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Minister or Ministers of that
Church, and for such other purposes relating to that Church, as may be
considered necessary to the respectability of the Public Worship performed
there. As Your Majesty has freely granted to many individuals large tracts
of these waste lands, Your Petitioners presume to hope that Your Majesty
may consider a small portion of these waste lands will be properly
bestowed, when granted for the maintenance of a Branch of a National
Church, acknowledged and protected by Your Majesty.
And Your Petitioners, as in duty
bound, shall ever pray, &c., &c. (Alex. Sparks, Minister, and 147
others.)
I.
(See Page 46.)
CHIEF JUSTICE SEWELL
(1776-1839.)
Chief Justice Jonathan
Sewell was born 6th June, 1766, died Nov. 12th, 1839; His wife, Henrietta,
was the youngest daughter of Chief Justice Smith of Quebec born 6th
February, 1776, died, 26th May, 1849.
HON W. SMITH.
(1769-1847.)
William Smith was second
son of Chief Justice William Smith, of Quebec, born, on 7th February,
1769, educated at Kensington Grammar School, London, and came to Canada
with his father in 1786. He was appointed soon after Clerk of the
Provincial Parliament, and subsequently Master in Chancery of the Province
of Lower Canada, and in 1814 was appointed by Earl Bathurst, a member of
the Executive Council. He was the author of the "History of Canada, from
its first discovery down to the year 1791." He married Susannah, daughter
of Admiral Webber, and died at Quebec, 17th December, 1847.
CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM SMITH.
(1728-1 793.)
Chief Justice William Smith
was the eldest son of William Smith, who was a member of His Majesty’s
Council, and afterwards Judge of the Court of King’s Bench for the State
of New York. He was born at New York, 18th June, 1728. In his youth he was
sent to a grammar school, and afterwards. to Yale College, Connecticut,
where he greatly distinguished himself by his learning. He was an
excellent Greek and Hebrew scholar, and a thorough mathematician. He was
appointed Chief Justice of New York, 24th April, 1780. At the breaking out
of the rebellion in 1775, he was a staunch Loyalist, and left New York in
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