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Descendants of
Ephraim Webster
& Sally Downs
This
is a list of some of the descendants of Ephraim Webster and Sally Downs. Ephraim
was a Customs Agent in Brockville, Canada West (now called Ontario).Ephraim
is buried in the Brockville (Old Protestant) Cemetery, Brockville, Elizabethtown
Township, Leeds County.
There is also a chronology of Ephraim's life.
Notes:
- From the History of Leeds and Grenville, by Thad. W. H. Leavitt, (Recorder Press, Brockville, 1872, reprinted by Mika, Belleville, Ontario 1972), p. 127 there is a chapter which discusses the village of Gananoque. In it, we read: "Among the first settlers of the village was Ephraim Webster, who was afterwards Collector of Customs at Brockville; at one time he carried on a small store in Gananoque."
- From H. Wm. Hawke, in Historic Gananoque (Mika Publishing, 1974), states: "Largely through the efforts of Ephraim Webster, assisted by other townsmen, the Methodists built a church near the corner of Stone and Pine streets, on lots donated by the Hon. John McDonald." The same source says: "Ephraim Webster had a general store on the south side of King Street, near Stone, where he did an extensive trade."
- From H. Wm. Hawke’s Miss McCammon’s Notes on the Early Days of Gananoque (1967), found by John and Pam Thiel in Gananoque: "Mr. Ephraim Webster was Collector of Customs at this time. The following incident is told of the way smuggling was carried on in those days. One afternoon a barrel of beer was landed at the foot of Main St. and was being slowly rolled up the middle of the street when Mr. Webster suddenly appeared, and of course he seized the beer. The barrel was turned up on end, and Mr. Webster went for a team to remove it to a place of safety, shortly after he had gone a man appeared with an axe in his hand, and stove in the head of the barrel. Within a few minutes the barrel was surrounded by men, women and children with pails, tin pans, tea-kettles, in fact everything that could be used to carry off the beer. In due time the Collector returned with a team; but the barrel was empty, and not a person to be seen in any direction."
Ann COURNEYA