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the fort at York. After the removal of the Government to York, he 
appears to have taken up his residence there and to have conducted a 
milling business in the valley of the Don. Was Young first elected 
and then for some reason or other compelled to drop out ? ‘The 
journals might tell us, but those of the 3rd, 4th and 5th sessions are 
lacking. If we accept the almanac list, Terry was the member in 1795. 
Who was the Young? There were several of that name in 
the Niagara district. There were two John Young’s, both associated 
with St. Andrew’s Church at Niagara. One was a merchant and had 
holdings of land opposite. Youngstown was named after him. He 
was drowned in Lake Ontario while returning from Montreal on 29th 
July, 1840. A tablet in St. Andrew’s Church, Niagara, states that he 
was 73 years of age at the time of his death. If he were the member, 
he would have been only 25 years of age when elected. There was 
also a Peter Young, a merchant at Vittoria in the early days. 
Suffolk and Hssex counties were together to have one repre- 
sentative. Suffolk had a frontage on Lake Erie from Catfish Creek 
to Point of Pines and extended back to the Thames. It, therefore, 
included the western part of Elgin county, and the eastern part of 
Kent county, as these at present are constituted. Essex took in the 
rest of the country westward to the Detroit, and included all of Essex 
and the remainder of Kent county, except a strip four miles wide that 
was marked off by a line running from Maisonville’s mill on the 
Detroit east to the Thames. The settlers were mainly in “the 
two connected townships,” Gosfield and Colchester, and along the 
Detroit River toward the present town of Sandwich. Who was the 
member for Suffolk and Essex ? In most of the lists given, the name 
is Mr. Baby, and some writers have conjectured that it was Mr. James 
Baby. Referring to the Quebec Almanac list we find that it was 
Francis Baby. In only one historical work have I seen the name 
correctly given and that is in Dean Harris’ “ History of the Roman 
Catholic Church in the Niagara Peninsula,” wherein he states that 
there were three members of the Roman Catholic Church in the first 
Legislature, namely, the two Macdonnells from Glengarry and Francis 
Baby. James Baby had been appointed one of the first members of 
the Legislative Council on the 16th July, therefore, it could not have 
been he. I think we may set it down as settled that the member was 
Francis Baby, who lived on the east side of the Detroit River in, or 
on the borders of, the present town of Sandwich. I have seen the 
statement that when General Hull invaded Canada, he established 
his headquarters in the partially completed house of Francis Baby. 
The Baby family was prominent in the west. When Quebec was 
taken in 1759, and Montreal capitulated in 1760, Major Rogers was 

