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Ontario History Scholarly Journal of the Ontario Historical Society Since 1899 Ontario History Scholarly Journal of The Ontario Historical Society Since 1899 Papers and Records [called Ontario History after 1946] Volume VIII, 1907 Published by The Ontario Historical Society, 1907 The Ontario Historical Society Established in 1888, the OHS is a non-profit corporation and registered charity; a non- government group bringing together people of all ages, all walks of life and all cultural backgrounds interested in preserving some aspect of Ontario's history. Learn more at www.ontariohistoricalsociety.ca. .3. W ED/._._.7~ ,5.:& oi. 5 25;. ‘ma E0 _,. .52 53 ZCH./.1222/.,:; 9 w 2 ,_;L.~:,: m\mZm.L.Xm/r,._ J. SEE: r CE ,..:z::zn.3.,_:a2 :_,.:_$<.__B< r.—O :._N_T_ .__:_.:_£: w./..:EU<V SE9 03:33? £0: :3 2CZF»CM.‘_ SEE r._C 437. 22%. SEE ~ ®ntario Tbistorical Society. PAPERS AND RECORDS. VOL. VIII. TORONTO: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. I907 CONTENTS. PAGE The Insurrection in the Short Hills in 1838. LT.-COL. E. CBUIKSHANK - 5 II. The Hamiltons of Queenston, Kingston and Hamilton. H. F. GARDINER 24 III. The Petuns. - LT.-COL. G. W. BRUCE » — — — - - 34 IV. The Nottawasaga River Route. G. K. — MILLS, B.A. — - - 40 V. THE First Commission of the Peace for the District of Mecklenburg. R. V. Romans, LL.D.- - - - - - - - - - 49 VI. Some Events in the History of Kingston. VV. S. ELLIS, B.A. — — 78 VII. Early History of the Anglican Church in Kingston. REV. ARCHDEACON MCMORINE, D.D. — - - - - - - - — — 90 VIII. Some Epochs in the Story of Old Kingston. MISS AGNES IVIAULE MACHAR (“Fide1is") ~ - — - — — — - - 102 IX. The Navies on Lake Ontario in the VVar of 1812. Notes from the Papers of a Naval Oflioer then serving on His I\Iajesty’s Ships. BARLOW CUMBERLAND, M.A. - — - - - - - - - - 124 Cataraqui. CHARLES MACKENZIE - - - - - - - - 142 . Captain William Gilkison. Notes from a Paper prepared by MISS r AUGUSTA ISABELLA GRANT GILKISON . - - 147 XII. Early Churches in the Niagara Peninsula, Stamford and Chippewa, With Marriage Records of Thomas and James Cummings, J.P., and Extracts from the Cummings Papers. Miss JANET CARNOCHAN - 149 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE “ Commission The Great Seal of the Province of Quebec attached to The First ” — Frontispiece of the Peace for the District of Mecklenburg - - — - — 81 La. Salle - - - - - 81 Within Fort Henry — — ~ — - - - 82 An Ancient Plan Indeed - - — - - - 85 A Plan 140 Years Old - - - - - 87 Kingston in 1796 — - - - - - - 90 The Original St. George’s Church, Kingston - - - 101 Archdeacon Stuart’s Tomb - - - — - 118 Governor Simcoe’s Council House, Queen Street, Kingston, 1792 - - - 120 Shoal Tower, Kingston - - — - - - 124 — - Kingston in 1819 - War G-en. Pike, Commodore A Scene on Lake Ontario. United States Sloop of James Yeo, preparing Chauncey, and the British Sloop of War Wolfe, Sir - - 130 for action, September 28th, 1813 - - - 140 Kingston from Fort Henery - - '.-r-'''' I. Tlllfl lNSlJRRECTION IN THE SHORT HILLS IN 1838. llr LIEUT.-COL. E. CRUIKSHANK. (Rcarl at the Annual Meeting of the O. H. S. at Niagara-on-tlie-Lake, June 8th, 1905.) The unsuccessful attempt to organize an insurrection at the Short Hills, in the Township of Pelham, in June 1838 is an interesting epi- sode which has received but scant consideration from most historians of that troubled time. Read’s account is grotesquely inaccurate while Dent and Lindsay barely refer to it. Kingsford gives it a couple of pages, which it seems scarcely necessary to remark are disfigured by several grievous misprints and errors. Two of the leaders, Benjamin Vllait and Linus \Vilson Miller, Wrote accounts of their captivity, but have little to say about the rising itself, and their statements, for obvious reasons, cannot as a rule be accepted without corroboration. Navy Island had been evacuated by Mackenzie and his followers on the 16th of January, and although public meetings Were subse- quently assembled at intervals in most of the American towns and cities near the Canadian frontier to express sympathy and raise money for the refugees, and small bodies of men were reported to be drilling for their service at various places, no further attempt to make an inva- sion took place for several months. Meanwhile a considerable force of Incorporated Militia was organized for the defence of the Province of Upper Canada by voluntary enlistment, and the First Frontier Light Infantry, composed of ten companies, enrolled in the Niagara District and commanded by Lieut.—Colonel John Clark, was stationed along the Niagara River, in conjunction with some small detachments of regular troops, which had arrived from Montreal. Colonel Hughes, of the 24th Regiment, assumed the command of the frontier, which he retained until May, when he was relieved by Colonel H. D. Townsend, of the 32nd. On April 4th sentence of death was pronounced at Hamilton upon nine prisoners who had been concerned in Dr. Duncombe’s rising near Brantford, three of Whom were recommended for mercy and respited. The date of execution of the sentence upon Horatio Hill, Stephen Smith, Charles Walwoith, Ephraim Cook, John Tuiford and Nathan Town was fixed for the 20th of April. On the 13th of that month 5 /6 ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews w-ere hung at Toronto. The exe- cution of these unfortunate men naturally excited bitter resentment, not unmingled with apprehensions for the lives of other prisoners, among their friends and sympathizers, both in Canada and the United States. On the following day the Executive Committee of the Cana- dian Refugee Republican Association met at Lockport, N.Y., where they had established their headquarters, to consider the situation and make arrangements for the forcible liberation of the prisoners at Ham- ilton. A body of volunteers was easily enrolled for an attack upon the gaol on the night of April 19th, which Dr. J. T. Wilson and Linus Wilson Miller, a hare—brained young law student from Rochester, offered to lead. Upon arriving in Hamilton on the 18th they learned that the prisoners had been reprieved, and found the place thronged with militia, who had been called out to guard the gaol. Reports of preparations for «an invasion and of the gathering of bodies of “patriots,” as the American newspapers styled the refugees and their sympathizers in Buffalo, Lewiston, Lockport and Rochester, continued to keep the troops on the frontier on the alert. In the beginning of May one small party from Buffalo landed on Point Abino, but hastily re—embarked after remaining there a few hours. On the 12th of that month Charles Durand was formally sentenced at Toronto to be hanged on the 24th and the remainder of the political prisoners awaiting trial were ordered to be discharged upon furnishing sureties for their good behavior for three years. Durand was reprieved, and three months later his sentence was commuted to banishment, upon which he went Sir to join the refugees in Buffalo. On May 30th the steamboat “ ” Robert Peel was captured and burnt by a party of patriots near the mouth of French Creek, in the St. Lawrence, in consequence of which Governor Marcy, of New York, was induced to offer a reward of $500 for the apprehension of William Johnson, late of French Creek, and $250 each for the arrest of Daniel McLeod, Samuel C. Frey -and Robert Smith, refugees from Upper Canada. Sir George Arthur, the Lieutenant—Governor of that Province, also issued a proclamation, for- offering a reward for the capture of the offenders, but strictly of citizens bidding any acts of retaliation upon the persons or property been publicly of the United States, of which indiscreet threats had Canada made. The statutory annual muster of the militia of Upper Kerby’ s report took place, as usual, on the 4th of June. Colonel James Regiment to Colonel Townsend of his inspection of the 2nd Lincoln subse- has been preserved and has more than ordinary interest from quent events. THE INSURRECTION IN THE SHORT HILLS IN 1838. 7 “ T)RUM1\IONDVILLE, 5th June, 1838. “ SIR,—I beg leave to report for the information of His Excellency the Major—General Commanding, that I went to review the Second Lincoln Regiment of Militia at Allanburgh yesterday, the usual place of rendezvous, -a regiment I have had the honor of commanding for many years. “I regret to remark that a rumor of disaffection had prevailed amongst some of the companies residing at Short Hills and on that account I felt anxious to see the regiment and ascertain, if possible, if such a feeling was manifest on their part. I have, however, to assure you that I discovered nothing of the kind. Lieut.—Colonel Rorback, in command, received me at 1 o’clock in a manner most gratifying to my feelings. Every attention was paid me during the time I read the Governor’s proclamation relative to the recent acts of outrage, and entreated their forbearance against any act of retaliation being com- mitted by any. I continued in offering a few further remarks and proposed to close the duties of the day by giving three cheers for the Queen and Governor, which was with enthusiasm responded to. “ I have it upon paper that the strength of the regiment was nearly one thousand men——very few guns——and the two companies alluded to were far the strongest. A troop of dragoons, consisting of upwards of fifty, added much to our appearance. “The utmost good order prevailed during my presence and at * 5 o’clock I left the grounds and every person had gone home.” Colonel Samuel Street’s regiment, the 3rd Lincoln, was inspected at Chippawa, where it turned out in nearly equal strength. The refugees on the American side, however, were still active .and undismayed by the preparations for repelling them.
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