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of Sally Webster (daughter of Asa & Sally)
and John Smith

 

1802 Aug 31 Sally is born. Her family was living on the east half of lot 4 on the first concession of Elizabethtown Township at this time.
1806 Sally, age 3, moves with her family to lot 35 on the fifth concession of Augusta Township.
1814 Oct 14 Sally, along with seven of her brothers and sisters, is baptized by William Smart, Minister of the Presbyterian Congregation, Brockville.
1821 Sally leaves home about this time, probably to work.
1826 Sally marries John Smith.
1827 Sally and John lived in the log house on lot 35.
1827 Dec 23 Their daughter Loretta is born.
1831 By this time, Sally and John have moved to the Front of Leeds and Lansdowne Townships in Leeds County. The extra adult female in the house with them, according to the census taken this year, might have been Sally’s sister Almira.
1831 Oct 14 Their son Egerton Ryerson is born.
1832 About this time, Loretta dies.
1833 Dec 31 Their son George Washington is born.
1836 May 1 Their daughter Adeline A. is born.
1839 Aug 26 Their son Nelson V. is born.
1839 Dec 7 Asa makes a will: "The Lot left to Sally Webster his wife for her life or while she remains unmarried after which share and share alike to his sons Parker and Phineas and five daughters Polly, Betsy, Almira, Phoebe, and Anna, reserving S 1/2 of W 1/2 to Sally wife of John Smith, to her and her eldest son for ever…." Sally Smith's eldest son, Egerton Ryerson Smith, was named for Egerton Ryerson, who was the editor of the Christian Guardian, a Methodist newspaper. His name would have had some significance for Asa, who was a Methodist, and this may be the reason for this bequest.
1841 Jan 24 Their daughter Almeda Ann is born.
1841 About this time, Sally and John leave Front of Leeds and Lansdowne Townships. They may have moved to St. Lawrence County, NY, as the marriage record of their daughter Eliza states that she was born there.
1843 Aug 23 Their daughter Eliza Jane is born.
1845 Sally and John Smith return to Lot 35 in Augusta to live on the southwest quarter left to Sally under the terms of Asa's will. They live in a log house which may be the house in which Asa and Sally lived from 1806 until 1825 when the frame house was built.
1848 Oct 29 Their daughter Henriette Lodicia is born.
1852 Jan The first full census is taken in Canada West, with all individuals in each household listed by name. Sally and John Smith appear in Augusta Township, Grenville County, with their children, Egerton, George, Adeline, Almeda, Eliza and Henrietta. Nelson had died sometime before this census was taken.
Before 1854 Oct 16 Egerton marries. His wife’s name is Janet Anne.
1854 Oct 16 Egerton and his wife sell their interest in the southwest quarter of Lot 35 to his brother George W. Smith, subject to the life estate of their mother, Sally Smith.
1855 Oct 15 Adeline dies and is buried in Carpenter Cemetery.
1856 About this time, George marries. His wife’s name is Matilda.
1858 George and Matilda move to New York, probably to Ogdensburg.
1861 Mar 7 Egerton dies and is buried in Carpenter Cemetery.
1868 Oct 29 Eliza marries John Purdy in Kingston, Ontario.
1868 Nov 23 Henrietta marries Solomon Tanney in Morristown, New York.
1874 Feb 16 George W. Smith Of Ogdensburg, New York leaves his rights to the southwest quarter of Lot 35 to his sister, Henrietta Tanney, in his will.
1875 Jan 15 Sally Smith dies and is buried in Carpenter Cemetery.
1881 Jan 11 John Smith dies and is probably buried next to Sally in Carpenter Cemetery, but there is no stone for him.
1881 Dec 8 Henrietta and Solomon Tanney sell two of their 50 acres to Henrietta's sister, Almeda Ann Murry.
1892 Jul 8 Henrietta and Solomon Tanney mortgage their remaining 48 acres of Lot 35 to Daniel Carpenter for $300. This mortgage is never paid off.
1892 Sep 3 Henrietta dies and is buried in Carpenter Cemetery.
1906 May 6 Solomon Tanney dies and is buried in Carpenter Cemetery.
1906 May 17 Eleven days after the death of Solomon Tanney, Daniel Carpenter takes over the 48 acres of Lot 35 because of the unpaid mortgage.
1906 Aug 21 Almeda Ann Smith (formerly Murry) sells her two acres of Lot 35 to Read Carpenter. With this transaction the last of the 200 acres of Lot 35, bought by Asa and Sally in 1806, passes out of the hands of family members.
 

 

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