Information from William Sheldon, Sheldon/Raymond/Scott, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 48-49:
The Quick family prominent for several generations in Canada, has had able representatives in the township of Colchester South, County of Essex, in the late Cornelius R. Quick, and now in his capable daughter, Mrs. Annie A. (Quick) Brush, widow of the late Arthur B. Brush.
The first of the family here was Alexander Quick, grandfather of Cornelius R., who was undoubtedly one of the large family of Quicks who were natives of Cornwall, England, though settled in the State of Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Being unwilling to take up arms against England, he was obliged to leave his home, and with his entire family he moved to Canada, and settled on Lot 8, of the Gore, in the township of Colchester, at a time when there were but one or two families anywhere in the region. In those days the Indians were trouble-some and the family were obliged to protect their log cabin by a stockade of logs, set endwise in the ground. Tradition says that three of the daughters and one son of Alexander Quick were carried away captive by the Indians, and only two of the daughters were regained even by the payment of a ransom, though the son, Joseph, was released. Mr. Quick was well advanced in life when he went to Canada, and only survived a few years after the change. His sons were: Joseph, father of Cornelius R; Cornelius, who moved to Mersea; Elijah, who settled in Colchester South, and lived there until 1879, when he removed to the State of Michigan, and there remained; John, who located in Trenton, Michigan; Alexander, who resided in the township of Colchester South; and David, who removed to Illinois in 1865.
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Elizabeth Quick ca 1781-1855
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