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THE WARDS
In 1797, 14 years after the American War of Independence, my
mother's great great grandparents, John Ward and Rachel Henderson left
Washington Co. New York and settled first inCramahe Township, just west
of the May of Quints. The 1926 family tree states that Rachel's brother
Rufus Henderson was
with chem but they obviously dropped him off at
Prescott where his wife's family had settled. It would seem however.
that her brother, James Henderson Jr., and maybe even her father, James
Henderson Sr., were with them. The only proof I have is that James Sr.
isn't buried with his wife in Salem New York, and we know that James Jr.
migrated to Canada somewhere. Also there were two James Hendersons with
John Ward in the Cramahe assessment lists. If my guess is Correct,James
Sr. died about the time that John Ward sold his lot and moved to
Pickering.
As to why he chase Pickering, I dare to speculate further. There
already was
a0Charles Ward who may have been a relative living in the
township (Be gave his address as Pickering when he leased Lot 5 in
Cons. 1 in 1802.) 'Sgt. John Ward who fought with Justus Sherward in The
Queen's Loyal Rangers had a son Charles who first settled in Prescott.
LE T1'ER TO THE LANG COMryISS IONERS FC44 JOHN WARD OF CRAMAHE March 9
1811
That your petitioner joined the British standard in the year
1777 and has been in the Provence of Upper Canada with his
family for about 14 years as the annexed certificate will
most amply demonstrate.
Therefore your Excellency will be pleased to take his loyalty
intonsiderotio nam
and order his a to be installed upon the
UE list that his poor family may equal enrolments of people
of his description and duty bound w111 ever pray............
(some words unreadable)
Letter referred to Executive council
Recta in council
Has received lana whim he sola - Not recommended.
The Wards only stayed in Pickering a short time before moving on to
Lake St. Clair, and finally to the Sarnia area where John Ward died
in 1822, but it was long enough for John's oldest enme
. Jas Henderson
Ward, to meet and marry 15 year ala Sarah Runge z who is "famous" in the
family for giving birth to 4 pairs of twine among her 16 children, all
of which grew to adulthood and married to produce children of their own.
* Sgt. John Ward was too old to be our John Ward and too young to be
his father.
A Chas ward and James Munger owned land at Salem, Charles Sold in 1856.
67 cana.6 Pi wl.e.i,.s
also constructed the bridges at Harmony and Oshawa. But this must have
been after the War of 1812-14. There really wasn't anything that
could have been called a road before that. Most of the traffic moved
to and fro in boats close to the Lakeshore.
THE WAR OF 1812-14
The people of Pickering and Whitby no doubt saw plenty of British
soldiers and naval transport during the war
s the army moved back and
forth between Niagara, York and Kingston, but not much in the way Of
military action. The only recorded engagement with the Americans took
place east of Oshawa Harbour when a brigade of boats carrying military
supplies to York, was attacked by one American gunboat. The supply
boats pulled into shore and same
of the settlers in the area joined
the soldiers guarding the boats in fighting off the Americana who
attempted to land their small boats under cover of canonfire. The
Americans finally gave up and left.
But the trail between York and Kingston soon developed into a
cad with all the military traffic using it, and all the despatches
being sent back and forth, especially in May of 1813 when the Americans
captured York and the British garrison escaped and retreated overland
to Kingston. The few tavern keepers on the route did a thriving
business. But tMt'n about the time that Samuel Munger probably went
out of the tavern business. Ruth gave birth to her youngest child in
November of 1812 and died lees than three months later. His two
teenage daughters must have had their hands full looking after their
eight younger brothers and sisters. The Hungers' neighbour, Noadiah
Woodruff, kept a tavern during the war and one of the MOOdruffs was
used as a despatch carrier.
Samuel, with a young family to raise, remarried in 1817 and his
new wife, Lydia, was the widow of William Groat. But Lydia dl d not INN
long after the marriage and Samuel himself died on Sept. 13, 1826
leaving a third wife, Elisabeth.
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b. co 1630 Eng. Jane 1,
d. Oct 16, 1668 E. Fsrlsh 1654 J. Jan.31, 1689
Gudford,Conn. m.1nd Bennis Crampton
became a ;reeman 1652.
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b. Feb.1118o6
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d. Oct. 28, 1856
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b. Feb.1118o6
DuFFink Creek
d. Oct. 28, 1856
Waterloo, Iowa
on. 0ec.11,1730
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b.July �,18D9 b. Nov.2�1812
THE HUNGERS
Nana's Munger ancestors Can be traced all the Way back to Nicholas
Munger who arrived in North America probably in the 16405, although oral
tradition would have him part of the original group of Connecticutt
Puritans who founded Guilford in 1639. There is no evidence that he
was ever on their ship.
The writer of the Munger Book thinks that Nicholas arrived in
Guilford a few years later as a 16 year old with his mother, Frances,
who had married Henry Gallon. Henry left Nicholas some land in his will.
Nicholas had previously been working that land on the Neck River, East
Guilford know Madison) from about 1651. He took the Oath of Fidelity
to the Congregational Church and became a Freeman in 1652 and shortly
afterward he was ordered before the court, along with another young
man and six young women, charged with 'night meetings, unnecessary
ary
familiarity, and unfit company keeping'. They were pronounced guilty
and ordered to make 'a public acknowledgement of their evils'. Obviously
he wasa typical teenager.
Nicholas settled down in 1659 when he married Sarah Hall and became
the father of two sons, but life was not kind to him. He was dead less
than ten years later, having suffered for some time with swellings that
burst into running sores. The doctor was at a loss as to how to cur
him. If one sore healed, he got another. Apparently the Indians tried
their cures too without success.
Nicholas' two sons continued at East Guilford and Samuel (Nana's
ancestor) built a Congregational Church on his property when there was
sufficient population to warrant a second one.
Samuel's son Joseph married twice. His first wife, Sarah Ingham,
died leaving a small son named Samuel after his grandfather. This
Samuel left here early, probably didn't feel as though he was part of
his father's large second family, and married a widow, Sarah Bennis
Ackerly, on Long Is. N.Y. when he was just 17 years old. And that is
where Nana's third great grandfather, Jahn Munger, was born.
John's brother Benj amen se s to have got the family property on
Long Is. and John moved to Goshen in Orange Co. NY where Samuel was
probably born. Both men spent a lot of time in the county militias both
before and during the War of Independence. While Benjamin was off
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THC Mt1NGERS
Sarah was the second daughter of Samuel Mabee i and his wife,
Ruth Ray. When she was four months old the Hungers left New York
(Samuel's father had flied at Fishkill about two years earlier and
arrived in Upper Canada on Feb. 16, 1799. They stopped in Hamilton
Township west of Cremate at Cobourg, and petitioned for land, but
apparently Samuel was turned down because they arrived in Pickering
Township in November of that year and Samuel was petitioning for the
Clergy Reserve at lot 16 Conc. 2 at puffin's Creek. Thomas Ray was
with them. Thomas' brother, God, stayed in Hamilton Twp. until
1808 when he came t0 Pickering and petitioned to lease a Reserve lot
on the lakeshore.
It is thought that Samuel and Ruth were proprietors of a tavern
in those days. This makes good sense because there were a lot of
people travelling back and forth between Kingston and York looking
for land and there weren't that many places along the lake where they
could stop and spend the night. puffin's Creek was navigable right
up to their doorstep at that point in time. Also,the first township
meeting for the combined townships of Whitby and Pickering was held
in 1803 lone source says 1801) at Samuel Munger's place, and those
early meetings were nearly always held in taverns, they being the
only buildings large enough to shelter a crowd. Ruth probably served
a lot Of fish at the tavern because they could catch salmon in Baffin's
Creek by the bucketful. It was originally called to Riviera Sharon.
And of course there was bear meat.
HEROIC ACTION OF AN UPPER CANADA WOMAN - York Gazette
Sat., Aug. 10, 1805
Mrs Munger of muffin's Creek, in the Township of Pitcairn
23 miles from York, hearing her nelghbOUr, Mrs. Woodruff,
hollow out for help, immediately took down her husband's
gun and ran to her assistance. When she arrived she was
informed that a very large bear had taken off a sow into
the bush; his route being shown to her, this heroine
immediately pursued, and found the destroyer in the act of
devouring the sow, upon which she rested her gun on a stump
and shot Bruin through the head; on weighing the bear it
proved the largest that had been killed in that township.
The salmon disappeared from Baffin's Creek after the Quaker,
Timothy Rogers, built dams for his grist and sawmills and the first
bridge over the creek is said to have been built by the Demarays who
fighting, the British overran the farm taking whatever wag useful, and
when he came home he sold out and moved his family to DutchesB Co.
John also moved to Dutcbesa CO. and eventually settled at Fishkill
where hews living when he died in 1797. His son Samuel married Ruth
Ray in 1795 and was chopping trees and building a tavern at Ouffin's
Creek on the north shore of Lake Ontario five years later.
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