NameLouise Mitchell
Misc. Notes
Simcoe County Pioneer and Historical Society
PIONEER PAPERS-No. 6
B A R R I E : Published by the Society.; 1917.; Page 20
CHAPTER XI.
SOME HISTORIC FAMILIES.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF TH E HAMILTON FAMILY.
A CORRECTION.—In a previous chapter we stated that
Capt. James Matthew Hamilton, the first postmaster of Pene-
tanguishene, was married at Mackinaw by Surgeon David
Mitchell, his father-in-law, who read the ceremony from the
Church of England prayer book, he being a Justice of the
Peace, as there were no clergymen in that region in those
days. We gathered these facts from the diary of the late
Capt. T. G. Anderson published by the Wisconsin Historical
Society, and which statement has been copied by numerous
writers. Miss Charlotte Frances Hamilton Rowe of Orillia,
a grand daughter of Capt. Hamilton,
has kindly furnished us
with some additional particulars and a copy of the following
document transcribed Oct. 19th,1875, from a Book of Records
at Mackinac bearing dates from 1785to i860, viz.: "Michili-
mackinac, 15thNov., 1791.—This day was married by Ed-
ward Charleton, Esquire, Captain in the 5th Regiment of His
Majesty, and Commandant of the Post of Michilimackinac
and Dependencies, before the undersigned Notary and inthe
presence of the subscribing witnesses, Jas.Matthew Hamilton,
Ensign in the said Regiment, to Miss Louise Mitchell, daught-
er of David Mitchell, Esq.,by his lawful wife
."
Witness :
J.M.Hamilton,
Benjamin Rocher,
Ensign 5thRegiment ofFoot.
Lieut. 5thFoot.
Louise Mitchell, now Hamilton.
Witness:
Edwd. Charleton,
W. Glendower,
Captain 5th Regiment,
Ensign 5thFoot.
CommandingMichilimackinac.
D.Mitchell, Surgeon. Etc., Etc.
Capt. Hamilton was the second son of a large family
whose mother was Miss Christine Baillie of County Down,
Ireland, whoie brother, Colonel Baillie, was killed at Mysore
in. the war with Hyder Ali.
The famous "Baillie Guard" at
Lucknow was named in his honor. Capt. Usher who married
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