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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, receiving 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 folfowing 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 Elizatown. 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 Municipality 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
