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    1. [GREEN-L] Re: History of the Settlement of Upper Canada
    2. Hi Stan: I am also sending this reply to your question as to who was the Mr. Green at Forty Mile Creek to the mailing list in case anyone else is interested. According to a book researched and published by my Uncle, Dr. Watson Kirkconnell in 1976, this is what he had to say: John Green, with his wife Mary (Davis) Green, had four sons (aged 17, 15,12,and 10) to accompany them on their1787 expedition to a new home; and twin daughters were born in 1793. The family settled at "The Forty", (Forty Mile Creek, or the Modern Grimsby, on the Lake Ontario shore 40 miles west of Niagara). John Green, like his father, was a surveyor and a road builder. He also built a saw mill on Forty Mile Creek in 1788 and a grist mill in 1789. With his own sawn timber ready available, he built himself a handsome clapboarded house, at which the Greens frequently entertained Governor John Graves Simcoe and his lady, for the families were intimate and John Green regularly accompanied the Govenor on his journeys. Mary Green was licensed to "practice medecine and surgery" and she figures in Mrs. Simcoes diary as prescribing for a ailing Simcoe child. About 1801, John Green bought land in West Flamborough Township, east of Burlington, and he appears to have moved there, giving the family name to the village of Greenville. John's brother, Adam, settled at Stoney Creek, where he first bought 100 acres on the creek and two years later was confirmed in a grant of 300 acres in Saltfleet Township as a loyalist refugee. He and his wife, Martha, had 10 children, seven being born before the trek to Canada. Rebecca Green, a sister of Adam and John,became about 1765, the second wife of Francis Glover, of Sussex County, New Jersey. She had 7 children by him and after his death in 1796, she moved to Upper Canada to join her children. John, Adam and Rebecca were the children of Samuel Green and his third wife, Hannah Wright of New Jersey. I also have information of the children of these loyalists. Helen W. Austin, Texas

    10/04/1998 08:36:53