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Omsted, Samuel Omsted, Henry Omsted, Samuel Street, Phoebe Street, Polly Street, John Street, Timothy Street, Peter Street, Betsey Street, Joseph Easton,” Sr., Mahitabel Easton, William Easton, Sally Easton, Roderick Easton, Hartley Easton, John Axley, Stephen Bizneth, William Davis, Sr., William Davis, Jr., Margaret Davis, Powell Davis, Elizabeth Roach, William Roach, John Roach, Jr., Moses Shatford, Ennice Shatford, Eleanor Shatford, Kachael Shatford, Eliza Shatford, Polly Shatford, Thomas Shatford, Richard Powers, Sally Powers, Alvin Powers, Arethusa Powers, Calvin Powers, Orra Pamele, Job Andrews, Hannah Andrews, Samuel Andrews, Lydia Leehi, Elizabeth Leehi, Gideon Leehi, Tabitha Hutton, Elizabeth Hutton, Jennie Hutton, Joseph Hutton, William Hutton, George Hutton, Samuel Rose, Sr., Charlotte Rose, Samuel Rose, Jr,, John Rose, James Lake, Hannah Lake, Thomas Lake, Catherine Lake, Jepe Lake, James S. Lake, Abraham Lake, Nicholas Lake, Henrietta Lake, Margaret Phillips, Robert Biccum, Elizabeth Biccum, Anna Biccum, Margaret Biccum, John Biccum, William Biccum, David Hardy, Conrod Derrick, John McFarlin, Elijah Steel, Henry Steel, Reuben Steel, Lucy Steel, Anson Steel, Ira Steel, Joel Smades, Nelly Smades, Charity Smades, Else Smades, Abraham Smades, William Smades, Benjamin Smades, Rachael Smades, Nathan Brown, Mary Brown Jean Brown, Margaret Brown, Samuel Lakins, David Burley, David H. Felton, Rebecca Felton, A. H. Felton, Sophia Felton, Israel Tompkins, Rebecca Tompkins, George Tompkins, Jesse Tompkins, Nathan Tompkins, Samuel Tompkins. The settlement of the Township was placed in the hands of Joseph Easton, Mr. Easton and Joseph Haskins being the first actual settlers. Among the very early settlers were the following: William Davis, William H. Easton, Elijah Easton, Roderick Easton, Harley Easton, John Roach, Moses StratCross, Benjamin Barber, Cooley Weller, and Rev. William Brown. From John C. Davis, Esq., we learn that the first school house was built on McMullen’s Corner, near Easton’s Corners. | The first church was the old Wolford Chapel, two and a-half miles northwest of Easton’s Corners. The Rev. William Brown was one of the first ministers who settled in the township. The second church was built at Merrickville, and shortly after the English Church was erected at Easton’s Corners, At the present time, the township contains the following churches: The Old Chapel, the English, Methodist Episcopal and Canada Methodist Churches at Easton’s Corners ; the Methodist Episcopal and Canada Methodist Churches, at Irish Creek. The original survey of the Township was made in 1795. Shortly after the survey. was completed, the Easton family drew one thousand acres of land, in the vicinity of Easton’s Corners. For many years they were among the most enterprising settlers, and. did much towards improving and developing the Township. | From Mr. Rose, of Rose Bridge, the following account of the early settlement of Wolford, Montague, Oxford, and Marlborough, is derived, these municipality :— About the year 1792, a few settlers found their way to Oxford, from the banks of the St. Lawrence, by what was known as the Lower Road, leaving the. vicinity of the windmill below Prescott, and striking the Rideau in the neighborhood of Burritt’s Rapids. For many years, clothing was very scarce, and hemp was raised in considerable quantities, to supply the place of cotton and woolen goods. Men and women were frequently dressed entirely in deer skin. Wolves were so plentiful that they calves in the day time. The first frame barn raised in the Upper Settlement (vicinity of Easton’s Corners) was on the farm now owned by A. Derrick. Samuel Rose frequently related an account of the raising, stating that every man but one on the Rideau was present ; but, before the timbers could be got into place, they were compelled to obtain assistance from the fair sex. This was about the year18o0r. Ashort time after, William Merrick arrived at Merrickville, and erected his old mill. The first bridge thrown across the Rideau was Chester's. " The second bridge was across Irish Creek, near where the present one now stands, known as Rose's Bridge. The first settlers found several mounds of earth near the river, a short distance below Smith’s Falls, which, tradition says, was a favorite resort of the red man when lighting his council fires. Some thirty-five years after the first settlement, the Rideau Canal was commenced, giving the first permanent impetus to the development of that portion of the County. Several fatal accidents occurred in Wolford ata very early date, which cast a gloom over the entire settlement. In 1801, John Hutton was drowned in the Rideau River, near Grass Island ; and Nicholas
