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Kirkpatrick, Joseph
K001 · Person · 1805-1863

Joseph Kirkpatrick was born 1 March 1805 in Scotland. He married Elizabeth (Breighton?) and together they had nine children: Andrew, Robert, Andrew, John, Isabella, Margaret, Janet, Mary, and David. He is the brother of Janet Kirkpatrick Douglas. Joseph died in 1863.

Mellor, Margaret Ruth
M001 · Person · b. 1940

Margaret Ruth Mellor, known as Ruth, was born on 31 December 1940 in Montreal. She was the daughter of Cedric Douglas and Margaret Ruth (Cushing) Mellor.

May, John
M004 · Person · 1882-1971

The son of Darius May and Emma Stevens, John May was born 9 February 1882 in Baldwin's Mills. He married Edith Ward 31 December 1907. They had four children together: Irene, Ella, Ward and David. After Edith's death in 1940, John married Minnie Dresser, a widow, 23 May 1942. John inherited the May farm after his father's death in 1913 and rented it for a short time. In 1931, his daughter, Irene, and her husband, Gordon Drew, moved onto the farm. It was sold from the family from 1934 until 1948, when Elvyn Baldwin purchased the farm.

John died 18 February 1971 in Coaticook.
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Baker, A.H.
B003 · Person · 19th cent.

A.H. Baker, affectionatelly referred to as "Aunt Abbie", was the aunt of Malcolm Clapp Baker.

Willard, Samuel, 1783-1899

Samuel Willard, son of Major Joshua Willard, was born at Petersham, Mass., on December 1, 1766. He was the fourth child in a family of ten, the other children were: Abel, born in 1758; Nahaim, 1760; Lucretia, 1761; George, 1768; Elizabeth, 1769; Sophia, 1771; Lucy, 1772; Alexander, 1774; and Sally, 1776.
Samuel Willard married Lucinda Knowlton, daughter of the Hon. Luke Knowlton, of Newfane, Vt., on February 24, 1791, by whom he had two daughters. He was first a general merchant in Newfane, Vt., later moving to Sheldon, Vt. In 1800 he took up his grant in the Township of Stukely, L. C.
His wife died the same year and in 1802 he married Miss Elizabeth Patterson, of Quebec, by whom he had two sons and five daughters. Although he owned several thousand acres in the Townships of Stukely and Orford and was engaged mainly in farming and general merchandising, he was also a Justice of the Peace and a captain in the Militia. Willard was interested in the building of roads, especially to Montreal, to extend the market for local produce. His other main activities were the organizing of schools and the promotion of religious services for the community. He died at Stukely on October 29th, 1833.
His son Abijah, whose name appears throughout these papers, carried on the business after Samuel Willard's death.

Whitwell, Richard, 1878-1864

Rev. Richard Whitwell was born at Huxley, England, in 1787, and was brought to Canada by Rev. James Stewart as missionary worker, arriving at Quebec on Sept. 15, 1821. He was first appointed to the new mission at Shefford, where he remained until 1826 when he removed to St. Armand West (Philipsburg), continuing in charge there until 1855, when increasing infirmities obliged him to resign. He married Mary, daughter of Gen. Roswell Olcott, formerly of New Hampshire, who became one of the pioneer settlers in the Township of Brome. He died in 1864 in the 78th year of his age.

Knowlton Family

Several members of this family were early settlers in the Township of Brome, coming from Newfane in the State of Vermont. The first was Silas. Knowlton, who moved to Crown land in the Township of Stukely in 1796, some years before the Patent for this Township was issued. He was the son of Hon. Luke Knowlton and his wife Sarah Holland, of Newfane, Vt. Silas Knowlton married Sally Holbrook, by whom he had four children: Paul Holland, Luke, Samuel and Samantha.

When he settled on his land, conditions were very primitive, with no schools, so the eldest son, Paul Holland, returned to the home of his grandfather at Newfane, where he remained for some years acquiring an education and the homespun philosophy of the Green Mountain State. He remained there until he was twenty years of age when he married Laura Moss, a school teacher from Bridport, Vt., and in 1815 he returned to Canada. He purchased property on the shore of Brome Lake, now known as the village of Knowlton, named after this family.

Paul Holland Knowlton acquired extensive holdings in the County of Brome. He was a leader in local progress in the matter of church and school, and the founder and first President of the Agricultural Society. In 1827 he was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly, later being appointed to the Legislative Council where he served until his death, August 28, 1863. His widow, Laura, died April 12, 1868.