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From: "Philip Cochran" <>
Subject: RE: [Q-R] Excerpt Of History
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:12:37 -0400


It' funny that you bring this up, as until recently I hadn't given much
thought about the African Americans going up to Canada and when they
started. But I just received a copy of the page from the records of St.
Gabriels Presbyterian Chuch in Montreal for my ancestors Etienne Villmer and
Marie Robinson in 1800. The marriage before it was as follows:

Alexander Smith a Negroe man & Catherine Fletcher a Negroe woman both of
Montreal after publication of Banns were married this fifthe day of Octr in
the year of our Loard one thousand Eight hundrethe by Jo. Young mst. The
parties declared they did not know how to sign their names. In the presense
of _____.

You wonder is they had escaped as Slaves, or what their story was.

Just thought I would share this story, also incase anyone might be
researching this line, this might help.

Regards,

Phil

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>Subject: [Q-R] Excerpt Of History
>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:56:00 EDT
>
> Oct. 28,1830
> (http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/images/otd.98.10.28.a.lg.gif)
>Dresden Ontario - Josiah Henson 1789-1883 arrives in Upper Canada from
>Maryland with his wife (in the picture) and four children on the
>Underground
>Railway. The escaped American slave becomes pastor of a local church and
>starts a
>technical school. He is the model for the hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's
>famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that Abraham Lincoln said started
>the
>US Civil War.
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