535-03 Page 21(arty London District Justice — — Populat►on of Beachville
' k t rl Listed in 1862 Gazette, f
'Slaves Sketch Outlasts ,
Peter Teeple Tombstone d
�� � � ° � 1 � � � Early Buildings Located
P:.� Ci By a,family back .from Delaware and ,-vJ );
'f �1 SutherlananM, d'sGazetto Gazette for for 1862 lists went into the lime business. His
s. Gone From _ Oxford Plot �,` O 3 the male population of Beachville kilns may be located on the river 11
\ �� as follows: goad. In 1898 he bought the store
,,a��,f 1 bpi t @ ��jj Six :general store keepers, four from J.'Thorndyke, and three years
By Charles S. Bu Ggjt+'"" �4r� 1 ; j o ad ,� hotel keepers, one clock - maker, later the store owned by Elijah/slue of
mend or '.two shingle makers, one stove Nelles across the road. The third,8,Ponay
Peter Teeple was one of the first Justices of the London District i �1 or Notc�merchant, two wagon makers, one generation Hacker is now 'partnertban
vnho used to hold their sessions at Charlotteville,i now in Norfolk �� ,tinsmith, one Panning mill maker, owner of this business. E. J.ncome
County. For two years, from YSOG to1802, that pioneer settlement, ;one butcher, one baker, four tat !Hacker, .son of John Hacker, 'has
situated near Turkey Point on Lake Erie -not far from Long Point, lots, seven shoe makers, one weav- been serving the Beachville public
was the seat of what little jurisdiction the district'got. The exact o �.,�� y er, one .pedlar, four blacksmiths,i for 54 years. .
j locus of authority where Teeple and his five ,fellow -judges sat was a p ` one wheat merchant, one lime E. J. Hacker baa:an interesting,
"y a dealer, thirteen farmers, thirteen collection of old coins, part of the
combined home and tavern owned by James Munro. Later, a court e ,laborers, three millers, two mill heritage" of a building nearly a
house was erected at Turkey Point d p wrights, one sawyer, two tanners,! century in the store business..
UEL Kin �' - a one vinegar maker, two iron foun
the company traveled by both land i t Foresters $all '�'��
Many of the early settlers around p y v (� \ .� • ders, Pour carpenters, two plaster- f, a
and water. Some men d r o v e li \ \i 1� era, one coffin maker, one mason, Another of Beachvihe's old stoma
Charlotteville were related by -1��
blood and marriage. They and cattle and horses by land and p i one toll keeper, one night porter. is the building which has for 7r
others had charge o[ open boats �'- r on the Great Western Railway, two years been known as the 'Forests,
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'.their fathers had been neighbors t 't3 doctors, one .post master, .one Hall. Only a few rememberitbeing—
loaded with the women, food,
in the states of New Jersey and i p justice of the peace, one clerk, one used as a store. For most of that
New York. They had refused to tools and other pioneer equipage. �I C� p h+ teamster and five gentlemen. time the lower floor has been
tight on the American side in the When they came to Turkey Point, (1. +t General Stom rentod as a dwelling. It is not
it was for the older people, ,Fred- �{ OV �( `gyp' pin Elijah Nelles' general store, .listed know Who built it, but when the
Revolution and had gone to New F: In 1862, was the building now Foresters bought it from Mrs: D,
crick Mabee and his wife, that they qa� v
Brunswick when the war was over. � , � � �. i t\ P � owned by C. Culliford. It was once! Cock, in 1883 it was in need of re -
There, before they moved to Up- first log house was built at the pdr {g$\ l Qp used by Mrs. Burton who made pairs to floor, windows and chim-
per Canada, they had formed a foot of the hill. His family and 'D 3 rugs ney.
compact group settled near Wei relatives tooksquatter rights on'. "` )))) 3l 'Y A new dry goods store, owned The Canadian Order of Foresters
-.? by Warren Henry andoperatedby was :established in 1879 and the
Ierborough, 60 miles up tht St. much of the vacant land nearby. - y i Alexander Hart, was the store now local branch was organized in the
John River. His son-in-law, Peter Teeple, set- ,owned by E. J. Hacker and Son. same year. The original charter,
Ten years before the y tled on Lot 8 of the Broken Front B 1880 Elijah
part left -rI' _,1v Y j h Nelles owned both presented b Court 89,iThames No. in
New Brunswick, Peter Teeple, who near Forestville where the fam-I, i 6l, pYws+�+- D'p''�•"1 ,stores, selling general. goods in the on September 17, Y879, is still in
had been a sergeant in a loyalist rly grew to include 11 children.; �j„-C� 0epaw� iHacker store and using the old possession of the lodge. It' lists
I shop for a paint shop. the charter members ae follows:
cavalry corps, the New Jersey At the age of 38 he was appointed In 1879 J. Johnston had a store, Thomas Taylor, C. R., John Me -
volunteers, had been paid off with magistrate and shortly afterwards ,r, now the residence of Morton.. Todd. Donald, VCR„ John Fairburn, RS,
his troop at Halifax. For a fewihe became one of the founders of �y It was not new then. He bought it James Dickie, FS,'S. Martin, treas.,
the first Baptist church in the; t° from someone else. It had a large William Wallace, William Mid-
years of the revolution he Nadi `'j'�d' ,c V ` store window and veranda across dough, Hugh Cochran, Rod'k Suth-
scouted and foraged from New district. The War of 1812 broker °' ,y ��Y�btS �s' y S�a b'� D.p pL
York to Virginia. Among his ene- up J. Thorndyke, the large family for awhile, as f �, U" 1 the front. Lethis was sold erJohn Downing, Adam
1� 7 S a also general store-- Breemnn er, Dr: J. W. Brown, William
mies on Washington's side were Peter Teeple and two of his sons i` S }{t�h Wd�di1110. r^-,hl fi f keeper. Mr. Johnson, though blind, pore,- Daniel Campbell, F. S.
three older brothers but Teeple served in the Niagara region dui- L�c K:5 / D d `t �'"r- for many years drove the mail to Mabee, MarkMund Samuel Ger- I�f yA.l�eC��e -'
elected to join the opposition when 1 . J Embro. I;
mg the war. On his return to _ �7 A0'f l� ` 061l, r, H. Lillen. lst, Washington
is .se was taken by the rebels., 7tlod� is eon ,w In 1878 John Hacker brought hts�(Sllier, H. Pullen.
Charlotteville he found that Mac I. � L"t:a�nal CSsTs ,d 5. be `%3 _ I, _.
r, he must - have been a
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force of Americ�aid-tntthe fighting � Arthur's
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for he was born only in 1762. Pos- ers had burned his grist mill, along
sibly he was'17 when he walked with many others in the western.
from his home near Trenton, New peninsula of Ontario.
aersey, to a British recruiting of-
ficer in New York where hisTo Ingersoll District
youth and height of six feet four Three of his sons took up land
gained him instant enli
enlistment. m the northern part of the dia-
Took To Sea trict, all near Ingersoll. Shortly I
At 21, Teeple, mustered out of after the war the parents moved
.the regiment, -began his career of into Oxford County also. When
United Empire Loyalist., His Peter; was living with his youngest
friends became farmers in the
backwoods of New Brunswick but son Pellum, at Centreville, a refu-
he went sailing and soon he be- gee quadroon slave called at the
came master of a trading vessel house and for some favor given to
which coasted between Saint John him he drew a pen portrait of th
and New York. He married Lydia old man on the fly -lea of a no .
,Mabee, daughter of Frederick Ma- In 1847 the UEL squire died and-
lbee, a Quaker refugee of New was buried in the cemetery of the
,York. The group which led the Baptist church which used to be t
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emigration to Charlotteville were situated about two miles south of '
this man's family and the fami- Centreville ¢fir
lies related to it by marriage. $eacbixUl . Only a row off.
A trip of Peter Secord, an ad- trees marks one corner of the
venturous cousin of Peter Teeple, which is now merely a pasture
unsettled the Mabee community field. The church has. disappeared',
shortly after 1790. With George long ago'and the tombstones also.. crlz
Ramsay, an English fur trader, he When searching .out the grave of G
had made a journey to the Longi Teeple, this writer was informed'
:Point country to trade with thelthat the marble slabs were piled a
Indians. After exploring the re -
up at the edge of the yard for ail; �Z
k�ipn he was sure the western coun-I few years and that later they were 4-
try was better than their New taken away to pave, with inscrip-Ii
Brunswick location and when he'lltions turned down, the, Wallis of a
returned to the east he was able lnei hbormg barnyard. 7Pk Sumab-I.
to convince his relatives that they 9y —Pe Ter eeple's marker,is'a part 1
Ought to move to Upper Canada of the same pavement St`jit has'
So the Mabees and their people happened that a ehanc , wing
Old out in 1792, wintered in Que `on apiece of paper ha red',
sec and came up the river and longer as a memorial to sub
-si`es in 1793. �Rsur}rf ject than the lines cary boot -
Like many of the first settlers'�Peter Teeple on hie heads e.
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