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N Mary McKenzie

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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 476-480:
Malott. The record of this family in the Dominion of Canada begins with the migration of three brothers and two sisters, Peter, Theodore, David, Catherine and Delilah Malott, who made their way to Detroit soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, in 1783...
     Peter Malott was married at Detroit to Mary Jones... the young couple settled on Grosse Ile, living there for about one year, when an old soldier had a U.E. right in the township of Gosfield offered to dispose of same for a cow. At that time cows were scarce, and of considerable value, but after due consideration the trade was made, and Peter Malott, with his wife and child, came to the new holding, Lots 4 and 5, on the lake, where they passed the remainder of their days...
Peter and Mary (Jones) Malott were the parents of six children, namely: Joseph, Sarah, Mary, Theodore, Ann and Peter. Of these, Joseph, born on Grosse Ile, grew up in Gosfield and came into possession of Lots 6 and 7, in that township. He was a prominent member of the Methodist Church, in which he served many years as a local preacher, being well known as a fluent speaker. Frequently he walked to Sandwich to conduct services, and it is said that in wet weather he often arrived at the house of worship with his Bible wet in his coat pocket. He married Mary McKenzie, and they had two sons and three daughters...