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a few belongings she was taken to the frontier and sent on to the 
British camp. 
Gershom French, the brother of the member, lived at Coteau 
Landing, and under direction of the Governor, made some exploration 
of the country between Kingston and Ottawa. 
Lieutenant Jeremiah French drew lands in Cornwall and in 
Montague. He was an intimate friend of Bishop Strachan. Ben- 
jamin French, son of Jeremiah, and Dr. Strachan, were married to 
sisters, daughters of Dr. Wood, an English army surgeon. We shall 
close our account of Lieutenant French by referring to the sad acci- 
dent that happened while he was entertaining the Duke of Kent: A 
turkey shoot was in progress, and just as Mr. French was about to 
fire, his daughter crossed in front, and was shot dead upon the spot. 
His successor was Robert I. D. Gray, who was drowned in 1804 in the 
lamentable shipwreck of The Speedy off Presquw isle. 
Lieutenant French died in 1805, and was survived several years 
by his widow. | 
(For these particulars I am indebted to his descendant, F. J. 
French, Esq., K.C., of Prescott.) 
Dundas.— This county consisted of Williamsburgh and Matilda 
townships, and all lying to the north as far as the Ottawa. The 
member chosen was Alexander Campbell. Of this member we know 
but little. Croil, in his History of Dundas, says, that he left behind 
him an unenviable reputation for veracity, but whether this was 
merely in the political sense or not, we do not know. He appears 
to have left the riding and moved to Montreal. His name does not 
appear in the list of members published in the Quebec Almanac for 
1796. This list, of course, must have been made up and printed in 
1795, before the expiration of the first legislature. He was present, 
however, at the first and second sessions. His successor in the 
second legislature was Colonel Thomas Fraser, of Matilda. 
Grenville— This county was composed of the townships of 
Edwardsburgh and Augusta, and the lands to the north as far as the 
Ottawa River. The western part of Carleton and the south-eastern 
part of Lanark therefore were then included in Grenville, but prac- 
tically all the settlers were in the two front townships. Ephraim 
Jones was chosen as member for Grenville. At the same time he 
was a member of the Land Board for Leeds and Grenville. Josiah 
Jones came to Boston in 1665 and settled at Weston, Mass., where 
he died in 1714. His grandson, Elisha Jones, had a numerous family, 
fourteen sons and one daughter. The family records have it that 
all these children came to British territory at the time of the Revolu- 
tionary War, some settling in New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia, 
