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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 established at Addison. At the time when Billa Flint erected his large warehouse near the river in Brockville, he was compelled 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 Clendenning, Assessor and Collector ; Ralph Hudson, Pathmaster 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.; number 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 18645—6—7—8-9 and 1870-1, W. H. Fredenburgh ; in 18723-4-5, John H. Whelan ; in 1876-—7-8, W. H. Fredenburgh, 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 February 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 consisted of Eleazer ; Emily, who married John Robbins; Thersa, who married Thomas Judd ; Margaret, who John Deacon.
