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William Jarvis and family collection [textual record]

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Date:

1767-1901.

Reference:

R6398-0-X-E, MG23-HI3

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101138

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William Jarvis and family collection
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Collection includes:

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Date(s):

1767-1901.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

14 cm of textual records (695 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of the papers of William Jarvis and family, 1782-1901, 95 pages; the papers of Hannah Peters Jarvis and family 1767-1822, 600 pages.

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Jarvis, William and family, 1756-1817

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Jarvis, William and family, 1756-1817 : William Jarvis, public servant and Loyalist, served under J.G. Simcoe in the Queen's Rangers. He was a Provincial Secretary of Upper Canada, 1792-1817. His son, Samuel Peters Jarvis (1792-1857) was Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1837-1845. William married Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Peters, a Connecticut Loyalist. Their daughter, Hannah Jarvis, married Alexander Hamilton, sherriff of the Niagara District. Samuel Peters Jarvis, married Mary, daughter of William Powell. The interrelations of the Jarvis, Peters, Hamilton and Powell families is reflected in the papers.

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General note:

The papers of William Jarvis and family, 1782-1901, were received in 1952 from Col. C.P. Meredith of Ottawa, Ontario. The papers of Hannah Peters Jarvis and family, 1767-1822, were received in 1912. Most of these papers were found in the Hamiltion home at Queenston, and the remainder in the home of Miss Tench at Toronto.
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Jarvis family, 1782-1901 William Birdseye Peters, 1791-1824

Legal documents, 1767-1882 Reverend R. Markhouse, 1789-1824

William Jarvis - Diaries, 1792 Hannah Peters Jarvis, 1791-1824

St. Anthony (Upper Canada) - Land claims, 1767-1822 St. Anthony (U.C.), 1767-1822

Peters family, 1767-1822 Samuel Peters, 1806-1810

Lieutenant Governor Francis Gore, 1810

Robert Eyre, 1802-1803
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Private

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MG23-HI3
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