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M Abraham Kennedy Smith

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Biography of John Smith, Brantford Expositor, 1 July 1927:
...The oldest son of John Smith was W. K. Smith, who married a sister of Brant and they had two children, A. K. Smith and Margaret. A. K. Smith married a Miss Sophn of Stoney Creek, and he was for many years one of the leading residents of Brantford...Margaret Smith married William Kerby, who for a great many years ran a grist mill here and also had other property. To the brother and sister, the Six Nations Indians granted the Smith and Kerby tract, containing 1,100 acres of land, which, in addition to the 200 acres previously granted A. K. Smith, made 1300 acres, part of the site of the present city. Mr. Smith had a home on the corner of Church street and Brant avenue, and Mr. Kerby, father of James Kerby, who built the Kerby House, lived on a homestead which extended from the present Scarfe avenue to the present Dufferin armories...

Brantford Weekly Expositor:
A. K. Smith and William Kerby Were Notable and Outstanding Citizens (by F. D. Reville).
In the very early days of Brantford two of the most prominent men in the place were A. K. Smith and William Kerby, brothers-in-law.
When the Six Nations Indians removed here, from the United States after the revolutionary war, Brant persuaded John Smith, a U. E. Loyalist for whom he had formed a high regard, to come along with them. Six of his family journeyed with him to the banks of the Ousa, later known as the Grand River, and a son, William Kennedy, married a sister of the greatest Indian of all history. To this union there were born two children, Abraham Kennedy Smith and Margaret Smith, the latter of whom married William Kerby, also of U. E. Loyalist stock. To the brother and sister the Six Nations Indians granted 1,300 acres of land, a property which has since been known in local records as the "Smith and Kerby tract."
Lewis Burwell's map of Brantford, published in 1830, shows this area to have comprised the entire region later known as the North Ward, and far beyond that. It extended from West street clear back to the Holmedale - land owned by William Holme - and included Dumfries street (in later years known as Brant avenue), William Albion and Pearl streets. Also all other streets since established in this region. The site on which Grace church stands is recorded as "the gift of A. K. Smith and his sister, Margaret Kerby."
Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Kerby were men of pronounced personality and leaders of the community.
In 1883, Mr. Charles Durand of Toronto, son of Captain James Durand who bought 1,200 acres of land on Fairchild's Creek, gave his recollections of Brantford about the period of 1830 and in them said: "Abraham K. Smith, who owned a large quantity of land in Brantford, was as generous-hearted, and social a fellow as I ever met," and the late Dr. Kelly, for many years City and County school inspector, in writing (1891) of this place when he first came in 1855, said: "Mr. William Kerby, the father of all the Kerby's here, was a fine looking old gentleman, with a very pleasant manner and lived in the old homestead, where Scarfe avenue now is. Mr. A. K. Smith, brother-in-law of Mr. Kerby, was also a wealthy and important citizen, who lived on the corner of Church street and Brant avenue."
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Burwell Makes His Survey, Brantford Expositor, 1 July 1927?:
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Beyond Bedford [Street] all is open territory, mostly marked "A. K. Smith." The other names are ...; "Margaret Kerby,"...

Historical Sketch of Brantford Churches by S. F. Passmore, Brantford Expositor, 1 July 1927:
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It was 1832 before any place of worship was erected in the village, a frame structure, afterwards designated "Grace Church," having been located on lots which were the gift of A. K. Smith and his sister, Mrs. Margaret Kerby. The corner stone of a brick edifice was laid with Masonic honours, on October 14, 1856...
"...This corner stone of Grace Church, in the parish of Brantford, and County of Brant, and Province of Canada, was laid with ample Masonic honors...in the presence of...Thomas Botham and Henry Racey, church wardens. John Turner, architect of the church, on Tuesday, the 14th day of October, A.D. 1856...
The building committee consisted of Matthew William Pruyn, George Samuel Wilkes, Alexander Bunnell, Alexander Green, Thomas Botham, Henry Racey...

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