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Generally speaking, the three townships of Aldborough, Dunwich, 
and South Dorchester, and the North of Yarmouth, were settled by High- 
landers ; Talbot Road East, including the North Branch in Southwold, by 
a miscellaneous immigration from the United States, the Long Point 
settlement, the Niagara District, Southern England and elsewhere; 
the south of Yarmouth by members of the Society of Friends from 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Malahide by settlers from New York 
State, Long Point and Nova Scotia, and Bayham by immigrants from 
all quarters; London township by immigrants from Ireland under 
Richard Talbot, a very distant connection of the Colonel. 
XIX.—THE WAR AND SIMON ZELOTES WATSON. 
The war of 1812 was a complete bar to settlement, and the pioneers 
suffered greatly from plundering bands of Americans, largely from 
Kentucky, who repeatedly moved up and down the Talbot Road, destroy- 
ing mills and farm buildings, and carrying off not only live stock and 
all kinds of produce, but beds and bedding, household utensils and 
everything portable. Some of these marauding parties were composed 
of or guided by disaffected settlers from the township of Delaware, 
amongst whom a surveyor name Simon Zelotes Watson,’ and one West- 
brook were especially prominent. These had personal grievances against 
Talbot in connection with land grants, and were loud in their threats 
against his life if he should fall into their hands. 

? Lieutenant-Colonel Cruikshank has kindly contributed the following 
interesting note with reference to Watson and Westbrook: ‘“In the Quebec 
Mercury of July, 1812, Simon Z. Watson is described as a land surveyor and 
late a J.P. for the District of Montreal. In the Registry of the U. S. army 
for 1813 (See Am. State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. I, p. 387), his name 
appears as Topographical Engineer for Military District No. 8, comprising 
the States of Ohio and Kentucky, and the Territories of Indiana, Michigan, 
Missouri and Illinois. The date of his appointment was August 20, 1813, 
and he seems to have accompanied Harrison in his invasion of Canada in 
September of that year. You will find other references to him in my Doc. 
Hist; Vol 3; p 146; and Voli 4) pp. 23 and 25: The names of \SimonyZ, 
Watson, Andrew Westbrook and James Westbrook are included in an alpha- 
betical list of persons “having landed property in Upper Canada, who did 
voluntarily withdraw from the Province without license during the late war,” 
of which I have a MS. copy. Andrew Westbrook seems to ma to have been 
the prototype of Desborough in Richardson’s Canadian Brothers. You will 
find references to him in Doc. Hist., Vols. 1 and 2, pp. 21, 193, 224 and 397, 
and Vol. 4, p. 23. McKenney, in his book entitled “Tour to the Lakes,” 
1827, found him settled on lands granted by the U. S. Government near Fort 
Gratiot, and describes him as a large, red-haired, rough-featured man, and 
a noted partisan during the war.” 
