WE HAVE NO PROOF THAT STEPHEN HOWARD IS BURIED HERE, THOUGH FEEL CERTAIN HE IS. STEPHEN HOWARD WAS A DEVOUT QUAKER. HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER ARE HERE. WE BELIEVE HIS MARKER WAS PROBABLY MADE OF WOOD AND DESTROYED YEARS AGO.
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Stephen Howard is one of the very early settlers of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, coming here in 1801 when the country was all bush and swamp. He came to Canada from Vermont, accompanied by some other pioneers, walking all the way and driving their cattle ahead of them. They came by way of Niagara and Hamilton. The latter place at that time only contained one store and post office and one hotel. He came on to Toronto, at that time called York, a place of only two little stores. He went to the land office and put his name down for a Homestead Farm over 30 miles north of there a farm he had never seen and nothing but bush. Then he made his way up to this vicinity by what is known as Yonge Street, but then a zigzag Indian path.
For a time he made his home with one of the Proctors till he got some land chopped and cleared and a log house built on his homestead farm. There was one good feature about the neighbors those days - they were exceedingly open-hearted and helpful. Each one was depending to a large extent upon the assistance of the other, they had a common interest and the circle of acquaintance was very limited, with no means of communication except on foot or horseback. Having now a home Mr. Howard thought he should have somebody share it with him. Jumping on his horse he rode to a pioneer home in the southern part of Whitchurch by the name of Foster, proposed to his daughter, a girl not quite 15 years of age, was accepted, she jumped onto the horse's back with him, rode to the minister's house, had the knot tied and went home with him. Such were the wedding preparations of those days. He continued chopping and clearing and in time had as fine a farm as could be found on Yonge St. Here were born his family of three sons and one daughter - Allan, Brooks and Stephen, and Esther, who became Mr. John S. Millard's first wife. All this family are now dead.
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Stephen Howard is one of the very early settlers of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, coming here in 1801 when the country was all bush and swamp. He came to Canada from Vermont, accompanied by some other pioneers, walking all the way and driving their cattle ahead of them. They came by way of Niagara and Hamilton. The latter place at that time only contained one store and post office and one hotel. He came on to Toronto, at that time called York, a place of only two little stores. He went to the land office and put his name down for a Homestead Farm over 30 miles north of there a farm he had never seen and nothing but bush. Then he made his way up to this vicinity by what is known as Yonge Street, but then a zigzag Indian path.
For a time he made his home with one of the Proctors till he got some land chopped and cleared and a log house built on his homestead farm. There was one good feature about the neighbors those days - they were exceedingly open-hearted and helpful. Each one was depending to a large extent upon the assistance of the other, they had a common interest and the circle of acquaintance was very limited, with no means of communication except on foot or horseback. Having now a home Mr. Howard thought he should have somebody share it with him. Jumping on his horse he rode to a pioneer home in the southern part of Whitchurch by the name of Foster, proposed to his daughter, a girl not quite 15 years of age, was accepted, she jumped onto the horse's back with him, rode to the minister's house, had the knot tied and went home with him. Such were the wedding preparations of those days. He continued chopping and clearing and in time had as fine a farm as could be found on Yonge St. Here were born his family of three sons and one daughter - Allan, Brooks and Stephen, and Esther, who became Mr. John S. Millard's first wife. All this family are now dead.
WE HAVE NO PROOF THAT STEPHEN HOWARD IS BURIED HERE, THOUGH FEEL CERTAIN HE IS. STEPHEN HOWARD WAS A DEVOUT QUAKER. HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER ARE HERE. WE BELIEVE HIS MARKER WAS PROBABLY MADE OF WOOD AND DESTROYED YEARS AGO.
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Stephen Howard is one of the very early settlers of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, coming here in 1801 when the country was all bush and swamp. He came to Canada from Vermont, accompanied by some other pioneers, walking all the way and driving their cattle ahead of them. They came by way of Niagara and Hamilton. The latter place at that time only contained one store and post office and one hotel. He came on to Toronto, at that time called York, a place of only two little stores. He went to the land office and put his name down for a Homestead Farm over 30 miles north of there a farm he had never seen and nothing but bush. Then he made his way up to this vicinity by what is known as Yonge Street, but then a zigzag Indian path.
For a time he made his home with one of the Proctors till he got some land chopped and cleared and a log house built on his homestead farm. There was one good feature about the neighbors those days - they were exceedingly open-hearted and helpful. Each one was depending to a large extent upon the assistance of the other, they had a common interest and the circle of acquaintance was very limited, with no means of communication except on foot or horseback. Having now a home Mr. Howard thought he should have somebody share it with him. Jumping on his horse he rode to a pioneer home in the southern part of Whitchurch by the name of Foster, proposed to his daughter, a girl not quite 15 years of age, was accepted, she jumped onto the horse's back with him, rode to the minister's house, had the knot tied and went home with him. Such were the wedding preparations of those days. He continued chopping and clearing and in time had as fine a farm as could be found on Yonge St. Here were born his family of three sons and one daughter - Allan, Brooks and Stephen, and Esther, who became Mr. John S. Millard's first wife. All this family are now dead.
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Stephen Howard is one of the very early settlers of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, coming here in 1801 when the country was all bush and swamp. He came to Canada from Vermont, accompanied by some other pioneers, walking all the way and driving their cattle ahead of them. They came by way of Niagara and Hamilton. The latter place at that time only contained one store and post office and one hotel. He came on to Toronto, at that time called York, a place of only two little stores. He went to the land office and put his name down for a Homestead Farm over 30 miles north of there a farm he had never seen and nothing but bush. Then he made his way up to this vicinity by what is known as Yonge Street, but then a zigzag Indian path.
For a time he made his home with one of the Proctors till he got some land chopped and cleared and a log house built on his homestead farm. There was one good feature about the neighbors those days - they were exceedingly open-hearted and helpful. Each one was depending to a large extent upon the assistance of the other, they had a common interest and the circle of acquaintance was very limited, with no means of communication except on foot or horseback. Having now a home Mr. Howard thought he should have somebody share it with him. Jumping on his horse he rode to a pioneer home in the southern part of Whitchurch by the name of Foster, proposed to his daughter, a girl not quite 15 years of age, was accepted, she jumped onto the horse's back with him, rode to the minister's house, had the knot tied and went home with him. Such were the wedding preparations of those days. He continued chopping and clearing and in time had as fine a farm as could be found on Yonge St. Here were born his family of three sons and one daughter - Allan, Brooks and Stephen, and Esther, who became Mr. John S. Millard's first wife. All this family are now dead.
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