040;;rather of Laura•..'SeLord
Founded Ingersoll, 17 93,'
baying' 12 Gents An Acre'
' Lost Grant Become Uiscour-
..lIngersoll in New York, and
ion, niet
.
and
'
Itcant offered to guide Ingersoll to
aged, But Soon Restored Home
desnnble land. on River La Trench
' Za4l Established 'Town—Ca-
(the Thames),
mckian Heroine's Name Linked
;.Tt True kv W'i+ promise, Brand sent six
of his best Young men to she, fugerson
�
7
With Oxford Colony,
the mores. was made/to
-
. then
late Government. then : held at Nevrark
'.
(Niagara Falls), and an order-in-courrell
Two famous names or. interwoven
was passed, on March 28,with
(be (be history of Ingersoll.
Ing Ingersoll and his associates.. faro-
They are those o; "homes. Ingersoll
ship oilthe old Indian trail from- An -
T
and Laura Ingersoll yegord'
caster'to Detroit. The place selected
-� --'
�I,
was the summer camping.. ground of
'
Thomas Ingersoll was the father of
the Indlans for many years. Work was
!
Laura Sell and had Ire not resolved
commenced at once by rsidi
l,felling
_
for'
,
to move,frmn Massachusetts to 'Canada
er,
and hl'e colony, ➢Iu. Ingersoll .felling
ap .
at the urging of 'Chief Joseph Btayt,
-'
to his own hands an elm. tree forthe
,the whole history of Unloads, might have
log house that was to be his future
�Ip'
;
.been changed.
Home.„p
➢L'"h<`'<'Ag,
Thomas Ingersoll was a member of
--'
Gayfer's drug store now star IS on
bVt'-
the same Ingersoll family which pro-
site of the, early Ingersoll home, on-
}
'afile
hicml such men as the famous be -
T:hamea street'
t,ryy lut,ereoll, and tile Creator of the Ingot-
s
soil watch.. The family developed at
LAND AT,12 CENTS. AN ACRE.
r
�- !
<psga
neat Barrington. ➢ It, ss. It was after
'
The conditions of the grant to tiger -''I
i
the Revolutionary War that Thomas
sell were that theme' were to b'e 4U
!
Ingersoll, feeling the • heavy economic
to have 200 acres or more
lire=sure of disjointed times, sought new
'rttc,S .each
upon the paymenti-of sixpgr
,
per acre,;. The balance oIDEDBY
BRANT'S MEN. -
acres was to be held in trust
1q'i"he
forests and rivers of Canada
soli fo the benefit of himself and a-
ere glowingly depicted by Chief Brant,
'Conthmed on Page 21)
Free Press Wondstq
CHAIRMAN - - -
Mr. R. G. Start, K.C.
INVOCATION
- Rev. Geo.
W. Murdoch,
B.A.
SPEAKER
Mr.
K. R. Daniel,
M.P.
SEALING DOCUMENTS
IN THE STONE Mr. A. R. Horton
I.A VTN!'_ f1,0T?M i..RCTn MF. _ Me R W Vreen
rrvu�mw..---
additkno to Ingerso'
a.=e, w..o raw. secure title by pay,W7`i
g same price - :
,NAMED
FOR FA'T;IAX y, 1—
dra, Hospital was
Arrange nts had been male to
4The,Town of M91 llil was same,
$135,000 contributi'
bring In l Ono settlers front New York
C<aif1sin memory of hls,father
ford County council
state, when representations were utade
There la no record of Lttura Ingersoll -
Norman L.'Me[[
to the hone -Government that such
spw having lived in Ingersoll with
man. oI—Eiie Ilger:
settlers ivoula be injurious to the coup
nor father: but she came to Canada,
SPEAKER
board, contacted I
try.. The order was rescinded and In
with the family from Great Barrington,,
working drawings`, l
gersoli's grant cancelled. Between 80
ad
destmod'to play a heroine's part in the i
ditlon still have to
and families had already settled.
Col- T la tiot suffeled°the same treatment,,
roua sce of Canadian forces :from dlssterl
Beaver Dam to turn the
edand final approt
a man of whose loyalty there 'could be
at acidtide!
of victory toward the side. of the coon -I
from the Ontari
no question. Col. Talbot'. hands' were
try her father had elected to settle in.
services Commissi
after, restored and headvised 7ngerso11
I
some people say Laura Record was
-He said the boat
to go to Nngland; but the, latter had
never in Ingersoll. .Others SAintain'
SPEAKER
call tenders later neither.'the time. the money nor the - ahe'came with her father In 1793. Ip: I'
and start Comitem friends to, aid. Discouraged, ha deft the LEI a.ny. event the Coming of her father was:
Spring. settlement in 1806, removing to N_tobl. one of,those happenings which play In'
Ingersoll council council history as though moved by the hand. ,
to contribute $165,t Mr. Ing et.oil wag a justice of the ' of Destiny. "I
County co, m, peace. while in .Oxford and performed It Is said that the founder of the
the marriage ceremony. His last famous Ingersoll watch carte to Ingot{
pay its share over home was on the River Credit, where he i 'sr'I A few years ago '1d an error,. 'o.
starting in 1968. died In ling, leaving a large'. family, I 'sp *.. ae'rye homestead.
ell Ingersoll'. hoad. `
<Alexandra Hosp' whose descendants are found through- i— wait a descendant of 'Thomas Ingersoll'
pand from 10,94 out the length and breadth or Canada..
Y� Hie son, Charles, who •erred, as did
This sister, Laura, although by different
r agencies. In the wat• of 1812, returned
( I Ito Ingersoll in 1817: and repurchased
t to
father's Oxford farm at sheriffs _
f sale. James inK¢i'soll was the first
! white child born In Ingersoll. With
T-4 'Charles, he went earn eatlq 'to work.Fo l
First a saw mill, then a, grist pull, a
\ store, a pottery grid a distillery were
ii,bunt; This was the real founding or
1 Ingersoll as a village and Chalets In rli.p, f.YYL�G a.f�. ryaR„✓
'gersoll brought, his family there in 1821. C Nzfn.-n T�
9o�-after he become a' magistrate,
postmaster and commlgsioner. Ile was
t I21ao appointed. lieutenant -colonel, twice
was returlt 1 to Parliament and died in ,a /rQ f"v
V A�.t�an-r.luu •L+`/y/�-� G-�rYeu,Iad r
a d672 of cholera. His eldest eon dir7 a'
same time. i5'// n i
d / IS�i
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