********************************************************************* 1803 - BIRTH

born:April.3,1810 Cornwall Ontario Canada
baptized:May.28,1810 by Rev.John Bethune of Williamstown, Ontario, Canada
*[Source:Records of Reverend John Bethune, Presbyterian minister of Williamstown, Ontario, "Register of Baptisms and Marriages, In the Counties of Glengarry & Stormont and Elsewhere in the Province of Upper Canada, Performed by the Reverend John Bethune, Minister of the Gospel." page 166, Entry #1716, "David Algire, son of John Algire of Cornwall and Mary DuBois, his wife, was born on the 3rd April & baptized on the 28th May 1810"]

********************************************************************* 1825 - MARRIAGE
Married, the Bans having been duly published this 1st day of September, 1857,
David Alguire of the Towship of Charlottenburg in the Eastern District, bachelor
to Jane Duff of the same place, spinster.
the contracting parties,
David Alguire
&
Jane X Duff (her mark)
witnesses: William Hunter, Elizabeth McQuillan
by me, Rev. Archbold, Rector of Cornwall,
*[Source:Trinity Anglican Church Records, Cornwall Ontario. Register #118, page 87]

********************************************************************* PETITION
A19/12 Page 156 . 28 Oct. 1835,
David Alguire of the twp. of Cornwall, 4th Concession, has attained the age of 21, Warrant 1175, issued 31 October, 1835, yeoman. Praying for grant of two hundred Acres of land as the son of John Alguire of the same place an UEL

Petition of David Alguire, son of John Alguire of the 4th concession of the township ----- of the Eastern District. UE Loyalist. That said petition a son of the above named John Alguire and ----, ---- the age of Twenty One ---- that ---- has never received any land on my ---- from the crown. Your petitioner would therefore pray that your Excellence will be pleased to grant unto him two hundred acres of the waste land of the crown. And your petitioner in duly be bound will ever pray.
David Alguire
Personnaly affirm by one me, Angus McDonald ---- Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the General Quarter Session of the --- the land district court --- the ---- mentioned petitioner, who dept--- and saith that he said David Algyre has never received any land. David Alguire 1835 , on any grant for land from the Crown.
Sworn before me in Cornwall
In open session
this 29th day of April 1835
signed: David Alguire
Angus McDonald chair
I Angus McDonald, chairman and James Prince Esq. Deputy Clerk of the Council, do hereby certificate that the said David Algyre, on this day of open Sessions taken the Oath of Alliegence --- required by law and is recognize as the person described in the above petition.
sworn before me in Open Session
this day 29th of April 1835
Eastern District Court No.12
(Township Papers c 1783 - 1870 series C-IV, box 7)
*[Source:Information received in 1995 from source #71 Illene Fleming.]

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