Some notes on the history of the Bogart family in Canada, with genealogical record of my parents Lewis Lazier Bogart and Elizabeth Cronk Bogart

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SOME NOTES ON

THE HISTORY OF THE
BOGART FAMILY

IN CANADA

WITH GENEALOGICAL RECORD OP MY PARENTS

LEWIS LAZIER BOGART AND ELIZABETH
CRONK BOGART

COMPILED BY

MARSHALL C. BOGART

TORONTO:

WILLIAM BRIGGS

1918

Copyright. Canada. 191 g. by

MAM HALL C. BOOAJtT

BrMratri

TO THE MEMORY OF A NOBLE WOMAN
MY GRANDMOTHER

MARY LAZIER BOG ART

PREFACE

MY purpose in publishing these notes on
the genealogy of my parents is not only to
impart the information that I have t»eeu
able to obtain, together with some of my
personal knowledge, to my friends and
relatives, but also to preserve an historical
record of some of the prominent settlers
who early came to this part of Canada. In
fact I have endeavored to trace the four
branches of my family back to the time
when they first came to this continent,
which has been no easy task.

The more one delves into the past and
finds an honorable record, the greater
fascination the work has, and the greater
satisfaction the information imparts.

I shall feel amply repaid for my work if
I have imparted information to my relatives
that will lead them to a greater knowledge
and appreciation of their ancestors.

Much of the information herein I have
obtained from records and family Bibles
in my possession, yet it has been only
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PREFACE

with the assistance of willing helpers that
I have been able to collect all the valuable
data that I considered necessary for this
family record.

My sincere thanks are due to my esteemed
nephew, Frederic Bogart McMullen, of
Chicago, to whom I am indebted for most
of the information relative to my ancestors
before their emigration from the United
States to Canada, and for the general
arrangement of the work.

Also to W. 8. Herrington, K.C., of
Napanee, and his " History of Lennox and
Addington."

I have l>een fortunate in preserving the
old photographs of my grandmother taken
when she was eighty years old, of her eight
sons, and of her one hundredth and one
hundred and first anniversaries; also a
copy of her marriage certificate.

MARSHALL C. BOGART.

Napanee, Ontario.
October, 1918.

CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I
THK BOOAUT FAMILY . 9

CHAPTER II
THE CRONK FAMILY .

CHAPTER III
THE BARKER FAMILY • 35

CHAPTER IV
THE LAZIER FAMILY 47

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Mary Lazier Bogart .... Frontitpiece

Sons of Mary Lazier Bogart:

John and Nicholas 21

James C. and Lewis Lazier ... 23

Gilbert Curtis and Cornlus Valleau . . 25

David Demerest and Abraham Lent . . 27

Marriage Certificate of Abraham Bogart and

Mary Lazier 66

The One Hundredth Anniversary . . 61

The One Hundred and First Anniversary . . 67

Residence of Lewis Lazier Bogart ... 68

The Hay Bay Methodist Church ... 69

Monument to U. E. Loyalists . . 70

Marshall C. Bogart . . ... 72

CHAPTER I
THE BOOART FAMILY

IF we had been permitted to choose our
parents I am quite sure we would have
chosen those assigned to us by Providence,
for no one could have a more noble ancestry,
dating back, as it does, several hundred
years.

The story of the coming of the Bogart
family to America and their connection
with its early history is most clear and well
authenticated. It revolves mainly around
one Jan Lou we Bogaert, who may be said
to be the founder of the family in America.
His home was in Schoonderwoerd, Holland,
where he was born probably about 1630.
His father was Louens Bogaert, the third
son of Cornells Bogaert, who in turn was
the son of Tunis Bogaert, all of Schoonder-
woerd. Holland. This Tunis, Jan Louens'
great - grandfather, was born probably
between the years 1550 and 1565 ; no record
of the dates of birth or death of Jan Louwe's
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ancestors seems to exist in this country,
but their names are known, and it will be
noted that the spelling of the Christian
names, as well as that of the family name
itself, underwent changes as time went on.
Some of the descendants have dropped the
" e," and others the " a " from the original
Dutch Hogaert. The first Bogaert to come
to America was Tunis, a first cousin of
Jan Louwe's, who came over in 1G52 and
who married Sara Rapelje, said to have
been the first white child born in New
York. This Tunis lived on Staten Island,
New York, had one sou and one daughter,
but does not appear to have left much
impression on the community.

It was left to his cousin, Jan Louwe,
who came over in 1663, to take the more
prominent part in the early annals of New
Amsterdam.

I quote from the " New Harlem Register,"
by Toler, which is: —

"A Genealogy of the descendants of the
twenty- three original patentees of the town
of New Harlem, containing proofs of births,
baptisms and marriages from the year
1630."

"Jan Louwe (Lowe) Bogaert, from
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Schoonderwoerd, wife and two children,
seven and four yean* old, left Amsterdam,
April 16, 1603, in The Spotted Cow, a
vessel under command of Captain Jan
Bergen (1902 Year Hook, Holland Society,
page 24). He first resided at Bedford,
Long Island, moved to Harlem, New York,
in 1672, was appointed magistrate 1675,
re-elected 1676. He and his wife, on
November 13th, 1676, were received at New
York as a meinter of the Harlem Church.
He and his wife Cornelia, conveyed on
November 25th, 1695, forty acres of
laud in Bedford (Brooklyn) to Thomas
L;i in I >••!•! -.• (as per page 51 of Liter 2 of
Conveyances). Sold his farm to Captain
Johannes Benson, September 9, 1706. The
following spring removed to New York
with his wife, uniting with the church
there with certificate from Harlem on May
27, 1707." (Riker's "History of Harlem,"
page 491.)

Considerable interest and importance
attaches to the distinction of being one of
the original twenty-three patentees of the
Town of Harlem, now part of New York
City, because for many years and, in fact,
until quite recently, their heirs entertained
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the hope of regaining possession of that
valuable property. The following quotation
from Toler's " New Harlem Register " tells
of this patent:—

"In the year 1666, Charles Second of
England issued to his brother, the Duke
of York, a Patent or Grant, conveying,
with other lands, the Island of Manhattan.
Thereupon the Duke of York, through his
Deputy, Governor Nicolls, issued, in the
month of May, 1606, a Grant, Patent or
Charter to the Freeholders and Inhabitant*
of Harlem, incorporating the * Town of
New Harlem' (alias Lancaster), and con-
veying all lands on said island north
and east of a line running from Seventy-
fourth Street and East River to One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street on the
Hudson in the present City of New York.

" On October 11, 1667, a second Nicolls
Patent was issued and in 1686 a third
Patent or Charter was granted through
Governor Thomas Dongan by King James
Second of England, ratifying and confirm-
ing the first Patent mentioned; the latter
Patent named all of the Freeholders and
Inhabitants of Harlem as grantees and
members of the Corporation, ' The Town of
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New Harlem.'" (Then follows the names
of the original twenty-three patentees.)

" By purchase of certain Patentee rights
seven others became Associates of the
Patentees named and owners of and
entitled to all corporate privileges, although
not named in the Dongan Patent."

The name of Jan Louwe Bogaert is the
first mentioned of these seven.

Toler's book proceeds to give the
genealogy of the families, who trace their
connections to these original patentees.
Among the many prominent families,
whose connection and consequent claim
descends from Jan Louwe Bogaert, are the
Roosevelts, Van Houtens, De Peysters,
Van Wagoners, Van Buskirks and
Knickerbockers, of which family Harmen
Janse Knickerbocker, born 1648, married
Elizabeth Bogaert, eldest daughter of Jan
Louwe.

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Page 447, " Revised History of Harlem "
(Riker). Published 1904, by New Harlem
Publishing Co.

" Jan Louwe Bogaert, otherwise from the
place of his Nativity, called Jan Louwe,
from Schoonderwoerd, claims a place
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among the patentees for reasons given in
the annexed note: —

(NOTE. — Peter Pnrmentier was one of the
Mannheim refugees, who came out in company
with -Ian Louwe Bogaert in h ;«'•:'.. As hereto-
fore noticed, Panneiitier and Bogaert lived as
neighbors at Bedfonl for some years, and the
former was one of the four named as trustees
for the inhabitants at large to whom the
Indians in 1070 sold I a mis in that vicinity.
Purmentier became owner of a farm and grist
mill in Bushwick, where in 1(575, one other
excepted, he paid the largest tax on land and
stock. Selling his farm to his only son,
Michiel, he kept the mill and eight morgen of
land, but these he also conveyed to Michiel some
time after, and probably when he sold (May
31st, 1(584) certain lands in Brooklyn to
.Jacques Lazillere. He soon came to Harlem
and assuredly took Bogart's place in Dongan'a
patent, for which there seems no accounting
except on the ground of a contract to buy
Bogaert's farm, whose milling facilities prob-
ably attracted him. Nevertheless, no sale took
place; Bogaert kept the farm, and Permentier
is not again named among the freeholders.)

" Many references to him will be found
in the preceding pages. Having spent nine
years at Bedford, Long Island, he came to
Harlem in 1672 as proprietor of the
Montanye farm, the history of which up
to its purchase by Bogaert has also been
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given. He was chosen a Magistrate in 1675,
was re-elected in 1676, and on November
30th of this year, with his wife, Cornelia
Everts, was received at New York as a
member of the Harlem Church. In 1677
Bogaert drew lot No. 6 on Hoorn's Hook,
but sold it December 9, 1679, to Joost Van
Oblimis. He drew in 1691, lot No. 25,
adjoining his farm on the South side, and
which in the deed from the town, March 21,
1701, is thus descril)ed:

" There is set off for Jan Lou we Bogaert
for the right of sixteen Morgen of land and
an erf right; a piece of land lying in the
bend of Hellgate, beginning from the South-
west corner of the Hop Garden by a Birch
tree, till to a White Oak tree, which stands
by a small swamp, (Creupelbosje) marked
I L B and I D L; thence towards the Kiver,
past a rock marked I L B and I D L and
so on to the Beech, till to the end of a
medow north of a rocky hill ; as it is at
present fenced in. The initials (I for J)
are those of Jan Louwe Bogaert and Jan
De Lamater."

" Bogaert, having spent thirty-five years
at Harlem, sold his farm to Captain
Johannes Benson, September 21, 1706 for
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£650, and the next spring removed to New
York with his wife, uniting with the church
there by certificate from Harlem on May
27, 1707."

As will be observed from the genealogical
tables, our descent comes through Gysbert,
the first child born to Jan Louwe after his
arrival in America and according to
Biker's History of Harlem, his second son.
This Gysbert married Annatie Jansen, of
Harlem, and of him Biker says: —

"About the time his parents left Harlem
he removed to Tappan, where he bought
land from Hendrick Lamberts, October 6th,
1707 and served same month as a grand
juror, and was living on his farm on the
Sparkhill, 1729."

It was his grandson, Gysbert, and wife,
Maria Lent, who became United Empire
Loyalists and founded the family in
Canada, removing from Tappan to
Adolphustown in 1784.

It would appear that the Bogaert family
in Tappan were not unanimous in their
Tory leanings, as the following quotation
from Toler's " New Harlem Begister " will
show. It refers to one Nichols C. Bogart,
who, like his cousin Gysbert, the U. E.
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Loyalist, was a great-grandson of Jan
Louwe, living in the town of Tappan: —

" The family was strong Whigs, and he
removed from the city during the British
occupation to Tappan, New York, where
he was taken a prisoner by the British
and only released through the interposition
of George Washington. It was at the house
of Mr. Bogaert that the unfortunate Major
Andre was confined after his arrest, and
from it, October second 1780, he was led
forth to execution. He was buried in the
Dutch Church cemetery at New York.
(See 1899 Year Book, Holland Society,
page 148.) (See Steven's Chamber of
Commerce, page 123.)"

Major Andre, of course, was the famous
Adjutant-General of the British Army, who
conspired with General Benedict Arnold,
of the American Army, for the delivery of
the West Point forts into the hands of the
British, and was hanged as a spy October
2nd, 1780.

GENEALOGY OP THE BOGART FAMILY

Authorities: "Genealogical notes of New York and
New England Families." By 8. V. Tolcott
Published by Weed, Parsons A Co.. 1883.

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"ReTlsed History of Harlem." By Riker. Pub-
lished by New Harlem Publishing Co., N.Y.,
1904.

Family records belonging to Lewis Lazier Bogart

Note. — Numbers in brackets (1) denote successive
••••rations. Letters In brackets (a) denote members
nf same family. A star (•) Indicates the direct line
of descent of Canadian Bogarts.

(1) TUNIS BOGAERT.— Born about 1540, nt

Schoonderwoerd, Holland.

His SON

(2) CORNELI8 BOGAERT. — Born about

1570, at Schoonderwoerd, Holland.

His SONS.
(a) CORNELIS,

I'M GUYSBERT, \\lmsc sun Til Ills

came to America in 1652.

(.'I) (c) LOUEN8 BOGAERT.— Born about
1605, at Schoonderwoerd, Holland.

His SON

(4) JAN LOU WE BOGAERT.— Born about
1630, at Schoonderwoerd, Holland.
Married Cornelia EvertH. Came to
America from Amsterdam, April 16th,
166,'J, in the vessel The Spotted Cow.
Settled in Bedford, Long Island (now
Brooklyn). Moved to Harlem, and
later to New York.

His CHILDREN.

(a) PETER, — Born 1656, at Leer-
dam, Holland. Married Fytio
Vlierboom, 1686.
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•(6) GYSBBRT.— Baptized Sept. 30th.
1603, at Brooklyn, N.Y. Mar-
ried A mi. 1 1 it- Jansen, of Har-
lem.

(c) CLAES (NICHOLAS). — Born 1668,
at Bedford. Died Jan. 5th,
1727, at New York, where he
lived as a baker.

i </ 1 JOHANNES. — Died in infancy.

(e) JOHANNES. — Baptized Aug. 16th,
1679. Married Claessie Van
Schaick.

(/7 ELIZABETH. — Married Harmen
Janse Knickerbocker before
1688.

(<7) CATHERINE. — Married Elbert
Hermense.

(h) MARGARET. — Married Peter
Harding, Dec. 4th, 1687.

(i) JANNEKE. — Married Joris
(Geo.) Holmes, July 8th,
1704.

(;) CORNELIA. — Married Wanter
Quackenbos, Oct. 4th, 1(596.

(5) GY8BERT BOGART. — Son of Jan
Lonwe Bogaert. Baptized Sept. 16th,
1663, at Bedford, Long Inland (now
Brooklyn). Married Annatie Jansen.
Moved to Tappan on the Hudson
River, where he bought land from
Hendrick Lamberts, Oct. 6th, 1707.
and served, according to court records,
as gran<l juror that same month. He
i»* recorded as living on his farm on
the Sparkhill in 1729.
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His CHILDREN.

(a) JAN (JOHN). — Born May 9th,
1705. Married Catherine
Evert.

(6) MARYTJB. — Born Oct. 14th,
1707. Unmarried.

(c) MARY. — Born June 8th, 1709.

Married Isaac Blauvelt.

(d) LAWRENCE. — Born April 12th,

1710. Married.

•(c) CORNELIUS. — Baptized Oct. 12th,
1715. Married Orietje Blau-
velt.

(/) NICHOLAS (KLASS). — Born Dec.
12th, 1718. Married Katherine
Myer.

(0) CORNELIUS.— Son of Oynbert. Bap-
tized Oct. 12th, 1715, at Tappan.
Married Orietje Blauvelt.

His CHILDREN.

*(o) GYSBERT.— Born Oct. 3rd, 1742.

Married Maria Lent.
(6) GRIETJE (MARGARET). — Married

Thos. Eckerson.
(c) LBAH.

(7) GYSBERT BOGERT.— Son of Cornelius.
Born Oct. 3rd, 1742, at Tappan. Died
March 25th, 1829, at Adolphustown,
Ontario. Married Maria Lent. Born
Dec. 19th, 1744. Died March 25th,
1837. Came to Canada with his wife
and son, Abraham, as United Empire
Loyalists, June 16th, 1784. A daughter,
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Qrietje (Margaret) ; born Aug. 6th,
1762. Married John Duryee, and
remained in United States.

His SON.

(8) ABRAHAM BOGART.— Born May 28th,
1767, at Tappaii. Died Oct. 12th, 1848,
at Adolphustown. Married on March
18th, 1792, to Mary Lazier. Born Aug.
10th, 1772, at Yonkers, N.Y. Died
Jan. 30th, 1874, at Adolphustown.
She was a daughter of Nicholas
Jacobus Lazier, also a United Empire
Loyalist, who settled at Northport,
Prince Edward County, in 1790.

THEIR CHILDREN.

(a) JOHN.— Born Feb. 2nd, 1794.
Married Phoebe Campbell.
Died May 9th, 1869.

(6) NICHOLAS. — Born May 22nd,
1795. Married Leticia Peter-
son. Died Feb. 20th, 1871.

(c) MARGARET. — Born April 6th,

1797. Died Sept. 30th, 1816.

(d) JAMES.— Born Aug. 12th, 1799.

Married Debora Trumpour.
Died June 24th, 1875.

(e) PETER.— Born Aug. 14th, 1802.

Drowned in Bay of Quinte,
Aug. 24th, 1819.

*(/) LEWIS LAZIER. — Born Jan. 18th,
1804. Married Elizabeth
Cronk. Died Dec. 24th, 1888.

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(g) GILBBBT CURTIS. — Born Oct.

:»tli. 1806. Married. Ann

Meacham. Died Aug. 2nd,

1870.
(h) CORNELIUS. — Born Feb. 8th,

1808. Married Betsy Dorland,

(2nd) Mary Port. Died Jan.

7th, 1888.
(«) DAVID.— Bern Aug. Kith, 1809.

Married Hattie Bicford. Died

Feb. 27th, 1877.
(/) ABRAHAM. — Born May 22nd,

1811. Married Isabella Young,

(2nd) Mrs. Evans. Died Dec.

30th, 1886.
(k) CHARITY CONK LIN. — Born Dec.

18th, 1814. Married Hubbard

Meacham. Died Feb. 21st,

1847.

(9) LEWIS LAZIER BOGART.— Son of
Abraham. Born Jan. 18th, 1804, at
Adolphiifttown, Ontario. Died Dec.
24th, 1888, at Adolphustown, Ontario.
Married Jan. 26th, 1835, to Elizabeth
Cronk, born Nov. 26th, 1813, who
died Jan. 20th, 1890, at Adolphustown.
She was a daughter of Abraham Cronk
and his wife Elizabeth Barker.

THEIR CHILDREN.

*(o) MORTIMER CROMWELL. — Born
Nov. 3rd, 1836. Married
Delilah Churchill. Died Oct.
12th, 1882.

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(6) MARY ELIZABETH. — Born April
13th, 1843. Married James
ButeH McMullen. Died Feb.
2nd, 1873.

(c) MARSHALL CAMPBELL. — Born
July 19th, 1847. Married
Susan Emma Huffman.

(10) (a) MORTIMER CROMWELL BOGART.
— Son of Lewin Lazier Bogart. Born
Nov. 3rd, 1836. Died Oct. 12th, 1882.
Married Delilah Churchill. Born Aug.
28th, 1843.

THEIR CHILDREN.

(a) FRANKLIN CHURCHILL. — Born
Aug. 22nd, 1863. Married
Sept. 10th, 1889, to Eugenia
Wiggins, born Nov. 14th,
1861.

'(&) LEWIS FERDINAND. — Born Jan.
1st, 1866. Married June 10th,
1889, to Marion Buchanan,
born Dec. 28th, 1866.

(c) CARRIE EVA.— Born Oct. 28th,

1868. Married Nov. :5rd, 1898,
to Stewart L. Daly, who died
Feb. 9th, 1903. One daughter,
Katherine Daly, born Dec.
21st, 1900.

(d) MORTIMER JAMES MARSHALL.—

Born July 2nd, 1882. Unmar-
ried.

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(10) (6) MARY ELIZABETH.— Daughter of
Lewis Lazier Bogart. Born April 13th,
1843. Died Feb. 2nd, 1873. Married
Aug. 24th, 1870, to James Bates
McMullen, born Aug. 20th, 1841,
died July 4th, 1902.

TIIKIK SON.

(a) FREDERIC BOGART McMuLLXN. —
Born July 19th, 1871. Mar-
ried Jan. 26th, 1899, to Lois
Rice, born July 1st, 1871.
One daughter, Mary Lois
McMullen. Born Dec. 7th,
1899.

(10) (c) MARSHALL CAMPBELL BOOART.

—Born July 19th, 1847. Married June
12th, 1878, to Susan Emma Huffman.

(11) LEWIS FERDINAND BOGART.— Son

of Mortimer Cromwell Bogart. Born
Jan. 1st, 1866. Married June 10th,
1889, to Marion Louise Buchanan,
born Dec. 28th, 1866.

THEIR CHILDREN.

(a) MARION QENBVIEVE. — Born June
16th, 1890. Married April
18th, 1918, to Reade Mallory
Roblin.

(12) *(ft) LEWIS ARTHUR BOOART. — Born

July 16th, 1896.

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Gysbert Bogaert above referred to, great-
grandson of Jan Louwe and the great-
grandfather of the present writer, came to
Canada with his wife, Maria Lent, and his
son Abraham, as United Empire Loyalists,
and landed in Adolphustown, June 16th,
1784.

The Crown deeded on May 17th, 1802, lots
numbers 20 and 21 in the fifth concession
of Adolphustown to Gysbert Bogart, one
hundred and seventy-five acres, which was
the home of his eldest son, our uncle John
Bogart, who married Phoebe Campbell, and
raised his family of eight children, four
sons and four daughters. This farm has
remained in the family ever since, there
having been practically only three transfers
of the title in the county register.

The Crown also deeded to Gysbert
Bogart, on the 19th of September, 1803, lot
number 30 in the third concession of
Adolphustown, one hundred and thirty-
three acres, which he deeded on Decem-
ber 1st the same year to Paul Trumpour.
It remained in the Trumpour family until
sold to Thomas Bygott, who married
Catherine Bogart, daughter of John Bogart,
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and is now owned and occupied by their
son, Frank Bygott, a great-great-grandson.

On March 7, 1804, the Crown deeded to
Abraham Bogart, our grandfather, who
married Mary Lazier, the east half of lot
number 21 in the fourth concession of
Adolphustown, one hundred acres, and on
December 1st, 1836, the Crown deeded to
his father, Gilbert Bogart (the first time
spelled Gilbert), the west half of the same
lot, one hundred acres. They must have
lived on this part of the lot for a great
numlH?r of years before the patent was
taken out, for it was on this west half that
their first log house was built on the bay
shore. Later on, early in the nineteenth
century, they built their large frame dwell-
ing to accommodate the two families, the
finest house in that part of the country.

This farm of two hundred acres was
always known as the Bogart homestead, as
it was on this farm our great-grandfather,
Gysbert Bogart, and his wife, Maria Lent,
lived and died. Here also our grand-
father, Abraham Bogart, and his wife, Mary
Lazier, raised their nine sons and two
daughters, and here he died in his eighty-
second year.

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Our uncle, Nicholas Bogart, his second
son, inherited the farm. He married
Leticia Peterson, and raised a family of
four sons and four daughters. For beauty
of situation, fertile soil, and very many
natural advantages, a finer two hundred-
acre farm could not have been selected. It
remained in the family until 1870, when
sold to Mr. Robert Collins.

Our grandfather, Abraham Bogart, was
also alloted lot number 17 in the fifth
concession of Adolphustown, one hundred
and fifty acres, but the patent deed had not
been issued at his death, and not having
made a will, the oldest son of the family
inherited the property. It having been
promised to his brother Lewis by his father,
he very generously for a nominal con-
sideration, deeded it to my father, Lewis
Lazier Bogart, December 1st, 1866, showing
that in those days they perferred to deal
honorably rather than adopt the principal
of to-day, " We keep what we hold." About
this time Lewis purchased from Christopher
Huyck part of lot number 18 to the west.
All this property remained in the family
until sold to The Rathburn Co. in 1884.

On November 12th, 1834, the Crown
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deeded to Lewis Lazier Bogart the west
half of lot number 17 in the fourth
concession of Adolphustown, one hundred
acres, and some time afterward he added
the next farm, the east half of lot number
18, one hundred acres, making a block of
land of about four hundred and fifty acres,
extending from Hay Bay to the Bay of
Quinte.

Lewis Lazier Bogart married Elizabeth
Cronk, of Sophiasburgh, Prince Edward
County, on January 20th, 1835. After her
marriage she went to live with her husband
on the farm taken up from the Crown,
and there they raised three children, my
older brother, my sister, and myself. My
parents both passed away on the homestead
within a little over a year of each other.
The farm is now owned and occupied by
their grandson, Lewis Ferdinand Bogart.

My mother was a daughter of Abraham
Cronk and one of a family of nine children,
seven sons and two daughters.

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CHAPTER II
THE CRONK FAMILY

THIS family also was Dutch, but whether
or not Jacob Cronkheit, the most remote
ancestor in this line of whom the present
writer can find record, was himself born
in Holland or near Poughkeepsie where
the family settled is not clear. The record
of his marriage on December 15th, 1713,
at Sleepy Hollow, New York, to Helena
Brent, is, however, authentic. Their grand-
son, Abraham Cronk, was born in 1743, at
Poughkeepsie, and there on June 24th,
1762, he married Lavina Huff. This
marriage is recorded on page 207, volume
VI, " Marriage Records of New York."
He with his family emigrated to Canada
as United Empire Loyalists.

It is established that the original name,
Cronkheit, was in many cases shortened to
Cronk by the American families, although
there are many families now in the United
States using the original name of Cronkheit.
The records of the Fourteenth Regiment
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from Hoosack and Schaghtecooke, Albany
County, New York, which fought under
Col. Peter Yates in the war of the American
Revolution, contained the name of an
Abraham Cronkheit, a Tunis Cronkheit,
besides five other Cronks and Cronkheits.
This would seem to support the theory
that the family had come to America,
considerably before the year 1700, and that
they entertained diversified political views.
There are New York records that show
that Duchess County Cronkheits favored
the American cause and " Signed the
Associations " in July, 1775. Two Ulster
County Cronks refused, as did two
Duchess County Kranchites. Captain
James Kronkhytc. led a company of West-
chester County revolutionary troops. All
of these different spellings and opinions
within the space of a few miles!

The following is to be found on page
200 of " Pioneer Life on the Bay of
Quinte," published by Ralph and Clark,
Ltd., Toronto:—

" The Cronks came from Holland and
settled in New York. They were well-to-do,
but their estates were confiscated at the
close of the revolution."
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"Abraham Cronk, a native of Pough-
keepsie, fought in the Royal ranks, and,
after the Independence of the Colonies,
\vas recognized by the Mother Country, he
came to Canada and became one of the first
settlers in Sophiasburgh, where, as a
United Empire Loyalist, he was granted
two hundred acres of land, with grants of
two hundred acres for his children when
they should have attained their majority
under the privileges of proclamation."

" On the corner of his old place is now
to be found the Lazier cemetery, the land
of which he donated to the Township for
IMINH! purposes more than one hundred
years ago."

He reared a family of six sons and three
daughters.

Abraham, his third son and my grand-
father, was born in Duchess County, New
York, in 1777, and came to Canada, settling
on the two hundred acre farm just west
of Green Point, Peterson's Ferry. He
early built the large stone dwelling, which
still stands, and is considerably over one
hundred years old. This farm is now
owned and occupied by Selwin Cronk, a
grandson.

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GENEALOGY OF THE CRONK FAMILY.

Authorities: Family records of Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
Bogart and Mr. James B. Cronk.

(1) JACOB CRONKHEIT.— Married Helena
Brent, his second wife, Dec. 15th,
1713, at Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.

THEIR SON.

(2) TUNIS CRONKHEIT.— Born 1721.

His SON.

(3) ABRAHAM CRONK.— Born 1743, in

Dutchess Co., N.Y. Died March, 1818,
in Sophiasburg, Canada. Married
June 24th, 1762, at or near Pough-
keepsie, N.Y., to Lavinia Huff. Emi-
grated to Canada as United Empire
Loyalists soon after close of Revolu-
tionary War.

THEIR CHILDREN.

(a) MATHBW.

(ft) JACOB.

*(c) ABRAHAM.

(d) ENOCH.

(e) REUBEN.
(/) JOHN.
(g) SARAH.
(h) OLIVE.
(t) PHOEBE.

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(4) ABRAHAM CRONK.— Son of Abraham.

Born Oct., 1777, in Dutches* Co., N.Y.
Died Sept. 9th, 1848, in Prince Edward
County, Canada. Married in 1798, to
Elizabeth Barker, daughter of David
Barker.

THEIR CHILDREN.

(a) ASA.— Born Nov. 28th, 1798.

Died in 1878.
(6) DAVID.— Born Feb. 15th, 1801.

Died in 1870.

(c) EDWARD.— Born Oct. 2nd, 1803.

Died in 1884.

(d) REUBEN.— Born Oct. 19th, 1805.

Died in 1819.

(e) ABRAHAM. — Born April 4th,

1807. Died in 1834.
(/) LYDIA.— Born June 4th, 1809.

Died in 1894.
($r) JACOB.— Born July 16th, 1811.

Died in 1890.

(5) •(&) ELIZABETH.— Born Nov. 2Gth,

1813. Died Jan. 20th, 1890,
married Lewig Lazier Bogart,
Jan. 26th, 1835.

(i) JAMES.— Born June 26th, 1817.
Died in 1911.

Abraham Cronk, my grandfather, mar-
ried Elizabeth Barker in 1798, and raised
nine children.

His wife was the daughter of David
Barker, and one of a family of twelve
children, seven sons and five daughters.
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CHAPTER III
THE BARKER FAMILY

THIS was an English family, the records
of which go back to about the year 1200.
The most authoritative records seem to
have been compiled by Jesse J. Barker, of
Philadelphia, in a little book published in
1898. I quote its account of the early
Barkers, including the title page and
authorities.

THE COLONIAL BARKER FAMILIES OF THE
UNITED STATES.

Sketch of the English Ancestors of the
three Principal Colonial Barker familieH
of Massachusettes, Rhode Island, and
Delaware, by Jesse J. Barker, of Phila-
delphia (1898), a descendant of the Dela-
ware Branch, a member of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania. Compiled largely
from the Claverley Church records of
marriages, births, and deaths and from
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THE BOGABT FAMILY IN CANADA

" Pedigree of the family of Barker of Salop
(England), showing the branches settled
at Hallon, Claverley, Colchurst, Woverton,
Haghmond Abbey, and Hopton Castle, Co.
Salop; at Fairford, Co. Gloucester; at
Vale Royal, Co. Chester; at Coleshill,
Co. Warwick; at Congreve, Co. Stafford;
and at Twyford, Co. Berks. By Rev.
William Gibbs Barker, Stoneleigh, Eng-
land. Privately printed. London, 1877."
(Authorities of Rev. William Gibbs
Barker, Chartulary of Haghmond Abbey;
records of the Court of Exchequer ; Shrews-
bury Corporation Records, Sundorn Title
Deeds; various Family Deeds, Wills and
Settlements; Close Roll of 12 H 111; Monu-
mental Inscriptions, Parish Registers and
Alderley, Alberbury, Alvley, Bridgenorth,
Cloverley, Condover, Drayton, Fitz, Hodnet,
Lydhom, Prees, Shrewsbury, Stoke, Stottes-
den, Uffington, Upton, Worfleld, Wroxeter,
Harleian M8S. 1241, 12, 23, 93, 107-1396, 19,
269-1424, 57-1472, 12-1502, 57-1535, 167-
1972, 48-1982, 29, 30, 36, 76, 148-2119, 137-
2153, 88; add. M8S. 14, 314, 99; Joseph
Morris' MSS. (by kind permission of E.
Creswell Peile, Esq. ) ; George Morris' MSS. ;
Court Rolls of the Manor of Claverley;
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Guilliam's Display; Heraldry; Blakeway's
Sherriffs, Salop; Owen and Blakeway's
History of Shrewsbury; Eyton's Anti-
quities of Salop; Duke's Antiquities of
Shropshire.)

The principal visitations of Shropshire
commenced the pedigree of Barker with
Kandulph de Coverall, who in the reign
of Edward II married Margaret, daughter
of Peter Pigot of Willaston; and then
passing over the intermediate generations
(which have been supplied from the Court
Kolla of the Manors of Warfleld and Claver-
ley by the industry of Mr. Joseph
proceed with William Barker, alias Coverall
Morris), proceed with William Barker,
alias Coverall, who married the heiress of
John Goulston of Qoulston.

The explanation of this change of name
seems to be as follows : — " The Manor of
Coverhall or Coverall, is in the Parish
of Adderley, and in the time of Edward
II formed part of the possessions of
Bartholomew de Badlesmere, upon whose
attainder and execution the undertenants
of the Manor would share in his disgrace
and fall. William de Calverhall seems to
have fled southward and reappeared at
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THE BOGART FAMILY IN CANADA

Ha lion in Worfield under the name of
William le Barker, a name either derived
from dealings in Oak bark or from some
unknown relationship with one already
bearing the name ; for this surname appears
in the Close Roll of 12 Henry III (1227),
and also as a tenant in Stanton Lacy in
1272. The name Calverhall, after being
dropped by the family for more than two
hundred years, appears to have been
reaHsumed as an alias upon their resuming
connection with the North of the county,
where, besides land in Goulston, they
became possessed of estates at Wolverton,
Colchurst, etc., upon which the elder
branches settled, while the younger, accord-
ing to the Custom of the Manor, continued
to hold Aston in Claverley (Co. of Salop)."

The late John S. Barker of Picton,
Ontario, spent much time in the search for
records of the early Barkers. Some of his
notes are as follows: —

" Forty noblemen and Privy Coun-
cillors of Queen Elizabeth, by the act
passed the previous year appointed as a
commission empowered to examine and
pass sentence on Mary, the late Queen of
Scotts and heir James of Scotland. The
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THE BARKER FAMILY

•
commissioners came to Futhingay Castle

and sent to her Sir Thomas Mi Id may,
A Minis Pau let and Edward Barker, who
delivered her a letter from Elizabeth,
informing her of the commission and of
the approaching trial. . . .

•• To the wisdon of Queen. Elizabeth and
the prudence and sagacity of Burleigh, we
are indebted for the first newspaper, the
English Meiruia, which was the first news-
paper published and which by authority
was imprinted at London by Christopher
Barker, her high ness's printer.

" There are two or more coats of arm
and ten or eleven crests of different Barker
families in England. One was conferred
by the Sovereign's Clarencieux, Robert
Cook, December 17, 1582 (five escallop
shells in a cross). So he was the Barker
there distinguished by Queen Elizabeth's
representative. This coat of arms is, there-
fore, registered officially and was borne by
Rowland Barker of Wolleston in the
County of Salop."

This Sir Rowland Barker possessed

Haughmond Abbey, located some few miles

northwest of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It

was erected in the twelfth century, and

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THE BOGART FAMILY IN CANADA

some considerable portions of it still
remained. Sir Rowland's grandson, James
Barker, founded the family in America,
coming over in 1634 from Harwich, Essex
County, in the ship, Mary and John, sailing
from South Hampton March 24th. He first
settled in the Massachuttes Colony and
afterwards Newport, Rhode Island. He
married Barbara Dugan, daughter of Lord
Weston, in 1644. His great-grandson,
David Barker, U. E. Loyalist, founded the
Barker family in Canada. He got into a
great deal of trouble with the American
army, and at the end of the Revolutionary
war his property was confiscated, and he
emigrated with his family to Canada. The
following inscription is taken from his
family Bible: —

" David Barker sailed with a party of
Loyalists under the command of Capt Van
Alstine, from New York, on the 8th of
September, 1783, and arrived in Quebec 8th
of October. A Fleet of seven sail and was
protected by the Brig. ' Hope ' of forty
guns. Wintered at Sorel, 21st May, 1784,
the party left Sorel ; and reached the Fourth
Township on the 16th of June in Batteauz,
having lived during the Winter under
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THE BARKER FAMILY

canvass tents. This Bible was bought and
the following entry put in by him on a slip
of paper and his family was entered in the
family record of said Bible. And on an-
other paper attached to the Bible was
this:—"

•• Be it remembered that I make this
Bible a present to my grandson, David
Barker, son of Edward Barker, and it is
my desire that it may be kept in the family
and to descend down to the name of David
Barker. Sophiasburg, 5th of Sixth month,
1849, in the presence of (this must be
U. E. L. David's request, and it was not
signed by him)."

He settled with his family in Adolphus-
town at what is now known as Thompson's
Point, June 16th, 1784. He built before
his death the Barker home, which still
stands after the lapse of more than one
hundred years.

THE DOOART FAMILY IN CANADA

(SKXEALOGY, BARKER FAMILY, FOR-
MERLY CALVERHALL, SALOP,
SHROPSHIRE.

(1 ) RANDOLPH DE CALVERHALL, of the

Manor of Calverhall, County Salop.
1200 A.D.

His Sox.

(2) WILLIAM FITZ RALPH DE CALVER

HALL, of BancmiiiRter, Tenant in fee
of William de Dunstanville, 1219.

His SON.

(3) WILLIAM DE CALVERHALL, 1240

1255.

His SON.

(4) WILLIAM DE CALVERHALL, 1284.—

Married Alina.

His SON.

(5) RICHARD DE CALVERHALL, 1319.—

Married Margaret, daughter of Peter
Pigot, of Willaston, County of Salop.

THEIR SON.

(6) WILLIAM LE BERCER (BARKER),

of Hallon in Warfield, County of
Salop; time of Edward III; 1337.
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THE BARKER FAMILY

THEIR SON.

(7) ROGER LE BARKER, 1368, of Hallow.

— Married Alice, who survived him.
Died with estates there.

THEIR SON.

(8) WILLIAM BARKER, of Hallow.— Mar-

ried Marjery, daughter of Willinin
Wharwood. Died 1411.

THEIR Sox.

(9) HENRY BARKER, of Hallon.— Married

Marjery, daughter and heiress of
Stephen Lovestick, of Hallon. She
survived her husband. Obtained land
here from William Wharwood. Died
1438.

THEIR SON.

(10) WILLIAM BARKER, of Hallon, gentle-

man.— Married Ann. daughter of John
Colynon Rowlowe, of Rowlowe in War-
field. Enjoyed great estates there, and
died in 1480.

THEIR Sox.

(11) JOHN BARKER. — Married Elizabeth,

daughter and co-heiress of William
Greene of Aston. Died, Aston, 1507.
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THE BOGART FAMILY. IN CANADA

THEIR SON.

(12) JOHN BARKER of Aston.— Died 1531.

Married Margaret. Died 1538.

THEIR SON.

(13) HUMPHREY BARKER.

His SON.

(14) WILLIAM BARKER, alias Caverall, of

Aston in Claverly. — Married Margaret,
daughter and heiress of John Qoulston
of Ooulston, Cheswardine. He was
buried ut Claverly, Oct. 30th, 1590.

THEIR SON.

(15) JOHN BARKER.— First marriage Eliza-

beth, sister of Sir Rowland Hill, first
Protestant Lord Mayor of London.

THEIR SON.

(16) EDWARD BARKER.— Married Cather-

ine, daughter of Ralph Egerton of
Wrinehill.

THEIR SON.

(17) SIR ROWLAND BARKER.— Knighted

December 17th, 1582.

His SON.

(18) JAMES BARKER.— Died 1634, at sea,

on ship Mary and John.
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THE BARKER FAMILY

His BON.

(19) JAMES BARKER.— Born 1617. Mar-

ried 1644. Came from Harwich in
ship Mary and John, in 1634. Settled
in Rhode Island.

THBIR SON.

(20) WILLIAM BARKER. Born 1662.

Married Elizabeth Easton. Had eight
children.

THEIR SON.

(21) JAMES BARKER.— Born Jan. 26th,

1692. Died 1750. Married 1715, to
Elizabeth Tucker.

THEIR CHILDREN.

(a) WILLIAM. — Born 1716. Died

1796.
(6) ABRAHAM.— Born 1718. Died

1740.
(c) HANNAH. — Born 1719. Died

1740.
(tf) ELIZABETH.— Born 1721. Died

1799.

(e) MARY.— Born 1722. Died 1783.
(/) JAMBS.— Born 1725. Died 1742.
(g) JOTHAN. — Born 1727. Died

1811.

(h) CALEB.— Born 1729. Died 1750.
(I) RUTH.— Born 17K1.

(22) • (/) DAVID.— Born 1732. Died 1821.

Married 1762, to Lydia Shove,
who was born in 1743, and
died in 1804.
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THE BOGART FAMILY IN CANADA

TUKIK CHILDREN.

(•) SAMUEL.— Born Oct. 8th. 1763.

Died April 23rd. 1836.
(») ASA.— Born Jan. 4th. 1765.
(e) EDWARD.— Born Nov. 17th. 1766.

Died July 30th, 1820.
• rf > DAVID.— Born Sept 19th. 1768.

(e) JAMES.— Born Aug. 10th. 1772.
•(/) ELIZABETH. — Born July 8th.

1774. Died Feb. 27tb.*1848.

(f ) SARAH. — Born Dec. 1st, 1776.
(*) REBECCA. — Born Aug. 1st, 1779.
(i) ABRAHAM. — Born Oct. 16th,

1781. Died March 1st, 1829. '
(/) LTDIA. — Born Oct. 16th. 1783.
(*) CALEB.— Born Sept. 4th. 1786.
(I) PHOEBE. — Born Mar 26th. 1770.

123) ELIZABETH BARKER.— Born July 8th.
1774. Died Feb. 27th. 1848. Harried
Abraham Cronk. 1798.

THKI* DAUGHTBL

(24) ELIZABETH CROXK.— Married Lewi*
Lazier Bogart.

The Cronkct and the Barkers were strong
orthodox Quakers, and formed quite a
Quaker settlement near North port.

CHAPTER IV
THE LAZIER FAMILY

OUR memory is particularly vivid of our
grandmother, Mary Lazier, who lived a
great many years with her son Lewis, and
died at his home in her one hundred and
second year.

She was a grand, benevolent Christian
woman, one of the salt of the earth and
pure as gold. She possessed more than
ordinary intelligence for the opportunities
of those times and was endowed with a
large measure of good saving common sense.

She was most industrious, always busy
quilting, knitting, in short, she was a
beautiful seamstress, and she had some job
to keep in repair the kneeless and seatless
pants of her grandchildren. She made a
patch quilt when she was one hundred
years old.

Her favorite motto that she was always
impressing upon her grandchildren was,
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THE BOGART FAMILY IN CANADA

" I'll teach you to work, and teach you to
love it"

She was most neat and tidy about her
personal appearance, her white kerchief
about her neck and shoulders was always
spotlessly clean. She was very fond of
her snuff, which she used for probably fifty
years, and the most acceptable present that
her sons or anyone could bring her was a
pound of snuff. She suddenly gave it up
when over eighty years old. No one of the
family knew it until, when a neighbor
came in to enjoy a pinch, she handed him
her snuff box, saying she had not taken
any for a long time. She said she was
afraid when she got old she might soil her
kerchief.

She would sometimes grow reminiscent
of her early days. When they came to this
country up the St. Lawrence in their
batteaux, a long tedious trip, she told how
a young English officer courted her during
the voyage; she was then eighteen years
old; of the struggles of their early home
life in the little log cabin on the bay shore,
where she went to live with her husband's
father and mother, who spoke mostly Dutch ;
of the busy time carding, spinning and
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THE LAZIER FAMILY

weaving the home-spun clothing for her
nine 8onH and two daughters; of their
having to go around by boat with their
little grist to be ground at the windmill
at Kingston ; of the addition of a few acres
of fallow or cleared land each year for
cultivation to support their fast increasing
family.

She had a little ditty in Dutch that
her grandchildren and great-grandchildren
were very fond of having her recite to
them : —

•• Tip a top a toncies,
Varkies in the boncies,
Conchies in the clover,
Packies in the hover,
A ncliics in the waterclaw,
Colfles in the longagrass.
Ho, boys, Ho!"

i

The following concerning the Lazier
family is found on page 978 of the " Pioneer
Life of the Bay of Quinte " :—

11 Data furnished from memoranda tran-
scribed from the old Lazier family Bible
record. Jacobus R. Lazier was born in
1708, and left France for America during
the time extreme persecutions were being
inflicted on the Huguenots.
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THE BOGART FAMILY IN CANADA

" Settling presumably at Yonkers near
New York, where his son subsequently
owned considerable property, he married
an Englishwoman, whose Christian name
was Maria.

•• They had at least one son, called
Nicholas Jacobus Lazier, but whether there
were other children cannot now be ascer-
tained, although the assumption is that
there were, as other Lazier descendants
have been traced living in the vicinity of
Yonkers.

" Jacobus R. Lazier died in 1792, and
was survived twelve years by his wife, who
died at the age of eighty-eight years.

•• Nicholas Jacobus Lazier arrived in
Canada on November 6th in the year before
that of his father's death. He was a man
well advanced in years, being at that time
fifty-three years of age, having been born
in 1739. He came accompanied by his wife
and eight children.

•• His migration is stated to have been
the effect of a refusal to take the oath of
Allegiance to the American government,
and the confiscation of the considerable
milling and farming properties he possessed
at Yonkers near New York.
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THE LAZIER FAMILY

" Twenty years before setting foot in
Upper Canada he married Charity Cocklin,
who, although thirteen years his junior,
was a sympathetic companion in his days
of adversity and a faithful helpmate among
the stress of his pioneering hardships.

" The old homestead where he first settled
in Hophiasburg is situated on the Eastern
one hundred and twenty acres of Lot
eighteen, west of Green Point. It stands on
a knoll that looked across the Sylvan bay
of Quinte.

"A little way to its rear a grist mill was
erected beside a creek which flowed from
a lake enclosed by his land, and close by
not much further along the shore the sad
demands of later years placed a lonely
burial ground, where the Laziers and other
Pioneers of the Sophiasburg Bay Front
have since been laid to their rest beneath
the land of their adoption within sound of
their Bay.

" Prosperity attended the efforts of the
Lazier family pioneer with such good effect
as to enable him, before he died, to bequeath
a farm to each of his sons.

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THE BOGART FAMILY IN CANADA

" Most of them settled on the road lead-
ing from Picton to Demerestville and oppo-
site Big Island.

" John was left the old homestead."
Dr. Canniff, speaking of slaves in his
l)ook, " Settlement of Upper Canada," says:
" Nicholas Lazier had slaves — one slave
named Sal was noted for her attachment
to Methodism and would go a long distance
to attend meetings. As a female slave,
Black Bettie, was one of the first congre-
gation in New York l>efore which the first
Methodist Minister in America preached, so
this woman was one of the first Methodists
at the Bay and in Upper Canada. John
Crank and she were the only Methodists in
the Township of Sophiasburg for a long
time."
The Laziers were Presbyterians.

GENEALOGY OF THE LAZIER FAMILY.

Authorities: " Pioneer Life on the Bay of Qninte."
Published by Ralph and Clark, Ltd., Toronto.
Family records in the possession of the Lazier
family and of Mary Lazier Bogart.

52

THE LAZIER FAMILY

(1) JACOBUS R. LAZIER.— Born in Hol-
land. Came to America; settled at
Yonkere, N.Y. Died in 1792.

His SON.

(2) NICHOLAS JACOBUS LAZIER.— Born
in 1739, probably at Yonkers. Mar-
ried Charity Conklin in 1771, who
was born in 1752. Arrived in Canada
with his wife and eight children, Nov.
6th, 1791.

THEIR CHILDREN.

•(a) MARY. — Born 1772. Married
Abraham Bogart. Died 1874.
(6) JAMES.— Born 1776.

(c) LEWIS.— Born 1779. Died 1813.

(d) NICHOLAS.— Born 1781.

(e) MBHETABLE.

(/) PETER.— Born 1786.

(g) JOHN.

(h) ABRAHAM.

lit WILLIAM.

(3) MARY LAZIER.— Born Aug. 10th, 1772.
Yonkers, N.Y. Died Jan. 30th, 1874.
Adolphustown, Canada, aged 101
years, 5 months, 20 days. Married
March 18th, 1792, to Abraham Bogart,
of Adolphustown, Canada.
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THE BOGART FAMILY IN CANADA

THEIR CHILDREN

are fully recorded on page 21 with
the Bogart family. Their
fourth son was the writer's
father.

(4) LEWIS LAZIER BOGART.— Born Jan.
18th, 1804. Died Dec. 24th, 1888.

They settled on a fine two hundred acre
farm one mile east of Northport on the
bay shore. There was a water power on
the farm, so they built a large flour
mill and carried on an extensive milling
business for nearly a century in the family.

Nicholas Lazier had seven sons and two
daughters. John settled on the homestead,
Nicholas settled just west of Northport,
Cabos (James), Peter and Abraham settled
near Picton, and William, the youngest son,
settled near Port Perry. There were two
daughters, Mary, our grandmother, who
was the eldest child, and Mihitable, who
married Mr. Hill of Belleville.

I have a photograph copy of the marriage
certificate of my grandparents, Abraham
Rogart, and Mary Lazier.

This John Longhorn was the first Epis-
copal missionary stationed at this part of
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THE LAZIER FAMILY

Upper Canada and came to Bath in the
year 1790. He built St. Paul's Church at
Sandburist, the first church erected in this
country, and for some time was the only
clergyman in this district authorized to
solemnize marriage, a privilege many a
parson would like to enjoy to-day.

Our grandparents had the good judgment
to induce each of their large family of sons
to learn some industrial trade, and nearly
every branch of industry then available
was represented among them. The oldest
was a blacksmith, there was a carpenter,
a cooper, a shoemaker, a tailor, a hatter,
a miller, and a farmer. However, they did
not all make their trade the means of their
livelihood, for most of them sooner or later
gravitated back to the farm. Three of them,
John, Nicholas, and Lewis, settled in North
Adolphustown, within a mile of their old
home, and raised nineteen children among
them, a good average. At one time the
Bogarts were pretty thick about there, the
parents with their children numbering
twenty-five.

Four of the brothers settled in Belleville
— Cornelius, Gilbert, David and Abraham.
Cornelius, whose first wife was Betsy
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Dorland, by whom he had two children, one
son and one daughter, married after her
decease Mary Port, by whom he had three
children, one son and two daughters. He
carried on a large boot and shoe business
in Belleville for a great many years until
he retired.

Gilbert married Ann Meacham, by whom
he had three children, one son and two
daughters. He, being a carpenter, built the
palatial home, which is now occupied as
the Marchmont House in West Belleville.
He sold this white elephant and came down
to Camden East, where he operated a large
flour mill in connection with his farm.
Afterwards this mill became the Thompson
Paper Mill, and now the Houpt Paper
Mills. He sold out there and purchased a
farm west of Napanee on the Deseronto
road, where he died.

David, who married Harriet Bicford, of
Oswego, by whom he had one daughter,
who died when twelve years old, engaged
in the lumber business. He did well, but got
a craze for a farm and purchased the four
hundred acre farm two miles from Napanee
on the Newburgh road. He had a man
operate it for him, who managed to pile
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Peter was one of the victims of the sad
drowning accident, which occurred on
Sunday, August 29th, 1819. He was just
seventeen years old. A party of young
people, eighteen in number, were crossing
Hay Bay to a quarterly service, which was
held in the first Methodist church built in
Canada (1792). The skiff was overloaded,
and yet they urged my father Lewis to go,
but he was afraid and ran away and hid
until after they had set out from the north
shore. Just before reaching the other side
the boat sprang a leak, and in the
confusion Boon capsized, plunging all in
the water. 8ome were excellent swimmers,
but appeared dazed, for instead of swim-
ming for the shore, which they could easily
have reached, swam right out in the bay
and were drowned. Only eight were saved,
plunging the whole neighborhood in the
greatest sorrow over the saddest event that
ever befell that part of the county.

Of the ten drowned, there were, beside
Peter Bogart, John and Jane German, from
the farm next west, and Mary Cale, who
lived on the next farm east. The other six,
Mary and .fane Detlor, Matilda Bobbin,
Betsy Macoy, Betsy Clark and Huldah
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Madden, were all residents of the immediate
neighborhood.

Mr. W. 8. Herrington, K.C., the able
historian of the county, has this to say:
" On the following day the ten coffins were
ranged side by side in front of the chapel,
and the Reverend Mr. Puffer, taking his
text, * I know that my Redeemer liveth,'
endeavored to preach a funeral service, but
was so overcome with emotion in the
presence of a large congregation, who could
not restrain their tears, that he was
unable to finish his discourse. In the old
graveyard near by may still be seen the last
resting place of the drowned. It is needles*
to say that disaster was long remembered,
and the sympathy of the district went out
to the stricken families, among them being
some of the best known in the county."

A daughter, Margaret, their third child,
died unmarried, in her twentieth year.

Charity Cocklin, their youngest child,
married Mr. Hubbard Meacham, who was
postmaster at Belleville for over half a
century. They had three sons and one
daughter. One son died in early manhood,
and their eldest son, the Reverend George
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M. Meacham, occupied many prominent
circuits in the Bay of Quinte Conference
and was one of the early Methodist mis-
sionaries in Japan.

The one hundredth anniversary of our
grandmother's birth was a most interesting,
successful and historical event, held on
the 10th day of August, 1872. The gathering
was held in a grove on the farm first taken
up by her husband's father, Gysbert Bogart,
in 1802. This land had been cleared and
cultivated by him, but on account of the
shallow soil had been allowed to grow up
again and contained a fine grove of second
growth timber.

The people came from all over the
country — Picton, Napanee, Belleville, and
some of her grandchildren from Toronto,
Chatham and Chicago.

She was truly the queen of the occasion,
everyone calling her Aunt Polly, and she
knew nearly everybody. It was an all-day
affair, the people bringing their lunches
and picnicing together, renewing old
acqaintances and general good fellowship.
In the photograph taken that day she
WLS supported on either side by her two
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brothers, Peter and John Lazier. There
were present also her four living sons,
Lewis, Cornelius, David and Abraham; a
great number of grandchildren, and quite
a flock of great-grandchildren, Frederic
Bogart McMullen of Chicago, being the
youngest, then being a little over one year
old. Her offspring up to that time had
been eleven children, forty-six grand-
children and eighty-five great-grandchil-
dren, most of whom were living then.

To her great moral worth it is fitting
and right to pay a tribute. As Steele aptly
remarks, " The memory of a well-spent
youth gives a peaceful, unmixed and
elegant pleasure to the mind."

She never had to lay aside the vanities
and frivolities of youth, for she never had
taken them up. She was always a strong,
earnest worker, " Bearing the burden and
the heat of the day." It was her pleasure
to take care of her family and work day
and night for the comfort, education and
elevation of her children. Certainly in her
absorbing love for them she utterly forgot
herself, and on that day she enjoyed the
choicest pleasures of old age; the respect
of all who knew her, the warm affection of
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all her descendant*, the testimony of a
clear conscience and a strong, simple faith
in God.

We are told there is "An art of
long-living." The science of hygiene wag
unknown to her, microbes and bacteria she
never knew of; she simply followed the
dictates of a strong sound sense, avoiding
all excess or abuse, and employed all her
time and all her powers, physical, mental
and spiritual, in doing the work of life.

As one has well remarked, " Religion in
age supplies the place of animal spirits in
youth." Long ago she began to serve her
God. Her habits of goodness had become
fixed. She had no misgivings as to her
future. She was a Christian.

Many of the advantages of old age, which
Xenophon in his " Banquet " and Cicero in
his " De Senectute," have exalted, had been
in her possession, but above all and beyond
all which they delighted to dwell upon is
that hope: —

" Thrice blessed, bliss inspiring hope
Which lifts our fainting spirits up
And brings to life the dead."

She was like the mariner who, as he
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reachoH the end of his voyage to the Spice
Inland : —

•• The stream is calmest when it nears the tide.
And flowers are sweetest at the eventide,
And birds more musical at close of day,
And saints divinest when they pass away."

ADDRESS TO MRS. BOGART ON HER
HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY.

•• I i.-.i !• Madam, on this wond'rous natal day,
Which finishes a century of your way,
We come with warm congratulations, true,
While, with your leave, we take a short review.

"One hundred years ago, if told aright,
Your infant eyes then first beheld the light,
Not in this land, but under British sway;
For good old George the Third had then his

way.
But ' Change,' that mighty tyrant of our

world,

Britannia's flag upon New England furled,
Made for America an honoured name,
Of which we speak without a tinge of shame.
Not always in their favour could we speak.
For by what seemed a most eccentric freak,
In throwing off the shackles of a king,
They bound them firmly round a weaker

thing,
While for themselves they fondly freedom

craved,

Most cruelly the luckless black enslaved.
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But these are only memories of the past,
For following in Great Britain'H wake at last,
They loosed the iron bonds of slaves and men,
Never in time to be made fast again.

"Now let us turn, and for a moment trace
In other lands, the history of our race;
And, as in former times, so now, we find
Tumults and wars prevail among mankind.
In France Napoleon Great arose and fell,
Threw o'er the nations round a magic spell,
And fondly hoped to conquer all the world ;
When, like the leaflet by the tempest whirled,
Fame, power and glory fled in one short day,
As fades the winter in the spring of May;
Before the ' Iron Duke ' he sank o'ercome,
And St. Helena proved a quiet home.

"A few more years of peace, then war once

more,

And stern, cold Russia thundered at the door,
Claimed for herself the lion's share of power,
And seemed triumphant for a little hour;
Then France and England by united force,
Drove the perfidious nation from her course,
And brought her to her own and proper place
Among the countries and the human race.

"Now, southward next, we for a moment turn;
From India's pages, this short lesson learn,
That civilizing men, in whole or part,
Will not the nature change nor change the

heart.

Rebellious Sepoys in a body rose,
And proved themselves malignant, treach'rons
foes —

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MunU>re<l the helpless and the innocent,
Until deliv'rance was divinely Kent;
And we, with joy, remember evermore
The names of Havelock, Lucknow and Cawn-
pore.

"The Russian Victory, and French defeat,
German achievements, ruinous retreat —
These things are illustrations, one and all,
Of that proud spirit which portends a fall:
And of that virtuous humility,
Which, saith the Scripture, shall exalted be.
The memory of Sedan has not yet passed,
Of Prussia's victories the best, and last.

"But for our own dear land, and for our time,
There yet remains a space within this rhyme;
We fought for union too, and gained the day,
Like our dear relatives across the way,
But unlike them, no fire-arms were used ;
And though the leaders were sometimes

abused,

The victories were bloodless, and the strife
Caused only loss of friends, not loss of life.
But, should the Fenian foe again invade
Our land of sunshine and the Maple shade,
Kach loyal heart and hand would then unite
To save our country, and defend the right.

"But we have travelled far o'er sea and land,
From frozen Russia to hot India's strand —
Gathered a tiny record of the past.
And come to Canada with it, at last.

"But we must haste to offer you, once more,
Congratulations, warmer than before;
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And if to-day your memory backward turn,
God's providence, through all your life dis-

cern;
See how his hand has been your guide and

stay,

Through all the winding mazes of the way.
And though no doubt bereavements you have

had

Admixtures of the joyous and the sad,
Times when your tired spirit longed for rest.
The everlasting quiet of the blest;
You could look forward with a calm delight,
With pleasing hope, anticipations bright,
Gf meeting in the blessedness to come,
The loved and lost ones of your early home.
Now, may that God who brought you to this

day

Continue still to keep you in the way,
Give you sweet songs and praises in the

night,
And grant, 'At eventide, there may be light.' "

It was said on that occasion that " She
and her husband had reared a large and
somewhat remarkable family of eleven
children, nine of whom were sons, and there
was not a drone or a black sheep among
them." They all lived to be elderly people,
were married and had families of their
own, except Peter, who was drowned, and
Margaret, one of the daughters. The sons,
nearly all of whom l>ecame prominent
and respected men, attributed, and very
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properly, much of their success in life to
their energetic mother, to whom the}- paid
truly regal respect and homage when she
became one hundred years old.

Her sons were strong temperance men
and all prominent members of the Methodist
Church, in which they were brought up,
except David, who went with his wife to
the Presbyterian Church.

The one hundred and first anniversary
was just a family gathering of the nearby
relatives, and took place on the same farm
by the home of her grandson, Peter Bogart.
Her one brother and four sons, grand-
children and great-grandchildren were
present to do her honor in passing another
landmark of time.

I cannot close this family narrative with-
out paying a merited tribute of respect to
my esteemed father and mother.

Lewis Lazier Bogart was one of the last
of the first generation of defendants of the
U. E. Loyalists in that section of the
country, his father being one of the com-
pany who landed at Adolphustown in 1784,
nearly a century and a half ago.

He was the last survivor of the family
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of nine sons and two daughters, five being
older than himself and five younger.

He was born within a mile of the place
where he lived and settled with his bride,
Elizabeth Cronk. They lived together on
this farm over fifty-three years, and by
industry and frugality hewed out for him-
self a comfortable home and accumulated
considerable property. He possessed a
splendid constitution, was never sick, and
in regard to build and physique, was a
perfect type of a man, and might have
lived many years longer had it not been
for his ambition and desire to perform
work much beyond his strength, which
brought on a cold with congestion and
inflammation, which ended fatally. He
was a consistent member of the Methodist
Church for over half a century, and class
leader in the church he largely helped to
build, for over twenty-five years. He took
a great interest in church work, the
old-fashioned revival meetings being his
delight. He would go for miles in any
direction to attend them, and many can
date their religious experience from his
zeal and influence.

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a friend and playmate of Sir John A.
Macdonald. He always persistently declined
to be mixed up in municipal politics or
honored with municipal office.

He was universally esteemed and
respected by all who knew him, and was
widely known outside of his own county.

His life was one of peace and good will
toward men, and his death just what he
long prayed for — a sudden one.

Elizabeth Cronk, of Prince Edward
County, became his bride on January 26th,
1835, and went to live on the farm he had
just taken up from the Crown, upon which
they both passed away. Brought up a
Friend, she became a consistent, active
member of the Methodist Church for half
a century.

Her home, heart, and hands were always
open to her friends and neighbors; she
endeared herself to the community for her
hospitality and kindness, benevolence and
Christian example.

She survived her husband thirteen
months.

Near the close of my father's life he
participated in an interesting event, regard-
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again from W. 8. Herrington's " History
of Lennox and Addington": —

" On June sixteenth, 1884, the corner
stone of the Monument now standing at
the edge of the old burial ground was laid
with Masonic honors by R.W. Bro. Arthur
McGuiness, DD8M., of Belleville, before a
great concourse of people assembled from
all parts of Canada, to commemorate the
Centennial Celebration of the landing of
the Loyalists. Patriotic addresses were
delivered by Lewis Lazier Bogart, then over
eighty years of age, the oldest living male
representative of the U. E. Loyalists, who
acted as chairman of the occasion; A. L.
Morden, Dr. Canniff, D. W. Allison, Sir
Richard Cartwright, and Rev. D. V. Lucas.
In due time the monument was completed
and upon its face was inscribed: —

• IN MEMORY OF THE U. E. LOYALISTS,
WHO, THROUGH LOYALTY TO BRITISH

INSTITUTIONS,

LEFT THE UNITED STATES AND LANDED ON

THESE SHORES ON THE SIXTEENTH

OF JUNE, 1784.'

••A more enduring monument to the
whole band of pioneers is the sweet memory
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of their loyalty and sacrifice embalmed in
the hearts of the present generation of
their descendants who, with commendable
zeal, are taking active measures to preserve
all of the old landmarks in the township
connected with its early history."

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