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Norris Loverin, uncle of the gentleman now living
of that name, built the house in which the late Ira
Lewis first lived in Addison. Mr. Loverin kept a
blacksmith shop and asmall store, the first establish¬
ed at Addison.
At the time when Billa Flint erected his large
warehouse near the river in Brockville, he was com¬
pelled to secure help for “the raising” from the
vicinity of Addison.
CHAPTER XLII.
NorTH CROSBY.
AMONG the first and prominent settlers of North
Crosby, were the following :—
Sheldon Stoddard, who built the first mill in the
Township, at the foot of Sand Lake, also erecting a
house near at hand, on the farm at present owned
by W. H. Rorison.
The Manhard brothers, who built the mills at
Westport.
Obadiah Reed, who discovered the lead mine
near Fermoy, and for many years carried on an
extensive lumbering business.
Robert Rorison, also a lumber dealer for many
years, and the owner of the principal mills of the
municipality.
Old Mr. Deacon, who claims to have felled the
first tree where the Village of Westport now stands.
Mr. Rorison says that the first Reeve was Noah
Halladay, father of E. Halladay, of Brockville. Mr.
Halladay settled on the neck of land separating the
Upper Rideau from Sand Lake. The first Township
Clerk was Hugh Thurlow,
Westport was named by Aaron Chambers and
Lewis Cameron.
The first record in the possession of the Township
Clerk, reads as follows :—
“A Town Meeting held ‘at Sheldon Stoddards,
for the Township of North Crosby, on the first
Monday in January, 1829, the following officers were
appointed : Thomas Judd, Clerk ; Arthur Clenden¬
ning, Assessor and Collector ; Ralph Hudson, Path¬
master 1st Division; Edward Edwards, Pathmaster
2nd Division.”
In 1831, there were added to the township officers
two Wardens, viz., Sheldon Stoddard and Archibald
Denny. The record does not specify their duties,
but their appointment continued until 1836, when,
in accordance with the Act of Parliament passed the
previous year, a public meeting was ‘held at the
school house on the Isthmus, on the first Monday
place of the Wardens. The Commissioners were
George Perkins, Charles Barnum, and a man named
Beach. In 1837, the Commissioners were Obediah
Reed, Chairman; Peter Chamberlain and John
Bruster. In 1838, Peter Ewing, James Bilton, and
Daniel McDonald. During this year the Township
was divided into Commissioners’ Districts. First
District—From the Ist Concession to the Rideau
Canal; znd District—From the Canal to Manhard’s
Mills ; 3rd District—From the mills to Bedford.
The cultivated land in the municipality at that
time was 1,050 acres, and the value of all property,
£4,335, the assessment being £18 Is. 3 4-5d.; num¬
ber of horses, 43; oxen, 69; cows, 108; and other
cattle, 35. vi
In 1845, Aaron Chambers was chosen District
Councillor, with Noah Halladay, Archibald Quands,
and Alexander Dunbar, as Wardens. Chambers
remained District Councillor until 1849, when Gabriel
Forrester was selected.
In 1855, the number of persons assessed was 289.
In 1850, the Council was composed of W. H.
Fredenburgh, Reeve ; Benjamin Tett, Alba Taggart,
John McGregor, and John Cameron, Councillors.
In 1851, Alba Taggart became Reeve ; in 1852, W.
H. Fredenburgh ; in 1853, John McGregor ; in 1854
and 1855, Benjamin Tett; in 1856—7-8-9, W. H.
Fredenburgh ; in 1860-1, Alba Taggart ; in 1862, W.
H. Fredenburgh ; in 1863, Henry J. Arnold; in 1864¬
5—6—7—8-9 and 1870-1, W. H. Fredenburgh ; in 1872¬
3-4-5, John H. Whelan ; in 1876-—7-8, W. H. Freden¬
burgh, and in 1879, J. H. Whelan.
The first building for public worship was a frame
one, put up by Shelcon Stoddard, J. Deacon, Eleazer
Hastings, and the Manhards. It was also used asa
school house. Its situation was opposite the site of
the present Roman Catholic Church, and it is now
used as astable by William Bilton. The next school
house was built on the gth Concession, Lot 13, and
called the Halladay school house.
The village of Newboro’ was incorporated Feb¬
ruary 1oth, 1876. The first Council consisted of J.
W. Preston, Reeve; J. T. Gallagher, Robert Bell, J.
A. Shaver, and Robert Webster, Councillors ; George
Bell, Clerk.
George W. Hastings and wife emigrated from the
State of New York in 1815, locating near Unionville,
Elizabethtown. In 1819, they removed to Newboro’,
then known asthelIsthmus. At that time there were
but four white families in North Crosby,viz.,William
Robinson, Isaac McCardney, Moore, and Mr.
Hastings. The family of Mr. Hastings then con¬
sisted of Eleazer ; Emily, who married John Robbins;
Thersa, who married Thomas Judd ; Margaret, who
John Deacon.