"Violetta Paine, 3rd daughter of Col. Brinton Paine was born Sept. 16th 1767 at New York. She married Benajah Brown, born Oct 23rd 1762 of Scottish parents [not proven] which is all we seem to know of him. They were married on Sept. 8, 1784. I believe Benajah was a captain in the Winchester Militia, 4th regiment but there seems to be some confusion about this record. [The 4th reg had a Capt. Benajah Brown who died in 1822 and a Benajah Brown who was a private---BCJ]
At the close of the revolutionary war, Benajah bought 600 acres of land on the Genesee River at Painted Post and had been living on this land several years when a General Wadsworth claimed it as his. They went to court about it and Benajah was disposessed and financially ruined. He was very angry naturally, and declared that if the country for which he had fought wouldn't protect him in his honest rights he wouldn't stay in it so in 1797, in the Fall, he brought his family into Canada crossing the Niagara River at Fort Erie. For the winter he stayed at Fort Erie and worked at odd jobs while Violetta earned a little knitting socks for the soldiers stationed there. Then he went to a farm, just north of Brantford on Grand R., now known as Bow Park farm and run as an experimental farm for Canadian Canners Ltd. [This was written in 1942]. While there the Indian Chief Joseph Brant asked him to teach indians how to farm and he tried to do so. But Violetta didn't like it. She protested against raising her family entirely amongst Indians so in 1801 they moved to Oxford County and took up land on the Thames River about two miles west of present town of Ingersol.
In 1805 [late December 1804] Benajah and a neighbor, Major Tousley, went to Little York (Toronto) to get deeds for their lands. On their way home they undertook a short cut across Burlington Bay on the ice but had gone only a short distance when the ice gave way. People on shore came to help and Benajah said, "Help the Major first: I can keep up". So a rope was thrown to the Major and he was pulled out. Then it was thrown to Benajah but they jerked it so hard and quick that it broke and weighted by a heavy and by this time thoroughly soaked bearskin coat, he went down and did not come up. He was grappled out and buried in Ingersol cemetery on[on King St.] Jan 25th 1806. Violetta was left in a new and sparcely settled country with a large young family so she lost no time in remarrying again. Maybe there is a story here if we but knew it.
Later in 1806 she married Solomon Nichols. They had two sons Sylvanus born 1807 and Samuel 1809. The farm near Ingersol was sold and she and her family and Solomon moved to Norfolk Co. to a farm about two miles West of Port Rowan. Solomon died in 1814 (sic - other records show 1813). Violetta lived on at her home for many years but she finally sold it and went to live with her children. She died in 1844 at the home of her daughter Electa (Mrs. Samuel Harper) who lived a few miles east of Aylmer and she is buried in the Burdick cemetery there."[ ]
Upper Canada Land Petitions, N Misc./ 7, 1798, Long Point
To his honour Peter Russell Esquire, Presiden of the ? of his Majestys Province of Upper Canada
In council
The humble Petition of Solomon Nicholes
Most Humbly Showeth
That your Petitioner has Served on board of His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak for the space of three years. Your Petitioner came to this province and resided in the township of Woodhouse in the County of Norfolk this two years past.
Requested two hundred acres of land.
According to Nicholas Carter Brown (Violetta's grandson) diary he with other descendants erecated a monument at the Burdick Cemetery (south Gore, Lot 21) east of Aylmer about 1900. It reads;
In memory of Violetta / dau. of / Col. Brinton Paine / born in NY state 16 Sept. 1767 / died 15 Oct. 1844 / wife of Capt. Benajah Brown / mother of / Walter Brown/ of Malahide and / Brinton Paine Brown Sr. / of Brownsville / Dereham.
According to the Norfolk Co. Marriage Reg., Paul Dusten or Dustin married first a Charlotte Monro 21 Oct 1810, by Elias Foster, J.P. and witnessed by Cornelius Dedrick and William Backhouse.
Charlotte was the daughter of John Monro of Walsingham who was a Lt. in the N.J. vols. He was born in 1761. See 2 & 3/9 Grimsby, Reid's, Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists. p. 227.
She was awarded by OC a land patent 23 Dec 1815. This may have occurred after she died and Paul was married to Violetta (Paine) Brown.
Paul Dusten's Will of 25 November 1819
Paul Dusten, Sr.'s will is registered in the London District Surrogate Registry-Book 2. It indicates that he was a Yeoman and Farmer from Walsingham. He died 29 April 1822. His Will of 25 Nov. 1819 names children, Charlotte Dusten, Susannah Dusten, Sarah Dusten, Paul Dusten, J.B. Rodney; wife Violetta Dusten; and stepchildren Silvanus & Samuel Nichol. Execrs. were friends John Kilmaster & Robert Alway.
Bolton, CT, vital records. [Check 1842 census Malahide and Walsingham.]
g.s. was erected in1900 according to Nicholas Carter Brown Diary. Brown Family Bible.
She sold 25 at South East, 25 acres of Lot 22, First Conc. Walsingham, 15 Jan. 1840 (Instrument 3273) To Wilson Montross.
At the close of the revolutionary war, Benajah bought 600 acres of land on the Genesee River at Painted Post and had been living on this land several years when a General Wadsworth claimed it as his. They went to court about it and Benajah was disposessed and financially ruined. He was very angry naturally, and declared that if the country for which he had fought wouldn't protect him in his honest rights he wouldn't stay in it so in 1797, in the Fall, he brought his family into Canada crossing the Niagara River at Fort Erie. For the winter he stayed at Fort Erie and worked at odd jobs while Violetta earned a little knitting socks for the soldiers stationed there. Then he went to a farm, just north of Brantford on Grand R., now known as Bow Park farm and run as an experimental farm for Canadian Canners Ltd. [This was written in 1942]. While there the Indian Chief Joseph Brant asked him to teach indians how to farm and he tried to do so. But Violetta didn't like it. She protested against raising her family entirely amongst Indians so in 1801 they moved to Oxford County and took up land on the Thames River about two miles west of present town of Ingersol.
In 1805 [late December 1804] Benajah and a neighbor, Major Tousley, went to Little York (Toronto) to get deeds for their lands. On their way home they undertook a short cut across Burlington Bay on the ice but had gone only a short distance when the ice gave way. People on shore came to help and Benajah said, "Help the Major first: I can keep up". So a rope was thrown to the Major and he was pulled out. Then it was thrown to Benajah but they jerked it so hard and quick that it broke and weighted by a heavy and by this time thoroughly soaked bearskin coat, he went down and did not come up. He was grappled out and buried in Ingersol cemetery on[on King St.] Jan 25th 1806. Violetta was left in a new and sparcely settled country with a large young family so she lost no time in remarrying again. Maybe there is a story here if we but knew it.
Later in 1806 she married Solomon Nichols. They had two sons Sylvanus born 1807 and Samuel 1809. The farm near Ingersol was sold and she and her family and Solomon moved to Norfolk Co. to a farm about two miles West of Port Rowan. Solomon died in 1814 (sic - other records show 1813). Violetta lived on at her home for many years but she finally sold it and went to live with her children. She died in 1844 at the home of her daughter Electa (Mrs. Samuel Harper) who lived a few miles east of Aylmer and she is buried in the Burdick cemetery there."[ ]
Upper Canada Land Petitions, N Misc./ 7, 1798, Long Point
To his honour Peter Russell Esquire, Presiden of the ? of his Majestys Province of Upper Canada
In council
The humble Petition of Solomon Nicholes
Most Humbly Showeth
That your Petitioner has Served on board of His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak for the space of three years. Your Petitioner came to this province and resided in the township of Woodhouse in the County of Norfolk this two years past.
Requested two hundred acres of land.
According to Nicholas Carter Brown (Violetta's grandson) diary he with other descendants erecated a monument at the Burdick Cemetery (south Gore, Lot 21) east of Aylmer about 1900. It reads;
In memory of Violetta / dau. of / Col. Brinton Paine / born in NY state 16 Sept. 1767 / died 15 Oct. 1844 / wife of Capt. Benajah Brown / mother of / Walter Brown/ of Malahide and / Brinton Paine Brown Sr. / of Brownsville / Dereham.
According to the Norfolk Co. Marriage Reg., Paul Dusten or Dustin married first a Charlotte Monro 21 Oct 1810, by Elias Foster, J.P. and witnessed by Cornelius Dedrick and William Backhouse.
Charlotte was the daughter of John Monro of Walsingham who was a Lt. in the N.J. vols. He was born in 1761. See 2 & 3/9 Grimsby, Reid's, Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists. p. 227.
She was awarded by OC a land patent 23 Dec 1815. This may have occurred after she died and Paul was married to Violetta (Paine) Brown.
Paul Dusten's Will of 25 November 1819
Paul Dusten, Sr.'s will is registered in the London District Surrogate Registry-Book 2. It indicates that he was a Yeoman and Farmer from Walsingham. He died 29 April 1822. His Will of 25 Nov. 1819 names children, Charlotte Dusten, Susannah Dusten, Sarah Dusten, Paul Dusten, J.B. Rodney; wife Violetta Dusten; and stepchildren Silvanus & Samuel Nichol. Execrs. were friends John Kilmaster & Robert Alway.
Bolton, CT, vital records. [Check 1842 census Malahide and Walsingham.]
g.s. was erected in1900 according to Nicholas Carter Brown Diary. Brown Family Bible.
She sold 25 at South East, 25 acres of Lot 22, First Conc. Walsingham, 15 Jan. 1840 (Instrument 3273) To Wilson Montross.
"Violetta Paine, 3rd daughter of Col. Brinton Paine was born Sept. 16th 1767 at New York. She married Benajah Brown, born Oct 23rd 1762 of Scottish parents [not proven] which is all we seem to know of him. They were married on Sept. 8, 1784. I believe Benajah was a captain in the Winchester Militia, 4th regiment but there seems to be some confusion about this record. [The 4th reg had a Capt. Benajah Brown who died in 1822 and a Benajah Brown who was a private---BCJ]
At the close of the revolutionary war, Benajah bought 600 acres of land on the Genesee River at Painted Post and had been living on this land several years when a General Wadsworth claimed it as his. They went to court about it and Benajah was disposessed and financially ruined. He was very angry naturally, and declared that if the country for which he had fought wouldn't protect him in his honest rights he wouldn't stay in it so in 1797, in the Fall, he brought his family into Canada crossing the Niagara River at Fort Erie. For the winter he stayed at Fort Erie and worked at odd jobs while Violetta earned a little knitting socks for the soldiers stationed there. Then he went to a farm, just north of Brantford on Grand R., now known as Bow Park farm and run as an experimental farm for Canadian Canners Ltd. [This was written in 1942]. While there the Indian Chief Joseph Brant asked him to teach indians how to farm and he tried to do so. But Violetta didn't like it. She protested against raising her family entirely amongst Indians so in 1801 they moved to Oxford County and took up land on the Thames River about two miles west of present town of Ingersol.
In 1805 [late December 1804] Benajah and a neighbor, Major Tousley, went to Little York (Toronto) to get deeds for their lands. On their way home they undertook a short cut across Burlington Bay on the ice but had gone only a short distance when the ice gave way. People on shore came to help and Benajah said, "Help the Major first: I can keep up". So a rope was thrown to the Major and he was pulled out. Then it was thrown to Benajah but they jerked it so hard and quick that it broke and weighted by a heavy and by this time thoroughly soaked bearskin coat, he went down and did not come up. He was grappled out and buried in Ingersol cemetery on[on King St.] Jan 25th 1806. Violetta was left in a new and sparcely settled country with a large young family so she lost no time in remarrying again. Maybe there is a story here if we but knew it.
Later in 1806 she married Solomon Nichols. They had two sons Sylvanus born 1807 and Samuel 1809. The farm near Ingersol was sold and she and her family and Solomon moved to Norfolk Co. to a farm about two miles West of Port Rowan. Solomon died in 1814 (sic - other records show 1813). Violetta lived on at her home for many years but she finally sold it and went to live with her children. She died in 1844 at the home of her daughter Electa (Mrs. Samuel Harper) who lived a few miles east of Aylmer and she is buried in the Burdick cemetery there."[ ]
Upper Canada Land Petitions, N Misc./ 7, 1798, Long Point
To his honour Peter Russell Esquire, Presiden of the ? of his Majestys Province of Upper Canada
In council
The humble Petition of Solomon Nicholes
Most Humbly Showeth
That your Petitioner has Served on board of His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak for the space of three years. Your Petitioner came to this province and resided in the township of Woodhouse in the County of Norfolk this two years past.
Requested two hundred acres of land.
According to Nicholas Carter Brown (Violetta's grandson) diary he with other descendants erecated a monument at the Burdick Cemetery (south Gore, Lot 21) east of Aylmer about 1900. It reads;
In memory of Violetta / dau. of / Col. Brinton Paine / born in NY state 16 Sept. 1767 / died 15 Oct. 1844 / wife of Capt. Benajah Brown / mother of / Walter Brown/ of Malahide and / Brinton Paine Brown Sr. / of Brownsville / Dereham.
According to the Norfolk Co. Marriage Reg., Paul Dusten or Dustin married first a Charlotte Monro 21 Oct 1810, by Elias Foster, J.P. and witnessed by Cornelius Dedrick and William Backhouse.
Charlotte was the daughter of John Monro of Walsingham who was a Lt. in the N.J. vols. He was born in 1761. See 2 & 3/9 Grimsby, Reid's, Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists. p. 227.
She was awarded by OC a land patent 23 Dec 1815. This may have occurred after she died and Paul was married to Violetta (Paine) Brown.
Paul Dusten's Will of 25 November 1819
Paul Dusten, Sr.'s will is registered in the London District Surrogate Registry-Book 2. It indicates that he was a Yeoman and Farmer from Walsingham. He died 29 April 1822. His Will of 25 Nov. 1819 names children, Charlotte Dusten, Susannah Dusten, Sarah Dusten, Paul Dusten, J.B. Rodney; wife Violetta Dusten; and stepchildren Silvanus & Samuel Nichol. Execrs. were friends John Kilmaster & Robert Alway.
Bolton, CT, vital records. [Check 1842 census Malahide and Walsingham.]
g.s. was erected in1900 according to Nicholas Carter Brown Diary. Brown Family Bible.
She sold 25 at South East, 25 acres of Lot 22, First Conc. Walsingham, 15 Jan. 1840 (Instrument 3273) To Wilson Montross.
At the close of the revolutionary war, Benajah bought 600 acres of land on the Genesee River at Painted Post and had been living on this land several years when a General Wadsworth claimed it as his. They went to court about it and Benajah was disposessed and financially ruined. He was very angry naturally, and declared that if the country for which he had fought wouldn't protect him in his honest rights he wouldn't stay in it so in 1797, in the Fall, he brought his family into Canada crossing the Niagara River at Fort Erie. For the winter he stayed at Fort Erie and worked at odd jobs while Violetta earned a little knitting socks for the soldiers stationed there. Then he went to a farm, just north of Brantford on Grand R., now known as Bow Park farm and run as an experimental farm for Canadian Canners Ltd. [This was written in 1942]. While there the Indian Chief Joseph Brant asked him to teach indians how to farm and he tried to do so. But Violetta didn't like it. She protested against raising her family entirely amongst Indians so in 1801 they moved to Oxford County and took up land on the Thames River about two miles west of present town of Ingersol.
In 1805 [late December 1804] Benajah and a neighbor, Major Tousley, went to Little York (Toronto) to get deeds for their lands. On their way home they undertook a short cut across Burlington Bay on the ice but had gone only a short distance when the ice gave way. People on shore came to help and Benajah said, "Help the Major first: I can keep up". So a rope was thrown to the Major and he was pulled out. Then it was thrown to Benajah but they jerked it so hard and quick that it broke and weighted by a heavy and by this time thoroughly soaked bearskin coat, he went down and did not come up. He was grappled out and buried in Ingersol cemetery on[on King St.] Jan 25th 1806. Violetta was left in a new and sparcely settled country with a large young family so she lost no time in remarrying again. Maybe there is a story here if we but knew it.
Later in 1806 she married Solomon Nichols. They had two sons Sylvanus born 1807 and Samuel 1809. The farm near Ingersol was sold and she and her family and Solomon moved to Norfolk Co. to a farm about two miles West of Port Rowan. Solomon died in 1814 (sic - other records show 1813). Violetta lived on at her home for many years but she finally sold it and went to live with her children. She died in 1844 at the home of her daughter Electa (Mrs. Samuel Harper) who lived a few miles east of Aylmer and she is buried in the Burdick cemetery there."[ ]
Upper Canada Land Petitions, N Misc./ 7, 1798, Long Point
To his honour Peter Russell Esquire, Presiden of the ? of his Majestys Province of Upper Canada
In council
The humble Petition of Solomon Nicholes
Most Humbly Showeth
That your Petitioner has Served on board of His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak for the space of three years. Your Petitioner came to this province and resided in the township of Woodhouse in the County of Norfolk this two years past.
Requested two hundred acres of land.
According to Nicholas Carter Brown (Violetta's grandson) diary he with other descendants erecated a monument at the Burdick Cemetery (south Gore, Lot 21) east of Aylmer about 1900. It reads;
In memory of Violetta / dau. of / Col. Brinton Paine / born in NY state 16 Sept. 1767 / died 15 Oct. 1844 / wife of Capt. Benajah Brown / mother of / Walter Brown/ of Malahide and / Brinton Paine Brown Sr. / of Brownsville / Dereham.
According to the Norfolk Co. Marriage Reg., Paul Dusten or Dustin married first a Charlotte Monro 21 Oct 1810, by Elias Foster, J.P. and witnessed by Cornelius Dedrick and William Backhouse.
Charlotte was the daughter of John Monro of Walsingham who was a Lt. in the N.J. vols. He was born in 1761. See 2 & 3/9 Grimsby, Reid's, Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists. p. 227.
She was awarded by OC a land patent 23 Dec 1815. This may have occurred after she died and Paul was married to Violetta (Paine) Brown.
Paul Dusten's Will of 25 November 1819
Paul Dusten, Sr.'s will is registered in the London District Surrogate Registry-Book 2. It indicates that he was a Yeoman and Farmer from Walsingham. He died 29 April 1822. His Will of 25 Nov. 1819 names children, Charlotte Dusten, Susannah Dusten, Sarah Dusten, Paul Dusten, J.B. Rodney; wife Violetta Dusten; and stepchildren Silvanus & Samuel Nichol. Execrs. were friends John Kilmaster & Robert Alway.
Bolton, CT, vital records. [Check 1842 census Malahide and Walsingham.]
g.s. was erected in1900 according to Nicholas Carter Brown Diary. Brown Family Bible.
She sold 25 at South East, 25 acres of Lot 22, First Conc. Walsingham, 15 Jan. 1840 (Instrument 3273) To Wilson Montross.
Inscription
Violetta / dau. of / Col. Brinton Paine / born in N. Y. State / Sept. 16, 1767 / died Oct. 15, 1844/ wife of Capt. Benajah Brown / Mother of Walter Brown of Malahide and Brinton Paine Brown Sr. of Brownsville / Dereham- Prob. erected circa 1900 by NCB
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