===================================================================== Match: Boles Source: CLENDINEN-L@rootsweb.com From: "Lee Dickson" <lee.dickson@sympatico.ca> Subject: Jonathan Houston Clendennan These little bits are not going to help solve anything in the search for proof of linage or anything, I just thought these two articles, the first an Advertisement, would add a bit of humor to your day. Lee Dickson <lee.dickson@sympatico.ca> Farmer=s Journal & Welland Canal Intelligencer [St. Catharines] May 3 1826, p3, c3 (AO/N-28 r2) A50 Village Lots FOR SALE. The subscriber, having surveyed out his premises in the flourishing village of St. Catharines, (On the Welland canal, about 3 miles from its entrance into Lake Ontario, and on the main ridge-road from the head of the Lake to Queenston and Niagara,) into convenient BUILDING LOTS, of from one-fourth to one-half of an acre each, now offers them for sale, to actual settlers, on the following terms, viz: -The purchaser to pay one-fourth of the purchase-money down, and the remainder at the expiration of 2 years, with lawful interest. Most of these Lots are very handsomely situated on the main streets in said village, and are surpassed by none in the place, for health, convenience, and eligibility for every kind of Mercantile, Mechanical, or Publick Business. J.H. CLENDENNAN. St. Catharines, May 3, 1826. 13tf" St. Catharines Evening Journal, Apr 3 1867, p1, c1 (AO/N-77 r20) ALOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS. LINCOLN SPRING ASSIZES. SECOND DAY. April 2d, 1867. Court opened this morning at 9:30 o'clock. Durham et. al. vs. Newcombe - Ejectment. This action excited considerable attention, from the fact that very many of the titles to property in town might be affected by the result. The facts of the case appeared to be that in 1832 the late Jonathan Huston Clendennan conveyed a block of land on Yate Street, and extending back to Cherry Street, to Mr. Rufus Wright, who retained possession of it until the marriage of his daughter to the late Henry Burgoyne, in 1853, when he conveyed the south-westerly half of the lot to her. The deed from Clendennan to Wright is very faulty in the description, and so is that from the latter to his daughter. The two witnesses to the first deed, Mr. Gershom Wright and Mr. Smith, are dead, and the only evidence as to the intention of Mr. Clendennan was to be obtained from collateral testimony. Mr. H. J. Mittleberger represented Mr. Clendennan as having been a very careful man of business, and stated that he (Mr. M.) was the oldest inhabitant, having come to St. Catharines in 1827. - The next witness, Mr. Boles, stated the same in reference to Mr. Clendennan's business habits, and claimed to have come to this town in 1823. The next witness, Mr. Henry Mittleberger, showed that he was the "oldest inhabitant," for he came here in 1822, and said that Mr. Clendennan was a very careful man, marking the boundaries of his land every two or three days with stones, bottles, oyster shells, &c., a statement which was received with some merriment. Verdict, by consent, for plaintiff, with one shilling damages, with leave for the defendant to move to set the verdict aside and have one entered for him. The Court to draw inferences from the facts which are undisputed." =========================