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M Collins Handy

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Information from Gary Silverstein, New England Families 2, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Israel Smith, Esquire:
Collins Handy, to Rebecca Baldwin, both of Orford. 22 Apr. 1833, Orford. Israel Smith. Wit. E. M. Handy, Margaret Rivley and David H. Gissner.

1851 personal census, Howard Twp, Kent Co., ON, p. 6:
Handy Collins, M, Married, 41, born Connecticut, Unaversalist, Farmer;
Rebecca, F, Married, 38, born Canada, Unaversalist, Housewife;
David H., M, 17, born Canada, Unaversalist, Labourer;
Collins, M, 14, born Canada, Unaversalist, Labourer;
Loisa, F, 11, born Canada, Unaversalist, Daughter;
Julia, F, 9, born Canada, Unaversalist, Daughter;
Julius, M, 8, born Canada, Unaversalist, Son;
George N., M, 5, born Canada, Unaversalist, Son;
Franklin, M, 3, born Canada, Unaversalist, Son.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 248-249:
Collins Handy, Sr., Morpeth, Ont. In 1704 a family by the name of Moss emigrated from England and settled on the seashore in the state of Connecticut. They were descendants from the Baltic Mariners or Sea Kings who entered Britain at the time of William the Conquerer. One Theopolus Moss was born from this Puritan Family April 13, 1718. Years after he married Miss Ruth Ramsey, and raised a large family. On Nov. 25, 1740, was born one Ebenezer who, in 1762, married Miss Esther Preston, and they raised a family of seven. One of the daughters, named Lois, married one Henry Handy, Nov. 7, 1785. From this marriage the subject of our sketch was born, being one of a family of five sons and two daughters. Ebenezer, the eldest, married Sarah A. Baldwin. Mahitabel married Thomas Ransom, of Wisconsin. Hale married Miss Laura Wood, a Wisconsin lady. Louise married John Nichols, of York State. Sedgwick married Eleanor Clements, of York State. John remained a bachelor. Collins was third in the family.
     Collins Handy was born at Wellingport, Connecticut, April 7, 1811. In 1816 the family moved to Salisbury, Herkimer county, New York. The eldest brother, Ebenezer, learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade, and in 1831 came to Canada by way of Buffalo and Port Stanley. He assisted in building the Hamilton and Warren mills at Kettle Creek. In 1831 he was joined by our subject, Collins, who worked with his brother "Eb" for two years, and after the completion of the mill they went to Palmyra and built the first frame house in the township of Orford, for a Mr. Eberle, at or near the site of the brick now occupied by Edward Eberle, in Palmyra. They then assisted in building the Freeman Green residence in Howard, which still stands at its original name, neatly and well kept up, overlooking the broad waters of Lake Erie. They then built the "Baldwin Hotel," at Clearville, owned and occupied by Capt. David Baldwin. Mr. Handy married Mr. Baldwin's daughter, Rebecca, on April 22, 1833. He then entered into partnership with Mr. Baldwin in buying and shipping grain, and filling the contract for the first mail route west from St. Thomas to Malden; this contract was let in 1832 and the partnership continued until 1838.
     In 1832 the only post office on Talbot Road west of St. Thomas was at Col. Bunwell's. In 1834 a post office was established on a sand hill about one mile west of New Glasgow. Then Clearville was kept by Mr. Baldwin, thence east of Morpeth on Mr. Walter's place, which was in 1835 the only post office in the township of Howard, there being none at that time in the township of Harwich in the southern part, and none from Morpeth to Col. Little in Romney. There was one at Gosfield kept by Mr. Buchanan, and then at Malden or Amherstburg. The roads west of Clearville were chiefly through dense forests, and in many places were mere trails, only passable on foot or horseback. Many incidents are recited by this aged pioneer, of the endurance and hardships he underwent, which required an element that would be hard to find in the young man of the present day. On one occasion, during the spring floods, when the bridge spanning Kettle Creek was carried away, he stripped one of the horses of its harness, and with himself and the mail on the animal's back swam the river, both the animal and himself barely escaping being drowned. He was carried back by a boat, leaving the horse behind. During the time he carried the mail he purchased some river lots in the heart of Windsor, which he traded with Mr. Baldwin for part of Lot 102, N.T.R., in the township of Howard, where he now lives. In 1838 he built a fine dwelling on the lot, and has lived there about sixty-six years. He lost his companion Sept. 8, 1881, a woman highly esteemed for her many amiable qualities. Their family comprised seven sons and four daughters: David H., born Dec. 16, 1835; Collins, Aug. 18, 1838; Louisa, April 2, 1841; Julia E., April 21, 1843; Julius, Feb. 17, 1845; George W., Oct. 25, 1847; Franklin M., April 20, 1850; Norman Wesley, May 4, 1852; Ida C., June 14, 1854; Clara L., Oct. 17. 1856; Ansen F., March 25, 1859. The family at this date are all alive except the mother, the eldest son and the eldest daughter. The daughter Julia was for many years her father's housekeeper, and guarded and cared for his wants. In February, 1900, she was married to Oliver Ransom, which necessitated a change, Fred, the youngest, moving on the old homestead, where he is caring for the aged father. Mr. Handy's oldest grandchild is Linneus Watson, living in Morden, Manitoba; at his birth he could boast of having four grandmothers on his father's side and three on his mother's side - seven living grandmothers, one in Yorkshire, England, 103 years of age. Mr. Handy has twenty-five grandchildren, six being dead, and eight great-grandchildren.
     Mr. Handy was ninety-three years of age on April 7, 1904. He is still quite well, and very active for one of his age, and enjoys himself performing some outdoor work. As regularly as Saturday in every week comes he is in Ridgetown getting shaved. He possesses a compact and wiry organization, full of energy, positiveness and persistence, organized to be healthy and capable of accomplishing a great deal of work, through his mental activity and physical endurance. He has been a man of great determination and decision. He is sociable, friendly, kindly and neighborly, and at this ripe age no one ever heard him utter profanity, and he is without an enemy. He has never been a politician, but always regarded it a duty as a citizen to cast a vote or ballot in the highest or lowest position when an opportunity offered. He has always been a stanch Reformer, and has been a constant reader and subscriber of the Toronto Globe since its inception sixty-one years ago. He has been a Universalist in faith and act during his life and has the confidence of all who know him, who are with him in belief or differ in opinion, as an honorable man, unblemished in reputation. Nearly all the members of him family are situated close by him, and the old-fashioned fire hearthstone is welcome and relished by all. May he stay many years with those who love, honor and revere him.

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Henry Handy ca 1778-   Lois Moss 1778-1860
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Collins Handy 1811-1910