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Elias Smith fonds [textual record (chiefly microform)]

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Fonds

Date:

1799-1841.

Reference:

R6516-0-8-E, MG23-HII13

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101031

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Elias Smith fonds
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Date(s):

1799-1841.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 microfilm reel negative and positive.
0.3 cm of textual records (9 p.) transcript.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of Elias Smith's letterbook which concerns trade and the settlement of Hope Township, Upper Canada, 1799-1800 with a few notes at the end, 1830-1841, microfilm, reel M-1; and a petition for grants of land to the ten children of Elias Smith, in recognition of his services from 1796-1799, in the settlement of Hope Township, transcript, 1799, 9 pages.

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Smith, Elias, fl. 1760-1805

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Smith, Elias, fl. 1760-1805 : Elias Smith, (1736-1820) was a native of New York who served with the British Army from 1774 to 1783 as carpenter, contractor and paymaster of artificers, spending his latter years in command of a Loyalist corps of artificers. In 1764 he married Catherine Miller (1745-1826) and together they had eleven children. In 1783 the Smith family moved to Quebec but returned to New York City in 1784 where Elias was listed as a carpenter, distiller and merchant. About 1788 he settled at Niagara. In 1792 he petitioned for land in Hope Township as a Loyalist, thereafter moving to Port Hope in 1801. Between 1802 and 1813 Elias operated a distillery and acted as Justice of the Peace (1805-1813). He also maintained business connections with Montreal, where he acted as a merchant and had interests in printing. Elias Smith died in 1820.

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General note:

Letterbook, 1799-1800, microfilmed in 1952 from the original held by the Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass., the Baker Library had received the letterbook in 1927 from a great-grandson.
Transcript of a petition, 1799, received in 1938 from Mrs. Coburn Smith of Ottawa, Ont.; copied from the original held by the Harvard Museum, Boston, Mass.
Original documents created in Hope Township, Ontario.

Location of originals note:

Originals with the Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass., and with the Harvard Museum, Boston, Mass.
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Elias Smith - Correspondence, 1799-1800

Hope (Ont.:Township) - Land settlement, 1799-1800

Land grants - Upper Canada, 1799

Petitions - Upper Canada, 1799

Hope (Ont.:Township) - Smith family, 1799
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MG23-HII13
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Textual records: microform

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Microfilm reel M-1

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Textual records

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Volume [MG23 H II 13] 1

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