of Dorset, England. In 1833 he caused to be printed at the "Patriot" office, York, a pamphlet of 46 pages entitled "Story of a Refugee." It contains an outline of his life and is now rare. However, all the facts contained in the pamphlet, and many more, appear in one or more of his numerous manuscripts. In these later years it is too painfully obvious that he was in a state not unlike that of Gourlay, filled with his own wrongs, real and supposed, and thinking a formal vindication the most important thing in the world. He lost all sense of proportion, and the egomania of old age was generally conspicuous.

11. Being the owner of Lot No. 25, in the 3d Concession from the Bay (his wife owning lot 26 immediately to the east) he applied to the Right Reverend Charles James Stuart, Lord Bishop of Quebec, for the consecration of part of it "for the purpose of inhumation of himself, his wife and posterity" "which he had caused to be fenced in and in which he has erected a vaulted Temple." The Bishop assented to the prayer; and Powell and some of his family were interred in the ground so consecrated. When it was determined to turn the plot to other uses, the bodies were reverently raised and placed in St. James Cemetery where they lie under a broad stone

1. John married Ellen Shaw in 1808 and died in 1827; he was Register of certain Counties, Clerk of the Legislative Council and afterwards Clerk of Assize to his father. He had two children: viz :—

(a) John who was Alderman of Toronto in 1837 and gave the alarm of the Rebels' approach; he was afterwards Mayor of the city.

(b) Mary Sophia, who married William Henry Coxwell and had issue, Louisa (afterwards Mrs. Valancy Fuller) Elizabeth (Mrs. Clarkson) and John Powell Coxwell.

2. William Dummer, one of the ten lawyers who in 1797 formed the Law Society of Upper Canada; his runaway marriage with Sarah Stevenson in 1801 was one of the romances of the time; he died September 23, 1803, and lies buried in the Presbyterian Burying ground at Stamford (his mother writes that he "died under circumstances aggravating the anguish of his unfortunate mother"). He left two daughters, Mary Boyles (who married William Botsford Jarvis, the first Sheriff Jarvis of Toronto) and Anne Murray, born 1804 (who married William C. Gwynne, 1835).

3. Grant, a surgeon for a time at Ballston Springs, Saratoga, New York, served as a surgeon in the war of 1812, married Elizabeth Bleeker, of Albany, and left one son and five daughters (a) Anne Jane (who married Charles Seymour) (b) Charlotte (who married John Ridout of Toronto) (c) Elizabeth van Rensselaer (who married first John Stuart, Barrister of London, Upper Canada; being divorced by him, she married, second, John Grogan a Lieutenant in an English Regiment stationed at Toronto; (d) Margaret who died unmarried; (e) William Dummer who lived at Guelph, U. C. and had issue John

Bleeker and Grant; (f) Catharine who married, first, L. Mercer and, second, Sheriff McKellar of Hamilton.

5. See ante Chapter XIII, died unmarried.

8. Mary Boyles, having been engaged to John Macdonell, Attorney General, after his heroic death married his friend Samuel Peter Jarvis. 9. Thomas William died young, unmarried.

(b)

Charlotte Ridout daughter of Grant Powell had issue Grant Ridout and Elizabeth Harriet who married John W. Langmuir and had issue Charlotte Elizabeth and Violet Harriet (who married Gwyn Francis, Esq., of Toronto).

(c) Elizabeth Van Ransselaer daughter of Grant Powell by her marriage with John Stuart had issue Mary Agnes (who married Captain Kingscot) Caroline (who married Alfred Wyndham) and Albert; by her marriage with Mr. Grogan she had issue May (who married Pacha Johnson of the Egyptian Police, Cairo); John who died in India in 1880; William and Elizabeth (who married General Purvis, R. A., and left issue).

(g) Grant Powell, the son of William Dummer son of Dr. Grant Powell married Elizabeth Margaret Hurd and had three sons, the elder being William Dummer who married Alice Murray and had issue Elizabeth Katharine, William, Edward, Gladwyn, Grant and Margaret (who married J. Gormally and had issue Phillip, Grant, Ethel, Robert and Winnifred). Grant and Margaret Powell had a second son Arthur Wellesley who married Lily Soule: and a third son Robert Wynyard (who married Elizabeth Torrance and had five children).

(f) By her first marriage Catharine daughter of Dr. Grant Powell had issue Anne (who married Mr. Lount of Barrie); Elizabeth (who married Mr. Morton of Hamilton) and Lawrence (who married Nora Farmer of Woodstock).

APPENDIX B

DISPOSITION OF THE PROPERTY OF JOHN POWELL IN MASSACHUSETTS

John Powell, when he left Massachusetts with Howe in March, 1776, had certain real estate in the Colony: even if he had had the desire to return-and he certainly had not-it would not have been safe for him to do so. The Legislature composed of "the Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled," on October 16, 1778, passed an Act, Chapter 24 of that year, wherein it was recited that many named persons (including "John Powell, Esqr of Boston in the County of Suffolk") and many other persons "had left this State or some other of the United States of America and joined the enemies thereof and of the United States of America, thereby not only depriving these States of their personal services at a time when they ought to have afforded their utmost aid in defending the said States against the invasions of a cruel enemy, but manifesting an inimical disposition to the said States and a design to aid and abett the enemies thereof in their wicked purposes."

The Act provided that if any of these persons should return to the state, he should be arrested and kept in close custody until he should be sent out of the state to some place within the dominions of Great Britain, the penalty of death being affixed to a return to the state after such transportation.

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The Legislature of "The Province of Massachusetts Bay" at its 4th Session (1777-1778) by Chapter 38 of that Session, passed April 9, 1777, made provision for the property of "such persons who have left the Province and fled to our enemies for protection." Section 1 enacted that when it should "appear to the Judge of Probate of any County by a certificate . . of the major part of the selectmen or committee of correspondence of any town that any person being an inhabitant of that town had absented himself months or upwards, leaving estate real or personal of twenty pounds or more within this state and that they believe such absent person voluntarily went to our enemies and is still absent without this state . . . the said Judge is authorized and impowered to appoint some discreet person to be agent for the. estate of such absentee." The agent was to give security and thereafter to have full control of the estate. The agent was within three months to file an inventory; he might sell the real estate (if the personal property did not pay the debts) at auction, pay the creditors and retaining "his reasonable charge for negociating the business", pay the surplus to the Treasurer of the State.

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A proper certificate being lodged with the Probate Judge of the County of Suffolk in which Boston is situated, Shrimpton Hutchinson of Boston was appointed agent for the estate of John Powell-from the fact that his bondsmen were John Powell's two brothers, it is certain that the agent was personally friendly to the absentee.