Thomas D. APPLEBY

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]

1. Anna APPLEBY was born on 24 Jul 1805 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1903.