J. C. Bury's Second Marriage by J.M. Warwick, U.E., Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton
Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
Elizabeth Traver, second wife of John Colbrook Bury who charted the shores of the St. Clair in 1815, was a native of Pennsylvania. According to the Journal of her youngest son Edward Bury, she was born in the neighbourhood of the Buttermilk Falls on the Susquehannah River in the year 1772. Her mother was widowed when Elizabeth was a small child...
John Bury sold his now completed mill on the Susquehannah in 1797 and the same year married Elizabeth Traver. Elizabeth Traver Bury's first child and her husband's seventh, Philip Bury, was born at Logantown on January 12, 1798. The next child Martha Bury, destined to become Mrs. Joseph Stover of Sombra, Ontario, was born there on October 17, 1799. A daughter Mary arrived on August 12, 1801 but was drowned in an accident on the Susquehannah less than a year later, on April 27, 1802...
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Phillip Bury 1798-
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