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Samuel Seaman settled in Daytown; he had two sons, Stephen and Murray. Murray married a daughter of Otis Smith, one of the original settlers of the Rear of Yonge. Samuel Seaman, married Arvin Stoddard ; Rhoda, another daughter, married William Doak, a halfbrother to Sir Daniel Jones; and Polly married Williston Stevens, son of Elder Stevens, the younger. ELIJAH BOWSER. — The subject of this sketch resides on Lot No. 17, 8th Concession of Bastard, nis farm consisting of 200 acres. His parents came from Yorkshire, England, in 1829, first settling at Maitland, removing to Yonge in 1831. The present farm was secured in 1842. Mr. John Bowser died in 1859, aged 69 years, but his widow is still living, being in her 85th year. Elijah Bowser was born in 1823, and, in 1850, married a daughter of the late John Purvis, of the Township of Yonge, who has borne him six children. Mr. Bowser retains thirty-five acres of land in Yonge, the balance of his real estate being located in Bastard. He has always been regarded as one of the most prosperous farmers in the Township. Names of children: John; Mary Emily, married William Hanna, teacher in the High School at Lanark: Jennie, Lydia Kesiah, Sarah Elma, and Henry Edward. John Waddington, grandfather of Mr. Bowser on his mother’s side, emigrated from Yorkshire, Engburied at Lyn. The grandfather of Mrs. Bowser on her mother’s side was Major Smith, one of the first settlers of Merrickville, and. afterwards of Elizabethtown. Among the oldest citizens of the Township is William Wiltse, son of Benoni Wiltse, the first settler of Yonge. Mr. Wiltse is yet a hale and hearty old gentleman—a surviving pioneer of the JAMES BARLOW. Mr. James Barlow emigrated from Yorkshire, England in 1828, first settling in Watertown, New York, removing thence to the Township of Bastard in 1841, locating on Lot No. 18, in the 8th Concession. His farm now includes 400 acres. In 1830, Mr. Barlow married, and has four children livin his oldest son James residing on a farm in Ma vicinity of the homestead. Another son, Robert, has for many years been the Deputy-Reeve of the Township of Elizabethtown. Mr. Barlow is 75 years of age, yet hale and hearty. His record is that of PHILO HICOCK. Mr. Hicock was born in the Rear of Lansdowne in 1808. His father, Nathan Hicock, came from Connecticut in the year 1800, being one of the first and most influential settlers of Lansdowne. Philo Hicock resides on Lot No. 21, in the 9th Concession of Bastard. Mr. Hicock established a foundry in Beverly (Delta) in 1841, disposing of his interest in is at present conducted. Mr. Hicock was married in 1835 to a daughter of the late Ralph Hindmarsh, of Morristown, New York, who has borne him ten ie children, six of whom survive. His father, Nathan, was an ensign in the British army in 1812, participating in the battle at Ogdensburg and the skirmish at Gananoque. He was also a commissary, and assisted in the erection of the towet on Point Henry, near Kingston. Mr. Philo Hicock was Reeve of the Township of Bastard for ten years, between 1850 and 1872. The foundry was first established by Nathan S. Soper in 1822. THE CHIPMAN FAMILY. | our brothers, Ais, Jesse, Ami and Barnabas Chipman came to Canada from Vermont. Amos and Jesse were in the American Army during the revolution. Ami and Barnabas came to the vicinity of Brockville in 1795, and remained there one year, 9 when they removed to Bastard. Ami took up Lot 4, No. 13, in the 6th Concession. Barnabas settled in | Plum Hollow. Ami was born in 1764, and died in © ez Bastard in 1808. He married Sarah Evarts, who as died in 1828. Ami left seven children : Heman, ¥ born in 1786; Isaac, 1788; Harry, 1790; Olive, aN 1792; Truman, 1794; Lauraj~1796 ; Levi, 1798 ; | but two survive, Harry who resides with his daughter, ; Y Mrs. George Brown, of Easton’s Corners, and Laura, residing in Momence, Illinois, with the children of a her brother Isaac. \ > Harry Chipman married three times ; his second a wife, Lucy Lillie, bore him two children, who lived to maturity. b « (a b ise tte? 4 | ate a 9 ; 3 Y Lewis Chipman, son of Harry, was born March" © 17th, 1820; his sister, Julia Ann, wife of George Brown, was born in'1822. Lewis married in 1854, Abigail Jane, daughter of the late Jesse Delong. She has borne him two children: Willis, born in 1855. graduated at the University of McGill College in S; . 2 May 1876. He is now Mathematical Master of the Napanee High School ; Elma, a daughter, was born in 1859. Lewis Cina was Superintendent of Public Schools in Bastard from 1851 to also Township Clerk for twenty years.» | eF. and
