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Contributed Courtesy of Linda Corupe To His
Excellency Lieutenant General the Right Honourable Charles Murray, Earl Cathcart
of Cathcart in the County of Renfrew, K.C.B., Administrator of the Government
of the Province of Canada and Commander of Her Majesty’s Forces in British
North America, etc., etc. The
petition of the members of the United Churches of England and Ireland in the
Parishes of Adolphustown and Fredericksburgh in the Midland District and in
the Diocese of Toronto humbly sheweth That during
the last session of the Provincial Legislature, petitions from the Church
Society of the Diocese of Toronto and from many thousands of the inhabitants
of Upper Canada were presented to His Excellency the Governor General as well
as to the other branches of the Legislature, praying that the United Church
of England and Ireland may have the control and management of a share of the
Clergy Reserves equal in proportion to the share of the proceeds of the
Reserves which is appropriated by law to the support of that church. That these
petitions being referred to a committee of the Legislative Assembly, the
prayer of the petitioners was strongly recommended to the favourable
consideration of the Legislature, but that the session term ended without any
measure being proposed for promoting the object which is so much desired by a
large body of the people. That your petitioners
have since seen with pain a system in operation for disposing of the Clergy
Reserves upon a plan which is leading to the almost total sacrifice of the
provision made by law for the support of religion and transferring in a great
measure into the hands of speculators at little more than a nominal value, a
property which might without injury to any other public interest be made the
means under a careful and judicious management of promoting to an
incalculable degree the religious and moral condition of the people. That your
petitioners are convinced that Your Excellency entertains the fullest
assurance that no human efforts for advancing the welfare and securing the
happiness and peace of the country can be so effectual as those which are
directed to the dissemination of religious truth and the maintaining among
the people a strong but humble sense of their duty and of their obligations
to their fellow men and the readiness with which the Legislature has assisted
the members of the Church of England in their efforts to organize a
charitable society for promoting these objects more effectually inspired us
with the hope that Your Excellency’s attention will in the present session be
favourable given to the object of our prayer. Your
petitioners therefore humbly pray that the report of the committee of the
Legislative Assembly to which we have referred may be favourably considered
by Your Excellency, and that Your Excellency will be pleased to concur in an
address to Her Majesty, praying that the sale of the Clergy Reserves may be
no further proceeded in and that an Act may be passed providing for the
assignment to the United Church of England and Ireland in the Diocese of
Toronto of such share of the Clergy Reserves as will correspond to the share
which the Act of the Imperial Parliament, 3 and 4 Vic, cap. 78, assigns to
her, of the funds to be derived from the sale of the Reserves. And that in
said Act such provision may be made as to Your Excellency may be thought just
for protecting any guaranteed or implied rights of the present occupants of
such lands as might fall to the share of the United Church of England and
Ireland, as well as for preventing any tracts of such lands remaining
unsettled, to the detriment of the Township or neighbourhood in which they
may be situated. And your
petitions as in duty bound will ever pray. Adolphustown and Fredericksburgh, March, 1846 Job Deacon, rector of Adolphustown and Minister in
charge of Fredericksburgh Peter V. Dorland and Matthew Ruttan, Church Wardens
for Adolphustown John Davy and D.M.Kinzie,
Church Wardens for Adolphustown Note:
Although every effort has been made to correctly transcribe the names, there
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Richard Lowe William Lowe Robert Leatch William Bowman Francis Deprey James Canniff John Outwater Thomas Briggs William Briggs Joseph Trumpour Paul Trumpour John Trumpour James C. Trumpour Thos. D. Trumpour John Rutter Robert Way Parker Allen John J. Watson Archibald Hover Jacob Hover Henry Brookes Robert Pearson Andrew J. Carnes Andrew Gerow Isaac Gerow Deacon Hoover Wm. M. Roblin Jonathan Allen John Allen John Antenow [?] William Newbery Alednego Norman William Robson Robert McCutcheon John McCutcheon Elick McCutcheon William Cadman John M. Dafoe James Dafoe Daniel Dafoe P.V. Dafoe Zenas H. Dafoe Michael Dafoe Sr. William Shewman James Chamberlain Peter Loyst Philip Garrison John Doran Luke Carscallen
Jr. William Vandewater Charles Forster John Dafoe James C. Dafoe Martin Shewman Daniel Lloyd John J. Bowerman Thomas Chambers Charles Chambers Henry Howe [?] John Paterson George Lucas Jr. James Douglass Henry Morgan Joseph Douglass Leonard Pierson Thomas Herns Augustus N. Hermance Andrew Kimerley Joseph Outwater George Bowers Andrew Wilde John Loyst Richard Bedford Valentine Joist James E.M. Spencer
William R. Miller Thomas Smyth Samuel [?] Smyth John R. Dafoe James Fitchett John Fitchett James Vandewater Jacob Ruttan Martin Hough David R. Bradshaw James Bradshaw Giles Membery John Drake Anthony Denike Noxon [?] Williams Samuel Hawley Samuel Moril [?] John Ruttan Mathew Ruttan Weston Wright |
William Anderson Jacob Schriver Hugh Filson Ebenezer Green Edward Howard James Royle William Church Peter D. Graham Abram McGraham Joel Ingersoll George Harwood Sr.
George Harwood Jr. Wm. Haywood Elisha Sills James Loyse George Bristow Henry Ginery Thomas Bignell Daniel Burk George Brough Thomas Neilson Nicholas W. Murdoff Wm. Berton George M. Davy John W. Davy Peter R. Davy Nelson R. Davy Wm. Brough John Bell Daniel Carr J.W. Bell Joseph Wiseman Robert C.
McMichael Samuel Wiseman Chester Hoskins James Hough Alexander Hoskins James Young Richard Young Robert Young A. Bailey William Granery Ira Pringle John B. Lewis John Huffman Andrew Embry Jacob Dempsey [?] A.B. McCoy Levy Person John W. Ferguson John Bush William Wager Henry Loyst Seth Wheeler Samuel Lucas John Loucks John B. [?] Hazard Joseph McQuain Jacob Bowen Miles Lucas Peter Parks James Frink John G. Shaw Paul T. Dorland Isaac Carscallen Henry Baker Jr. Robert Clark Henry Baker Sr. Edward B.
Carscallen Thomas B.
Carscallen Lancelot Armstrong
Michael Nicholeson Jonathan C.
Jackson John Jackson O.T. Pruyn William H. Tumulty [?] William Bush James Bush Tomis Prince John Simpson Richard N. Ratten Charles S. Rattan Samuel Johnson James Hart Russel Hart James Hart Jr. George Rutter John [?] Perry [?] Jacob Huffnail Gilbert Griffis William Griffis Sr. David Rattan William Rattan |
