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the U. E. Loyalist, was at Dundurn, and that his elder sons were born 

 on a house on tliis site. Thomas Beasley, city clerk; his son, Alex- 

 ander C. Beasley, and two nephews, Thomas and Maitland Beasley, 

 sons of the late Sylvester Beasley, are the only descendants of Eichard 

 Beasley now living in Hamilton, and none ot the original property 

 remains in the family." 



Second Lincoln. Having settled the representation of 1st Lincoln 

 we come to 2nd, 3rd and 4th Lincoln. With 4th Lincoln was included 

 Norfolk. There are three members to be located, D. W. Smith, Samuel 

 Street and Benjamin Hardison. As Capt. Benjamin Hardison lived at 

 Fort Erie it is fair to assume that he represented 4th Lincoln and 

 Norfolk. Samuel Street^s brother lived at Niagara Falls, and was one 

 of the most influential men of that section, and therefore we place 

 him as representative of 3rd Lincoln. Second Lincoln, then, would be 

 left for David William Smith. He had been a member of the first 

 legislature. In my paper last year I attached his name to Kent along 

 with Wdliam Macomb. After the paper was in printed pages I was 

 fortunate in securing through Mr. Phileas Gagnon, of Quebec, an 

 extract from The Quebec Magazine for December, 1792, containing a 

 list of members, the first printed record as far as known of the mem- 

 bers' with their respective constituencies. In this list D. W. Smith 

 appears as the member for Essex and Suffolk, while William Macomb 

 and -Francis Baby appear as members for Kent. I had based my loca- 

 tion of Smith on an extract from a letter by Lt.-Governor Simcoe, in 

 Which he states that "Lieut. Smith, the son of Major Smith, who 

 commanded for the last two years at Detroit," had been " elected by 

 the inhabitants of that district into the Assembly." I assumed this 

 settled his election at Detroit, but The Quehec Magazine made it very 

 doubtful. Since the Addendum was made to my paper last year I have 

 seen a copy of a very interesting letter by D. W. Smith, referring to 

 the preparations for his election of August, 1792, in which Essex is 

 referred to as the constituency. It would seem, therefore, that the 

 names of Francis Baby and D. W. Smith, of my list published last year 

 should be interchanged. 



Mr. D. W. Smith, the surveyor general of lands for the pro- 

 vince, with his head office at Newark, was elected on the ISth of August, 

 1796, as member for 2nd Lincoln. He was chosen speaker to succeed 

 Col. John MacDonnell who was not an attendance at the first session. 

 Mr. Smith was away from Canada when the fourth session opened and 

 as he was not expected home in time, Samuel Street was elected speak- 

 er in his stead for the last session. 



