Date: November 13, 2017
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Brockville Museum
Dan Black, co-author of the book Too Young to Die, will speak on young soldiers of the 2nd World War.
Daily Archives: September 5, 2017
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Date: October 16, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Brockville Museum
Program will be preceded by a pot luck dinner at 6:30 – a great way to get to know other members and chat about mutual interests, to say nothing of the delicious food.
Date: September 11, 2017
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Brockville Museum
George Neville will be speaking on Monday, September 11th about Joseph Jessup, his land and Mill sites at Lyn Falls off the Lyn-Yonge Mills Road. George’s talk will be introduced through an early map (1810) of the St. Lawrence Front Royal townships extending from Edwardsburg Twp. in the east to Leeds Twp. in the west, wherein Jessup’s Mill sites are indicated in Lots 24-26 and E.½ Lot 27 of Elizabeth Town Twp., a location better known now as ‘Lyn Falls’. This map depicts the early route of the King’s Highway, pathways, creeks and waterways and emerging settlement communities.
Little personal information is known of Capt. Joseph Jessup, but insight will be shared from obscure documents of Jessup’s dilemma in later sale of parcels of his holdings to different purchasers only to learn before ‘the ink was dry’ that he was committed to greater total acreage than to which he held title by Crown Deed, and the efforts he invoked with the Survey General’s Department in York for favourable resolution.