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- October 31, 1816 (Creation)
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Eliphalet Adams had been born in New England. In 1798, he had decided to move to the Eastern Townships in Lower Canada, settling in the Westbury area northeast of present-day Sherbrooke. The reference to the ferry in Prince Edward County, Ontario c follows: A future ferry owner, Eliphalet Adams born at Cheshire, New Hampshire in 1775 and a relative of American President John Quincy Adams, built up a thriving lumbering and building business out of Picton and began buying land at Van Alstine’s Mills. Adams bought parcels of land between 1807 and 1814 from Loyalist pioneer Matthew Steel, William Moore and David Rattan in lots 7 and 8 west of the ferry landing and began to build a tavern and hotel on this property. This building may be the present white house or former Stage and Ferry Hotel at the lip of the hill before going down to the present ferry docks.
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- will of Eliphlet Adams of Marysburgh County of Prince Edward, Midland District
- letter - to W M Ponton, August 31, 1888,
- page from Dictionary of Legal Quotations