Library Bar - Fairmont Royal York Restaurant - Toronto, ONThe staff were extremely friendly and helpful. ![]() ![]() Home Page of Arnold Firby, St. Thomas Ontario, Canada Home. Descendants. Life In The 1. Colonel Thomas Talbot was born at the ancient Baronial Castle of Malahide in the county of Dublin, Ireland, July 1. ![]() ![]() Anglo- Irish nobles, the Talbot. In those days of peers and primogeniture, families and estates were inherited wholly by the eldest son, leaving younger sons such as Thomas to seek careers and wealth elsewhere, Consequently, in 1. British Army was purchased for him. At 1. 6 he served as an aide to Marquis of Buckingham of the Court of Dublin and two years later was posted to garrison duty with the 2. Regiment at Quebec. He was Private Secretary from 1. ![]() John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant- Governor of Upper Canada, living and serving in Newark (Niagara- on- the- Lake), touring the Western Peninsula and winning Lord Simcoe. But in 1. 80. 1, after the Treaty of Amiens brought a temporary end to The Napoleonic Wars, he sold his commission, retired from service, and sailed again for Upper Canada, seeking land in Yarmouth Township. When Talbot had acted as Simcoe. Talbot was so pleased with the country that he applied for the land. He did not get the land he wanted or the amount General John Graves Simcoe had recommended which necessitated another trip to London, but when he returned in 1. ![]() Yarmouth, in the Township of Dunwich and Aldborough. Talbot was granted Five Thousand acres of land on the condition of conveying fifty acres out of every two hundred to an actual settler. He was also commissioned addition grants that covered in all about 2. Western Peninsula along the Lake Erie shore, south of the Thames River to Lake Erie and from Windsor in the West to all most Long Point in the East. 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If Colonel Thomas Talbot had not been balked by royal favor and South Yarmouth had not already been granted to the Honorable Colonel James Baby family of Sandwich for services to the Crown, his settlement may have been started in Houghton Township of what is now Norfolk County, or Yarmouth Township in Elgin. Yarmouth was Colonel. That letter was written by Colonel Talbot from . Nobody knows exactly where Skitteewoaboa was. Some historians say it was Port Bruce: others, Port Stanley. The late Dr. Coyne is authority for the statement that in May 1. Colonel Talbot actually chopped trees near Port Stanley, with the view of starting a settlement in Yarmouth. The Talbot settlement actually began on May 2. Port Stanley. As Talbot approached his new possession by water, he selected a spot at the mouth of a romantic winding creek in the township of Dunwich as his landing place, naming it Port Talbot. Seizing an axe from an attendant he at once felled the first tree animating Columbus as he kissed the earth of the New World. Colonel Talbot began his settlement for the purpose of encouraging and developing the growing of hemp. He was an authority on the subject; and he had inspected the soil along the north shore of Lake Erie in the company of his friend, General John Graves Simcoe, with that agricultural specialty in mind. The War of 1. 81. Immigration ceased, crops were destroyed, cattle slaughter, and Talbot. Talbot escaped numerous attempts to capture him but his surveyor, land registrar, and neighbor, Colonel Mahlon Burwell, was nabbed and held prisoner in Ohio for the duration of the war. After the war, however, settlers poured into the area, giving Talbot the numbers he needed to realize his dream. As it was necessary for Talbot to go to York (Toronto) frequently, Colonel Talbot had a trail blazed, which snaked through the woods in that direction. He began the construction of the Talbot Road in 1. Century it was already not only the longest but also the best road in Upper Canada. This trail became known as the Talbot Road and is still called that in many places today. Highway #3 follows much of it today. In his plan, Talbot had his settlers receiving grants of land from him were obliged to build a road and clear a right of way. Also, they were required to spend a stated number of days per year on its upkeep. This was known as . Talbot prepared for settlement by having Colonel Mahlon Burwell survey the Talbot road and devising a manageable means of assigning lots and ensuring completion of settlement duties. Newcomers were interviewed at his . If he had been in the military service in England or had fought in the American Revolution as an Empire Loyalist, he was entitled to at least 2. When the settler was assigned his lot, he had to clear 5 acres of land and build a log shanty (a minimum size was required) and opened the road in front of their lot, Talbot then issued them a certificate, which with fees, they could take to York to claim their patent and register ownership. If their duties were not preformed or in some cases if they proved rebellious, their names were rubbed out and replaced by others. Two hundred- acre lots of land were surveyed out along both sides of the road and settlement started from the Talbot. When the land along the road was taken up Townships were then surveyed. The roads and lots were usually set out in a grid pattern and Talbot originally had set aside a certain percentage of the lots as Clergy land for the use of the Church and this turned out to be a detriment to settlers. No one was required to clear the land or build the roads by them. Eventually the system was changed and these lots went to the settlers. Using this method, Talbot opened land in about 2. Long Point to the Detroit River. In selling crown lands, he earned 3% of the selling price. Where he could he claimed land for his efforts, holding it for speculation. In Dunwich and Aldborough, he assigned the Highland Scots as little of his 5,0. Set on 5. 0 acres of reserve and claimed the remaining 1. The Scots protested, claiming that Talbot had swindled them of their rights and kept their land. Many were unable to see why, that in placing a settler on 2. Colonel Talbot. This was however in accordance with the British Government and did not prevent the settler from acquiring more land by paying for 1. Anger turned to opposition and the formation of the Reform Party. Local Reformers in opposition to York. Talbot responded in St. Thomas on St. To no avail, Reformers continued to be elected locally, forcing Burwell to run in London to regain a seat. And in response to complaints about his arbitrary practices and concerns about the mass of land that he had acquired, Talbot himself was rubbed out in 1. Ordered to end settlement practices and give way to provincial authorities, again he appealed to his influential friends in England, won some reprieve, and stubbornly refused to fully comply with provincial demands, even to the time of his death. During the late 1. Talbot fell out of favor with the government, another group, the Canadian Company acquired a great deal of unclaimed land. A wealthy company of Englishmen, who had purchased hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land and some not so fertile land for about one shilling an acre for the purpose of speculation. For a period both where a source of land to the settlers. Before 1. 85. 0, the original crown land and deeds were distributed as follows: Colonel Baby and Family 1. Canada Company 5,8. King. From 1. 81. Loyalists from the Niagara area, where the good land was all taken, came to clear land hear. Others came from the old country too. Colonel Thomas Talbot was eccentric to say the least. He quit a most promising military career, abandoned the British Court and the world of society at the age of 2. Elgin County. He lived in a crude log house for years, choosing to call it with Irish wit. Colonel Talbot remained a bachelor to the end. Some say he was disappointed in love as a young man and that this was one of the reasons for him abandoning his career and virtually isolating himself in the Canadian wilderness. Roughing it in the bush, at cost and deprivation, Colonel Talbot did establish the framework of a prosperous, British settlement. He had roads surveyed and opened. He assigned lots and saw to it that settlement duties were done. As the recognized local representative of colonial power, he assumed numerous official roles and, when it suited his purpose, served. In early years admirers referred to him as the Father of the Settlement, critics, both local and provincial, castigated him as arbitrary and unjust, self- serving and self . He was all this and more he was charming, often moody, austere and ruthless, concerned at times but rarely warm or inviting, Talbot was the child of the 1. Dublin, here to make his land fortune of British North America. Colonel Talbot died in the home of George Macbeth in London Ontario on February 6 1. He was born in Castle Malahide, Ireland on July 1. Richard Talbot and Margaret O. Thomas must have been a scout for the rest of the family and either returned to England or wrote back that the rest of the family should come. Whether or not all the rest came together, I don. Robert Firby (1. 81. Thomas got 1. 00 acres almost adjoining his uncle. It had been Clergy land. I assume that Robert. The first evidence I have of John is in the 1. John and Elizabeth had a son James born in England in 1. Unfortunately church records for the early 1. They were serviced by itinerant Ministers and often held the services in the homes and schools. The first and only church in the area was Benson. She is not buried in the Firby cemetery but in another one some three miles southeast near Richmond Village (Wilsonburg Cemetery). Also Thomas Firby (1. Elizabeth Cheeseman of Barninghare Yorkshire while in England and their children were born in Canada. Another Firby Girl married a Pearson in Yorkshire in 1.
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