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Pallia Public and Residence Main St MARKET By Appointment Barrister Solicitor Notary Public PHONE 151 Wellington St STIVER Solicitors Notaries 1 N Mathews KC Stiver BA Lyons JOSEPH VALE NEWMARKET OFFICE MAIN ST ONE MILLS Solicitor and Notary MAIN ST Phone Toronto REPRESENTATIVE GLIDE Aurora Phone King On St North End Oak Ridges A E HAWKINS Contractor For BULLDOZING GRADING CELLAR EXCAVATIONS o and Hauling Gravel Sand and Fill Phone Aurora SAND LTD VIOLET ROBINSON Conveyancing Insurance St Phone Newmarket DENTAL i DR NOBLE dentist Over MUNICIPAI OFFICE Office Residence for government approved crushed stone of various sizes crashed gravel sand concrete gravel and pit run Delivered or at bin fa Plant phone Office phones 370 and ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR House and Farm Wiring DOUG BAIN General Repairs Oil Burners Fawcett Space Heater All Electrical Household Appliances Phone Box Ontario St Newmarket STEWART By ETHEL This is the seventeenth instalment of a continuing Story of Sharon from its founding to the present The story was written after almost years of research and will we believe be a major contribution to know ledge of the past The remaining installments will follow weekly RADIO PARTS TUBES BATTERIES ETC Main St Phone 355 Dr C VanderVoort DENTIST Main St Newmarket Phone MEDICAL o BOYD 214 Indian Road TORONTO Phone ME- DR MERVSH m m Physician and Surgeon Phone 485 Consultation Appointment residence corner of Raglan and Sis A STOUFFER Raglan St Expert Piano Tuner and Repairer Pianos Bought Sold and Rented PHONE James J Wall PLUMBING HEATING CONTRACTOR Dealer for Water Pressure Systems Oil Burners Cement Septic Tanks Constructed OAK RIDGES Phone King ill Phone Aurora Physician and Surgeon MARGARET T Physician Office Prospect St Consultation by Appointment TELEPHONE Office Residence newmarket Coal Coke Wood and Stoker Coal Phone Orders taken for Gravel Sand and Crushed Stone and General Hauling OSTEOPATHY WILSON OV Osteopathic and BUILDING BARBIE Telephone ultation by Appointment JOHN DALY Expert Watch and Clock Repair 31 Gorham St or Phone Newmarket ALL WORK GUARANTEED -XT- HOURS Johnston Jr PHYSICIAN St Newmarket a til Office Newmarket Residence King Burying Ground on the Hill On the hill to the north of the village is another burying ground For many years this has been known as the Selby burying ground It was the pro perty of the Metho dists and at one time a chapel stood within the enclosure In the county registry office at Newmarket may be seen a faded document an Indenture of a Deed of Gift bearing date of January between John of the Township of East in the County of York in the Home District of the Province of Upper Canada yeo man of the one part and Joseph Sutherland Humphrey Finch Mar tain Stiles Andrew Clubine William Huntley and Nathaniel Homes Trustees of place aforesaid of the other part whereby the said John have given granted and conveyed unto the said before named gentleman or their suc- as Trustees forever all that certain tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the said Township of East being composed of a piece of the east end of Lot No in the second concession of said township It then con tinues with detailed measure ments Said indenture is wit nessed by Abraham Lepard and Joseph and was registered by Thomas the seventh day of March This cemetery as are many others is in a sad state of for gotten care It too is almost as old as Sharon together they have come through the years and here lie others of those who had given of strength and cour age to settle and develop the township of East Gwiliimbuy To enter this cemetery one must almost fly and the earth pro vided such uncertain footing that a personal entrance was not attempted A few names from the stones have been obtained There is that of William Lockhart a mer chant of Sharon who died in 1856 His memorial was erected by his friends in Sharon and vi cinity George Driver is another well remembered in the village Others are Evans Barker Wright Rogers and Hill A number of in scriptions bear mute witness to the epidemics which swept Sharon The following letter of his torical interest was received from Mr Reg Selby of Toronto along with permission to publish It was written from Sharon Queen Street 22 of May Dear Brother and Sister I received your letter of the of November on the in- shot while stant I cant tell you the cause of it being delayed so long un less it Is on account of the su perscription When you write again direct your loiter to Yong Street County of York Upper Canada Yong Street be ing a noted place your letter will have no difficulty in com ing then and a letter coming to York or Yong Street for me I would receive it immediately was happy to hear of your welldoing and I have reason to be thankful that I my fam ily and friends have been in a tolerable state of health since I wrote ye last Only aggra vated in mind sometimes at the sight of the murderer of my brother who still has the assur ance to reside in Newmarket However I am still blessed with fortitude enough to keep both my tongue and hands off him I have committed him to the Great Judge of all things which will no doubt punish the THE VARIETY OF DESIGNS In our collection of MONUMENTS Is such that we can meet almost any require ment both as to kind and cost Wo also make memorials to order of every Youll find our work excellent always and prompt and priced- and SON MAIN ST NEWMARKET VIBE BURGLARY AUTO AND LIFE Bill 3 Main NEWMARKET Phone MENDING AND ALTEBATIO BUI Newmarket INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Listings invited Clients Waiting AUBREY STEWART BE SURE INSURE JOHN ST BRADFORD Phono Your Local Representative DARCY MILLER 39 GORHAM ST NEWMARKET Phone KEN PIANO TUNER AND TECHNICIAN Dealer For New Mason and Risen Pianos Used Pianos Bought and Sold GRACE ST NEWMARKET Phone Estimates Free Brick and Block laying FIREPLACES CHIMNEYS A BUILT A REPAIRED derer sooner or later You re quested to know where Robert was buried I had him buried in the burying ground at the Methodist Meeting House join ing my land burying ground at Sharon and had his grave paled in and painted I can see it as I sit by my fireside I wrote Roberts wifes uncle in New York immediately after the unfortunate affair took place wishing him to write home to his wife I concealed from him the cause of his death for cer tain reasons The people in Geneva State at my un fortunate hope and the murderer has a great many enemies in so much that he never travels alone so that I have no but he will meet with his desery before many years go round However we will leave that sorrowful af fair for the present and hope for the best I to hear of the encouragement that Doctor Straughan gave you when he was in York I went to see him last fall but he was not at home But now that you have sent me the particulars I shall go down on purpose to see him on the subject of the re serve next week or the next af ter when I hope I shall be able to send ye a good account How ever I should be glad that ye would come back again for I think ye could do better here than ye can do in the States I would be glad that ye would return and I will do what I can for ye I have got houses so that ye would be put to no ex pense with respect of that until ye could take yourselves better We moved into our new house fall and we find a great deal of comfort in it There no such a good house on Queen Street and I feel more attached to the place than I ever did now that I have my buildings up I should not have wrote at present only on account of hav ing a good opportunity John Pearson is going on a visit to Pennsylvania so I send my let ter with him I shall write ye again as soon as I see Dr to know what he will do for ye It is in his power to be a good friend as he is one of the members of the executive council and he is a gentleman of his word without doubt We are sorry to hear poor little Thomas sowell again Sally and the children join me in love to ye all No more at present Yours Brother Thomas This letter was addressed to Mr John Evans Palmyra New York Robert was his horse past a place where a cha rivari was taking place Methodism In Sharon Survey in Upper Canada con tinued and settlers penetrated deeper into the hinterland where the missionary efforts of the apostles of John Wesley provide an appreciable part in the story of pioneer life How fortunate that in tiie passing of years the pages of time may be turned back to the journals and records religiously kept by those gospel messengers where a renewal of perspective will project into a clearer focus the value of those consecrated labors of the early Methodist circuit riders The historic background of Canadian Methodism lies close to Sharon The following notes extracted from reports bring a very good picture of the vast distances isolated habita tions which these men attempted to bridge In Sandersons His tory of Methodism Nathan Bangs reports in that on Street which is a settle ment extending northward from Little York for about 30 miles there are no Societies Metho dist All the field was new and uncultivated except some Quaker neighborhoods On this Yonge Street circuit in John Reynolds had buckled on his armour afresh and at the close of the year reported an increase of Again of this same circuit in John said it was harder to work than any I had yet travelled Our circuit extended from York to Lake and eastward to Major beyond Bow- manville In to cover the vast area from West to Nelson Daniel Muilen was enlisted Prayer meetings were multi plied throughout the circuit Hickory torches lighted the way through the forests Sermons were followed by prayer and conversions in his diary of relates Our circuit Street embraces York King West Gwillimbury Whitchurch Mark- ham Pickering and the roads bad beyond descrip tion accommodations of the most primitive kind but we were re ceived by the people as our ministrations being their only supply of religious instruc tion In Anson Green says In his autobiography I have now been round most of the appointments in eight townships Toronto Trafalgar Nelson East and West Barton churches and one in where all may preach In Newmarket and Lake are listed as a separate circuit with John as min ister and a membership of In the Newmarket circuit included East and West and in further men tion is found from Father Corson wherein the Yonge Street circuit was miles by 25 miles and in cluded the three At this time four local preachers Watson Moore and aided in the work A bill appeared likely to be passed in at York which would permit the Wesleyan Me thodists to keep a register of births marriages and deaths The Christian Guardian of Aug ust states that the Me thodists at that time were the most numerous there being 14- members of whom were Indians That the Wesleyan Methodists early were on Queen Street has already been established from data obtained locally the deed of gift from John and the letter written by Thomas Selby About David Will- son referred to them In the Missionary Report for there is mention of a col lection at Queen Street of one pound fifteen shillings The Christian Guardian of January contains a letter written by James in which he speaks of the Sundayschool on Queen Street of which he was superintendent He also refers to a small library contained there The Missionary Report for lists Sharon as a branch of the Holland Landing mission which was of the district This report reads in part The bounds of this mis sion are chiefly within the township of East Gwillimbury It is a newly organized field of labor having been set off in its present form at the Conference of 1354 There is a record of the don ors 18556 Sharon branch John Terry Robert Haines Adam Montgomery total two pounds seven shillings five and onehalf pence for John Terry Mrs William Simpson A Edmunds Jacob Be Her or Belfry William total three pounds seven pence The ministers at Holland Landing mission from were Andrew Edwards George Cochran George Richardson Thomas 1861 Abraham Dayman David Jennings Alexander James Laird Alexander James Laird Nelson Burns Richard Large William Hewitt Joseph Locke 1866 Joined Sharon and Mount Albert After the union of Sharon and Mount Albert the ministers list ed are William J Hewitt Christopher Hamilton John Totten 1868 Christopher Hamilton William Pierce Christopher Hamilton Henry Manning William Irwin John Smith William Irwin John Dea con Continued in Mount Al bert and Sutton An interesting feature from the late on is the Report of the Property Committee tell ing when any church was given permission to buy or sell and Express Pae IT Newmarket circuit I Hill Newmarket circuit Joseph Newmarket circuit Joseph Odery 189394 Qucensville circuit Washington J G Rogers circuit G Washington Geo Waugh 189596 circuit Thomas Leonard Wal ker Families listed under missionary subscriptions are Proctor Stephenson Doan Tench 189697 circuit Thos Leonard A Spencer circuit Leonard W If Web ster I Qucensville circuit A Brown Geo Webber circuit Hugh A Brown circuit- Hugh A Brown J Living stone Queensvilie circuit Curry Lundy Lepard I J Douglas Simpson Arthur P Also this report of 18556 is the first discovered of the mention of Sharon in relation to the Methodist church and noth ing has been obtained as to when the chapel in the burying ground on top of the hill was abandoned But the for some time continued their services in the temperance hall until the New Connexion Metho dist church was built in when the two bodies united After the union of Sharon became an appointment on the Queensvilie circuit Brad ford district except for an in terval of three years when it was part of the Newmarket circuit The ministers serving this ap pointment are listed below Qucensville circuit John Lynch Leggett Mr Lynch died during the year Qucensville circuit Wellwood A Bedford 188687 circuit Wellwood W Jamieson Families contributing to the missionary fund are Tench Thompson Irving 188788 circuit G S Hunt one to 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