Please unsubcribe. ----- Original Message ----- From: <judithmichels@AOL.com> To: <QUICK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:33 AM Subject: [QUICK] Re: MY FAMILY BOOK > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Joseph Quick son of John alexander/ aka Black Squrrell" > Classification: Biography > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TBCBAIB/930.1 > > Message Board Post: > > The first of the family that came to North America, was John Alexander, who was undoubtely the head of one large family, he was a native of Cornwall England, although family tradition states that he was of Scottish nationality, He and his wife Mary, settled in the state of Kentucky, which is near Cincinatti Ohio, now. and being a Loyalist to England, He would not take up arms aganist the Monarchy.He therefore Packed up his family and moved to CanadaHe was granted for his loyalityat least two hundred acres of land in S. Colchester Ontario, off the Old Gore Rd., also called Pot Lake Rd., there were only, one to two other familes in this area at the time of his settling there. The Native Indians at that time were very troublesome at this time, so the families together, set up protection of their log cabins by erecting a stockade of logs set endwise in the ground around their properties. Three daughter and one Son were carried off by the Indians,two of the Daughter, Polly an! > d Elizabeth, were ransomed for $5.00 dollars and a Horse, his son Joseph, was held captive for 13 years, and was raised in the village, as a Indian child, It is beleived that he was in the village of John Brant, he escaped by sneaking off, while hunting, with another boy, and walking from Ohio valley to the now site of (Trenton Mi.} swimming over to Groose Isle, then to Beau De Bloc later called (Bob Lo Islen, then to Fort Malden , where in Col. Elloit of Amersberg, released him to his Mother and father, who identified him by a scar on his shoulder, and a croocked toe, Joseph remembered that his Mother had a large mole on her face, and she did. John Alexander did not live long after this and his son Joseph, continued with the clearing of the homestead landgrant, On Lot 8, Old gore Rd. Joseph married Susanna Munger of Gosfield South, originally of the Munger family of Old VirginiaJoseph, Quick died of Typhoid fever August 28th, 1845, at the age of 72 yrs he had 12 children a! > nd all were living at the time of his death, his wife Susanna died Jan, 16, 1849. Joseph was also known and named "Black Squrrell" by his Indian family, he was very Spiritual and held all his life to the Indian beleifs of the Great Spirit, he also followed a lot of their traditions such as makinfg his own children walk in the snow barefoot, in order to toughfen their body and spirit. > > > ==== QUICK Mailing List ==== > This Quick List was established primarily for the descendants of Thomas Quick, ca.1743 Bertie Co. NC and the descendants of is probable children/grandchildren :Thomas Quick, Aquilla Quick,Solomon Quick. George Quick, Levi Quick, and Zachariah Quick. All listers are welcome, but major emphasis for our subscribers is the Southern Quick Family. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >