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THE SHIPMAN FAMILY ;
AND
NELSON SHIPMAN.
Samuel Shipman, erandfather of Nelson Shipman,
was born January 17th, 1764, and died in 1831. He
was a native of New England, but at the close of the
revolution removed to the vicinity of Brockville, re¬
ceiving a grant of land as a U. E. Loyalist. He
married in 1768, Catherine Elliott, daughter of a
U. E. Loyalist.
second wife was Margaret Henderson, by whom he
had one child, now the wife of Abel Coleman, of
Ogdensburg. By his first wife he had twelve
children, all of whom are dead.
Yonge, May 27, 1787. He died September 6th,
1867, aged 80 years. His wife, Fanny Whitmore,
was born in Massachusetts, United States of
America, March 12th, 1788, and died June 7th, 1854.
They were the parents of seven children, two of
whom are still living, viz., Nelson, and Catherine,
wife of George Goodson, of Sarnia.
Nelson Shipman resides on lot No. 1, in the 2nd
concession of Yonge, occupying a farm of 185 acres.
He has been twice married; his first wife wasa
daughter of the late John Mallory, of Yonge, one of
the first settlers of the township; his second wife
being a daughter of the late Peter Purvis, also an
original settler of the same Township. By his first
wife, he had only one child, the children by the
second marriage numbering seven, of whom six are
living. Mr. Shipman is one of the most successful
farmers in the municipality. The Shipman family
is an extensive one, its members being among the
leading citizens of Leeds County.
THE STOWELL FAMILY,
AND
CYRENUS STOWELL.
Oliver O. Stowell was born in Massachusetts,
February igth, 1797. He came to Canada, and
began teaching school at Lewis’ Corners (Addison)
about forty-seven years ago. At that time, Ira
Lewis, Esq., was keeping an hotel at the Corners.
After teaching about four years, Mr. Stowell devoted
his attention to farming, settling on Lot No. 36, in
the 8th Concession of Elizabethtown. He married
Harriet Ketchum, who died in 1843 ; he subsequently
married Abigail, a sister of his first wife. The fol¬
fowing children were born to him by his first wife :
Chorlotte, married Horace Brown; Lucy, married
Rufus Taplin ; Elizabeth, married Harvey Brown ;
and Cyrenus, who married Ursula Phillips, adopted
daughter of Daniel Phillips, Esq. The fruit of his
second marriage was one son, Omsley O. Stoweil,
M. D., a graduate of Queen’s College, now settled at
Cyrenus Stowell is a successful agriculturist, his
farm being a model of neatness and order—in fact,
second to none in the wealthy Township of Eliza¬
town. He has two children, Charles Mason and
Edward Norman.
JOHN H. LANE,
Mr. Lane owns a farm of one hundred acres in the
Third Concession of Elizabethtown. He was born
in 1812, in the Township of Augusta, being the son
of Cornelius Lane, who drew land in Modoc Munici¬
pality for military services rendered in the war of
1812. Thelatter died forty years since, never having
removed from Augusta ; his wife, Catherine, died in
1860, aged seventy years. James Lane, the father of
Cornelius Lane, was of Irish descent and a United
Empire Loyalist from the Mohawk Valley ; he died
in 1817, aged 75 years. His place of residence was
one and a-half miles back of the old Blue Church,
Augusta. John H. Lane married in 1837, Mary,
daughter of the late Abraham Knapp, of Augusta.
Mr. Lane has raised a family of eight children. Mr.
Knapp was the son of a U. E. Loyalist, Joseph
Knapp, who originally emigrated from England to
the United States, removing to Canada at the close
of the revolution. The following are the names of
the children of John H. Lane : Hiram B., born
1840, resides in Oregon; Abraham, born in 1843;
Minerva, born in 1845, married Truman Hayes;
Kufus, born in 1847 ; Mary M., born in 1850, married
James Munroe; Rachel C., born in 1853. Mr. Lane
has devoted his energies to farming, residing for
many years in Augusta and removing to his present
location in 1864. Mr. Lane spent two years and
a-half of his life in the Australian gold mines—from
1853 to 1855. James Lane, grandfather of John H.,
had five children, all of whom settled in the United
Counties ; they were : James, Henry, John, Rebecca
and Polly.
THE COLE AND CLOW FAMILIES.
In the year following that in which England
formally acknowledged the independence of the
United States," Adam Cole, a United Empire
Loyalist who had seen service under the British
flag, embarked with his wife, Thankful, and all
his worldly goods, for Canada. Mr. Cole was
accompanied by his wife's brothers, Jonathan
and Abel Fulford. Coming up the St. Lawrence,
they landed at the spot now known as Buell’s Bay,
at the foot of Home Street, Brockville, and pitched
their tents, but not liking the quality of the soil,
which was very rocky, they proceeded up the river
to a point now known as Cole’s Ferry, where Adam