46 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
ment. On these occasions he drove from Port Talbot in a “ good, 
strong, high-shouldered box sleigh, wrapped up in the well-known sheep- 
skin coat, and covered with buffalo robes.” In the same coat he was 
frequently seen driving Lady Maitland or other ladies of the vice-regal 
circle through King or Yonge Streets, an object of curiosity to all on- 
lookers, to whom his name was a household word. An artist friend 
painted a portrait of him, in the costume of the period, but with trousers 
of homespun in broad stripes of black and red, forming a somewhat 
startling and picturesque pattern. His customary shabby apparel was, 
as has been stated above, the means of preserving his liberty and per- 
haps his life during the war of 1812, on the occasion of one of the 
numerous visits of raiding parties to Port Talbot. 
A tradition in the settlement, confirmed by the statements of 
writers such as Mrs. Jameson, and Mrs. Amelia Harris, asserts that 
until a comparatively late period, he carried out his misogynist views to 
such an extent that he persistently refused to have female domestics 
at Port Talbot. His papers, however, show that, whatever may have 
been the custom in later years, he was not so exclusive in the earlier 
period, his account book showing that, from 1804 until 1809 at least, 
he had one or two always in his employ. His famous valet and man 
of all work, Jeffrey Hunter, married while in the Colonel’s service, 
and husband and wife resided in the house during the demainder of the 
Colonel’s life at Port Talbot. The exclusion of domestics of the 
female sex cannot therefore have been of longer duration than from 
1809 until Hunter’s marriage. On the other hand, not a few ladies 
were from time to time welcome visitors at Port Talbot. 
XX VI.—RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES. 
In the early days of the settlement he was careful about religious 
observances, as a sort of weekly drill, a survival of garrison discipline. 
Service was held each Sunday and the settlers were expected to attend. 
The Colonel himself read the service. To insure punctuality of atten- 
ance, the bottle was regularly passed around at the close. The result, 
it is hardly necessary to add, was satisfactory on both sides. The prac- 
tice was kept up until the erection of St. Peter’s church, four or five 
miles away, put an end to the Colonel’s ministrations. The same 
method was adopted with equal success when the militia assembled for . 
their annual drill on the King’s Birthday, the 4th of Juhe. Their 

1See frontispiece, which, however, shows only the upper portion of the 
original. 
*Mrs. Jameson speaks of his reputation as “a sort of woman-hater, who 
had not for thirty years allowed a female to appear in his sight.” 

