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DESCENDENT$ OF DAï¿½IEL FORuYTII OF P Olli'!'
AND
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DANIEL FORSYTH (Jam.es, James, James,
the year or 1772 in Pennsylvania, the second chi ld and
econd son
or James and Eunice Forsyth of Niagara F lls, Ontario. (ONTARIO
HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS, VOLUME XXV1 PAGE 297, NIAGARA FALLS
PUBLIC
I RARY1 UTAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO}.
Petitions For Land Grants,

179 _-9

THE PETITION OF RESIDENTS OF ABINO (POINT) AND
TIMOTHY SKINNER
To His Excollency Jolm Graves Simcoe, Â·sqr.
Lieut Governor of, the Province of Upper Canada &amp;o., &amp;c., &amp;c.
The PetÂ·i tion of Timothy Skinner
Humbly Sheweth
To Your Excellency ln Council that your
etitioner suffer'd very
much by Fines, Imprisonment ana other Oppression fro. the Americ ns
during the late War and that he cwne and put himself" under the
British Government soon after the war w s over and has lived ever
s in c e in this Diatrictmall Creek a little
Bega to 1nf.orm -Xour Exe lleney that there is e
ï¿½
above Fort Erie running thro a piece of waist land
below Point Eben o
from a Swamp capable of Erecting a small Mill for the Benerit or the
Neighborhood which is much wanted there.
Your Petitioner therefore most hlllJï¿½bly Requests that your Excellency
ill please to pe1-mit him to build a 111 thereon and grant hin one
Hundr6ï¿½ Acres or Land adjoining thereto on the same Terms as is
granted to the rest of the Provincever bound to Pray
And Your Petitioner will be
TIMOTHY SKIIUmR
e the :undernamed subscriber
living ln the Uabourhood about Point
*
Ebeno
humbly Crave that tl is PetitiÂ·on may meet with your Excellency's
Approbation as we are in great want ofÂ· a Grist
111 in this part or
the Settlement.
One or the Subscribers was:
0DAHIEL Ii"'ORSYTII"
Endorsed:

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reed this petition of

!fr. 'P. Terry
2 JÂ·uly 1793
read in Council ï¿½.lly IO
Granted.

(Â·ï¿½Â· Abino}

From:

. PAPERc:ONTA \IO I L.i[Â·ORICAL SOCIE'Fi
VI,
WD RECORD. , VOLUME
â€¢
PAO.E 99, NIAGARA FALLo:&gt; PUBLIC LIBRARY. NIAGARA FALLS, 0

On December 31, !798,. D. ITEL FO \STL'H received a Crown Patent in
.Humber stone Township, as follows:
"Daniel Forsyth received 393 acres
of Crown land. The front of lots 4 and ï¿½ï¿½* 5 or concession one, on
t the south est angle of lot 5
Lake Erie that is to say, beginning
being tho southeast angle of lot number 6 on the bank of Lake Erle,
then north to lands surveyed for James House, 97 clains, 50 linkn
more or les3, then east 4I chains, then soutb to the bank of the
lake , then westerly along the bank to the place of the beeinning.11
( CROWN PATENT OF D -IEL FORsYÂ·rH,, DEC. 3I, !798, TO:'INS IP OF

.

�2.

James,

born in I800 Canada; lived in Humberstone Township,
cession I, Lot 7h, in the year 1865; a Hoopmaker.

JAMES FORSYTH

CHRISTO HER PITZKE,

TO

MARY 'ELIZABETH,
HIS WIFE

, (A

Hoopmaker)

ï¿½\.Iï¿½

1

CHRISTOPHER PITZKE
(Shoemaker)

MARY E.

.TO

JAMES

FORSYTH

(Hoopmaker)

TO

OF HU1 BERSTONE

JAMES FORSYTH

(Hoopmaker)

OF ! UMBERSTONE TVi

CANADA).

F'ORSYTH,

Lot

JAr. ï¿½S S.

?, Apr. 9, I863May I4, !866, BOUGHT
&amp; SOLD, (NO. II09I)
HUMBERSTO IB TWP.,
ONTARIO, CANADA.
(TOWN ALL TOWN OF
BERTIE, RfDGEWAY,
ONTARIO, CANADA).

No.

Lot NO. 7, I Acre of Lamd,
Recorded: Dec. I31 1865Nov. I8, 18651 MORTGAGE,
NO. I4I37, HlTIï¿½BERSTONE TWP.,
WELLAND COUNTY, OUT .ARI 0.
(TOWN HALL, TOON OF BERTIE,
\&lt;\'d6ewA)' Gi\Ytf6A , owrARIO, CA 1"ADA).

GHAIIAM,

OF BEHTIE TWP.

GEORGE OLMSTED,

TO

Lot No. 7, Concession I,
Lying bet een Fort Erie
Road &amp; Second Concession,
Fob. 9, I862-Apr. I4, !863,
MORTGAGE (NO. II92), HUMÂ­
BERSTONE TOWNSHIP, WELLAND
COUNTY, ONTARIO.
(TO\iVN HALL, TOWN OF BERTIE,
vau;&amp;AND G-OlHlYoJY' ONTARIO,

WIFE OF JAMES
FORSYTH { H O OPMAKER )

OF HUMFERSTONE

ConÂ­

OF

HUMBERSTONE

â€¢

Part of Lot No. 7, Concession
I, Of said Twp. of Humberstone,
being N â€¢ â€¢ Angle of said Lot
7, lying between the old Fort
Erie Road, and the Se6ond ConÂ­
cession, containing I Acre of
land, CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE
PROPERTY, Entered &amp; Registered
13th day of May I87I, (NO. 5 9)
(TOWN RALL TOWN' OF BERTIE,
CAYUGA, oN'rARIO, CANADA).

Children of James &amp; Mary Elizabeth Forsyth:
I.

James,

married Margaret

Issue:

MacDonald.

A.

Margaret, born in I878 Oneida Twp., Ont., married
November 25, I903 Wal'9ole Twp., Ont., Daniel
Bartlett.

B.

Janet, born in I880 Oneida Twp., Ontario, married
August 3, I904 Rainham, Ontario, Alberton FitzÂ­
gerald.

(RECORDS OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, &amp; DFATHS, I895-

I904),

Ilï¿½LDI

WALPOLE TWP.,
D COUNTY, ONTARIO,

ONTARIO!
C

TffiVN HALL,

ADA).

JARVIS,

.

�3.

Jacob,

married December 29,
JACOB FORSYTH

TO

I828 in Canada,

NATHANIEL BEACH,

Susan Shofield.
I25 Acres, Entered &amp;
Registered June !9, I823August 2, I833, BARGAIN &amp;
SALE, (NOo 9301), TOWUSHIP
OF HUMBERSTONE, ONTARIO.
(TOWN HALI,, '11 O Â·m OF BERT IE,

RIDGEWAY, ONTARIO, CANADA)

4.

William D.,

born September I8,

( or Belvia).

WILLIAM FORSYTH

1802 in Canada;
TO

married Polly Belorda

â€¢Z. KIEL FORSYTH,

343 A ere s under
of Lot 4 &amp; 5,
C oncession I,
Entered &amp; RegisÂ­
tered July 20,
1826-July 2I, I826,
QUIT C!.iAIM, (NO.

ï¿½

6864), WILLOUGHBY

TWP â€¢ , V'IBLLAND C 0TJNTY, OMTARIO.

(TOWN RALL, Tovm

OF BERTIE, CAYUGA,
0 frARI . , CANADA) â€¢
Children of W ill i am D. Forsyth &amp;

olly Belorda:

A.

Daniel,

B.

James,

born in 1830 in Canada.

C.

Abram,

born in 1832 in Canada.

D.

Jacob L.,

E.

Hannah,

F.

Margaret,

G.

Rachel,

born in 1828 in Canada.

born in 1834 near

Buffalo,

N.Y.

born in 1836.
born in 1840

born

in

in Illinois.

I842 in Wisconsin.

(FORSYTH FAMILY RECORDS TOLD vlE Bf MR. T. ROY
WOODHOUSE (HIS'l'ORIAN OP WESTDALE), OF 20 OVAL,
HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA).
5.

Ezekiel,

of

Humberstone Twp.,

EZEKIEL FORSYTH

TO

Ontario.

CONRADE SCHISLER, IOO Acres,

Entered

&amp; Registered Apr.
I9, I833-Sept. 20,
I833, TOWNSHIP OF
WIL OUGI- BY, BARGA IN
&amp; SALE, (NO. 9303).
(TOWN HALL, TOWN or

BERTIE, CAYUGA,

ONTARH\ cANA]J_.!)_

â€¢

�Churl es,

6.

Ontario.

of IIumberstone '11wp.,
CAThERINE BEAM
(Of Bertie Twp.

)

TO

CHARLES F RSYTH

{Of

Humberstmne)

,

Received One Acre
of Land, Lot No. 3,
Concession I, Entered
Feb. I4, I863, RecÂ­
eived Oct. 2I, 1863,
BARGAIN &amp; SALE (NO.

II788).
(TOW HALL, TOWN OF
BERTIE, RIDGEWAY,
ONTARIO, CANADA) â€¢

OTHER FORSYTH UNLIN

WILLIA

vALTER FORSYTH,

,D

FAMIIJIES

born in 1890 in

Ontario, Canada; married
(A Railroad worker)
October 18, I92a Port Dover, Haldimand Colmty, Ontario, Gertrude
Florence Barlow (born in 1 9 04 Canada). Issue:
I.

Elsie

Gertrude,

born April 3, I 925 Walpole Twp., Ont., died
4, I925 Jarvis, Ontario., buried
September
Know Church Cemetery, Jarvis.
.
(RECOHDS OF DEATHS, WAL OLE TWP., (1903NO.
TOWN HALL, JARVIS, ONTARIO).

I

1929-),Â·

2.

earl Irene,

April 26, I926 Walpole Tw . , Ontario.
(REC Oï¿½DS OF UIRTHS, WALP OLE TWP., ( 1903-!929),
NO. 482; TOWN HALL, JA RVIS , ONTARIO, CANADA).

born

3.

Myrtle Madeline,

4.

John Frederick,

WILLIAM FORSYTH,

I.

E l s ie

I89;

February 7, !92'5 Jarvis, Ontario.
(RECORDS OF BIRTIS, WAL OLE TWP., (I903-I929),
NO. 198; TOWN HALL, JARVIS, ONTARIO, CANADA)o

born

married

(Lot

Elizabeth,

â€¢lizabeth Makey. Issue:
3)
born in !913 Walpole Twp., Ontario, dled
April 2I, I9I5 Walpole Twp., Ontario.
(RECORDS OF DEATHS, WALPOLE TWP., ( I903I929), TOWN HALL, JARVIS, ONTARIO, CA ADA).

I, Consession

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