinburgh. wife of Dwight Giffin, died in 1854. Eleanor, born
in 1799, married in 1819, Sterling Deming, a farmer,
Bt Farmersville, Me Fishes as alee ee residing near Farmersville, and died in 1844, leaving '
eight children. One son, James Deming, was a
widely known merchant of that village; he died in
1862. None of her living children are now in the
County, except Graves Deming, of Lyn. Joshua
Bates, born in 1801, was for many years a leading
extensive carriage manufactory, at the present time
doing a large business, which is constantly increas- |
ing. During the past season, he erected upon his
premises an elegant brick dwelling, a view of which
is given. He is a leading member of the Canada
Methodist Church, and has always been known as ] _... .
ss ?, y citizen of Leeds County. He took an active part in
the construction of the Brockville and Ottawa
Railway, in which he sank a large fortune ; he died
at his residence, Smith’s Falls, in 1864. George
Murray Bates, born in 1805, married in 1830, Betsey
Blanchard, by whom he had five children. His son,
Charles B. Bates, born in 1832, resides on part of
John Kincaid was born in Brockville, in 1810, He | Lots No. 2 and 3, in the 7th Concession. He has
married, in 1839, Lodema, daughter of the late | been twice married, having seven children, four by
Comfort Wiltse, by whom he had ten children, nine | his second wife. George Murray married a daughter
of whom are now living. Three daughters and one | of James Brown, and occupies the homestead. A
son reside in Cass County, Iowa; one son in | daughter, Amanda M. is the wife of Thomas Empey,
Chicago, one daughter in Smith’s Falls, and the | of Easton’s Corners. A second daughter is the wife
a warm supporter of the cause of temperance. He
aut has four children: Alison A., born December oth,
a. 1863; Ella B., born October 8th, 1865 ; Charles D., |
= bora August 24th, 1867; Arthur E., born December |
ies 4th, 1876.
JoHN KINCAID.
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ville; he died in 1864, in the 85th year of his age. | Mary Jane, a daughter, being the wife of S. S. South¬
on : remaining children in Leeds County. He settled | of Seaman Manhard, of Brockville. Two children
p 2" on the farm he now occupies, consisting of three | of Martin, another son of George Bates, reside in E
ert lots in the “th and 8th Concessions of Rear of | the Counties, Edwin Bates of Maitland, and Louisa: £
a Yonge, in 1840. His father, Archibald Kincaid; | wife of Alanson Baken of Yonge. Ninyan Bates, t
se me! emigrated from Scotland in 1800, settling in Brock- | born in 1809, died in 1868, leaving several children, a
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