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Subject: [UEL] KELLY E-mail-Ethel TOMPKINS Letter-1934-Israel TOMPKINS & Family; TOLL; & KNAPP.
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 03:26:25 EDT
Hello Harold & Listers:
I am forwarding you a copy of an E-mail that I sent to a lady, who took
some pictures of Burritt's Rapids Christ Church & its attached Anglican
Cemetery. I wanted you to see that I have been researching my KELLY-
line in the same area as I have my TOMPKINS-line. My KELLY's
& TOMPKINS are inextricably intertwined. [I am also forwarding the following
information to several mailing lists that I belong to]
I wanted to pass on some more TOMPKINS information to you.
I posted this on the Leeds & Grenville query board on Sunday, April 29,
2001:
Surnames: TOMPKINS, KELLY, BROWN, KNAPP, TOLL
I recently acquired the following, in a letter from Ethel TOMPKINS of 147
Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, dated August 15th, 1934. It is addressed
to the Deputy Minister of Public Records & Archives, Parliament Buildings,
Toronto, Ontario. Ethel TOMPKINS writes:
"Dear Sir:
For purely personal reasons, I am anxious to obtain what information I can
of the persons whose names, with al the data I can gather, I have listed on
the enclosed page. I am not concerned as much about their Loyalist
connection, though that is important, as I am about the regiments they
were attached to, Crown Lands, birth or deaths and where buried.
Yours very truly,
Miss Ethel Tompkins"
Ethel Tompkins attached the following information to this letter:
"Israel and Rebecca (Brown) Tompkins were of English extraction and
natives of New York until after the Revolutionary War when they settled
in Canada, in Lanark County, Ontario, where they were well know as
United Empire Loyalists. Israel Tompkins served in the British Army and
was captured at one time while carrying dispatches.
Obadiah Tompkins son of the above, was born near Prescott, Grenville
County in 1790. He served in the engineering department of the
Government for three years during the War of 1812. He, with his wife
and family, settled in Harwich Township, County of Kent, in or about the
year 1842.
The above information is taken from a book listed in the Chatham Public
Library as 'The Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of
Kent,' Published 1904.
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Philip Toll a British soldier who served in the Revolutionary War of 1776.
William Toll son of the above, who came from the Detroit Headquarters
and settled in Raleigh Township, County of Kent.
I quote the following from "The Kent Historical Society Papers and
Addresses, Vol. 5.
'This year (1817) brought the names of D'Clute, Toll, Lytle, etc. to the
Settlement.'
'In 1840 Wm. Sterling, a resident of the River, entered into the minute
book a census of Talbot Road, with Raleigh, Tilbury, Romeny along this
road included. This census has heads of families both male and female,
boys and girls over and under the age of fifteen years of age, and hired
help. The following is the census......Phillip Toll.....etc.'
'There is no mention here of William Toll, son of Phillip Toll who had
settled in Raleigh after the War of 1812. I do not think the address I
quoted from gave a complete list of the census taken. By family
reckoning it is supposed that Phillip Toll must have been at least 60
years of age at the time of the Talbot Settlement.' "
The following response was sent to Ethel TOMPKINS by the Deputy
Minister of Public Records and Archives Office:
"August 22nd, 1934
Dear Miss Tompkins,
We herewith enclose all the material which Mr. Reid, of this department,
was able to discover regarding the Toll and Tompkins families.
We trust that this material will be of some Value to you.
Yours very truly,
(Intials JJT)
FOR DEPUTY MINISTER.
Miss Ethel Tompkins,
147 Church Street,
Toronto."
The following information was attached to this letter:
"TOMPKINS
Evidence on the claim of Israel Tompkins, late of Saratoga, before the
Commissioners investigating the Loyalist Claims will be found on page
1108, 1904 Report of this Department. A copy may be consulted at the
Archives or at the Toronto Reference Library, College and St. George
Streets.
The lands granted to Israel Tompkins, prior to 1790, were lot 2, concession
9, township of Augusta, which he sold to William Wells on April 4rth., 1816,
and the west half of lot 10, concession 3, in the same township. His wife,
Rebecca, received lot 6, Front concession, township of Escott (now Yonge),
under a land Board Certificate dated April 1st., 1794, as the daughter of an
U.E. Loyalist.
The following has been taken from a "List of Inhabitants of the Townships, of
the Rideau, dated April 20th., 1806:"
township of Wolford
Names/Age
Israel Tompkins 47
George " 21
Obediah " 16
Jesse " 14
Nathan " 11
Samuel " 6
Rebekah (F) " 38
Phebe (F) " 3
The following has been taken from another list dated May 28th., 1817:
township of Wolford
Names/Age
Israel Tompkins 60
Samuel " 17
Phebe (F) " 14
Elisha " 8
Israel Jr. " 6
Nancy (F) " 51
Obadiah " 27
Nancy (F) " 19
township of Marlborough
Names/Age
Jesse Tompkins 25
Sylvia " 22
Minerva (F) " 1
The following were granted 200 acres of land each as children of Israel
Tompkins, an United Empire Loyalist:
George, of the township of Oxford-on-Rideau, under an Order-in-Council
dated February 29th., 1808, located lot 11, concession 8, township of South
Gower. The west half of lot 19, concession 9, township of Belmont, was
located to him as a private in Captain Daniel Burritt's Flank Company,
Second Regiment of Grenville Militia," on actual service in 1812". He died
January 4th. 1813. By Claim No. 255, Report K2, July, 1840, Heir and
Devisee Commission, Adam Henry Meyers and Elijah W. Meyers, of the
township of Murray, were allowed the patent for this half lot as "assignee
of George Tompkins, eldest son and heir at law of George Tompkins,
deceased."
Obadiah, of the township of Oxford-on-Rideau, under an Order-in-Council
dated April 28th, 1812, located the northerly part of lot 19 and the broken
lot 21, concession 6, township of Lansdown. Under an Order-in-Council
dated March 1st., 1832, Nancy, wife of Obadiah Tompkins of the township
of Montague, xxx located lot 20, concession 9, township of Marlborough,
as a daughter Joseph Knapp, of the township of Montague, and United
Empire Loyalist. The north half of Lot 5, concession 9, township of St.
Vincent, was located to him for his services as a private in Captain Daniel
Burritt's Flank Company, Second Regiment of Grenville Militia, "on actual
service in 1812." The patent for this half lot issued in 1839 to James
Story,
of the township of St. Vincent as "assignee of Obadiah Tompkins."
Nathan, of the township of Oxford-on-Rideau, under an Order-in-Council
dated November 5th., 1818, located lot 23, E.S. Communication Road,
township of Harwick. For his services as a private in Captain Daniel
Burritt's Flank Company, Second Regiment of Grenville Militia, between
July 2nd., 1812, and January 2nd., 1813, he received the east half of lot 5,
concession 10, township of Moore.
Elisha, of the township of Wolford, under an Order-in-Council dated
February 21st., 1832, located the north half of lot 11, concession 4,
township of North Gower, and the east half of lot 12, concession 6,
township of Marlborough.
Samuel of the township of Wolford, under an Order-in-Council dated
January 24th., 1833, located the north halves of lots 9 and 10, concession
7, township of Mara. The patent issued to Hugh Cross Young, of the
township of Vaughan, as "assignee of Stanous Daniels, the assignee of
Samuel Tompkins."
Asa, of the township of Augusta. Order-in-Council dated October 28th.,
1835. Unable to discover any location of land.
Jesse, of the township of Oxford-on-Rideau. Order-in-Council dated June
23rd., 1836. Unable to discover any location of land. For his services as a
private in a Flank Company of the Second Regiment of Grenville Militia,
"on actual service in 1812", he received the east half of lot 12, concession
4, township of Marlborough.
August 22nd., 1934. W. D. REID
TOLL
On August 17th, 1820, a petition from a number of inhabitants of the
township of Harwich, among them being Philip Toll, was read before the
Land Committee of the Executive council of Upper Canada praying that
"they have been deprived of the lots on which they were located by
Colonel Talbot and praying relief." the Council ordered grants of 300 acres
"each free of all fees out of one of the townships behind Harwich as a full
remuneration for their improvements and lots in Harwich." The land
located to Philip Toll was lot 11, concession 14, and the east half of lot
12,
concession 13, township of Dawn. A copy of the above-mentioned petition
may be obtained from the Deputy Minister, Public Archives of Canada,
Ottawa, Ont.
Under an Order-in-Council dated January 10th., 1848, Henry Toll, of the
township of Raleigh, received a grant of lot 150, Talbot Road West,
township of Raleigh, as a settler under Colonel Thomas Talbot.
August 22nd., 1934. W. D. REID."
The above citation, in its totality, is from the Ontario Government Record
Series RG 17-21; Archives of Ontario genealogical and biographical
research files.
*NOTE: W. D. Reid, the famous author of "The Loyalists in Ontario; The
Sons and Daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada"
responded to Ethel Tompkins inquiry. Mr. Reid was working at the
Ontario Archives in 1934.
Loren Kelly,
Great Great Great Grandson of Israel TOMPKINS, a United Empire Loyalist;
Great Great Grandson of Nathan TOMPKINS, a Veteran of the War of 1812;
Great Grandson of Rebecca TOMPKINS KELLY (Daughter of Nathan
TOMPKINS); Grandson of Nathan TOMPKINS KELLY (Son of James and
Rebecca TOMPKINS KELLY); son of Luther James KELLY (Son of Nathan
TOMPKINS KELLY) and the first generation of our family born in the United
States.
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