Richard Leonard LAZIER

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• _UID: EB79A7BAB3FA414C98D0248DB78A8FDEC632

Notes:

Residence:
"The majority of the members of this family are married and settled in California; the others are in Manitoba."

Family/Spouse: Allison Wilson CAMPBELL. Allison was born in 1837; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henrietta LAZIER and died.
2. John C. LAZIER and died.
3. Samuel W. LAZIER and died.
4. Anna B. LAZIER and died.
5. Mary J. LAZIER and died.
6. Donaldson LAZIER and died.
7. Florence A. LAZIER and died.
8. Richard A. LAZIER and died.
9. Arthur K. LAZIER and died.

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• Military: Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Politics: Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Canada West, Canada
• Occupation: Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Occupation: Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; farmer
• Reference Number: 480.3111
• Residence: Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Residence: Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada; on lot no. 5
• _UID: 8F13A43480C14436B80EE1F3F0B69D607225
• Birth: 1805, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Residence: 1825-1827, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Residence: 1827, Hillier Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; on a farm known as the "Platt Farm"
• Politics: Abt 1830, Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada

Notes:

Military:
"He was a Captain of Volunteers, in active service in 1837-38, and was afterwards promoted to a Lieut. Colonelcy."

Politics:
He was appointed to the position of collector of Customs for Shannonville, a position that he held until his death.

Occupation:
"Richard Lazier, the eldest of the family, after marrying and farming for a time in Prince Edward County, moved to Tyendinaga."

Occupation:
He continued "to farm in that township, and perceiving the prosperity to be derived from the lumbershing business, he started saw and grist mills at Milltown, near Shannonville, of which latter place he afteward became the collector of customs".

Residence:
He was one of the first settlers of Shannonville. "We bought five hundred acres of beautiful land, also a large two story house. The lower part of the house was all finished. We finished the upper part, with a very large room at one end for a Court Room, with the stairs going down the outside; the rest in sitting and sleeping rooms."

Residence:
"We built a house on No. 5, one of the farm lots, and rented the big house to Edward Lewis. He living in it until it burned down. Then we built another and rented it to Mr. McMicheal."

Birth:
He was the eldest son.

Residence:
They built a barn, and then "had a chance to sell, sold and took the money and came to Tyendinaga".

Politics:
"Richard Lazier became first Clerk of the old Court of Bequests of Hastings County, and subsequently and until the Court was abolished, one of the Commissioners of the same."

Richard married Anna APPLEBY on 11 Oct 1825 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada. Anna (daughter of Thomas D. APPLEBY and Meribeth SOLMES) was born on 24 Jul 1805 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1903. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Anna B. Appleby
• _UID: FDD670FD38C7494781B4FB43B82FDF7A82A3
• Religion: Abt 1815, Demorestville, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; a Methodist

Notes:

Religion:
"After the funeral [of Nicholas Lazier in 1814] I did occasionally go to Demortestville to Methodist meetings on horseback, and occasionally on foot. I preferred their meetings to the Friends."

Notes:

Marriage:
"As there was not a Minister to be had; there being only one and he was in bed sick at Kingston, and it being lawful for Magistrates to marry, I was married by one".

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 480.311*
• Residence: Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• _UID: 5B3869497FB7462A8979A42CAC52E39432BD
• Land: Abt 1805, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Military: 1812, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; Prince Edward Militia

Notes:

Family:
He was the fourth in order of age in his family.

Land:
"Nicholas located on one hundred and fifty-five acres between Northport and Demorestville, and opposite Big Island."

Military:
He was a private in Captain John Stinson's Troop of Horse. He served 6 months during the war [1812].

Nicholas married Catherine COCKBURN. Catherine (daughter of COCKBURN and Christina COLE) was born in 1785; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Catherine Davenport
• Name: Katy Davenport
• Reference Number: 480.311
• _UID: 2487FD315E1543F28DABA9653758388B19CE
• Moved: Abt 1790, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; from the USA as an infant with her mother and maternal grandparents

Notes:

Family:
She was an infant when her father died.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Family: Dutchess County, New York, United States; was of "English extraction"
• Moved: Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada; from Sophiaburgh to
• Politics: Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada
• _UID: 3CE20122670842E1B95B882C5CC86B88B2E6
• Emigration: Abt 1797, Upper Canada, Canada
• Moved: Abt 1797, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; from Kingston
• Immigration: 1797, Kingston, Frontenac County, Upper Canada, Canada; with a party of emigrants
• Occupation: Abt 1798, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; farmer
• Residence: Abt 1808, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; on lot 4 west of Green Point
• Residence: Abt 1810, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; on another lot, known as the Tommy Gyles [?] farm, east of Green Point, on the high shore road to Picton, along the Long Reach
• Residence: Abt 1812, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; lot 5 west of Green Point from Pat Smith
• Residence: Abt 1814, Richmond Township, Lennox and Addington County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Residence: Abt 1818, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Residence: Abt 1822, Demorestville, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Residence: Abt 1827, Belleville, Hastings County, Upper Canada, Canada

Notes:

Moved:
"He was one of the first settlers of the Township."

Politics:
"He was a Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of the Court of Requests, and Boundary Line Commissioner",

Emigration:
"They left their old home in Dutchess County and came to Canada, as did the Laziers, to enjoy freedom of political opinion."

Residence:
Later he sold this lot to his brother-in-law, Richard Solmes.

Residence:
[This may have been Hallowell Township]. "He did not like this farm. He said that he could not raise any kind of grain on it but buckwheat. He had a chance to sell to a Mr. Lynch, just from the old Old Country. He sold and went to Kingston where he bough of Pat Smith No.5 west of Green Point."

Residence:
"He built a house and barn and set trees for a noble orchard."

Residence:
"R. [Richard] Solmes [his brother-in-law], owning No. 4, took a great notion for No. 5 [lot in Sophiasburgh] and persuaded my Father to sell; which was much against my Mother's will. He then went to live in the Township of Richmond, and bought a farm that is now called the "Patten Farm", adjoining the farm of Esquire Bowen. It was a nice place and he lived there until his family grew to be taken notice of; but there were so many yellow hookers, as they were called, he said he never would bring up his family to marry among them."

Residence:
He rented lot 5 in Sophiasburgh Township. He had previously owned this farm but had sold it to his brother-in-law, Richard Solmes.

Residence:
He built a new house and painted it red.

Thomas married Meribeth SOLMES after 1797 in Upper Canada, Canada. Meribeth (daughter of Nathaniel SOLMES and Lydia) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: BF4B0C70F6654490A106638AB5A951635B4E
• Religion: Abt 1810, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; a Quaker

Notes:

Religion:
According to her daughter, Anna Appleby, she "was brought up and attended Friends meetings. Indeed there was not any other place of worship short of Picton, and the roads being in a state of Nature and not a carriage except lumber waggons."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Nicholas Lazier
• Religion: Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; a Presbyterian
• _UID: 732D108C87814B73B95213A09628E560C339
• Birth: Abt 1738, United States
• Birth: 1739, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, United States
• Emigration: 1791, New York, United States; to Canada
• Family: 1791, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Land: Abt 1791, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; lot 18 west of Green Point
• Residence: 1791, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Immigration: 6 Nov 1791, Canada
• Witness: 29 Jan 1807, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; Nicholas Lazier, Esquire, witnessed the signature and information about Tina Curlett (Christina Trumpour) on her petition for a land grant
• Funeral: Abt 1814, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Politics: Abt 1814, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada

Notes:

Family:
"The Lazier family was of Dutch extraction; their ancestors having come from Holland, near the French border, at a very early time in the history of the Western Continent, and settled above Manhattan Island on the Hudson River."

Family:
He was the eldest child.

Birth:
Since he emigrated to Canada in 1791 at the age of 53 years, his birth year was calculated as circa 1738.

Family:
He immigrated with his wife and 8 children.

Land:
"The old homestead where he first settled in Sophiasburgh was beautifully situated on the eastern one hundred and twenty acres of lot 18 west of Green Point. It stood on a knoll that looked across the sylvan girt bay of Quinte. a little way to its rear a greist mill was erected beside a creek which flowed froma small lake enclosed by his land; and close by, not much farther along the shore, the sad demands of later years placed a lonely burial ground, where the Laziers and other pioneers of the Sophiasburgh Bay Front have since been laid to their rest, beneath the land of their adoption and within sound of their Bay."

Politics:
"At the time, he was the only Magistrate anywhere near."

Funeral:
"I remember attending old Esqr. Lazier's funeral. I was then but nine years old. They had singing at the funeral, and I thought it Heavenly music."

Nicholas married Mary CONKLIN about 1771 in United States. Mary was born about 1751; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: EC554C58E0554A0B99DECDA8CF0A9D0EDF5B
• Birth: Abt 1751, United States
• Birth: 1752

Notes:

Birth:
Since she was 13 years younger than her husband, and he was born (calculated) circa 1738, her birth year was calculated as circa 1751.

Notes:

Marriage:
Since he married twenty years before he immigrated in 1791, his marriage year was calculated as circa 1771.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 480.31*1
• _UID: D884DC85DA384A5BB8C322C63208D17D5F7A

Notes:

Military:
He was "drafted and was a soldier in the French and American wars; and was killed in the war."

married Christina COLE. Christina (daughter of Simon Isaac COLE and Maria TRUMPOUR, daughter of Mr. COLE) was born in New York, New York County, New York, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 480.31
• _TODO: Open
• _UID: A6E7A01D0947473C886450B68F9E4FF78292
• Residence: Abt 1790, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Residence: 20 Jun 1794, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; with her husband

Notes:

Character:
Her daughter said that "she always thought if her mother had been of as good disposition as her step-father it would have been better for all of them".

_TODO:
Make a copy of the Order in Council for June 20, 1797 for Christina Davenport (or Cockburn or Cole), daughter of Simon Isaac Cole. Trace petitions.

Residence:
She settled with her parents and daughter at Davenport Point or Davenport Ferry.

Residence:
She was granted an Order in Council for land as the daughter of a Loyalist on this day.

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• _UID: CEC505DFD2D34A14A014FC6136C14E3A0ACF
• Residence: Abt 1795, Adolphustown Township, Lennox and Addington County, Upper Canada, Canada

Notes:

Residence:
His son, Nathaniel Solmes, was born around this time.

Nathaniel married Lydia. Lydia and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Miss Ricketson
• _UID: 5F0DCA423AA640DE973CD3C8D35711C6E5B0

Notes:

Name:
[She may have been Lydia Ricketson.]