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• _UID: 64CA392DCAD94C28A7B76B12029799550D11
• Travel: 31 Oct 1920, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA
• Occupation: 31 Oct 1920; Salesman
• Residence: 31 Oct 1920, Toronto, , Ontario, Canada

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Never married

Travel:
going to the Pimiler Race Track Baltimore MD for 2 weeks with $800 cash

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• _UID: 5CE49292D7264B8DA47A32AB6F1F1B6B48CE
• Occupation: Book Keeper
• Residence: 1881, Ameliasburgh, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada
• Travel: 23 May 1916, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, USA
• Occupation: 23 May 1916; Painter
• Residence: 23 May 1916, Toronto, , Ontario, Canada; 26 Mcall Street

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Travel:
going to Buffalo
Height 5 foot 8 1/2 inches
Hair Brown
Eyes Blue

Donald married Ella Ewart DELONG on 18 Feb 1874. Ella was born on 12 May 1858 in Ontario, Canada; died on 30 May 1941; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, , Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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RACE French
SOUR @S38@

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• _UID: 6516539CECF84751A189D22717023959B40A
• Occupation: Merchant
• Religion: C. Methodist
• Alt. Birth: 17 Dec 1804, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Order in Council - UEL Land Grant: 18 Jan 1834, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Roblin Mills was dismantled and reconstructed as part of the Black Creek Pioneer Village near Toronto, where it still grinds out flour. - built by Owen.

Another leading member of the family was Owen Roblin, a son of Philip. He was born in Sophiasburgh, and, after receiving his education under Jonathan Greely, removed to Ameliasburgh, where, in 1829, he took up four hundred acres in the third concession. This land is in part now held by W. J. McFaul and H. G. Staffordshire; and the latter lives on the old homestead. Owen Roblin conducted a general store and ashery, doing a large, and profitable business in sending the lye to Montreal. In 1838, or 1839, he traded lot 76 with John B. Way for lot 81, where the Ameliasburgh Roblin's Mills and homestead now stand. The village of Roblins Mills, or Ameliasburgh, as it is officially known, was first called Way's Mills, and was situated in the bend of the horseshoe below the hill on the present village stands.

On taking possession of the Way property, Owen Roblin commenced to improve the water-power; his first act was to excavate the present canal from the lake. The extent of this work may be estimated from the fact that the blasting powder alone cost the equivalent of one thousand dollars. Besides farming five hundred acres, and attending to his many trading schemes and flouring mills, this busy man ran saw and carding mills. From his flour mills he shipped immense quantise of wheat and rye flour to Montreal; and during the Crimean War he exported day and night.

Owen Roblin was a Justice of the Peace and Commissioner for taking affidavits; and for many years was a County Councillor and Reeve of his township. A post office was first opened in the village by a man called Meacham, who was Postmaster there for three years, when he was promoted to Belleville; and the Roblin's Mills' office was closed. It was reopened in 1845, with Owen Roblin as Postmaster, who held the post until his death, when he was said to be the oldest Postmaster in Canada. He was succeeded by his grandson, William H. C. Roblin, the present Postmaster. This grandson also closely followed Owen's son, Edward, as clerk of the Fourth Division Court, the interim holder of the post being William C. DeLong.

One of the best known and most progressive men in the county, Owen Roblin, lived to the old age of ninety-seven years, only dying as recently as 1903. He married Huldah Selden Conger, a daughter of old Squire Stephen Conger; she died in 1896, aged eighty-five years.

Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)

ROBLIN , OWEN

Sex: Male Age: 64 Birthplace: ONTARIO Religion: Wesleyan Methodist Origin: ENGLISH Occupation: MERCHANT District: PRINCE EDWARD ( 059 ) Sub-district: Ameliasburgh ( C ) Division: 3 Page: 50 Microfilm reel: C-9989 Reference: RG31

Owen married Huldah Selden CONGER on 16 Feb 1831 in Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. Huldah (daughter of Stephen CONGER and Mary BATES) was born in 1811 in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; died on 26 Jul 1896 in Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Grove Cemetery, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward Co., ON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: D9E30D423DC244A5A0D355D54B8ECD9DD38D
• Occupation: Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: Phillip and his son Phillip had a complex of mills: saw, grist, flouring, fulling, carding, and a blacksmith shop
• Emigration: 1783; USA To Canada
• Residence: 1792, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1842, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada

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According to records of Dr. H.C. Burleigh Adolphus ROBLIN had a bible of his Grandfather Philip.

Introduced Methodism into Prince Edward County

Philip Roblin moved from Adolphustown into Sophiasburg, where he located his land at Roblin's Mills, or Green Point, on the High Shore. In addition to clearing the forest, he managed to build and work a grist mill, which proved not only a success to the enterprising miller, but a boon to the settles for miles around, saving them their long and toilsum trips to Kingston, and later to Napanee. The founder of Roblins Mills, or Green Point, married Prudence Platt, by whom he had nine children; many of his descendants lived to be distinguished men and women of their county. A son, John P. Roblin, was for a number of years a prominent member of the old Reform party in the Upper Canada Legislature, sitting both before and after the Mackenzie Rebellion, sixteen years in all. He was defeated only once, and that was in 1837, when the cry of Liberal disloyalty was raised; but at the next poll he was elected by a sweeping majority. Notwithstanding that the Premier, Mr. Draper, was a Conservative, he appointed John P. Roblin Registrar of Prince Edward County, a position he held up to the time of his death.

Philip Roblin owned the following lots in 1790 Con 4 Lot 24 Adolphustown - 50 Acres Con 4 Lot 25 Adolphustown - 50 Acres Con 1 (West of Carrying PL) Lot 2 Sophiasburg - 200 Acres Con 1 (West of Carrying PL) Lot 34 Sophiasburg - 150 Acres

Philip was born in Smith's Clove but moved with his parents to Adolphustown, via Sorel during the fall/winter/spring of 1783 and 1784. There is a record of him marrying Prudence Platt in 1792 in Sophiasburg Township. He appears to have applied for, and been granted, 200 acres of land as the son of a UE Loyalist. Finalized by order-in-council on July 31 of 1797, this parcel was southwest of Green Point on Long Reach. It was rectangular in shape with waterfront and stretched back past the current highway 49 just north of the junction with highway 35. The lakefront view is spectacular.

There was a stream on the property, fed by a lake since drained, which was just west of the junction of highways 35 and 49. This stream, which fell about 100 feet from the lake to Long Reach, was used to provide power for a grist mill, lumber mill, and shingle mill (according to the residents of the land in July 2001). This area became known as Roblin's Mills (often described relative to Green Point to distinguish it from the Roblin's Mills that that became Ameliasburgh town) and had a store, barn, large wharf for loading products of the mills into ships, and at least two houses (Philip and Prudence as well as their son Caleb.). In July 2001, the barn was in use as a garage/workshop (although moved perhaps 100 m from its original site) and the store was a part of a house. The stone foundations of the mills, as well as the raceways for the stream, were also clearly visible. The area can be accessed by driving down Roblin's Mills Road, at the junction of highways 49 and 35, and

Occupation:
began the operation of the family gristmill and sawmill at Green Point later Roblin's Mills.

Emigration:
With his parents

Residence:
the west side of Long Reach, an area called Green Point.
Later referred to as

Residence:

Philip married Prudence PLATT on 13 Jan 1793 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Prudence (daughter of John PLATT) was born on 6 Jan 1771 in New York, USA; died on 24 Aug 1850 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Roblin Mills Cemetery, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 7787DAB243FA41BD8760514E04E76F4AEF91
• Alt. Birth: 3 Jan 1771, New York, USA
• Alt. Death: 21 Aug 1850

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No parents in IGI Nov 2004

Other Platts in the vicinity who were of about the right age to be her siblings include:

1.

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Stephen married Mary BATES. Mary was born on 7 Feb 1779 in Springfield, Windsor, Vermont, USA; died on 7 Apr 1827 in Hallowell Twp., Prince Edward Co., ON, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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