Person Page - 4781

Charles Philip Holton¹

• Father*: Ezra William Holton¹ b. 7 Sep 1810, d. 27 Jun 1879
• Mother*: Lucy Clement¹ b. 11 Nov 1811, d. 8 Jun 1883

• Birth*: 31 August 1849; Belleville, Hastings Co., Canada West; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 5 January 1872; Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Caroline Harriet Bowell¹
• Death*: 5 January 1908; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

Caroline Harriet Bowell¹

• Father*: Sir Mackenzie Bowell¹ b. 27 Dec 1823, d. 10 Dec 1917
• Mother*: Harriet Louisa Moore¹ b. 11 May 1828, d. 2 Apr 1884

• Birth*: 22 May 1850; Belleville, Hastings Co., Canada West; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 5 January 1872; Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Charles Philip Holton¹
• Death*: 1 January 1939; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

• Married Name: 5 January 1872; Holton¹

Sir Mackenzie Bowell¹

• Father*: John Bowell¹ b. 1799, d. a 1881
• Mother*: Elizabeth Ann Marshall¹ b. 29 Mar 1802, d. 5 Oct 1834

• Birth*: 27 December 1823; Rickinghall, Suffolk, England; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1849; Canada West; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Harriet Louisa Moore¹
• Death*: 10 December 1917; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; Death Reg'n.#014727: Name: Sir MacKenzie Bowell; Date: Dec 10 1917; Age: 94y; Res.: Belleville; Born: England; Occ.: Senator; Status: widower; Parents: John Bowell & Elizabeth - ; Cause: pneumonia; Phys.: W.J. Gibson; Inf.: Mrs. McCarthy, Belleville; Reg'd.: Dec 12 1917; Reg'r.: J. Wilfred Holmes, Belleville (Ontario Death Registration, #014727-1917, ancestry.ca) Date Dec 10 1917 & location Belleville per FindaGrave. Date Dec 10 1917 & location Belleville per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^1,2,3
• Burial*: 12 December 1917; Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; FindaGrave: Name: Sir Mackenzie Bowell; BIRTH: 27 Dec 1823, Rickinghall, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England; DEATH: 10 Dec 1917 (aged 93), Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; BURIAL: Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; MEMORIAL ID: 2555; Note: BIO - 5th Prime Minister of Canada. He served in this capacity from December 1894 until April 1896. He was born in Rickinghall, Suffolk, England and in 1832 his family emigrated to Belleville, Ontario, where he apprenticed with the printer at the town newspaper, The Belleville Intelligencer, becoming a successful printer and editor with that newspaper, and later its owner. In 1867 he entered politics, having been elected to the Canadian House of Commons, as a Conservative, for the district of North Hastings, Ontario. He held his seat for the Conservatives when they lost the election of January 1874, in the wake of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Scandal. In 1878 he joined the cabinet as Minister of Customs and in 1882 he was appointed to the Senate, serving until 1917. In 1892 he became Minister of Militia and Defense and in October 1893 he became Leader of the Government in the Senate. When Prime Minister Sir John Sparrow David Thompson died unexpectedly in December 1894 he, as the most senior Cabinet minister, was appointed Prime Minister by the Governor General. As Prime Minister, he faced the troublesome Manitoba Schools Question. In 1890 Manitoba had abolished public funding of its Catholic schools, contrary to the provisions made for Catholics in the Manitoba Act of 1870. He and his predecessors had struggled to solve this problem. The issue had divided the country, the government, and even his own Cabinet. He was further hampered in his handling of the issue by his own indecisiveness on it, and by his inability, as a Senator, to take part in debates in the House of Commons. He backed legislation, already drafted, that would have forced Manitoba to restore its Catholic schools, but then postponed it due to opposition within his Cabinet. With the ordinary business of government at a standstill, his Cabinet decided he was incompetent to lead and so, to force him to step down, seven ministers resigned, then foiled the appointment of successors. Though he denounced them as "a nest of traitors," he had to agree to resign. After ten days, through an intervention on his behalf by the Governor General, the government crisis was resolved and matters seemingly returned to normal when six of the ministers were reinstated, but leadership was effectively held by Charles Tupper, who had joined Cabinet at the same time, filling the seventh place. Tupper, who had been Canadian High Commissioner to England, had been recalled to replace Bowell. He formally resigned in favor of Tupper at the end of the parliamentary session in April 1896. He stayed on in the Senate, serving as his party's leader there until 1906, and afterward as a plain Senator until his death. He died of pneumonia in Belleville at the age of 93, only days short of his 94th birthday. He was Grand Master of the Orange Order of British North America from 1870 to 1878. Bio by: William Bjornstad (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2555/mackenzie-bowell?_gl=1*xp590n*_ga*MTM2OTMxODYxNS4xNjM1ODgwODE4*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY3MjMyMTIwOC4zNTkuMS4xNjcyMzIxNTQ2LjUzLjAuMA..)
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• Note*: 10 March 1916; Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario; "SIR MACK. BOWELL OFFERS TO ENLIST (Mar 10 1916); Nonogenarian and Oldest Parliamentarian Would Join as Lance- Corporal. (Portrait here) Sir MACKENZIE BOWELL. One of the first recruits whom Col. McDougall got for his forestering battalion, which Is being recruited at Ottawa, was Sir Mackenzie Bowell, a former prime minister of Canada, and the oldest parliamentarian. He is far beyond military age, and whether or not his services will be accepted remains to be seen, but Sir Mackenzie has offered to go as a lance-corporal. He is an old soldier and became colonel of the 49th regiment. He served on the frontier during the American war in 1864-5, and during the Fenian troubles in 1866. He is 92 years of age, but is in appearance rather like a man in his sixties." from pg. 036 of Newspaper Clippings, a collection donated by Shawnee Spencer to the Brighton Digital Archives, 2022.⁴

Harriet Louisa Moore¹

• Birth*: 11 May 1828; Stormont Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1849; Canada West; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Sir Mackenzie Bowell¹
• Death*: 2 April 1884; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Burial*: 4 April 1884; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; FindaGrave: Name: Harriet Louisa Moore Bowell; BIRTH: 11 May 1828, Ontario, Canada; DEATH: 2 Apr 1884 (aged 55), Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; BURIAL: Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; PLOT: L-3-6; MEMORIAL ID: 89524534 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89524534/harriet-louisa-bowell)²

• Married Name: circa 1849; Bowell¹

John Bowell¹

• Birth*: 1799; Rickinghall, Suffolk, England; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1822; England; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Elizabeth Ann Marshall¹
• Death*: after 1881; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

Elizabeth Ann Marshall¹

• Birth*: 29 March 1802; Rickinghall, Suffolk, England; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1822; England; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=John Bowell¹
• Death*: 5 October 1834; Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

• Married Name: circa 1822; Bowell¹

Ezra William Holton¹

• Father*: Ezra William Holton¹ b. 26 Mar 1785, d. 12 Aug 1824
• Mother*: Anner Phillips¹ b. c 1790, d. 12 Jul 1858

• Birth*: 7 September 1810; Randolph Center, Orange Co., Vermont, U.S.A.; Date Sep 7 1810 per CemSearch. Date Sep 7 1810 & location Randolph Center, Orange Co., Vermont per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^1,2
• Marriage*: 16 June 1836; Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Lucy Clement¹
• Death*: 27 June 1879; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; Death Reg'n.#004930: E.W. Holton; Date: Jun 27 1879; Age: 69y 7m; Occ.: merchant; Born: Vermont, USA; Cause: renal disease with nervous prostration; Phys. & Inf.: Dr. Higgenbottom; Reg'd.: Jul 10 1879; Rel.: Meth.; Reg'r.: R. Newbury, Belleville (Ontario Death Registration, #004930-1879, ancestry.ca) Date Jun 27 1879 & location Belleville per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^1,3
• Burial*: 29 June 1879; Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; CemSearch: Name: Ezra William Holton; Born: Sep 7 1810; Died: Jun 27 1879; Age: 68y 8m; ID: HASY06O1102; Other names: Holton, A. D. S. (1878-1936), Holton, Albert Douglas (1888-1963), Holton, Bessie [Lockwood] (1888-1918), Holton, Caroline [Bowell] (1851-1939), Holton, Charles M. B. (1878-1965), Holton, Charles P. (1849-1908), Holton, Edna D. [Symington] (1877-1929), Holton, Ezra W. (1872-1941), Holton, G. C. "George" (1875-1937), Holton, George Clement (1842-1878), Holton, George Harold (1885-1957), Holton, K. (1893-1928), Holton, Lucy [Clement] (1811-1883), Holton, M. S. (1848-1917), Holton, Maude M. [Blake] (1887-1972), Holton, Minnie Georgina [Wilson] (1886-1967), Holton, W. S. (1873-1902), Holton, William E. [zra]. (1846-1895), Holton, William Ezra (1846-1895); Cemetery: Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Sec O Row 11 Plot 2; Note: Husband of Lucy Clement, On the Holton stone This plot covers parts of three rows (https://www.cemsearch.ca/burial/?pid=HASY06O1102%5E2)²

• Note*: 1837; Saw Mill, Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; "Flint's Enterprise Steam Saw and Planing Mill was the crown jewel in his commercial empire. Established in 1837, the Flint Steam Saw and Planing Mill was operated by Flint, his brother-in-law Ezra William Holton and local businessman Horace Yeomans. The lumber mill was initially outfitted with "one mulley saw and two small circulars" and it offered "sawn lumber ranging in size from twelve metre long joists to one metre long lathes." In time Flint equipped the mill with over a hundred saws powered by a modern turbine engine imported from Austria-Hungary11 and he boasted "custom sawing and planing done cheaply and timber bills cut to order."" from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 30 & 31.⁴

Lucy Clement^1,2,3

• Father*: Philip Clement² b. 10 Feb 1780, d. 10 Aug 1834
• Mother*: Elizabeth Bancroft² b. 3 Jul 1785, d. 10 Jun 1851

• Birth*: 11 November 1811; Brockville, Leeds Co., Upper Canada; Date 1810 & location Ont. per 1881 Census. Date Nov 11 1811 & location Brockville per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^2,3
• Marriage*: 16 June 1836; Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Ezra William Holton²
• Death*: 8 June 1883; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of Edward Wallbridge on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.²
• Burial*: 10 June 1883; Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; CemSearch: Name: Lucy Holton; Maiden: Clement; Born: Nov 11 1811; Died: Jun 8 1883; Age: 71y 6m; ID: HASY06O1102; Other names: Holton, A. J. S. (1878-1936), Holton, Albert Douglas (1888-1963), Holton, Bessie [Lockwood] (1888-1918), Holton, Caroline [Bowell] (1851-1939), Holton, Charles M. B. (1878-1965), Holton, Charles P. (1849-1908), Holton, Edna D. [Symington] (1877-1929), Holton, Ezra W. (1872-1941), Holton, Ezra William (1810-1879), Holton, G. C. "George" (1875-1937), Holton, George Clement (1842-1878), Holton, George Harold (1885-1957), Holton, K. (1893-1928), Holton, M. S. (1848-1917), Holton, Maude M. [Blake] (1887-1972), Holton, Minnie Georgina [Wilson] (1886-1967), Holton, W. S. (1873-1902), Holton, William E. [zra]. (1846-1895), Holton, William Ezra (1846-1895); Cemetery: Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Sec O Row 11 Plot 2; Note: Wife of Ezra William Holton. On the Holton stone. This plot covers parts of three rows (https://www.cemsearch.ca/burial/?pID=HASY06O1102%5E3)⁴

• Married Name: 16 June 1836; Holton²
• Census*: April 1881; Belleville, Hastings West Co., Ontario; Age 71 at 1881 Census: see John J.B. Flint (son-in-law)³

Philip Clement¹

• Birth*: 10 February 1780; Goffstown, Hillsborough Co., New Hamsphire, U.S.A.; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1803; Brockville, Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Elizabeth Bancroft¹
• Death*: 10 August 1834; Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds & Grenville Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

Elizabeth Bancroft¹

• Birth*: 3 July 1785; Dunstable, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, U.S.A.; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1803; Brockville, Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Philip Clement¹
• Death*: 10 June 1851; Belleville, Hastings Co., Canada West; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

• Married Name: 1803; Clement¹

Sarah Clement¹

• Father*: Philip Clement¹ b. 10 Feb 1780, d. 10 Aug 1834
• Mother*: Elizabeth Bancroft¹ b. 3 Jul 1785, d. 10 Jun 1851

• Birth*: 20 November 1819; Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds & Grenville Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Death*: 12 June 1837; Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

Jane Bancroft Clement¹

• Father*: Philip Clement¹ b. 10 Feb 1780, d. 10 Aug 1834
• Mother*: Elizabeth Bancroft¹ b. 3 Jul 1785, d. 10 Jun 1851

• Birth*: 1 March 1825; Brockville, Leeds & Grenville Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1847; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Nathan Jones¹
• Death*: 4 January 1895; Belleville, Hastngs Co., Ontario; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

• Married Name: 1847; Jones¹

Nathan Jones¹

• Birth*: 12 January 1816; Mont Vernon, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire, U.S.A.; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1847; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Jane Bancroft Clement¹
• Death*: 22 April 1892; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

George Philip Clement¹

• Father*: Philip Clement¹ b. 10 Feb 1780, d. 10 Aug 1834
• Mother*: Elizabeth Bancroft¹ b. 3 Jul 1785, d. 10 Jun 1851

• Birth*: 16 May 1828; Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds & Grenville Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Death*: 11 July 1838; Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

Martha Clement¹

• Father*: Philip Clement¹ b. 10 Feb 1780, d. 10 Aug 1834
• Mother*: Elizabeth Bancroft¹ b. 3 Jul 1785, d. 10 Jun 1851

• Birth*: 2 July 1815; Augusta Twp., Dundas Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Death*: 20 July 1896; Bridgewater, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

Elizabeth Clement¹

• Father*: Philip Clement¹ b. 10 Feb 1780, d. 10 Aug 1834
• Mother*: Elizabeth Bancroft¹ b. 3 Jul 1785, d. 10 Jun 1851

• Birth*: 11 February 1806; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Death*: 2 May 1869; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹

Phoebe Sawyer Clement^1,2,3,4

• Father*: Philip Clement² b. 10 Feb 1780, d. 10 Aug 1834
• Mother*: Elizabeth Bancroft² b. 3 Jul 1785, d. 10 Jun 1851

• Birth*: 3 August 1808; Goffstown, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire, U.S.A.; Date Aug 3 1808 per Memorial. Date Aug 3 1808 & location Goffstown, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire, USA per FindaGrave. Date 1809 & location US per 1861 Census. Date 1807 & location USA per 1851 Census. per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^2,3,4,5,6
• Marriage*: circa 1835; Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Billa Flint Jr.²
• Death*: 24 May 1886; Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; Dat eMay 24 1886 per Memorial. Date May 24 1886 & location Belleville per FindaGrave. Date May 23 1886 & location Hastings Co. per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^2,4,5
• Burial*: 26 May 1886; Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; Memorial: (see Exhibit) Billa Flint; Born February 9, 1805; Died June 15, 1894; Also His Wife; Phoebe Clement; Born August 3, 1808; Died May 24, 1886 (Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, image from FindaGrave, Aug 10 2022)
  FindaGrave: Name: Phoebe Clement Flint; BIRTH: 3 Aug 1808, Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA; DEATH: 24 May 1886 (aged 77), Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; BURIAL: Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; PLOT: O-9-2; MEMORIAL ID: 73737926 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73737926/phoebe-flint)^4,5

• Married Name: circa 1835; Flint²
• Census*: 1851; Bellevile, Hastings Co., Canada West; Age 44 at 1851 Census: see Billa Flint³
• Census: April 1861; Belleville, Hastings Co., Canada West; Age 52 at 1861 Census: see Billa Flint⁶

Billa Flint Jr.^1,2,3

• Father*: Billa Flint Sr.² b. 3 Nov 1774, d. 27 Jun 1852
• Mother*: Phoebe Wells² b. c 1778

• Birth*: 9 February 1805; Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds & Grenville Co., Upper Canada; Date Feb 9, 1808 per Memorial. Date Feb 9 1805 & location Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds & Grenville Co. per FindaGrave. Date 1805 & location UC per 1861 Census. Date ?1803? & location Cda. per 1851 Census. Date Feb 9 1805 & location Brockville, Ont. per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.
  "Billa Flint was born on February 9, 1805, to a heavy drinking, ill-tempered, Brockville merchant father and a deeply religious mother." BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg 12.^2,4,5,6,7,3
• Marriage*: circa 1835; Upper Canada; per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Phoebe Sawyer Clement²
• Death*: 15 June 1894; Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario; Date June 15 1886 per Memorial. Date Jun 15 1894 & locaiton Ottawa per FindaGrave. Date Jun 15 1894 & location Ottawa per family tree of PIXIEDUST1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^2,6,7
• Burial*: 18 June 1894; Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; Memorial: (see Exhibit) Billa Flint; Born February 9, 1805; Died June 15, 1894; Also His Wife; Phoebe Clement; Born August 3, 1808; Died May 24, 1886 (Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, image from FindaGrave, Aug 10 2022)
  FindaGrave: Name: Billa Flint; BIRTH: 9 Feb 1805, Elizabethtown, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada; DEATH: 15 Jun 1894 (aged 89), Ottawa, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada; BURIAL: Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; PLOT: Plot O; MEMORIAL ID: 61878214; Note: illa Flint (February 9, 1805-June 15, 1894) was a businessman and political figure in Ontario. He was a Liberal member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1894. He was born in Elizabethtown (later Brockville) in Upper Canada and dropped out of school after six weeks to work for his father as a clerk. In 1829, unhappy with the sale of liquor at his father's hotel, he moved to Belleville and set up his own business there. In the same year, he also founded a temperance society there. In 1836, he was appointed magistrate and also became president of the Board of Police. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1847 for Hastings and, in 1854, for Hastings South. In 1863, he was elected to the Legislative Council for Trent division and served until Confederation when he was appointed to the Senate. In 1866, he served as mayor of Belleville. He served over 20 years on the council for Hastings County and was warden for the county in 1873. His business had expanded from the sale of goods into the harvesting and sale of timber and the operation of warehouses and wharfs for storing and transporting goods. He also established towns along the Skootamatta River, with mills and factories, at Troy (later Actinolite) and Flint's Mills (now Flinton). He purchased mills at York Mills, later named Bancroft after his wife's maiden name. He also helped promote steamships on Lake Ontario and railway links in the region. Although forceful and opinionated, he also donated land for schools and churches. He died at Ottawa in 1894, while serving as member of the Senate. Flint wrote a series of articles about the early days of Belleville which were published in the newspapers of the time. (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61878214/billa-flint?_gl=1*hs1asy*_ga*MTM2OTMxODYxNS4xNjM1ODgwODE4*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY2MDE2NDkwMC4xODEuMS4xNjYwMTcyNDA4LjA.)^6,7

• Note*: 1815; Brockville, Leeds Co., Upper Canada; "Billa Flint Jr. was only ten years old when he, like his cousins Nathan Jones and Rufus Holden, became a clerk in his father's general store.18 The constant need for an extra pair of hands in the store, around the farm or in the woods, coupled with a shortage of schools in the area, left little time or opportunity for Billa Flint Jr. or boys or girls his age to acquire a formal education." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 15.³
• Note: 1818; Brockville, Leeds Co., Upper Canada; "By 1818, Flint and his son had established a thriving trade with the distant Bay of Quinte settlement of Belleville. Flint Jr. recalled the fact that "the steamers regularly called at my father's wharf in Brockville for freight and passengers and also for the Captain to sell us flour and eggs, which for years he brought from Belleville for exchange for cash or sometimes for salt in the barrel."2 This trade between Brockville and Belleville would continue until the younger Flint permanently established himself in Belleville eleven years later." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 20.
  Note: The date Billa Flint Jr. came to Belleville to run the store on Front St. is inferred in a previous note saying it was eleven years after 1818, so 1829.³
• Note: 1829; Front St., Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; "By 1818, Flint and his son had established a thriving trade with the distant Bay of Quinte settlement of Belleville. Flint Jr. recalled the fact that "the steamers regularly called at my father's wharf in Brockville for freight and passengers and also for the Captain to sell us flour and eggs, which for years he brought from Belleville for exchange for cash or sometimes for salt in the barrel." This trade between Brockville and Belleville would continue until the younger Flint permanently established himself in Belleville eleven years later." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 21.
  Note: The date Billa Flint Jr. came to Belleville to run the store on Front St. is inferred in a previous note saying it was eleven years after 1818, so 1829.³
• Note: 1832; Front St., Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; "Before setting up his shop, Flint made it his business to "get as good a knowledge of the people as possible," and before long, he had won the custom of many of Belleville's citizens despite being a newcomer to the community. He had lured many of his competitors' customers into his store by undercutting their prices by half and by offering to exchange tea, sugar and indigo for butter and eggs. Although smaller than his competitors’ stores, Flint's first store provided him with the capital he needed to construct a larger brick building on Front Street and to purchase, on speculation, two hundred acres in Northumberland's Alnwick Township. By 1832, Flint, with some financial assistance from his father, coupled with the profits from the sale of his Northumberland property, purchased the western extension of Belleville's Bridge Street. Although the property was adjacent to a large marsh and located some distance from Belleville's business centre on the east side of the river, Flint nevertheless envisioned mills, warehouses and wharves on his newly acquired waterfront real estate. The property was strategically located on the Bay of Quinte at the mouth of the Moira River and the four metre deep channel that would one day bear Flint's name meant large steamships could access his property." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 22.³
• Note: 1836; Front St., Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; "Sidewalks were constructed with flagstones removed from the nearby Moira River, shortly after Flint's appointment to president in 1836. The village's first stone sidewalks greatly improved pedestrian travel on Front Street from Dundas Street to the upper bridge and although they were long overdue, these and other improvements were of personal benefit to Flint as they made it easier for customers to access his Front Street store." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 23.³
• Note: 1837; Saw Mill, Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; "Flint's Enterprise Steam Saw and Planing Mill was the crown jewel in his commercial empire. Established in 1837, the Flint Steam Saw and Planing Mill was operated by Flint, his brother-in-law Ezra William Holton and local businessman Horace Yeomans. The lumber mill was initially outfitted with "one mulley saw and two small circulars" and it offered "sawn lumber ranging in size from twelve metre long joists to one metre long lathes." In time Flint equipped the mill with over a hundred saws powered by a modern turbine engine imported from Austria-Hungary11 and he boasted "custom sawing and planing done cheaply and timber bills cut to order."" from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 30 & 31.³
• Residence*: 20 July 1838; Village Lot 41, Main St. South, Brighton, Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; Land Registry Records (B&S 6975) show that Simeon Kellogg sold "1/4 acres, supposed to be part of this lot", of Village Lot 41, Brighton Village, Northumberland Co. to Billa Flint Jr. ITS Date: Jul 20 1838. Reg'n. Date: May 2 1843. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Brighton Village, Book 004, pg. 230 of 399, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Buchanan, Apr 6, 2023)
  Note: Simeon Kellogg owned village lots 41 and 42 on the south side of the Main Street of Brighton for a time, had the hotel on the corner. He left Brighton in the 1840s. Here we see Billa Flint Jr., a primary mover-and-shaker in Bellveill, making an investement for a store-front spot on Main Street in Brighton in 1838. He would hold it until 1857 when it was sold to James Stanley who built a commercial block.⁸
• Adoption*: 1843; Belleville, Hastings Co., Canada West; "Flint spent his entire life amassing great wealth and promoting the virtues of a sound education and a Christian upbringing for children. Ironically, he and his wife had no natural offspring to enjoy their wealth or their religious convictions. As devout Methodists, Flint felt he and his wife had much to offer a child and in 1843, the couple adopted four year old John James Bleecker, on the death of the boy's mother, Eliza Haskins." BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 133.; Principal=John James Bleecker³
• Census*: 1851; Belleville, Hastings Co., Canada West; Age ?48? at 1851 Census: Flint, Billa, ?48?, b. Cda., WM, L. Merchant, married; P.S.(f), 44, b. US, WM, married; Bleeker, John, 14, b. Cda., WM; Bull?, Susan, 18, b. Ireland, WM (1851 Census: Belleville, Hastings Co., pg. 70 of 92, line 42 - ancestry.ca)⁴
• Note: 1852; Elzevir & Grimsthorpe Twp., Hastings Co., Canada West; "As a result, Flint was forced to look elsewhere for the timber he needed to feed his growing commercial interests on the Bay of Quinte. Flint traveled even further north along the Moira River and its main tributary, the Skootamatta. Here, Flint was drawn by the loud sound of water as it raced over a set of rapids and made its way through a narrow, rock-lined gorge near the present day site of Actinolite. Having carefully inspected the area on both sides of the river, Flint was convinced he had discovered an ideal location for a mill site and company town. ... Flint discovered, however, that parts of the townships of Elzevir and Grimsthorpe were often barely accessible as many of their creeks and streams had been dammed by beavers. These dams caused massive flooding and they also caused the fresh water ponds to stagnate and yellow. Sales of land in the area naturally suffered as a consequence and as a result, Flint's acquisition of thousands of hectares of land at this site was accomplished with relative ease in 1852." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 34 & 35.³
• Residence: 5 March 1857; Village Lot 41, Main St. South, Brighton, Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; Land Registry Records (B&S A144) show that Billa Flint Jr. & wife sold "the same", of Village Lot 41, Brighton Village, Northumberland Co. to James Stanley. ITS Date: Mar 5 1857. Reg'n. Date: Apr 3 1857. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Brighton Village, Book 004, pg. 230 of 399, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Buchanan, Apr 6, 2023)⁸
• Note: 1858; Kaladar Twp., Bridgewater, Hastings Co., Canada West; "Bridgewater, Flint's base of operations in centre Hastings, was officially surveyed as a village in 1858 by John Emerson. Bridgewater possessed the largest flour mill in Hastings County, a saw mill, a foundry, a chair and cabinet factory, an axe and edge tool and tin manufactory, a tannery, a woolen factory and a saddlery. Other local businessmen such as William Garrett, Oliver Frost, J.W. Robinson, John Bragg, George Wolfe, William Spencer and J.W. Turner operated small commercial enterprises in the village as well, but Flint exercised almost complete control over everyday life in the community.'" from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 43.³
• Note: 1859; Kaladar Twp., Finton, Hastings Co., Canada West; "In 1859, Billa Flint's second company town, Flinton, named in honour of its founder and principal landowner, came into being with the completion of a village survey by Public Land Surveyor John Emerson. The new village contained ninety-eight village lots and seven streets." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 41.³
• Census: April 1861; Belleville, Hastings Co., Canada West; Age 56 at 1861 Census: Flint, Billa, 56, b. UC, WM, Merchant, married; Phebe S., 52, b. US, WM, married; John J., 23, b. UC, WM, single (1861 Census: Town of Belleville, Hastings Co., pg. 490 of 983, line 27 - ancestry.ca)
  Note: Billa Flint is also shown, with incomplete info: (1861 Census: Town of Belleville, Hastings Co., pg 369 of 983, line 20, ancestry.ca)⁵
• Note: June 1869; Harbour, Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; "Flint dumped sawdust and other milling refuse into the Bay for decades, yet he was content to use the public purse to dredge the harbour of thousands of metres of his waste. Flint and other councillors knew full well that a navigable harbour was critical to the development of Belleville.
  In an effort to improve shipping on the Bay and to offset the tremendous cost of keeping their important harbour clean, a special meeting of council was convened in June 1869 during which a series of controversial, but necessary, measures received unanimous approval. Ranging in nature from the placement of "six buoys in the channel" to the imposition of harbour dues "so that revenue may be derived to cover the expense of dredging the harbour," these measures were designed to address the years of neglect and abuse that Flint and others had inflicted on this vital waterway.7
  The introduction of harbour dues was controversial to say the least. Competition was stiff and harbour dues had a negative impact on both the cost of conducting business and on the amount of harbour
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  business Belleville could generate. The proposal nonetheless received the overwhelming support of council. The harbour was a critical component of their transportation infrastructure and they had to act quickly to arrest the growing problem of its clogged channels. The harbour dues imposed varied in price from twenty-five cents for schooners and barges under seventy-five tons, to fifty cents for steamers over seventy-five tons, to seventy-five cents for schooners, and barges over one hundred tons for each time of calling. The imposition of the dues meant increased transportation costs for Flints—costs that he could hardly afford.8 In an effort to keep his lumber mill operating at full capacity, Flint had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying property, acquiring timber rights, building roads, setting up his company towns and paying labour." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 28 & 29.³
• Note: 1871; Harbour, Belleville, Hastings Co., Upper Canada; "Flint's highly efficient milling operation on the Moira River and the Bay of Quinte contributed significantly to the growing problem of Great Lakes pollution. The almost daily discharge of vast quantities of sawdust, bark, branches and mercury into the once healthy Bay of Quinte did untold damage to fish stocks by destroying both food supply and natural habitat.
  The accumulation of sawdust, mud and refuse made portions of Belleville's harbour almost impassable for large steamers. A description of the port of Belleville contained in Atkin’s 1871 Pocket Compass clearly highlights the impact that Flint's milling operation had on this beautiful bay. "The water in the channel is about 10 feet, except at the two outer buoys, which only give 9 feet. In many parts of the channel there is from 12 to 15 feet of water. The bottom is composed of sawdust."" from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 28.³

Billa Flint Sr.^1,2,3

• Father*: Nathan Flint³ b. c 1730

• Birth*: 3 November 1774; Tolland Co., Connecticut, U.S.A.; "Flint's father, Billa Flint Sr., born November 3, 1774, was a native of Tolland, Connecticut. He was the second youngest of six siblings born to millwright Nathan Flint and his first wife Mercy Holton." From "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 12.
  Date Nov 3 1774 & location Tolland, Conn. per family tree of buttonk1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.^2,3
• Marriage*: 1802; per family tree of buttonk1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Phoebe Wells²
• Death*: 27 June 1852; Brockville, Leeds & Grenville Co., Canada West; per family tree of buttonk1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.²

• Residence*: circa 1797; Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Upper Canada; "Billa Flint Sr. and his older sister, Lois Flint Soper, and her family, completed the final leg of their father's journey to the British North America's Loyalist settlements. However, unlike many of the earlier Loyalists that had settled on the much sought after concessions along the St. Lawrence River, Billa Flint Sr. purchased land near Elizabethtown in the township to the north of Brockville." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 12 & 13.³
• Residence: circa 1801; Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Upper Canada; "Shortly after the turn of the century, Flint Sr. established one of Elizabethtown's first stores on the route between Prescott and Kingston. The store was situated eleven kilometers from the present day site of Brockville on the heavily wooded "front route." Although it was north of the busy St. Lawrence River, the front route did offer the Flint family several advantages. Due to its distance from the St. Lawrence River, the most important advantage was the fact that Flint and the other handful of settlers that lived there were safe from ambush by American troops prior to and during the War of 1812." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 13.³
• Note*: between 1812 and 1814; Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Upper Canada; "Flint's store, like many of Upper Canada's general stores, was critical to the survival of the pioneer community. Flint Sr.'s store served as a post office, a place of apprenticeship, an institution of learning, and a message centre for news about the war and other significant events in the colony. Billa Flint Jr. recalled that as a child he used to "hear all about the war as stories [were] passed [along at] my father's store... The teams and troops all stopped at a house close to my father's [store] so I had a grand opportunity to hear news from the officers and men."
  The Flint family had lived in British North America for only a few years when war broke out between the United States and Britain in 1812. The younger Flint's allegiance to his father's adopted homeland was evident during the conflict as he proudly boasted about the successes of the troops defending British North America against the American invaders. "During the War of 1812 and '15 they had ten or twelve times more population than Canada, yet we beat them 35 times in 56 battles. They won 20 and one was a draw game."" from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 13.³
• Residence: 1815; Elizabethtown Twp., Brockville, Leeds Co., Upper Canada; "The growth of the settlement around Flint Sr.'s store and the steady stream of military custom during the War of 1812 provided him with the resources he needed to purchase land along the St. Lawrence River and to relocate his wife, Phoebe Wells, and their three children to the growing settlement of Brockville. When peace between the two warring nations had finally been attained, Flint Sr. was confident the time was right to expand his mercantile business and to branch off into new ventures from his more strategic location in Brockville." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 14.³
• Residence: 1815; Elizabethtown Twp., Brockville, Leeds Co., Upper Canada; "The heightened level of ill-will that existed within Brockville was exacerbated by the arrival in 1815 of the spirited, the unruly and the unbending Billa Flint Sr. Flint Sr. re-established his general store in the commercial district of Brockville and like his son a generation later, he went on to become one of Upper Canada's most successful and most controversial businessman." from "BILLA FLINT, King of Hastings County" by Armand P. La Barge, Kirby Books, 2015, pg. 15.³

Phoebe Wells¹

• Birth*: circa 1778; Tolland Co., Connecticut, U.S.A.; per family tree of buttonk1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1802; per family tree of buttonk1 on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2022.; Principal=Billa Flint Sr.¹

• Married Name: 1802; Flint¹