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 OF THE 
 
 DANIEL HAIGHT FAMILY 
 
 BY HIS GRANDSON 
 
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 Toronto : 
 
 Rowsell & Hutchison, Printers 
 
 1899 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 MORE than one hiin<lrcd years have passed since Daniel 
 Haight with his wife and one child landed on the 
 shore of the Bay of Quinte in the 4th Township — then 
 unnamed — but since known as Adolphustown — in the 
 Midland District, Province of Upper Canada. 
 
 He was the youngest son of Joseph Haight an able 
 farmer and friend residing in Dutchess County, New 
 York. Becoming dissatisfied with the new order of things, 
 he, with the Dorlands, Trumpours, Cjise^s and others, 
 were the first of the small band of Quakers who migrated 
 with the U. E. Loyalists immediately after the termination 
 of the Revolutionary War. The exodus that followed 
 this event, together with the cruel treatment which the 
 defeated patriots received at the hands of their victors, 
 and their expulsion from the country, is a stain upon the 
 first chapter of the American Republic's history, that can 
 never be erased. The Quakers then, as they ever have 
 been, were men of peace and opposed to war and blood- 
 shed. This prominent feature of their belief has always 
 been consistently adhered to and on many occasions in 
 their history subjected them to imprisonment, great 
 sacrifices and much suffering. But, this did not prevent 
 them, as intelligent thinking men, from exercising their 
 judgment about current events nor from having their 
 
preferences, and from the nature of things it wa.s impossible 
 that this should not be so. A largo number sympathized 
 with the British more or less, and all were under a species 
 of espionage during the several years this internecine 
 contest continued. When supplies were needed they were 
 plundered of their goods, and when recruits were wanted 
 the}' were sometimes imprisoned because they refused to 
 bear arras, and those of them who were suspected of 
 sympathizing with the Loyalists, tliough not literally 
 expelled the country, their position was i-ondered so 
 unpleasant, and being men who had the courage of their 
 convictions, preferring to continue subjects of the old 
 land than remain as unfavored citizens of the new, they 
 abandoned their homes and turned their faces to the 
 unknown wilderness of Canada, and there along the 
 beautiful shorqs of the Bay of Quinte joined the sturdy 
 band of exiles who had preceded them, and commenced a 
 struggle for existence with a patient determination to 
 wrest from the unbroken forest other homes and compe- 
 tence, and after years of painful toil, through the most 
 severe privations, overcoming the gravest obstacles, they 
 succeeded not only in what the}' had set their hands to do, 
 but in laying well and surely the foundation of this noble 
 Province, which is the key stone of the grand Dominion 
 of Canada. All honor to the memory of those noble men ; 
 they are worthy of the warmest admiration, and the 
 recollection of what thej' have done should make the 
 heart of every son of this fair Dominion thrill with pride. 
 Of the four grandsons still living, born prior to his 
 death, I am the only one, I believe, that has any personal 
 knowledge of him. As I have pointed out, my father 
 
lived at the old home for a few years sulwequcnt to his 
 death, and in consequence I hail the privilege of seeinj^ 
 him day after day an well aa being the recipient of many 
 of his favors. He was a cheerful, kindly disposed old 
 man, and though then afflicted with a painful disease — 
 cancer of the face — which finally increased with virulent 
 rapidity and ended his life with great suffering — yet he 
 retained his equaniunty to the end. I was quite young, 
 but his appearance, nevertheless, is clearly impre.s.sed on 
 my memory. The children were all married and settled 
 before his demise, with the exception of Reuben and 
 Samuel. Philip and John had settled in Hiliier. Andrew, 
 the eldest son of the first, and Arnold i and Henry, sons of 
 the second, the three grandsons mentioned beside my.self — 
 aged respectively eighty-five, eighty, seventy-six — lived at 
 a considerable distance, considered so at least in those 
 days, and in consequence of the newness of the country, 
 the urgent demand upon their time and energies, bad roads 
 and conveyances with which to travel with any comfort, 
 the intercoiuse botweuii the families was brief and infre- 
 ([uent, and hence it came to pass that these senior cousins 
 of mine saw so little of their grandfather that their 
 recollections of him are very indistinct. At this time the 
 number of grandchildren had increased to twenty-five. 
 These cousins, with those that followed after, for a number 
 of years were all known to me, but as the time wore on 
 the circle widened and the number increased, those in the 
 natural course of events married and set up for themselves 
 in different parts of the country ; again the circle spread 
 out much farther and their progeny scattered farther afield, 
 so that in the process of increase and dispersion, and the 
 
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 deiiianiJ8 of perNorial afFairH on my tiino and aitontion, I 
 lost track of my relatives and indeed many of them are 
 unknown to me It was from this fact and from a desire 
 to trace the growth of the family from its original stem 
 that I undertook the task, and in many respects I have 
 found it a pleasant one, but it has entailed much more 
 trouble and labor than I anticipated. It is true that in 
 these more than hundred years the increase in numbers 
 has been large, but not so large one would think as to 
 interpose serious obstacles, and yet as I proceeded I had to 
 follow the objects of my pursuit into the United States, in 
 the far off North-West, and numerous corners of this 
 Province. In most cases I found a willingness to further 
 my object by giving the information asked ; in some I 
 received no response whatever. In one ca.so, that of 
 Samuel, who was unable from the absence of the family 
 register to give me particulars and dates, I wrote his 
 daughters, but received no answer. I am indebted to Ami 
 Mullett who took much interest in the matter and gave 
 me valuable aid, and also to Gulia Haight for the same. 
 My work ends with the great grandsons or the fifth gener- 
 ation, and have added their children up to the present 
 time, but in a few years the natural increase must change 
 this. I have endeavored to make the information as full 
 and complete as circumstances would admit. I append 
 the family of Bathsheba Mullett, this was supplied me by 
 her daughter Ann, and also a memorandum of Rhoda 
 Ruttan. I have been unable to obtain any information 
 of this aun'/s family. I wrote to one of her daughters, 
 and she replied that she could give me none, that I 
 probably knew more about her family than she did. 
 
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 For tho history of the ancestors of our grandfather, I 
 am indebted to David W. Hoyt's Genealogical History of 
 the Hoyt, Haight and Hight families published at Provi- 
 dence in 1871. There, those who are interested, will 
 learn that Daniel Haight of the sixth generation is a 
 lineal discendant of Simon Hoyt who landed in Salem, 
 Mass.. in 1C28. 
 
 C. Haight. 
 
 Toronto, August, JS90. 
 
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TlIK OIITIKKJK'APHV OK TIIK NAME. 
 
 THE c]ian|rcs tliat occur in family naiiioH in the courHo 
 of Imlt" a score of j,'enerati«»ns, as in tlii.s case, are 
 curious and interesting. From tlio l^est information that 
 can bo obtaincil, the original name was as we spell it, 
 " Haight " and of (icrman origin. Several years ago in 
 the CPur.se of my reailing I came across the name — I forget 
 the title of the book — it was included among several other 
 (Jerman name.s of notable men, but with the prefix, 
 thus, Von Haight. The author of the Hoyt and Haiglit 
 Family, says: That in the early part of this century a 
 member of the Hoyt family made inquiry in England 
 conceriiliig his ancestry, and was informed that they were 
 originally from Germany where the name was spelled 
 Haight, but when they .settled in England it was changed 
 to Hoit. The reason for the change is not given, it 
 certainly could not have been because the change gave it a 
 more euphonious sound. The change was made, however, 
 and the manner of spelling the name iloyte continues in 
 England at the present time. I have noticed when in 
 England that I was almost invariably addressed as Mr. 
 Hoyte. It is remai'kable how many ways this short name 
 is spelled, for instance, Hoyt, Hoit, Hoyte, Haite, Hoytt, 
 Hoitt, Hoyet, Hoyett, Hoyette, Hoyght, Hoight, Hight, 
 Hite, Hyatt, Hayte, Hait, Hayt, Haight, Haytee, Haitt, 
 Height, Hoett, Hayt, Hoith, Hoitte, Hoyat, Hawitt, Hyet, 
 Hioght, Hiot, Hyot, Houit, Hyte, and perhaps several 
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 more ways. The branch of the family who retain the 
 name of Hoyte are the more numerous, particularly in the 
 Eastern States. Those who migrated westward early in 
 the eighteenth century, John Hoyt of Rye, Moses Hoyt of 
 East Chester, employed Haight to which they and their 
 descendants have adhered. Samuel Haight, who was a son 
 of Nicholas and a grandson of Simon the first, born ac 
 Windsor, 1643, left that place in 1648, and came to East 
 Chester, N.Y., appears to be the f rst one who uniformly 
 spelled his name as we do, as well as all his descendants. 
 It is also noticeable that all, or nearly all, of the family 
 who moved to New York State and adjoining States, were 
 Quakers or became members of that Society immediately 
 after. The members of the Hoyt family are mostly 
 Unitarians and Episcopalians. 
 
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 THE PROGENITOR OK THE HOYT AND 
 HAIGHT FAMILY IN iVMERlCA 
 
 Numbering probably over fifteen thounand souls — was 
 one, Simon Hoyt, who came to America from Upway, 
 Dorchester, in the County of Dorset, England, in the year 
 1628. It is not quite certain whether he was one of the 
 1500 Colonists who came out under Charles' Patent for 
 Massachusetts Bay — John Endicott being their Governor 
 — or by the Abigail or the George, which arrived in Salem 
 in this year. The evidence is pretty conclusive, I think, 
 that he was a passenger in one of these vessels and paid his 
 way, from the fact that his name is associated with three 
 others — Spragues — who came that way and a short time 
 after went with them to Charlestown, as one of its first 
 settlers. In 1633, April 3rd, Symon Hoite — the reader 
 will observe the different ways in which the names of the 
 same person are written all through until we reach the 
 time when the branch to which we belong assumed the 
 permanent nomenclature of Haight — appears on a list as 
 having two cows and is therefore required to put up forty 
 feet of fence on the marsh. In October of the same year, 
 he is one of the two appointed to "see to the fences." "In 
 January, 1633, it is ordered that the marsh before Goodman 
 Hosford and Davy Wilton shall be divided among them- 
 selves and Symon Hoyte." May 24th, 1634, Symon 
 Hoyte is one of two appointed to view the pales — fences 
 —of the North Field. In January, 1G34, " It is ordered 
 
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 that Goodman WitchtieKl ami Ooodinan Hoytc shall have 
 to be divided between thcni the marsh that lies in the 
 north neck towards Boston over against Mr. Rainsford's 
 house in Boston being for eight acres by estimation." 
 February 10th, 1G34, " Symon lioyto is mentioned as 
 keeping a bull." After this the name of Simon Hoyte 
 does not appear on the Dorchester records. 
 
 From Dorchester it is evident that he moved to Scituatc, 
 Mass., most likely early in April, as Symeon Hayte and his 
 wife joined the Scituate church, April 19th, 168.5, and 
 " Goodman Hait'.s hou.se was built in that town between 
 September, 1634, and October, 1086." From this place he 
 moved to Windsor, Ct. The first mention of his name at 
 this place appears in the records February 2iSth, 1640, as 
 follows: — "Symon Hoyt hath granted from the Plantation, 
 for meadow and upland, adjoining four score acres, more or 
 less, bounded West by Wm. Hill fro the River back one 
 hundred and twenty rodd to the West, upon the South it 
 bounds fro Wm. Hill's lott along by the Rivulett until it 
 comes to Mathias Sention's meadow and then it turns 
 about uppon the East and bounds by the said meadow in 
 a straight lyne fro the river six rodd and then it turns 
 agayne upon the South, behind the end of Mathias Sention 
 and Baggel Eggleston's meadow until it comes to Elias 
 Parkman's and the Town Swampe and Elias Parkman's 
 meadow bounds it East, until yt com to the foote of the 
 hill in a straight lyne and from thence it turns and bounds 
 upon the North until yt comes to the utmost end of Will 
 Hill's lott." " Also on the North side of the rivoulett four 
 score acres, thirty of which is given his son Walter Hoyt 
 fro the Town, yt lyes near the falls in the rivulett ; it is in 
 
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 length fro the river back a himdreil and twenty rodd, in 
 breadth a hundred and twenty-six rodd, bounded every 
 side by the Comon." According to the State papers at 
 Hartford the " Plan of Ancient Windsor " places Simon 
 Hoyt's land on the east side of the river away from the 
 other settlers, and hence the reason probably why he and 
 his family were freed from keeping " Watch and Ward," 
 i.e., Guard Duty, the foiiner at night and the latter by day, 
 as they would have enough to do to protect themselves 
 from the Indians, without travelling a long distance to 
 guard those who lived in the village. The name of " Hoyt's 
 Meadow," then given to that portion of Windsor, is still 
 retained. 
 
 In 1G46 he sold his land in " Hoyt's Meadow " with 
 dwelling house, barn, etc., to William Thi'alland, moved 
 to Fairfield, at what date is not known. The earliest 
 mention of Simon Hoyt at Fairfield is the following 
 taken from the Town record, March 6th, 1649 : " Granted 
 unto Simon Hoitt from the Town one home lott contayning 
 two acres and a half more or less, etc.," together with a 
 number of larger lots in the same place. How long he 
 lived at Fairfield cannot be determined. It is pretty 
 certain, however, that he resided there until after 1650 
 and then moved to Stamford, where he died September 1st, 
 1657. His demise is twice recorded, once as Hoyt and 
 once as Hoight. He appears to have been both a restless 
 and energetic man, and notwithstanding his frequent re- 
 movals managed to accumulate a considerable property. 
 The author from whom we have gathered the above and 
 subsequent information thus concluded his remarks about 
 him : — 
 
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 " From all that has been learned ahout Simon Hoyt it is 
 evident that he must have been born before IGOO, probably 
 as early as 1505, hence he was probably thirty or thirty- 
 five years of age at the time of coming to America, and 
 sixty or sixty-five at the time of his death." 
 
 " The chronicles of the time give us some idea of the 
 hardships endured by the first settlers at Charlestown and 
 Dorchester. The sufferings of the winter ; the conspiracy 
 of the Indians to cut off the English, when all hands of 
 men, women and children wrought at digging and building 
 until a fort was completed, and the perils of pestilence and 
 famine, when they were compelled to live on clams and 
 muscles and fish. In all these Simon Hoyt must have 
 participated." 
 
 It also appears that he was an early settler of seven 
 different towns in New England, and in most of them he 
 was one of the first white residents. What an experience 
 of pioneer life he must have had ! Scarcely was he settled 
 in one place when he gave up his home with all its 
 comforts, and started to subdue a new portion of the 
 wilderness. Most of his children seem to have shared the 
 spirit of their father, for in twenty years after his death 
 no one bearing the name of Hoyt was left in either of 
 these seven towns, except Stamford. The hardy and 
 courageous character of the family is shown, not only by 
 their frequent changes of residences, but by the fact that 
 they lived in Windsor, at least, away from the other 
 settlers. 
 
 Simon Hoyt left ten children, Walter, b. 1G18 ; Nicholas, 
 b. 1620; John, b. 1630; Moses, b. 1737; Joshua, b. 1641 ; 
 Samuel, b. 1G43 ; Benjamin, b. 1644 ; and three daughters, 
 names not given. 
 
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 Of these cliildron, Moses, the fourth son, is the one we 
 are the more immediately interested in, as the first link in 
 the chain of our descent. He resided in Fairfield, Conn., 
 up to 16G5, when lie removed to East Chester, Westchester 
 County, N. Y., and is the sixth person wlio^e name appears 
 on the original articles of agreement between the inhabit- 
 ants of Kast Chester in that year, and his name also 
 appears in the list of Patentees of the town in 166G. In 
 these documents his name is spelled, Hoitte, Hoitt and 
 Hoit. He appears to have been a very prosperous man. 
 We learn that the late of Moses Hoit was forty-five in 
 1682, the laigest on the list of freeholders of East Chester ; 
 and in 1G85, Moses Hoit contributed £1 towards the sup- 
 port of the minister in East Chester, only one person on 
 the list contributing more. He was also chosen to treat 
 with the Indians about their lands in 1081. There were 
 three children, Moses, b. 1G62, Mary and Abigail. 
 
 Moses second was born 1GG2, the first child and only son 
 Moses. There were two sisters, Maiy and Abigail. He 
 lived at East Chester and in good circumstances. These 
 particulars are given about him taken from the Town 
 records : Moses Hoite, Jr., was granted a home lot, March, 
 1G82-83, and other land in 1G87. Land bought by him was 
 entered in 1693. Moses Hoit, Jr., was a fence viewer in 
 1G98 ; was on the list of rates in 1G99-1700 ; his ear mark 
 is recorded in 1702, and he was frequently mentioned in 
 1700-1705. In 109G he had a pew in the meeting-house 
 directly behind his father's and directly behind his was 
 one belonging to a John Haute. Seveial deeds of Moses 
 Hoyt, Jr.,and his wife Elizabeth, of East Chester, in 1701- 
 2 and 1703 are on record at White Plains. In 1702 Moses, 
 
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 Sr., deeded to his son Moses, Jr., one-half of his home lot in 
 East Chester— the west side— with house and barn there- 
 on, and other land, reserving certain rights to hims If and 
 wife, also " one negro called Ben," and in 1707 other land. 
 
 Moses third next in order was born October 28th, 1696. 
 He was the third of nine children, viz. : — Abigail, b. Juno 
 16th, 1692 ; Elenor, b. June 24th, 1094 ; Moses, Rachel, b. 
 February 0th, 1698 ; Aaron, b. March 27th, 1701 ; Solomon, 
 b. February 9th, 1703, Joshua, b.— Caleb— Mariam. There 
 are two things that are particularly noticeable to the 
 descendants of this branch of the family. They were 
 Friends, and with this family the name Haight became 
 preminently fixed. The father was known as Hoyt, Hoit 
 and Haight, but I believe adliered to the latter as did his 
 family and their successors. The following items are 
 taken from the records : Moses Haight of East Chester, 
 yeoman, and wife Rachel, deeded land and houses and all 
 in East Chester in 1740-41. Moses Haight, yeoman, of 
 Crum Elbow precinct, Dutchess County, N. Y., granted 
 two deeds in 1751, one of land in Crum Elbow to Moses 
 Haight, Jr., of same place, in the 4th month called June, 
 and the other of land in Nine Partners. Joshua Haight 
 was witness of the former deed. 
 
 Moses fourth is the next link in the chain we are follow- 
 ing. He was the first born of a family of six, viz. : — Isaac, 
 Joseph, Solomon, Rachel, Elizabeth— dates of births not 
 given. There are no particulars of him any further than 
 that the will of Moses Haight of Stanford town, Dutchess 
 County, N. Y., dated July 13, 1805, proved December 21, 
 1805. 
 
 Joseph, the second son of Moses fourth, and the fifth 
 
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 gcnenition, and the last wo shall have to notice in th's 
 connection, had nine chUdren, viz. : — 
 
 CiriLDREN OF Joseph-'"' and Mauoauet Haigiit. 
 
 I. Joseph 6, b. in Washington, N.Y., in. Margaret, 
 member of the Society of Friend-^. His will 
 dated March, 1817, was proved August C, 
 1817. 
 II. Jonathan <J, b. in Washington, N.Y., December 
 20, 1749, m. Miriam Hoag. She died in 
 New Lebanon, N.Y., March 12, 1835. In 
 June, 1772, he came to Canaan, now New 
 Lebanon, N.Y., was a leading minister of the 
 Society of Friends. I have his ledger which 
 he kept thirty years as town blacksmith, 
 many autographs, among them those of his 
 brothers. 
 
 III. ObadiahS, b. in Washington, N.Y., n>. Sarah 
 
 , a Friend. Lived in Stanford, Dutchess 
 
 County, N.Y. Will dated 1808, proved May, 
 1812. Children: Henry?, Mary 7, Char- 
 lotte 7 , Jane 7 , Peter 7 , Consider 7 , Rachel 7 , 
 Rebecca 7 , Obadiah 7 , Job 7 , some of whom 
 number twenty-one in 1808, and all named 
 Haight except Hannah. 
 
 IV. Rachel <•, b. , m. . Records: living in 
 
 1814, a relative says .she married — Hoskins. 
 
 V. Reuben 6, b. January 17, 1758, m. September 
 
 28, 178G, Mary, daughter of John and Sarah 
 
 (Hicks) Yeomans. She died January 10, 
 
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 1852. He died November 2G, 1826, in 
 Washington, N.Y. A son, Walter 7, is now 
 living in Dutchess County, N.Y. 
 VI. Anios«, b. in Wa.shington, N.Y., 1760, ni. 
 Mary Fowler. Died 1802. I have a copy 
 of his will, in which he mentions all his 
 cliildren, wife, and brother and mother. 
 Know little more of him. Have an auto- 
 graph. 
 VII. David 6, b. in Washington, N.Y. Came to 
 Canaan with his brothers Amos 6, Jona- 
 than 6, and Daniel fi. Moved to Union 
 Springs, N.Y.,in 1824, where he died 1848. 
 
 VIII. Daniel, b. , m. first Mary Moor, second 
 
 Mary Dorlaml. Was a Quaker or Friend. 
 Confined to his farm during Revolution 
 because ho would not diill. Afterwards 
 went to Canada. The above information 
 from Joseph C Haight. In a foot note men- 
 tion is made of an agreement of Reuben 
 Haight, of Dutchess County, about land for 
 a Quakers' Boarding School at Nine Partners 
 in l7i)7, recorded at Poughkeepsie. 
 Daniel Haight, youngest son of Joseph, was the founder 
 of the Canadian branch, which we are now about to trace. 
 In consequence of the disappearance of the family 
 record the date of the first and .second marriage cannot 
 be accurately given. His father Joseph, was an able 
 fanner residing in Dutchess County, N.Y., and had eight 
 children, of whom he_ was the youngest. He was born 
 January 14, 1704, and married fiist Mary, daughter of 
 
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 Andrew Muuv and his wife, who was ji daughter of Samuel 
 Borland, of Dutchess County. She was horn June 27, 1767. 
 Issue, one child, Philip, who was born December I, 1787, 
 the mother died ten day.s afterwards on the 11th. From 
 this we may conclude the marriage occurred early in Jan- 
 uary, 17S6. He would then have been about twenty-two 
 and his wife nineteen. The second wife was Mary, 
 daughter of John Dorland and his wife Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Jonathin Ricketson and a sister of Dr. Shadrick 
 Rickctson, who, in his day, was a man of some distinction, 
 a leading physician in the city of New York, the author 
 of some medical books, and wealthy. He died some time 
 in the early thirties. She was born in Dutchess County, 
 March 23, 1772. The first child by this marriage was 
 born March 6, 1790, a little over two years after the 
 demise of the first wife, .so that he must have married the 
 second time about a year after her death — 1789 — and this 
 wife would have been about 17. He died of cancer in the 
 face at his residence in Adolphustown, August 19, 1830, 
 and his widow Augu.st 10, 1845, almost exactly fifteen 
 years later. 
 
 I was under the impression, how obtained I am unable 
 to say, that John Dorland came to Canada almost .simul- 
 taneously with his brothers Philip and Thomas, but by a 
 different route, and that Daniel Haight followed him a 
 short time later. But from information received through 
 Daniel Ricketson, of New Bedford, Mass., this was not the 
 case. There are no dates that I can discover that fixes 
 the time of Daniel Haight's coming or that of his father- 
 in-law. I have always understood that his first child 
 Philip, was born in Dutchess County ami the other children 
 
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 in Canada. If this is true he must have loft very soon 
 after his second marriage, presiunably 1789, but there are 
 circumstances which indicate that he came to the country 
 two or three years earlier. This is a matter, however, of 
 no great importance. It is not improbable that one or 
 more of these dates may yet be discovered. 
 
 There were two reasons for his leaving his native place 
 and settling in the then wild and unknown regions of 
 Upper Canada. He was not in sympathy with the party 
 who brought about tlie liovolution and succeeded in gain- 
 ing an independent nationality in 1783. Though a Friend 
 he was a Loyalist at heart and pieferred to be under Bri- 
 tish rule. These feelings were no doubt intensified by the 
 harsh and even cruel treatment meted out to the Loyalists 
 by the .successful Revolutionists who in many cases con- 
 fiscated their property and expelled them from the country. 
 The Friends as a sect are of a conservative tendency, and 
 are opposed both to violent changes and harsh treatment, 
 and beyond all, the accomplishment of any end by means 
 of war and bloodshed. Many of them had suffered very 
 severely during the continuance of the war. They had 
 been imprisoned and compelled to contribute of their sub- 
 stance to the aid of the discontents who were struggling 
 to .sever a connection they had no serious cause to complain 
 of, and in a way they most earnestly believed to be wrong, 
 and did not hesitate to condemn, and hence it was that 
 numbers of them emigrated to Canada about this time and 
 soon after. Another, and perhaps more potent reason why 
 his footsteps were turned in the direction of Canada, was 
 the fact that his father-in-law, J, Borland, was purposing 
 to emigrate to Adolphustown — then known as 4th Town 
 — on the Bay of Quinte. 
 
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 It is (|uito certain tlmt lie v/ns tlu- Krst one luniring the 
 name to settle in Upper Canudu. That he was in very 
 comfortable circumstances is beyond queHtion and began 
 life in his new honu; under much more favorable condi- 
 tions than the lar^'er proportion ol the other settlers. It 
 is well-known what hardships the first settlers had to 
 endure, and how bravely and successfully they fought 
 their way through to comfort and atHuence. Happily for 
 Daniel Haight he was exempted from the severer trials of 
 pioneer life; not that he would have hesitated to fight his 
 way with his neighbors had his situation been less favor- 
 able. He was not a man to be deterred by difficulties, but 
 rather to face them and overcome them. But as we have 
 said tiiere was no need for him to enter into the more 
 severe struggle to get a foothold in the forest, no need for 
 him to shoulder his axe with the rising of the sun and 
 wield it through the long hours of the day until the 
 shadows of approaching night compelled him to desist. 
 No need for him to fell trees and get them out of the way 
 so that he could get ground to produce something upon 
 which he could subsist. 
 
 Whether he had settled upon a definite plan of proced- 
 ure before he came, is not known, but very soon after his 
 arrival he opened up a general store adjoining the town 
 plot in Adolphustown. The house was torn down about 
 twenty years ago. It was used for many years by Lazarus 
 Gilbert, a carpenter by trade, as a workshop. He does 
 not appear to have continued in business very long for in 
 or about 1702 he was living on a farm he had purchased 
 in the second concession of the same township and about 
 three miles from his first residence. Very soon after this 
 
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 chuiijL^u ho hiul oructcil wliiit in lliost! days would \h\ coii- 
 hidurcd u lur<^'e iiiid coininodioiis huusu, with harii, .slicds 
 and other ()Utl)uildiii^fs. 'I'herc were but few, if indeed 
 there were uny places in tlie Murrouiidin*^ settlement 
 superior to it at that time. No one wtood hij^her in the 
 general eHtiniutioii of the people thun he did. He was a 
 judicious counsellor, a true and reliable friend, consistent 
 in his daily walk, of u genial rnd Nocittl)le disposition, 
 thoughtful and generous to those in trouble, a wise father 
 and devoted husband. Having been carefully trained 
 hiuLself he felt the importance of intelligent |)arental 
 watchfulness over the rearing of his own children, and 
 possessing a good education he was alive to its benefits 
 and did all he could to advance it. But, it must be admit- 
 ted that in those days its advantages were not appreciateil 
 as they are to-day, and indeed if they had been, the means 
 of acquiring it were not in reach. The log school house 
 widely separated, (luite in keeping with the teachers, were 
 the only places where tlic young were taught the meagre 
 and imperfect rudiments of an education. He held the 
 following township offices : Town clerk and overseer of 
 highways in 1800 ; as.sessor in 1801, 1808 and 1821 ; town 
 clerk in 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1813 and 1814 ; town war- 
 den in 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814; collector, 1816; over- 
 seer of highways, 1809, and pathraaster in 1818, 1819 and 
 1 823. He seems to have had an inclination towards con- 
 troversial writing. I have in my possession a MS. of his, 
 closely written on cap paper, forty-eight pages, under date 
 of 1797. It is addressed to D. Dunham, one of the first 
 Methodist ministers in the Province, and is a review of 
 their methods of conducting public worship. It is well- 
 
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 known tlint nt that time, nnd long after, tliis sect was 
 pretty noisy HoinotimoH, and in the fervor of worship did 
 ond said things that grated on the ears of our staid |)ro- 
 genitor, and wlilch hi' ladievod to he inconsistent with the 
 teaching of tlio New Testament, or as lie puts it, " a mes- 
 senger Hent from tlio meek Jesus to declare the glad 
 tidings of the Gospel." 
 
 Though but a child — in my fifth year — at the time of 
 my grandfather's death I have a clear recollection of his 
 appearance. In stature he was under medium height, 
 possessed a well knit frame and at that time had become 
 slightly corpulent, a full, fresh, clean shaved, agreeable 
 face, dark gray eyes, very bright and pleasant eyes to look 
 into and an index to the man's cheerful and kindly dis- 
 position. A broad and well moulded forehead, a large anil 
 well balanced head resting on a njuscularneck, dark brown 
 hair originally — now turning grey — neat in appearance, 
 sociable and fond of children. This is a brief picture of 
 the man as I .saw him, and firmly impressed on my mem- 
 ory. 
 
 Thinking his descendants would like to get as good a 
 view of the man as can be had at this di.stant date, I shall 
 give two letters. The first is written in 17!)7, name not 
 
 Respected Friend, — I have thought of thy remark on the 
 expression of Christ, recorded by Mark, 4th chapter and 
 12tli verse, which I think receiveth a considerable light 
 from the preceding one, as it then appear.-; that those that 
 were about him with the twelve, were desirous of knowing 
 the meaning of those things which he spake to all. Anil 
 he told them that to them was given to know, which cor- 
 respondeth with: "They that seek shall iind, and to him 
 (hat knocketh it shall be opened." These promises are 
 
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 prospective, Imt to them that nre without all those things 
 are done in parables, that is, 1 conceive, to those that do 
 not seek to know or that seek by wron<]f means, to com- 
 prehend by their own natural reason what only the Spirit 
 of Christ can or did teach. 1 tind it said in another place 
 concerning Pharoali that " for this very p-.irpose I have 
 raised thee up," that is, to manifest Almighty Power in 
 making him an example of hardness. I find it also declared 
 that the call is gone forth to the ends of the earth and that 
 all that will come may come, which, together with my own 
 experience, is a sufficient demonstration that Pharoah had 
 his day and time wherein if he had attended to the feelings 
 of his own heart he would have escaped the fatal destruc- 
 tion that he experienced. But exalted by his own imagina- 
 tions he would not, therefore, by his resistance, cometh 
 justly under the situation of all that will not work while 
 the day lasts. Seeing we know the night shall come 
 wherein no man can work this work of his soul's salvation 
 which he is enabled to do in the day by the light that is 
 afforded to him through mercy for that purpose, as he hath 
 declared by His Prophet that His Spirit shall not always 
 strive with man, seeing he is so vile a thing. My belief is 
 that all ])eople are sufficiently shewn what is right, would 
 they attend to it in the time and manner of its appearing 
 it would direct them safely through. What certain conse- 
 quences can be then the ])roduotion of darkness whenever 
 withdrawn from the light, and that our work mijjht be 
 left undone if we will not do it whilst we can. It is also 
 said that one of the twelve apostles was a devil. The query 
 is, how came he so. Not by any compulsion whereby he 
 was overbalanced by a superior power to that of his Master, 
 but by not being enough faithful to Him that had chosen 
 and given him a part of the ministry and a taste of the 
 good word of life and power of the world to come, but 
 through unfaithfulness was induced to sell his Master for 
 even a price, as too many of us do, for the trivial and 
 unsubstantial enjoyments of time, which after we pass 
 through we see the emptiness of and are sometimes aston- 
 i.shed at our own folly, and should we turn at those reproofs 
 of instruction would find they led to paths of wisdom, yea, 
 pleasantness and peace. But, if we will not, the further 
 we go from tlie light the greater the darkness until our 
 
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 bewiUlered imaginations may be induced to believe tliat 
 even darkness is light and light is darkness, by which 
 means we plead for things that ought to bo discouraged 
 and speak lightly of things of i-c^ligious importance and so 
 become acting in opposition to the important work of sup- 
 pressing vice. 
 
 With respect to the Scriptures T believe them to be too 
 copious for to be comprehended by the depths of the most 
 penetrating mind that readeth thom only in the volume as 
 printed. Thej' contain the exercises of a number of per- 
 sons who in their days have sought after an iic(]uaintance 
 with the best things and from their diflerent situations 
 have been productive of ditt'ercnt exercises and conse- 
 quently expressions suitable to their several situations, 
 and, in order to discover the true harmony we might 
 have experience, else they will appear contradictory, foi- 
 Jeremiah could with confidence declare himself to be the 
 man that had seen affliction by the rod of his wrath and 
 that his leadinjxs had brouixht him into darkness and not 
 into light. Surely, saith ho, "His hand is turned against 
 me, He turneth it against me all the day," with numy 
 other similar expressions. Another, asserting that His 
 leadings are by " Gentle running waters and in paths of 
 peace." One asserting that Ho hath smitten him and 
 another that " He is the healer of his wounds." One 
 groans under the stupendous burthen of the Lord, and Ho 
 Himself declares that " His yoke is easy and His burden is 
 light." Now, I believe the rightly exerci.sed traveller as ho 
 passeth along findeth the truth of this variety and can 
 testify to the several situations there expressed, although 
 he may not be made to partake of each so largely as some 
 of those. I believe that had Josiah been faithful to the 
 Divine requisitions he would have I'elt choerrulness in the 
 discharge of his duty and had a sweet draught of the 
 celestial River that maketh glad the whole heritage of God, 
 and with abundant thankfulness adored the mercy that 
 pitied His deluded fellow creatures, but by giving way 
 to reasoning brought on himself a tield of exercises repeat- 
 edly doubled the disgrace he feare<l, still was compelled to 
 complete the dreaded task here, by his own misconduct 
 he lost the wages, yet had to perform the work." 
 
 Till.-, from thy Friend, 
 
 Danikl Haight. 
 4 
 
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 The following fragment written to my father and dated, 
 Adolphustown, 4th mo., 1829, bears evidence of rapid decaj'. 
 The hand that wrote it appears to have been feeble and 
 tremulous. The letters are very irregular and the effort 
 appears to have been too much for him, for it breaks off 
 abruptly and the last words are barely intelligible. 
 
 " Dear Son, — Feeling deeply concerned for thy comfort 
 and prosperity, I believed it right to send a few lines to 
 thee for thy encouragement, as thou art young, active, 
 respected and respectable. I wish thee so to conduct thy- 
 self as to insure thy respectability, which if thee takes 
 proper care will be likely to have that effect. It has long 
 been my intention to have had thee and Samuel continued 
 with us during our lives, and no conduct of yours has 
 altered our wishes " 
 
 Owing to failing health arrangements were made with 
 my father — as intimated in his letter — to come and take 
 charge. Father sold the farm he commenced life on to 
 his brother Consider, and bought the north half of the 
 homestead, but before moving a public sale, or vendue, as 
 these sales were then called, was made of the stock and 
 the effects. This sale occurred on the 2Gth of January, 
 1829, which I also give. It would not be interesting to 
 any one outside the family, and perhaps may be thought 
 of in the same way by many belonging to it. To me it is 
 particularly interesting. It is an evidence of the respecta- 
 ble position held by the head of the family. Another 
 interesting feature about it is that nearly everything was 
 purchased by the children, and lastly, it is interesting 
 because it gives us the value of a variety of things in the 
 first quarter of this century. The following is the list and 
 is headed : 
 
 " A list of property sold at vendue this 2Gth of January, 
 1829, belonging to Daniel Haight of Adolphustown." 
 
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 ARTICLES. SOr,D TO. SCBBTV. £.. ». d, 
 
 4 Hogs Rickutson Haight .... Consider Haight 2 
 
 •* " Consider Haight Rickctson Haight 119 6 
 
 ,*) * * . . , , , * * * * * • * * *^ 8 
 
 () Sheep, first ehoico . llicketson H» ght 1 5/3 per head 4 11 6 
 
 6 " " ..Samuel Dorland 14/3 " 4 5 6 
 
 « " " . . Ricketson Haight 10/ John D. Haight. ... 3 
 
 17 " 6/9 per head.. Phillip Haight 5 14 9 
 
 I liull Rioketson Haight 1 1 
 
 1 " «< " \ J 9 
 
 2 Calves Daniel Ruttan (sonin-law) 1 13 6 
 
 - " Consider Haight 2 8 6 
 
 1 " " " 12 6 
 
 2 Steers Rickeisoi. Haight. .. 6 10 
 
 I Heiffer Consider Haight 2 15 
 
 1 " Ricketson Haight 2 19 
 
 1 ^ow Noxon Harris Marvil Garrison 4 
 
 1 " Job Dunham John Dunham 3 12 
 
 I " Ricketson Haight 4 10 6 
 
 ' " Reuben Haight 3 19 
 
 1 Heiffer Ricketson Haight 115 
 
 1 Yoke Oxen Consider Haight 23 
 
 1 Horse Phillip Haight 25 12 
 
 1 Mare Consider Haight 12 1 
 
 1 Gray Colt Samuel Haight 17 14 
 
 1 Horse John Mullett (son-in-law) 11 17 
 
 1 Mare Rowland Haight 19 17 
 
 1 Cutter Consider Haight 2 9 6 
 
 1 Fanning Mill Ricketson Haight 18 
 
 1 Sow and Pigs Consider Haight 10 
 
 1 Potash Kettle, 1/ Daniel Ruitan 3 12 6 
 
 1 Set Harness Consider Haight 3 16 
 
 1 Leach Tub, 2/ Ricketson Haight 5 
 
 1 Sleigh Marvil Garrison 5 10 
 
 1 Saucepan, 3/ Ricketson Haight 11 
 
 1 Pot " " 14 g 
 
 1 Pot, 4/ Andrew Quackinbush . . Rioketson Haight 8 3 
 
 1 Pan Consider Haight 6 3 
 
 1 Axe Ricketson Haight 10 3 
 
■'y\'' 
 
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 ARTICLES. SOLD TO. 
 
 I Cake Pan & 2 Tin do.Connider Haight . 
 
 1 Chair and Sundries . . " " . 
 
 3 Pails 
 
 1 Fork John Haight ... . 
 
 1 Hand Saw Consider Haight . 
 
 1 Waggon Chair, 5/ . . Kicketaon Haight . 
 
 1 Pruning Knife " " . 
 
 1 Hand Sleigh, 6/ . . . . " " ■ 
 
 6 Chairs Consider Haight . 
 
 8BRBTY. jf. K. 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 .4/1 1 4 
 
 (i " 7/9 George Bedle Edwin Mallory 2 6 
 
 1 Set Dutch Harness, V/Ricketson Haigl.t 4 10 
 
 2 Collars and 4 Trace 
 
 Chains Marvil Garrison 1 ** 
 
 1 Neck Yoke James Ackennan, Sr. . .Ricketson Haight 3 
 
 1 Pocket Compass John Clapp Paid 8 
 
 1 Set Harness Daniel Ruttan 17 16 
 
 1 Ox Cart Consider Haight <j 
 
 1 Chair " " 
 
 1 Cutter Adam Ackerman Jas. Ackerman, Sr 1 
 
 I Two Horse Waggon . . Ricketson Haight 18 
 
 1 Saw, 8/ Phillip Garrison Marvil Garrison 1 
 
 1 String of Bells Phillip Haight 16 
 
 1 Wood pt. of Waggon.Daniel Ruttan 5 
 
 1 ' « " " Samuel Dorland 4 
 
 1 Cheese Hoop, 9/ Job Dunham 
 
 1 Copper Kettle John Clapp Paid 
 
 1 Griddle, 10/ Ricketson Haight 
 
 1 Toasting Iron John Clapp Paid 
 
 1 Flesh Fork, 11/ George Bedle Paid in work 
 
 1 Pair Steelyards, 12/. .Reuben Haight 14 
 
 1 Lantern and Basin . . Reuben Clapp 
 
 1 Pestle and Mortar, 13/Rioketson Haight 
 
 1 Apple Peeler, 14/.... " " 
 
 1 Iron Mortar Daniel Ruttan 
 
 1 Heckle, 15/ James Ackerman 
 
 1 Tin Horn, 16/ George Bedlo 
 
 1 Cradle Marvil Garrison 17 
 
 1 Basket and Shears . Reuben Haight 2 
 
 1 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 d. 
 9 
 3 
 6 
 6 
 9 
 3 
 6 
 
 6 
 6 
 6 
 
 6 
 6 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 
 6 11 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 9 
 i> 
 
 3 
 1 
 3 
 
 8 
 6 
 12 
 1 
 8 
 
 3 
 5 
 3 
 6 
 1 
 2 
 
 2 
 
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 ARTICLES, SOLD TO. SHRETY. I. H. J. 
 
 1 Pan Phillip Huight 2 1 
 
 1 Spider Reuben Haight 5 4 
 
 1 Tea Kettle Ricketson Haight 12 
 
 I Kettle Phillip Haight 10 
 
 1 Churn Phillip Garrison Paid 4 8 
 
 ■J Tubs Kickctsou Haight 2 7 
 
 1 Kceler and Bowl, 17/. Lewis l^azicr 3 8 
 
 .'{ Trays, 18/ Ricketson Haight 3 
 
 2 Trays and Bowls .... George Uedlc 2 1 
 
 •i Trays Edwin Mallory 1 3 
 
 2 " John Haight 1 5 
 
 I Cheese Knife Daniel Ruttan 1 7 
 
 1 Keg John Haight 3 
 
 1 Cheese Rack Daniel Rultan 1 3 
 
 1 Tub Reuben Haight 1 
 
 I Bowl John Clapp Paid 3 9 
 
 I Pail Phillip Garrison Paid 4 1 
 
 1 liread Tray Reuben Haight 1 6 
 
 1 Tub John Haight 4 6 
 
 1 Five Pail Kettle, 19/. John Frederick John Dafoe 1 7 3 
 
 1 Whip John Clapp Paid 1 1 
 
 1 Pail Lewis Lazier 1 10 
 
 1 Whip " " 1 
 
 1 Waggon Chair George Bedle 7 9 
 
 1 Bedstead & Cord, 20/.Consider Haight 19 
 
 1 Table , . William Hopson 12 6 
 
 1 " Lewis Lazier 3 9 
 
 1 " John Clapp Paid 112 
 
 2 Half Rounds, 21/..,. " " Paid 2 5 
 
 1 Pail Lewis Lazier ... Paid 1 9 
 
 1 Half Bushel measure . Edwin Mallory 1 2 
 
 I Saddle Daniel Ruttan 1 1 6 
 
 1 Flour Chest Ricketson Haight 1 1 3 
 
 1 Pair Sieves " " 5 6 
 
 1 Patent Plough, 22/ . . Phillip Garrison Paid 2 6 9 
 
 1 Plough Reuben Haight 2 9 3 
 
 1 Harrow Daniel Ruttan 2 5 
 
 1 " Consider Haight 18 6 
 
ARTICLES. SOLD TO. SURETY. £. ». d. 
 
 I Cradle, 23/ Hicketson Hnight 7 6 
 
 1 8et of BlackMinilh'H 
 
 Tools, 24/ Considor Haight 10 1 
 
 1 Pitch Fork .Samuel DorlanJ Paid 4 11 
 
 1 Cradle and Scythe . . Lewis Lazier Andrew Quaukiiiljiish . . 8 3 
 
 1 Scythe " " " " .. 13 
 
 1 Scythe and Snath .. " " " " .. 9 
 
 1 Scythe llicketson Haight S 5 
 
 •> " Consider Haight 1 
 
 I Hatchet Kicketson Haight 1 11 
 
 1 Scythe and Snath . . Reuben Haight 4 2 
 
 1 Plougli Ricketson Haight 1 5 3 
 
 1 Bedstead Rowland Haight 13 9 
 
 1 Axe Ricketson Haight 3 !) 
 
 1 Combus Table, 25/ . . " " 3 7 
 
 A Lot of Things in the 
 
 Shop Consider Haight 1 9 9 
 
 A Box of Bucks " " 3 9 
 
 Sundries Ricketson Haight 8 3 
 
 1 Cradle " " 2 9 
 
 1 Grind Stone Isaiah Thomson 1 16 
 
 1 Puncheon and Cider . Daniel Ruttan 2 1 
 
 1 Empty Pipe Ricketson Haight 4 3 
 
 I Spade and Shovel . . George Bedle 10 1 
 
 1 Tub Ricketson Haight 4 6 
 
 Hand Irons and Tongs . Consider Haight 1 4 6 
 
 1 Hoe and Cleviss .... Ricketson Haiglit 2 2 
 
 1 Ton of Hay Consider Haiglit 1 18 6 
 
 2 •' " JohnMullett 2 17 
 
 1 Broad Axe llicketson Haight 8 3 
 
 1 Beetle and Wedge . . Consider Haight 9 3 
 
 2 Trowels Daniel Ruttan 7 9 
 
 1 Ox Yoke. Consider Haight 1 3 
 
 Iron Ricketson Haight 
 
 1 Grind Stone Consider Haight 7 6 
 
 1 Chair Ricketson Haight 2 3 
 
 £326 6 8 
 
 'J 
 
31 
 
 There are a number of things mentioned in the al>ove 
 sale which have gone out of use, at least in this part of the 
 country. We have made rapid advances. Education and 
 invention have altogether changed the condition of things 
 both in the house and on the farm. The following notes 
 are appended for the benefit of the younger members of 
 the family. 
 
 1. Potash Kettle : Tliis was a very large iron 
 
 caldron which would hold three or four barrels 
 of water, sometimes more. It was called so because 
 it was used for boiling dow^n the lye obtained 
 from hardwood ashes. Nearly every farmer that 
 could afford it had one. It was enclosed by a 
 stone plastered wall having at one side an opening 
 to receive wood, and on the other side a flue 
 to produce a draught and permit the smoke to 
 escape. Its rim rested on the top of the enclosure 
 and at an elevation sufficient to allow a fire to 
 be made under it. By this means the water was 
 evaporated more speedily from the alkali, or 
 impure carbonate of potassa, a white metallic sub- 
 stance, used for many purposes. It was one of 
 the few things in demand and which brought 
 money in those days, and hence the ashes from 
 the wood heaps and the house were carefully 
 preserved. 
 
 2. Leach Tuh : This was usually made of boards of 
 
 oblong shape and in the form of a " V " — barrels 
 were often used — and .secured on a thick plank 
 with a slight incline to carry off the lye. Before 
 filling the tub coarse straw was put in the bottom 
 
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 over winch some lime was scattered, and then it 
 was filled with ashes, after which water was 
 applied day after day until the alkali had been 
 all washed out, when it was conveyed to the 
 kettle and treated as above. 
 
 3. A flat bottomed pot with a cover, otherwise called 
 
 a baking pot or sometimes Dutch oven. They 
 are still in use but of less consequence now. The 
 good housewife in those days had not dreamed 
 of cookstoves, and often used these pots to bake 
 bread in, and those who remember the bread 
 are wont to think that no more delicious bread 
 was ever made. The loaf when ready was put 
 in the pot, and covered up, live coals were then 
 pulled forward on which the pot was placed, 
 and then covered over with coals and hot ashes, 
 where it remained until the bread was done. 
 The pot was also used for roasting meat, etc. 
 
 4. This memorandum appears on the list: " Marvil 
 
 Garrison paid 10/ in 1830, 6/8 paid by William 
 Casey, and £G ISs. dd. paid by Judgment." 
 
 5. Waggon Chair : This was a strong splint bot- 
 
 tomed seat capable of holding two persons com- 
 fortably, and three in a pinch, and made to sit 
 on the inside of the box of a lumber waggon — 
 the farmer's carriage then— as the waggon had 
 to be used on the farm the box was movable 
 and usually painted. If a visit was contemplated 
 or a meeting attended on Sunday, the box was 
 put on, the chairs placed and covered with 
 Buffalo skins or quilts. 
 
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 6. Hanfl sleighs were about as useful in those days 
 
 wiien the jrround was covered with snow as a 
 wheel-banow is in suuiiner now. 
 
 7. Dutch Harness : In contradistinction to harness 
 
 in which a colkr and hames are used, quite 
 common now, but not so then. 
 
 8. This is a long saw with a handle at both ends, a 
 
 cross cut saw used for sawing timbci and an 
 important implement at that time. 
 
 9. A wooden hoop eight or nine inches deep and 
 
 fourteen or sixteen inches in diameter, in which 
 the cheese curd is put and pressed. 
 
 10. Griddles have not gone out of date, but the 
 
 griddles of that time had hoop handles with an 
 eye in the top which enabled the cook to turn it 
 round. When in use it was suspended over the 
 fire by an iron hook fastened to the crane. 
 
 11. Flesh Fork : Used to turn meat in the pot. 
 
 12. Steelyards : Every farmer had them. As there 
 
 was a great deal of barter going on then, they 
 were a necessity. 
 
 13. Pkstlr and Moutar : Very common in farm 
 
 houses then and useful. There were numbers of 
 things required for culinary and other purposes 
 that could not be reduced to powder by anj' other 
 means. 
 
 14. Apple Peeler : A little machine for peeling 
 
 apples. A great improvement to the knife and 
 a prominent feature at apple-bees. 
 
 15. Heckle : A wooden instrument used to free the 
 
 fibre from the stalk of flax. 
 5 
 
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 16. Tin Horn : Used to call the men to their meals. 
 
 Many a time in my young days have I awaited 
 its pleasant call. 
 
 17. Keei.er and Bowl : The fiist, a shallow wooden 
 
 vessel of two or three gallon capacity used for 
 holding milk in the place of tin pans which were 
 not easily to be had, and were expensive. The 
 bowl was a wooden dish usually made out of ash 
 knots by the Indians who were experts in mak- 
 ing these dishes, and numbers of other useful 
 things for the hou.so, such as splint brooms, spoons, 
 ladles, trays, baskets, etc., which they exchanged 
 for provisions. 
 
 18. Trays : An oblong wooden dish made by the 
 
 Indians and used principally by the housewife 
 for manipulating butter. 
 
 19. Five Pail Kettle: A pot that would contain 
 
 five pails of water. 
 
 20. Bedstead and (^oud : The old post bedstead has 
 
 disappeared with its straw and feather ticks. 
 The posts were morticed to receive the beams. 
 The latter were pierced with holes about nine 
 inches apart, through which the cord was pa.ssed 
 lengthwise and crosswise and then drawn fl,s tight 
 as possible with a wrench made for the purpose. 
 This held the frame together and supported the 
 bed. 
 
 21. Half Rounds : The half of a circular table which 
 
 could be drawn out and pieces put in to extend 
 its length or placed at the ends of another table. 
 They were usually made of cherry. 
 
22. Patknt Pi.oufjii : Tliis was u cast iron plough with 
 
 a wuud l)oniii ami tiiil. It was Hr.st iiiaclu, I 
 holiovc, l»y Willet Casey, and a <^\vnt advance on 
 the old ones whiol) were made altoj^ether of wood, 
 except the share, which was wrought iron. My 
 lather had one and sometimes used it, but it was 
 a clumsy implement and discarded a.s soon as 
 possible. 
 
 23. Cradle : I notice tiiis simply to remind the 
 
 younger reader that at that time it was the only 
 implement in use for cutting grain. It ha.s 
 largely been superseded by the reaper and mower. 
 
 24. Blacksmith's Tools: This is noticed to point 
 
 out a fact that may be of interest. The boyw 
 were all ingenious and could turn their hands to 
 almost any of the ordinary trades. They were 
 their own carpenters, blacksmiths, harness 
 makers, shoemakers, coopers, and waggon makers. 
 There was a bLicksmith shop on the farm to 
 which Consider devoted most of his time and 
 followed afterwards in connection with his farm. 
 Reuben became a harness maker as well as 
 farmer. I cannot say about the others, but my 
 father was largely his own carpenter, wooded 
 his ploughs, made his harrows, mended his wag- 
 gons, etc., made pails and tubs for the house, 
 mended the boots and shoes and sometimes made 
 them, made his common harness, and I have seen 
 him shoe his horses rather than wait for his turn. 
 It is said that necessity is the mother of inven- 
 tion, which is true, but it is the mother of a 
 
grout many uthur tliiiigN bcHides. ThiK wa« a 
 proj,Me.s«ive family. TiatlcNinon wen: Hcarce an 
 well an money. They were hound to push their 
 way in the world hy holiest means and poiuistent 
 oH'oit, and hciiij,' intelligent and fnterprising they 
 turned their hands to vurious employments — not 
 so much out of neces.iity — hut because of economy, 
 and the ability to supply their needs ujore satis- 
 factorily than others could do. 
 S5. CoMBUs Taulk : Probably an extension table. 
 
 CoPV or AN Inventory or HoI'skiioi.I) Ki'KErTS Hki.oniiinii to Daniki. 
 Hakiut— Headko, "A Mkmokandum ok run; Hoiiheuold Fikni- 
 
 TdKK, -iTH Month. 18'J9." 
 
 £. x. d. 
 
 A Ue«k— Black Walnut, 70/ 3 •» " 
 
 1 Clock ttud Case ^ " " 
 
 1 Stove and Pipes ' ^ ^ 
 
 1 Looking (ilais ^ 
 
 1 Cherry Stand, 70/ 3 10 
 
 1 Strong Box- "Iron" *5 00 
 
 6 Windsor Chairg, 45/ ; 6 Chairs, 18/ 3 3 
 
 1 Cherry Bedstead and Cord, 24/ 1 4 
 
 1 Set Dark Curtains, 25/ 1 5 
 
 4 Window Curtains, 1 Stand Cover, 2/ 12 
 
 14 White Flannel Blankets, Good 12 12 
 
 8 Check Blankets, 20/ * 
 
 3 Striped " 18/ 2 14 
 
 5 Indian " 5/ 1 5 
 
 7 Quilts, 22/ ; 1 Cradle Quilt, 5/ 7 19 
 
 2 Bedsteads and Cords, 20/ - 
 
 1 Field Bedstead, Curtains and Mattress 2 10 
 
 5 Straw Bed Ticks, 6/ ^ 5 
 
 3 Cotton Sheets, 7/ ; 3 Linen Sheets, 7/ 2 2 
 
 1 Set Light Calico Curtains, Teaater Sheet and Cloth 1 3 9 
 
 2 Willow Basketa, 2/ ^ ^ 
 
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 Jl. f. d. 
 
 3 Seta ol Up|iui' Valuncc 1I«a4| C'lutlm and Tfuatt-r Hh««iti 1 lA 
 
 •A Pair Under Vnlancv, -.'/ti an<l 7/U ; 4 Mtmliu Ciirtaina, 10/ . . . 17 6 
 
 I Net Uoilor VaKnuu, 'i/O ; 4 Table (nothi, 12/ 14 6 
 
 II I'dlowB, 4/ *J 4 
 
 'i Vt,\yt, 3/ « 
 
 3 KrikBH t'andluMticks, 5/ lA 
 
 I Iron liiuiin, 3/0 ; 1 HniuothinK Irun, 3/6 7 3 
 
 1 Iron Cauilluiliuk 16 
 
 14 I'air Pillow Ca«o«, '.» « ; J IStjUtor I'iilow Ciuca, 2/ 1 19 
 
 4 Feather Hedi!, W)/ 12 
 
 H TowoIb, 1/ ; •-' Tin I'otfi, 5/ 16 
 
 3 Milk Pans, '-', G ; 9 Metal MpoouM, 1/ 16 6 
 
 l) Silver SpoonH, 5/ 2 A 
 
 10 Case Knives and 7 Forka 10 
 
 3 Tea CaniHtera, 1,3 3 U 
 
 1 Tin Tea Pot, 2/ ; 4 Tin BmId*, 1/8 8 8 
 
 '2 Deeanters, 3/9 ; •-' Wine (ilaasea, 9 <i 9 
 
 IJ (iallon GlaKB Jar 7 6 
 
 1 Blue Edged Platter 3 9 
 
 1 Green Edged Plate, 1/ ; I Oval Dish, 9(/ 19 
 
 1 Pewter Platter, 4 ; « Eurtlien Plates, 6(/ 86 
 
 1 Bowl, 6 J ; 6 Cups and Saucers, 4/6 ; 2 Sugar Bowls, 1/3 .. . 7 6 
 
 11 Saucers and Cups, 4/ ; 2 Gallon Jugs, 1/2 6 6 
 
 2 Ink Boitlea, 1/ ; Sugar Box, 1/ ; Bread l>ish, 1/ 3 
 
 1 Pair Spoon Moulds, 7/0 ; 1 Pitcher, 1/ ; Pepper Box, 1/ 9 6 
 
 Butter Ladle, 1, ; Fat Bottle, 1/9 2 9 
 
 1 Pair Gold Scales and Weights 7 6 
 
 1 Pair Pippe Tongs, 3,9 ; Copper Tea Kettle, 10/ 13 9 
 
 1 Knot Dish—" Chopping Bowl " 2 
 
 1 Iron Pot, 5/ ; 10 Gallon Cask, 4/ ; Meat Tub, 5/ 14 
 
 Wash Tub, 3/ ; Uye Tub, 3/ ; Pickle Tub, 4/ ; Soap Tub, 3/ . . 13 
 
 1 Plaid Blanket 12 
 
 1 Map of the Holland Purchase 5 
 
 1 Map United States, 5/ ; 1 Map England, Wilson & Co., 6/ . . 110 
 
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 CONDITIONS OF THE VENDUE. 
 
 The conditions of the sale of Daniel Haight's property 
 to be sold at public vendue, are as follows, viz. : Any 
 person purchasing and not to the amount of twenty shil- 
 lings must make immediate payment, and those purchasing 
 to that amount or upwards must give satisfactory security 
 or the property will be exposed to a second sale. If it 
 sells for more he is to reap no benefit, but if for less he is 
 tu make good the first sale. All that comply with these 
 
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 conditions shall have one year without interest to nmke 
 payment in, and if at the expiration of that time they 
 come forward and pay one-half they shall have one year 
 more for to pay the other half hy paying; interest. 
 
 Daniel Haiofit. 
 
 N.B. — The security first entered in the list is to stand 
 
 fur the purchase by that individual for which his name is 
 
 first entered. True copy of conditions of sale made public 
 
 at the day of sale. 
 
 R. Haioht. 
 
 When Daniel Haight came to Canada he was accom- 
 panied by a nephew, Joel ITaight, who purchased the farm 
 adjoining his on the west — afterwards owned by my 
 father and subsequently by my brother Daniel. He 
 was twice married. The (irst IJathsheba Dorlatid, a sister 
 of my grandmother, and by whom ho hail issue: Daniel, 
 m. Lydia Oould ; Joseph, m. Eli/aboth Terrell ; Thomas, 
 m. Cynthia Rogers ; Margaret, m. Joseph Northrop ; Gil- 
 bert, m. Mary Hudson; Zacharia, m. Surah Terwilliger; 
 William, died young ; Joel. By the second wife, Nancy 
 Ingersoll, he had one son, Isaac. It is quite likely that 
 tlie descendants of this branch are as numerous as our 
 own, but I am ignorant as to that. Joel died bt>fore my 
 grandfather, but how long before I do not know. 
 
 Daniel Uaiglit was born January If-th, 1704, and died 
 at his residence in Adolphustown, August l!)th, IS^'J, age 
 sixty-six. 
 
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 SECOND GENERATION. 
 
 Children of Danieli and Mary nee Moore, Mary 
 nee Borland, Haight. 
 
 1. I. Philip 2 , b. December 1, 1787, m. Anna, daughter 
 
 of Philip Dorland, Esq., of Adolphustown, 
 June 27, 1808, by whom he had eight child- 
 ren. She was b. February 12, 1789, d. 
 August 6, 1826. His second wife was Lois 
 
 Palen, a widow with one daughter, m. , 
 
 d. May 7, 1884. By this wife he had 
 a son Stephen. He settled in the second 
 concession of the Township of Hillier, County 
 of Prince Edward, then a wilderness, was a 
 successful man. At the time of his death, 
 November 3, 1839, he was the possessor of 
 one of the best farms in the county, a good 
 house, barn and outbuildings and other 
 property. His two sons inherited the home- 
 ■ stead. 
 
 2. II. Mary 112, b. March G, 1790, d. , 1803. 
 
 3. III. John D 2 , b. November 23, 1791. He had three 
 
 wives. Married first Marion Noxon, daughter 
 of James Noxon of Bloomfield. All children 
 by this wife. She was b. December 1, 1790, 
 d. October 21, 1824. Second wife, Betsey 
 Dorland, daughter of Philip Dorland, who 
 was the first member elected in the Midland 
 District for the 1st Session of the 1st Parlia- 
 ment of Upper Canada. Being a Friend he 
 
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 refused to be sworn and did not therefore 
 take his seat. M. November 22, 1826, b. 
 
 November 8, 1793, d. . Third wife, 
 
 Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Benjamin and 
 
 Ann Hill, b. , d. 8th August, 1883. Ho 
 
 also settled in Hillier, then Ameliasburgh, 
 on a farm adjoining his half-brother Philip. 
 I am not quite certain but I think they 
 occupied these two farms at the same time, 
 and began the long laborious task of clearing 
 them. The situation in both cases wns 
 excellent and ultimately became vahiable 
 properties. John was also a successful man 
 a highly esteemed for his probity and 
 geniality. He resembled his father both as 
 to size and appearance as well as in manner, 
 very much. He died 
 
 4. IV. Rhoda2 , b. September 14, 1793, m. Daniel Rut- 
 tan, son of William Ruttan of Adolphustown, 
 and brother of Henry lluttan, Sheriff of 
 Cobourg, Northumlierland County. She 
 had nine children. Many years after the 
 death of her husband she married for the 
 •second time, Minakcr of Marysbrough, whom 
 she also survived. She died . 
 
 6. V. Joseph B2, b. August 23, 1795, d. February 
 24, 1796. 
 
 6. VI. Ricketson2, b. November 22, 1797, m. Mary 
 
 Canniff, fifth daughter of James Canniff, Esq., 
 
 a U. E. L. who settled in the 3rd Conce.ssion 
 
 or on Hay Bay, one of the very first settlers. 
 
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 He was married June 2, 18::0, and began 
 his life on a farm in the same Concession (2) 
 which ho had purchased. It was a wilder- 
 ness, as nearly all the farms were on which 
 the young men started to make their way 
 in the world. He lived there seven or eight 
 years and hnd a son and daughter born to 
 him. He then sold it to his brother Con- 
 sider, bought the north half of the home- 
 stead and moved there to relieve his father, 
 living in the same house and taking care of 
 them. After his father's death, the remain- 
 ing portion of the homestead being left to 
 Samuel, he bought the adjoining farm of 
 Joel Haight's heirs and lived there until 
 his death, June 22, 1840. His full name 
 was Shadrick Ricketson. The name was 
 given him by an uncle of his mother, Dr. 
 Shadrick Ricketson, a wealthy physician 
 and author living in New York City, but 
 he very seldom used the first prefix, some- 
 times he signed his name " S. R." but gener- 
 ally simply used " Ricketson " in full. He 
 was a tall, well-proportioned man, slightly 
 over six feet in height, soft black hair and 
 beard, fair complexion and of a prepossessing 
 appearance. A man of great energy, intel- 
 ligent, ingenious, and a large reader. It was 
 his aim to keep abreast with the times and 
 in a good many wa3's he was in advance. 
 Everything about his farm and buildings 
 
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 was kept in the best of order, untiring in 
 his efforts to employ the best methods in the 
 cultivation of his farm to produce the best 
 results, the improvement of his implements 
 and «tock. In politics he was a Liberal and 
 took a very active part. This was the 
 character of the man and everything he put 
 his hand to. At that time burning questions 
 agitated the country, the Family Compact, 
 Clergy Reserves, etc. His sympathies were 
 entirely opposed to everything that was 
 unjust or oppressive, and hence his voice 
 was raised against them and successfully. 
 A good speaker, his aid was sought, par- 
 ticularly during an election contest. One 
 of these I remember very well. Jno. S. 
 Cartwright, who seemed to claim the seat by 
 right of possession and who was a warm 
 supporter of the state of things then exist- 
 ing, offered himself for re-election. Oppo- 
 sition seemed almost hopeless, but it was 
 determined, however, that he should be 
 opposed. My father was offered the position 
 but declined in favor of Peter Perry. He 
 fought the battle with all the energy he 
 possessed, traversed the county for weeks, 
 speaking at public meetings, and largely 
 through his efforts Cartwright was defeated. 
 He was also a strong temperance advocate 
 and frequently publicly advocated the cause ; 
 of genial and social disposition — and indeed 
 
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 this was a characteristic of the whole family 
 — he was fond of company, particularly 
 that of young people. His happiest mo- 
 ments seemed to be, however, when seated 
 at his own fireside and surrounded by his 
 family, playing with his children and amus- 
 ing them with stories. Though loving and 
 indulgent he insisted on perfect obedience, 
 and a word or a look was all that was 
 needed to enl'orce it. I never knew him to 
 use the rod but once, and I well remember 
 it for I was the culprit. The feeling way 
 in which he pointed out the wrong I had 
 done and how justly I merited punishment, 
 hurt me more than the rod. He was taken 
 away from us in the |)rime of life and at a 
 time when it seemed that we needed his 
 protection and wise guidance the most. He 
 filled the following township offices : — Town 
 clerk in 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1838 ; 
 pound keeper in 1895 ; also tilled the office 
 of school trustee during his married life. 
 VII. Reuben Amos 2, b. February 5, 1800, m. Jane 
 West, granddaughter of William Casey who 
 lived at what is known as Casey's Point, 
 5th Concession of Adolphustown, on the 
 Bay of Quinte. She was b. January 12, 
 
 181G, m. , d. June 12, 1843. It will 
 
 be observed that he was considerably older 
 than his wife. He settled on a new farm 
 in the Township of Marysburgh, P. E. 
 
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 County. I reniomber going with my father 
 and mother on a visit one winter afternoon. 
 We followed a wood road through the forest 
 for several miles. The house was a small 
 log one with two room.s. We were all cold 
 when we reached the place, and gladly 
 gathered round the bright fire burning on 
 the hearth. The house stood nearly in the 
 centre of a cleared space of about ten acres. 
 A stream ran through it on which he after- 
 wards erected a saw mill. It certaitdy did 
 not present an attractive appearance, sur- 
 rounded as it was with forest and countless 
 stumps pushing their rugged heads through 
 the snow. The horses were housed in a log 
 shed behind the house, built as a cow shelter. 
 When bed time came we found our way to 
 the place of rest by a ladder to a room 
 under the roof and in the night were dis- 
 turbed by the howling of wolves. To-day 
 this is one of the finest sections of the 
 county. While he lived here most of his 
 time was given to harness making. Soon 
 after the death of his wife he sold the place 
 and bought a house and good sized lot in 
 Picton where he followed his trade up to 
 the time of his death, which occurred July 
 13, 1848. He left three children. 
 8. VIII. Consider Merritt, b. April 28, 1802, m. Debora 
 MuUett, December 17, 1828. She was born 
 near Bristol, England, November 29, 1804, 
 
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 and the daughter of William Mullett, a 
 very respectable Friend, who came to Canada 
 and settled on Hay Bay about 1810. She 
 married the second time J. Bowerman, whom 
 she still survives — died since this was writ- 
 ten. Consider, a.s I have already mentioned, 
 lived on the farm purchased of my father. 
 He followed the trade of a blacksmith. In 
 build he was very much like father, and 
 the same height. He died August 5th, 1838, 
 leaving six children. 
 9. IX. Bathsheba Tabitha2, b. August 26, 1805, m. 
 John Mullett, son of William, August 27, 
 18?8. Her husband was a tauner and cur- 
 rier by trade. He first built a small tannery 
 on a farm adjoining Consider and lived there 
 several years. Then he moved to Adolph- 
 ustown Village, within a stone's throw of 
 the place where his wife's father began life. 
 Not long afterwards he removed to Picton, 
 where he built up a large business. Bath- 
 sheba died May 6, 1864. She had eleven 
 children. 
 10. X. Rowland Ricketson2, b. July 28, 1807, m. 
 Hannah Leavens, December 12, 1830, a 
 daughter of Peter Leavens, of Bloomfield. 
 She was born September 3, 1811, d. August 
 7, 1856, and was the mother of thirteen 
 children. He married the second time 
 Elizabeth Hudson, no issue. Though an 
 industrious and hard working man, and a 
 
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 man of some ability, lie diJ not succeed. 
 He seems to have inherited, to a consider- 
 alile extent, the restless disposition of the 
 progenitor of the family, Simon, with this 
 differencp, in the first case the rolling stone 
 gathered moss, bnt in the second it did not. 
 He lived in many places, and was a preacher 
 among the Friends. He died March 18th, 
 18G5. 
 11. XT. Samuel Doi-landS, b. September 28, 1809, m. 
 October 31, 1832, Tabitha Pugsley Borland, 
 daughter of Samuel Borland, Esq., .son of 
 Thomas ; lived on the homestead, which he 
 inherited by will and occupied for a number 
 of years. He then sold it to his brother-in- 
 law, John P. Doiland, and purchased a farm 
 in the 5th Concession of Adolphustown. 
 This, too, was not long retained, afterwards 
 sold and a house and lot bought in the 
 Village of Newburgh, County of Lennox, to 
 which he removed. It does not appear that 
 he i-emained long in that place, for we soon 
 after hear of his being in Beseronto, then at 
 Smith's Falls, living with his daughter 
 Agnes, who was a widow, and finally at 
 iMapanee, where his wife recently died. He 
 is a man very much respected by those who 
 know him, of cheerful and kindly disposi- 
 tion and pleasing address. He is now an 
 old man and am afraid his circumstances 
 are not by any means what could be desired. 
 
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 I have a loiter before me, dated Montagu, 
 April 3, 188(),— then in his 77th year- 
 written in a remarkable clear hand for a man 
 of his age. I make the following extract 
 from the letter : — 
 
 " Dear Canniff,— I received yours of the 25th March. I 
 do not know that I can give you any satisfactory informa- 
 tion at present as I have no records by me. I left my 
 things at Deseronto, boxed up. 
 
 I will give you as nearly as I can remember what I 
 know. My grandfather's name was Joseph, he lived in 
 Dutchess Co., State of N. Y. He had several children. I 
 only remember the name of three but I am sure there 
 were more. I recollect there was one named David. He 
 died when a young man. There was Reuben he had the old 
 homestead and had several children, but I do not remember 
 his wife's name. One of his boys was in to see us by the 
 name of Walter. I recollect his looks well, a short stout 
 man, he was here a month or two, and some of the boys 
 got letters from him after he returned home. Some few 
 years after Walter, was here a John Haight, he came I 
 think from Maryland or Southern New York State. He 
 was a cousin and a man built very much like your father, 
 tall, straight and slim. About my grandfather's name 
 being Jo,seph, my father gave me a cane as being his 
 youngest son, the liead was made from an elephant's 
 tooth? it was very nice, and below the tooth was a silver 
 band and engraved on it was, I. H. to D. H., 1777. Hav- 
 ing heard my father say that his father's name was Joseph, 
 I asked him how it was I. instead of J., he said the letters 
 were made alike in olden times. I have no record of what 
 year he came to the country, but it was but a short time 
 after the U. E. Loyalists settled in Adolphustown. He 
 and his brother-in-law Joel Haight came together— Joel 
 was his brother's son— they married sisters so we called 
 him uncle, and it was generally thought they were 
 brothers, but they were not. Father by kind was^ Joel's 
 uncle, but brother-in-law by marriage. My father's first 
 wife was a Moore by whom he had one son Philip. His 
 second wife was a daughter of John Dorland, He was, 
 
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 I Relieve, cither the first or second member for the Mid- 
 land District in the first Parliament of Upj)er Canada. 
 Joel Hai;,'ht and my father's farm joint'd. His first wife 
 was my mother's sister, Bathshoha, Ids second was a 
 sister of Isaac Tn^jersoll, was a wiflow witli one child, when 
 he was married to her, her name was Hill. Her daughter 
 married Joseph Cummings of Wellington." 
 
 It may seem singular that families knew so little about 
 one another at that time and much later on, but it must 
 be remembered that communication was difficult in those 
 days. The steamboat and railroad, which have changed 
 the face of the world, reduced distances to a minimum, as 
 well as time, had not been thought of. The country was 
 now, the roads were bad, journeys were made under 
 difficulties, either by stage or sail boat, or on horse back 
 or on foot, and hence the amenities of social life had to be 
 dropped because of the difficulties that laid in the way of 
 their continuance. 
 
 THIRD GENERATION. 
 
 Children of (1) Philips and Anna Haiqht. 
 
 12. r. Elizabeth D. 3 , b. May 29th, 1809, m. May 9th, 
 1836, to Jonathan Hutchison, and lived in 
 the Township of Hallowell, P. E. County. 
 She lived with my father for a time prior to 
 his removal. One of my earliest recollections 
 is of her holding me in her arms to see the 
 men raising the bents of the first barn. She 
 was a strong healthy young woman and in 
 later years became very portly. She had 
 nine sons and four daughters. She died . 
 
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 13. II. Andrew M.3, 1». Fel.rumy 7tli. ISll.m. 
 
 Catharine, daughter of Peter McFall, Esq., a 
 wealth}' fanner reHiding in the 2nd Conces- 
 Bion of Hallowell, P. E. County. She died 
 
 . Ho inherited the homestead and lived 
 
 there many years, but suhsequontly sold it 
 and purchased another farm in the IstConcea- 
 sion of the same township, on West Lake, 
 where he now resides. As a farmer, I believe, 
 he ranks anionp; the first in the county, and 
 certainly very few have been more successful 
 in the accumulation of property. A man of 
 retiring habits, but of cheerful and kindly 
 disposition, and is universally respected. He 
 had no children of his own, but has brought 
 up, educated and established in life, fourteen, 
 three of whom are now living with him. 
 
 14. III. Daniel P. 3, b. August 7th, 1813, m. first 
 
 October Gth, 1838, Mary Ann Gordon, by 
 whom he had one child, died young. Second 
 wife, Mary Alvina Congden, died March 23, 
 1883. There were four children by this 
 marriage, three girls and one son, who 
 married and had one child, a girl. He lived 
 for a long time on the farm adjoining his 
 brother Andrew, but sold it and went to the 
 Western States, I think Michigan, where he 
 still lives. 
 
 15. IV. Catharines, b. October 9th, 1815, m. Charles 
 
 A. Wiggans, and a few years after they 
 moved to New York State. Died November 
 
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 4th, 1880. Sho Imd three chihheii, C.'harles, 
 Wallace, and Daniel. The two last died 
 young, 
 
 16. V. Mary 3, h. October 22nd, 1817, m. Isaac Pcttit, 
 
 Marcli 2lHt, 1839, a carpenter living in 
 Hillier. Sho had nine children, viz., Peter 
 Palin, Philip, Anna H., Daniel Bedell, Charles 
 Arnold!, Hannah Minerva, Mahala Eli/a, 
 Sarah Elizabeth, and William Wallace. 
 
 17. VI. Lydia Ann 3, b. October rAh, 1819, m. Joseph 
 
 Foster, a farmer living in Sidney, HaBtingH 
 County, since deceased, no particulars. 
 
 18. VII. RhodaS, b. October 19th, 1821, m. John 
 
 Garrett, February 12th, 1843, a farmer liv- 
 ing in Hallowell, since deceased, no children. 
 The widow is now livin^j in Wellinjiton. 
 
 19. VIII. MahalnS, b. October 19th, 1823, m. Jacob 
 
 Gordon, October 22nd, 1850. No children. 
 It is noticeable that the five girls which 
 follow in succession were born in October. 
 
 20. IX. Stephen, b. November 11th, 1839, m. Adaline 
 
 Garrett, March 12th, 1856, a farmer living 
 near Picton. 
 
 Children (2) of Johis2 and Mahion Haight. 
 
 21. I. Arnoldi3, b. August 12th, 1816, m. Rachel 
 
 Webb, April ,^Oth, 1846, a daughter of 
 Clayton Webb, a wealthy farmer residing in 
 the Township of Whitchurch, County of 
 York. He settled on a farm in the same 
 
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 township, where, by his industry he acquired 
 a fine property, and by his probity, the 
 esteem of all with whom he had to do. By 
 nature a thoughtful and painstaking man, 
 as well as an intelligent and observant 
 one. These qualities were brought to bear 
 on the management of his farm and placed 
 him in the front rank as a successful farmer. 
 Recently he d'sposed of his farm and retired 
 to i . 'nail but comfortable place near the 
 town oi Newmarket, where he now resides. 
 
 22. II. James Noxon3,b. July 7th, 1818, m. March 
 
 24th, 1842, to Mintchi, daughter of Paul 
 Clapp, Esq., a leading man in the county. 
 He lived on the homestead, was a Friend, 
 and began to preach when quite young. 
 A man of more than ordinary ability, 
 was widely known and a most acceptable 
 preacher. He died November 26th, 1859. 
 I may mention here that all his family, as 
 well as all his grandfather's family, were 
 adherents of that sect. 
 
 23. III. Henry HuUettS, b. April 20th, 1820, m. 
 
 January 18th, 1842, to Eliza Ann Palen, 
 daughter of Philip Haight's second wife. 
 He lives at Millford, P. E. County, and is 
 Clerk of the Division Court. Had two 
 children, both died young. 
 
 24. IV. Anthony CuUen 3, b. October 27th, 1822, m. 
 
 January 9th, 1844, to Angelina, daughter of 
 Caleb Garrett. Was a farmer and lived in 
 
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 Hallowell. Ho waw a .short stout man, and 
 for some time Sui)erintenclent of the Friends' 
 Boarding School, near Bloomtield. Had but 
 one child. 
 
 25. V. Maria 3 , b. October 4th, 182 i, m. January 18th, 
 
 1842, William Henry Nilfs, .son of Stephen. 
 He lived in Colbornc ; was a farmer and also 
 a millei-. Died Juno '2nd, 1878. The widow 
 is now with one of her sons in California. 
 Thechildren were: Thomas Flagler, Randolph 
 Pearson, John Arnoldi, Donald Campbell, 
 Annette, and William Henry. 
 
 Children (G) of Rickktson'- and Mary Haight. 
 
 26. I. Canniff 3 , b. 4th June, 1825, m. June 23rd, 1852, 
 
 Jane Casey, daughter of Isaac Ingersoll, Esq., 
 Fredericksburgh, a prominent man in the 
 County of Lennox, and a granddaughter 
 of Willet Casey who was third member for 
 the Midland District in the Parliament of 
 Upper Canada. She was born April 12th, 
 1826. He studied medicine with Dr. Benj. 
 Cory, of Wellington, P. E. County, but after- 
 wards went into business in Picton, June, 
 1850, as druggi.st, bookseller, etc. In 1872 
 he closed up his business there and moved 
 to Toronto where he still resides. In 1885 
 he published a book entitled " Country Life 
 in Canada Fifty Years Ago," which was well 
 received, and in 1895 another work under 
 
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 the title of " Here ami There iti the Home 
 Land, or England, Scotland and Ireland, as 
 seen by a Canadian." 
 
 27. II. Almeda3, b. June IGth, 1827, m. September 
 
 12th, 1850, to Ira Ham, Esq., a leading far- 
 mer in the 2nd Concession of S. Fredericks- 
 burgh. She died June 4th, 18()8, leaving 
 the following children: Charles Ricketson, 
 married and living in Philadelphia ; Canniff 
 Daniel ; Mary Ellen, married Robert Briscoe, 
 an able farmer living near Napanee ; Milton 
 Alfred, married, lives in Grand Port, Dakota ; 
 
 Hellen Almeda, married Joice, farmer 
 
 in N. Fredericksburgh ; George Ira, married 
 and living in the city of Mexico; Arthur 
 Egbert, married and living in Chatham. 
 
 28. III. Anna Maria 3, b. May 8th, 1830, m. June 24th, 
 
 1863, to Adison Vars.a merchant at Colborne. 
 She had but one child, Henry Thorp, who 
 is married and lives in Buffalo. She died 
 September 23rd, 1867. Her husband is also 
 dead. 
 
 29. IV. Daniel 3, b. November 3rd, 1832, m. first, 
 
 Helen, daughter of Gregory Wilson, a 
 wealthy farmer living near Picton. There 
 were four children by this marriage. The 
 last one died in infancy. 
 Second wife, Lizzie, daughter of Henry Van 
 Dycke, fanner, living in Fredericksburgh on 
 the Bay of Quinte. There are three children. 
 He lived on the homestead until recently, 
 but is now residing at Tbessalon, Algoma. 
 
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 30. V. Mary Eliza 3, b. November 7th, 1835, d. 
 
 August, 1841. 
 
 31. VI. Ellen Jane 3 , b. March Gth, 1838, il. July, 1841. 
 
 Children (7) of Reuben 2 and Jane Haight. 
 
 32. T. Philip 3 , b. February 21st, 1836, m. first, March 
 
 2nd, 1858, Jane Hubbs, who died February 
 14th, 1859 ; second, Lois Ann Hutchison, 
 September 22nd, 1860. 
 
 33. II. Amelia Jane 3, b. November 13th, 1838, m, 
 
 Canniff Hawley, d. April 13th. 1859. 
 
 34. III. Willet Charles 3, b. December 18th, 1840, d. 
 
 April 26th, 1865. 
 
 35. IV. Reuben Smith 3, b. August 9th, 1842, d. May 
 
 nth, 1843. 
 
 Children (8) of Consider 2 and Deborah Haight. 
 
 3G. I. Elizabeth 3, b. March 10th, 1830, m. October 
 6th, 1840, Robert Cadman, a farmer, living 
 on Hay Bay, Fredericksburgh. They had 
 but one child, William, who married Agnes 
 Murdock. 
 
 37. II. Phebe3, b. September 9th, 1831, d. September 
 
 10th, 1831. 
 
 38. III. Rachel 3 , b. September 9th, 1831, m. December 
 
 18th, 1849, Nelson Sills, farmer, living in 
 Fredericksburgh. She had seven children, 
 namely, Deborah, Mary Elizabeth, Consider, 
 Lydia Amelia, William Ryerson, Levi Vin- 
 cent, and Rachel May. 
 
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 39. IV. Consider Menitt 3 , h. September 20tli, 1833, 
 
 d November 14th, 1834. 
 
 40. V. Mary Mullett3, b. November 20th, 1836, m. 
 
 Augyst 25th, 1853, Levi Bowerman, a farmer, 
 living near Bloomfield, Pr. Ed. County. 
 There were five children by this marriage, 
 Caroline Elizabeth, William, Edith, Rachel 
 Alma and Thomas Arnold. 
 
 41. VI. Lydia Trumpour 3 , b. May 1838, m. John 
 
 Piatt Williams, a farmer and large fruit 
 grower, living near Bloomfield, P. E. County. 
 Deborah, Considers widow, many years after 
 his death, married Vincent Bowerman, a 
 prominent member of the Friends, who is 
 since dead. She was past ninety when she 
 died. 
 
 Children (9) of Rowland 2 and Hannah Haiqht. 
 
 42. I. Mary Elizabeth 3 , b. September 22nd, 1831, m. 
 
 March 6th, 1850, Reuben Garrett, lives at 
 Minden, Victoria County, North R. No 
 children. 
 
 43. II. John Daniels, b. December 22nd, 1832, m. 
 
 March 30th, 1856, Sarah McDonald. A 
 butcher and lived at Cannifflon, north of 
 Belleville. He died there August 23rd, 1885. 
 
 44. III. Walter S.3, b. June 30th, 1834, m. 
 
 Rebecca Ann Fraser, is a Methodist minister 
 and lives in Michigan. 
 
 45. IV. Anne Maria 3 , b. July, 1836, d. . 
 
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 46. V. Jane 3, b. February 18th, 1838, m. December 
 
 10th, 1860, William Watson. Died Sep- 
 tember 29th, 1881. Had five children, 
 Stephen Henry, Peter Elwood, Sarah Eliza- 
 beth, William Orris and Deborah Edith. 
 
 47. VI. Consider Merritts, b. July 1st, 1839, m. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Winn. 
 
 48. VII. Peter Leavens 3, b. April 6th, 1841, d. . 
 
 49. VIII. Samuel Ell wood 3 , b. February 3rd, 1843, d. 
 
 July 1st, 1860. 
 
 50. IX. Rowland RicketsonS, b. May 6th, 1845, m. 
 
 April 28th, 1868, Frances I. Corben. 
 
 51. X. Sarah Maria 3, b. October 27th, 1847, m. Geo. 
 
 Howse, farmer, lives at Minden, South Lake, 
 Victoria County. Three children, Annie, 
 Amelia Jane, Hannah Maria Maud. 
 
 62. XI. Deborah B.3, b. August 26th, 1849, m. 
 
 Walter Illman, a physician — dead. 
 
 53. XII. Reuben Garrets, b. March 28, 1852, m. 
 
 December 31st, 1879, Sarah Wigmore. 
 
 54. XIII. Hannah G.3,b. April 7, 1854. Died in infancy. 
 
 Rowland married a second wife, Elizabeth 
 Hudson. No children. This is all I could 
 gather of this family. 
 
 Children (11) of Samuels and Tabitha Haiqht. 
 
 65. I. Samuel Dorland 3 , b. , m. . 
 
 In answer to inquiries about the family the 
 father wrote me in September, 1883, that 
 Dorland — the first name had been dropped 
 
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 —left his wife some ten years previous 
 to this date and had never been heard 
 of since. There were eight children, the 
 most of whom are dead. 
 
 56. II. Agnes D.3, b. , m. first, Dr. Charles 
 
 Potts, by whom she had three children, two 
 girls and a boy. He was drowned. She 
 married the second time Frank Pierce, a 
 farmer who lives eight miles north of Smith's 
 Falls, and is in comfortable circumstances. 
 They have four children. 
 
 57. III. Arnold 3 , b. — — . Insane, and was for some 
 
 time in Rockwood Asylum, Kingston. 
 
 58. IV. Sarah Maria 3 , b. , m. Norton Taylor, lives 
 
 in Newburgh, Lennox County. They have 
 three children. All girls. 
 
 59. V. Enoch Peter 3 , b. . He was working in a 
 
 Paper Mill at Planewell, Michigan, in 1883. 
 
 60. VI. George Van Alstine Borland. 
 
 61. VII. John P. 3, b. . 
 
 This is all the information I have been able to 
 get about the family. It appears that the 
 register of births, etc., had been lost, or at 
 least the father was unable to put his hands 
 on it, so he wrote me. 
 
 The story of the latter part of Samuel Haight's 
 life is a very sad one. I remember him in 
 my younger days as a man of fine presence, 
 brio-ht and cheerful, well informed, active, 
 industrious, of temperate habits, one of the 
 most amiable men I ever met, and univer- 
 
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 sally eateeraed. He inherited the homestead 
 atid commenced life, it was thought, in those 
 days, with exceptionally bright prospects. 
 If he had been better mated there is little 
 doubt his days would have passed prosper- 
 ously and peacefully, but he was too heavily 
 weighted, his industry could not withstand 
 the imprudence and folly of a vain, thought- 
 less woman. If he' had been more rigorous 
 and unbending, the probabilities are the end 
 would have been different, but there was 
 nothing harsh or insistent in his composition. 
 A man of peace, he submitted unwisely, and 
 with all his efforts to stay the calamity he 
 saw coming on, witnes.sed without complain- 
 ing the gradual dissipation of his property ; 
 and when old age laid its hand upon him 
 and incapacitated him for toil, he was com- 
 pelled to seek employment to support him- 
 self and wife. Several years passed in des- 
 titute circumstances. She died a few years 
 ago in poverty, leaving the old man — then 
 past eighty-three — feeble in body and mind. 
 He is living with his daughter Agnes, and 
 when I last heard from him aged eighty- 
 seven — he had lost his mind altogether. 
 Poor old man. 
 
 Children (14) of Daniel P. 3 and Mary Haight. 
 
 62. I. Phoebe Emma*, b. March 23rd, 1855, m. Nov- 
 ember 5th, 1871. George Ellis, had three 
 
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 children, Ida May, b. February 9th, 1874 ; 
 Mary Elizabeth, b. November 3rd, 1876 ; and 
 Andrew Samuel, b. November 9th, 1881. 
 
 63. LI. Andrew Congden*, b. June 28th, 1859, m. 
 
 Emily Bannager, died April 15th, 1879. Had 
 one child, Emma May, b. May 12th, 1874. 
 
 64. III. Henrietta Estella. 
 
 65. IV. Catharine Lucretia. 
 
 Children (20) of Stei'uen3 and Adaline Haioht. 
 
 66. I. Cordelia Ann 4 , b. January 1st, 1857, m. Janu- 
 
 ary 1st, 1880, Paul Warren. They have 
 two children, Kenneth Warren, b. November 
 24th, 1880; and Philip Clair, b. June 28th, 
 1892. 
 
 67. II. Philip Borland*, b. September 22nd, 1860, m. 
 
 August 5th, 1879, Bertha Arket. 
 
 68. III. Ella Jane*, b. June 19th, 18C5, m. April 14th, 
 
 1881, Walter Carman. There are two chil- 
 dren, Nina Belle, b. March 25th, 1883; and 
 Raymond Baird, b. December 25th, 1893. 
 
 69. IV. Arabella* , b. January 27th, 1871. 
 
 Children (21) of ArnoldiS and Rachkl Haiuht. 
 
 70. I. Eliza*, b. May 27th, 1847. 
 
 71. II. Gilbert*, b. October 19th, 1849, d. October 
 
 22nd, 1849. 
 
 72. III. Franklin*, b. October 23rd, 1850. Manager, 
 
 Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
 Waterloo, Ont. 
 
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 73. IV. Giilieluia-t, 1,. Kel.niary r.tli, I.S.jS. 
 
 74. V. Milton 4, b. April 8th, 1855, m. July 17th, 
 
 1891, in Sapporo, Japan, Katharine Barbara 
 Light, of Philadelphia, also engaged in 
 teaching jit the time. He was a graduate of 
 Toronto University, after which he went to 
 the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 
 and while there was engaged — 1887 — by 
 the Japan Government as Professor of 
 Mathematics in the College at Sapporo, 
 where he remained until the summer of 1892, 
 when he returned to Canada. Immediately 
 on his return he accepted the position of 
 Mathematical Pi'ofessor in Whetham College, 
 Victoria, British Columbia ; but unfortun- 
 ately this new institution for the lack of 
 support was obliged to close its doors. He 
 then returned to Ontario and accepted the 
 position of mathematical teacher in the 
 High School at Strathroy, whi''h place he 
 held up to the time of his death. While on 
 a visit at Waterloo he was taken down with 
 typhoid fever and died 4th August, 1896, 
 cut off in the prime of life and at a time 
 which gave promise of much usefulness. 
 There is one child, Rachel Webb, born June 
 2nd, 1892. 
 
 76. VI. Charles Haney 4 , b. May 29th, 1859, a clerk, 
 and living at present in Chicago. 
 
 76. VII. James Clayton 4 , b. March 19th, 1862, a lawyer, 
 passed his law examinations with honors 
 
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 and is now practising lii.s profcHsion in Wat- 
 erloo, Out. 
 
 Children (22) of Jami':s3 and Mintchk Haioht. 
 
 77. 1. John DorlancH, b. March 3rd, 1844, m. April 
 
 11th, 18G7, Mary Jane Ellis. 
 
 78. II. Paul Clapp4, b. September 8th, 184G, in. Nov- 
 
 ember 27th, 1866, Patience Garrett. 
 
 79. III. Maria Elizabeth^, b. February 27tli, 1849, m. 
 
 February 13th, 1872, Shubal Dunliam Fos- 
 ter. He died March 7th, 1880. She had 
 three children, viz., Seburn James, b. June 
 17th, 1874 ; Merrick Arnold, b. January 25th, 
 1878 ; and Ada Eliza, b. February 9th, 1879. 
 
 80. IV. William Arnoldi-*, b. November 29th, 1854. 
 
 81. V. Benjamin Leavens**, b. September 3rd, 1859, d. 
 
 . 1887. 
 
 Children (24) of Anthonys and Anoeline Haight. 
 
 82. I. Arnoldi4,b. March 16th, 1845, ni. June 6th, 
 
 1866, Maria Rebecca Lambie. 
 
 Ghildrkn (26) OF CanniffS and Jane Haigut. 
 
 83. I. Sarah Emma 4, b. March 24th, 1853, d. March 
 
 2nd, 1866. 
 
 84. II. Willet Ricketson 4 , b. January 22nd, 1855, m. 
 
 May Ist, 1884, Margaret, daughter of John 
 Innes of the Crown Lands Department, a 
 bookseller, living in Toronto. 
 
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 85. III. Honry Hartley*. U April 14tli, 1857, in. Ella 
 Whittaker, is engaj^ed in the office of the 
 Lakawana Railroad, Hoti'alo. 
 
 8G. IV. Walter Lockwoo.l Inyersoll * , 1). July 22nd, 
 i860, u\. Louisa, daughter «»f Capt. Schofield, 
 HochcMter, N. Y. A lawyer livinf» at Parry 
 Sound, Out. Wife died May 14th, 189G. 
 
 87. V. Mary Helen Anna' , h. March l!)th, 1802, m. 
 
 September 7th, 1882, James Cormack, Jr., of 
 Guelph, died at 3G5 Wellesley St, Toronto, 
 June 26th, 1895. No children. 
 
 88. VI. Cannirt' Ernest •*, h. June 15th, 1805, a clerk, 
 
 now living in Chicago, m. February 14th, 
 18!)9, Martha Risdon, ol Philadelphia. 
 
 Children (29) OF 1).\nikl3 and 1st Helen, 2nd Lizzie 
 
 Haight. 
 
 89. I. Charles Frederick 4 , b. July 1 1th, 1 800, m. 
 
 Elizabeth Shanks. A farmer and living at 
 Oak River, Manitoba. 
 
 90. II. Mary Helen*, b. June 29th, 1803, m. June 
 
 28th, 1887, Almon C. Tobey, jeweller, etc., 
 living in Pieton. They have three children, 
 viz., Horace Quiriton, dead; Zeita Lorene, 
 b. October 16th, 1890 ; and Raymond Alinon, 
 b. October 5th, 1S92. 
 
 91. IIL James Gregory*, b. August 28th, 1867, m. 
 
 November 19th, 1890, Gertrude Squires. A 
 farmer, living in Wellington, P. E. County. 
 
 92. IV. By second wife, Mable lolene Haught, b. 
 
 March 4th, 1883. 
 
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 93. V. Annie LuoUiit , 1). Auj,'UHt 24th. 188G. 
 
 94. VI. Wilfred L*, 1.. May +fch, I8HS. 
 9r). VII. Haroltl H.^, h. May 2n(l, 1890. 
 
 Chii.dukn (32) OK Philip -I and Lois Ann Haioht. 
 
 96. I. Daniel Canniff 4 , b. September 2.Sicl, 1861, m. 
 
 first, Ruth Amelia Conger, December 28th, 
 1881, died October 10th, 1882. Second, 
 Ella Vnnhorn, March 27th, 1884, died June 
 4th, 18«7. Third, Jennie P. Colliver, Sep- 
 tember 1 8th, 1 888. One child by the .second 
 wife, Ella, b. June 4th, 1887. A farmer, 
 living near Wellington. 
 
 97. II. Wilfred B.4, b. September 18th, 18GH, ni. 
 
 October 28th, 1891, Bertha Cahoun. A 
 farmer. Both of theso boy,s were brought 
 up by Andrew Haight and are living with 
 him. 
 
 Children (43) of John D. ^ and Saiuh Haight. 
 
 98. I. Stephen Ellwood4,b, August 20th, 1857, m. 
 
 December 2.5th, 1884, Hattie Morton, two 
 children. A clerk, living in Belleville. 
 
 99. II. Mary Elizabeth 4, b. September 2nd, 1860, d. 
 
 February 23rd, 1873. 
 
 100. III. Lydia Jane4, b. February 3rd, 1807. Book- 
 
 keeper, at present in Toronto. 
 
 101. IV. Willet Dorland*, b. August 27th, 1871. 
 
 Children of (44) Walter •*» and Rehecca Haight. 
 
 102. I. William Hilton •> , b. . 
 
 103. IT. David Arnold 4 , b. . 
 
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 104. III. Hannah Elizabeth 4, b. . 
 
 105. IV. UowlancM , b. . 
 
 106. V. Saruli A(lelia4, b. . 
 
 Chh.drkn ok (47) Considers and Mary Haiqht. 
 
 Children of (50) Rowlands and Frances Haiuht. 
 
 107. I. Jane Elizabeth * , b. . 
 
 108. II. James*, b. . 
 
 109. III. Mary4,b. . 
 
 1 10. IV. Stephen * , b. . 
 
 Children of (53) ReurenS and Sarah Haiqht. 
 
 HI. I. Milton Reuben Wigmore 4, b. . 
 
 112. II. Sarah Maria 4, b. . 
 
 Children (06) Philip D. * and Bertha Haight. 
 
 U.S. I. Fredas, b. October 12th, 1880. 
 
 114. II. John Carman 5, b. March 27th, 1883. 
 
 115. III. Adeline 5 , b. March 12th, 1885. 
 
 116. IV. Annie 5, b. February 16th, 1887. 
 
 Children (76) of John D.4 and Mary Jane Haiqht. 
 
 117. I. LindleyS.b. April8th, 1869. 
 
 118. II. Jaspers, b. February 2nd, 1871. 
 
 119. III. Herberts, b. April 26th, 1873. 
 
 120. IV. Annie May 5, b. July 7th, 1875. 
 
 121. V. PennS, b. May loth, 1877. 
 
 122. V[. IraS, b. March .5th, 1879. 
 
 123. VII. Alices, b. February 19th, 1881. 
 
 124. VIII. Edgars, b. September 20th, 1884. 
 
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 125. IX. Alberts, b. April 4th, 1886. 
 
 126. X. Walter '', b. August 23rc], 1890. 
 
 Childhen (77) OF Paul* ano Patience Haight. 
 
 127. I. Alton 5, b. , m. February 24th, 1892, Ida 
 
 May Ellis, one child, Elva, b. April 20th, 
 1894. 
 
 Children (81) of Arnoldi* and Maria Haight. 
 
 128. I. AllieElizaS, b. March 26th, 1867, m. June 17th, 
 
 1885, George L. Garratt. 
 
 129. II. Lelia Emma 5, b. September 6th, 1868, m. 
 
 September 5th, 1888, Seburn Cronk. 
 
 130. III. Walter LambieS, b. August 1st, 1871, m. 
 
 1896, 
 
 131. IV. Donald Jerome 5, b. May 24th, 1874, m. April, 
 
 1895. 
 
 132. V. Percy Giles 5, b. May 27th, 1885, d. July 5th, 
 
 1887. 
 
 Children (83) Willet4 and Margaret Haight. 
 
 133. I. Willet John 5 , b. May 3rd, 1885. 
 
 134. II. Arthur CanniffS , b. December 9th, 1886. 
 
 135. III. Henry InnesS, b. July 27tb, 1890. 
 
 Children (85) of Walter* and Louisa Haight. 
 
 136. I. Ingersoll Ernest 0, b. . 
 
 137. II. Gertrude •'">, b. . 
 
 138. III. Walters, b. . 
 
 139. IV. Harolds,!,. . 
 
 140. V. LockwoodS,b. . 
 
 141. VI. Helen Mary 5 , h. . 
 
 142. VII. George Schofield s , b. . 
 
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 Children (88) Fred 4 and Elizabeth Haight. 
 
 143. I. Helen Jane 5 , b. June 30th, 1884. 
 144.. II. James Wilson 5, b. March 4th, 1885. 
 
 145. III. Anne AlmedaS, b. March 4th, 1887. 
 
 146. IV. William Daniels, b. March 2ntl, 1889. 
 
 147. V. John LawsonS, b. May 13th, 1891. 
 
 148. VI. Mary Newton 6, b. May 18th, 1893. 
 
 Children (90) of Gregg* and Gertrude Haight. 
 
 149. I. Lugard SquireS, b. August 28th, 1892. 
 
 150. II. Charles AlmonS, b. January 18th, 1894. 
 
 Children (44) of Walter and Rehecca Haight. 
 
 151. I. William Hilton*, b. 
 
 152. II. David Arnoldi*, b. . 
 
 153. III. Hannah Elizabeth*, b. . 
 
 154. IV. Rowland*, b. . 
 
 155. V. Sarah Adelia*, b. . 
 
 Children of John and Bathsheba Mullett, Picton. 
 
 1. I. Deborah, b. May 15th, 1824, m. February 24th, 
 
 1844, Louis McCoy, Government Printer. 
 He died November 5th, 1847. Deborah had 
 two children, a son and daughter. She lived 
 with her father after her husband's death 
 until after her mother's death. She then 
 went to live with her daughter who resides 
 in New York State, where she died May 
 23rd, 1878. 
 
 2. II. John Haight, b. August 5th, 1825, was killed 
 
 accidentally December 24th, 1860, by his 
 
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 clothes being caught in a bark mill in his 
 father's tannery which he was attending. 
 He was drawn into the mill and crushed to 
 death. He was an intelligent, industrious 
 young man and very much respected. 
 
 3. III. Mary Haight, b. May 26th, 1827. Single, and 
 
 living in Belleville. 
 
 4. IV. Daniel Haight, b. January 24th, 1830, m. 
 
 August 26th, 1851, Cordelia Holt by whom 
 he had one child, a daughter. She died 
 October 20th, 1884. His second wife was a 
 daughter of Rachel, third daughter of Con- 
 sider and wife of Nelson Sills, Fredericks- 
 burgh, a second cousin. He is a tanner and 
 lives at Canniffton, north of Belleville. 
 
 5. V. Sophia Dunsford, b. August Gth, 1834, m. 
 
 October 21st, 1861, John Fry Mullett, a 
 retired leather merchant living in Bristol, 
 England. No children. 
 
 6. VI. Elizabeth Hill, b. May 25th, 1837, m. December 
 
 25th, 1856, Thomas Macklam, a farmer liv- 
 ing near Brighton. 
 
 7. VII. Charles Poulett, b. November 27th, 1839, d. 
 
 June 6th, 1841. 
 
 8. Vin. Ann, b. October 27th, 1842, single, and living 
 
 with her sister Sophia in Bristol. 
 
 9. IX. Ella, b. M 23rd, 1845, m. July 26th, 1876, 
 
 Joseph Fox, a retired farmer living in Bel- 
 leville. 
 10. X. GeoTf Bushton, b. December 12th, 1847, m. 
 May 18th, 1870, Anne Pearson, a tanner, and 
 lives in Barrie. 
 
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 11. XI. Margarett Amanda, b. August 2.5tli, 1850, in. 
 
 February 15th, 1870, William B. Lear, a 
 carpenter living in Belleville. 
 John Mullett, was born at Frampton, Cotteral, 
 Gloucestershire, England, August 30th, 1802. 
 
 Children of Danikl and Cordelia Mullett, 
 
 12. I. Cassie, b. June 10th, 1852, m. August ;?rd, 1870, 
 
 I. William Hudson. No children. 
 
 13. II. Deborah McCoy, had two children. 1st, Ellen 
 
 Mary, m. July 17th, 1873, Albert B. Castor, 
 lived in New York State. No children. 
 She died March 6th, 1882. 
 
 14. III. Elizabeth Macklam, Brighton. 
 
 15. IV. 1st, George F., b. April 7th. 1857, m. August 
 
 18th, 1881, Tryphonia Merriman. One child, 
 Frank, b. March 5th, 1882. 
 
 16. V. 2nd, John, b. January 2nd, 1859, d. April 29th, 
 
 1860. 
 
 17. VI. 3rd, Frank, b. April 7th, 1861. 
 
 18. VII. 4th, Anne Sophia, b. February 10th, 1864, m. 
 
 January 21st, 1884, Alon Metcalf. 
 
 19. VIII. 5th, Henry Edward, b. May 1st, 1873. 
 
 Ellen Fox has three children, Sarah, Joseph 
 and Margarett. 
 
 George and Anne Mullett. 
 
 George Pearson, b. November 8th, 1871, in 
 
 Tennessee, U.S. 
 Maggie, b. April 27th, 1874, d. September 
 
 13th, 1875. 
 
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 •^lora Loe, h. November 6th, 187G. 
 
 Deborah McCoy, liad a son Lewis, both he and 
 his sister were born in Montreal. He went 
 away and so far as I know has never been 
 heard of. 
 
 Children of Daniel and Rhoda Ruttan. 
 
 I. Mary , ra. John McCoy. Moved to New 
 
 York many years ago. Was a printer. Had 
 a family. Both dead. 
 II. Daniel, a restless man, never remained in one 
 place very long. When last heard of he 
 was living in New York State. Married, 
 and had a family. 
 
 III. William, went to the United States years 
 
 ago. Nothing known about him. 
 
 IV. Jacob "I Both went to the U. S. Were married. 
 V. Henry] Whether alive or not, do not know. 
 
 VI. Bathsheba, m. Jeremiah Alley, of the Crown 
 Lands Department. Both dead. He lived 
 to an advanced age. They had, I believe, 
 eight children, five boys and three girls. 
 One of the boys, John, is Inspector of the 
 Traders Bank, and Henry, Private Secretary 
 of the Minister of Education. 
 
 VII. Lydia, m. John Mahager, of Kingston. They 
 had a large family. She died many years 
 ago. 
 
 VIII. Margaret, m. John Young, of Hallowell. 
 They had two children, a boy and a girl. 
 He died several years ago. 
 
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 IX. Amanda, m. Captain Farrell. No family. He 
 is dead. 
 
 So far as I know, Margaret and Amanda are 
 the only ones of this family alive. They 
 were living in Picton, 1896. 
 
 The five sisters were remarkably fine looking 
 women.