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M Benjamin Hardison

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Introduction to the Register of Saint Paul's Church at Fort Erie, 1836-1844, by Brig.-General E. A. Cruikshank, LL.D., F.R. Hist. S., from Bill Martin's site, originally published by the Ontario Historical Society.
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On the conclusion of peace the ferry below the Fort Erie rapids to the village of Black Rock on the opposite bank of the river had been reestablished and several stores, taverns, and other buildings were erected near the ferry-wharf and the mills at the rapids, forming a small straggling village, which became a place of considerable trade and about 1816 received the name of Waterloo. The most notable resident then was Lieut. Colonel John Warren, who besides being commandant of the local regiment of militia, was a Justice of the Peace, a Judge of the Court of Requests for the trial of small civil causes, and had succeeded his father as collector of customs and lessee of the ferry... Other persons of consequence were Benjamin Hardison, a magistrate and owner of a considerable tract of land, who had been a member of the assembly, William Stanton, deputy assistant commissary general, and Alexander Douglas, a prosperous merchant.
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In 1820 the "chapelry of Chippawa" was established in the townships of Stamford and Willoughby. The Reverend William Leeming, who became the first minister made frequent entries of baptisms, marriages and burials at Fort Erie, Bertie, and Waterloo. Among the burials thus recorded in 1823 are Benjamin Hardison, aged about seventy on July 28, and Mrs. Warren, the widow of Commissary John Warren, aged eighty-three, on September 22... Among the marriages recorded are Captain Donald Charles McLean and Ann Warren, 23 August, 1820; Colonel John Warren and Charlotte Stanton, 1 May, 1822; and James Hamilton, Esq., of Southwold, third son of Hon. Robert Hamilton of Queenston, and Catherine Jane Warren, 1 November, 1824. It is stated on credible authority, that divine service was held at the Fort Erie mills and in the house of Benjamin Hardison...

John Warren, the elder, William Stanton, and Benjamin Hardison all had large families, who intermarried and formed a sort of local aristocracy. Kerby's eldest daughter married a Warren and her sister married a Hardison. ...