[JAMES] SECOND LEGISLATURE OF UPPER CANADA 139 



For further particulars as to tlie life of Mr. D. W. Smith, readers 

 are referred to my previous paper. 



3rd Lincoln. — Samuel Street was elected member for OKe of the 

 Lincolns and I place him in the 3rd riding. The Street family genea- 

 logy may he found in Chadwick's "Ontarian Families/' Vol. II., pp. 

 174-6. The family are there traced back to one Richard Street, who 

 died in Somerset county, England in 1592. There appears always to 

 have been a Samuel in the family and in the Niagara district ,or old 

 Lincoln county, there were two Samuels that may be confused. Katha- 

 niel Street, of Norwalk, Connec. (bom, 1693; died, 1748), had a son 

 Samuel . (born, 1720), and the family of the latter consisted of four 

 sons and four daughters. Nehemiah and Samuel were two of the sons. 

 This latter Samuel was the member elected in. 1796. The following is 

 Mr. Chadwick's entry: — 



" Samuel, born 2nd January, 1752 or 1753, came to Canada 1780 

 or 1781 (U. E. L.), was a trader at Fort Niagara, col. in the militia (of 

 Canada), J.P., M.L.A., and sometime speaker of the Legislative Assem- 

 bly; in March, 1784, married Phoebe, daughter of Peter Van Camp and 

 had issue, a daughter Mary, married to John Usher." 



Nehemiah the brother settled at Niagara Falls and carried on the 

 business of fur trading and milling. He was succeeded in his business 

 at the Falls by his son Samuel, nephew of the member. He was born the 

 14th March, 1775, and died 21st August, 1834. This younger Samuel 

 was the progenitor of the Street family of Niagara Falls, among the 

 descendants being Hon. Mr. Justice Street and Eev. Thomas Clark 

 Street Macklem, provost of Trinity University, Tloronto. Lt.-Col. 

 Thomas Clark Street, son of Samuel Street, jr., represented Welland 

 county in the Ontario Legislature, 1851-1854, and the latter's sister 

 was the wife of Hon. Josiah Burr Plumb, sometime speaker of the Can- 

 adian Senate. 



At the opening of the 4th session of the 2nd parliament, Mr. 

 Samuel Street was elected speaker, in the absence of Hon. D. W. Smith. 

 He was S|peaker for only one session as at the elections after the ses- 

 sion Ealfe Clench and Isaac Swazey were returned as the two members 

 for the united ridings 2nd, 3rd and 4th Lincoln. 



4th Lincoln and Norfolk. — Capt. Benjamin Hardison, of Fort Erie, 

 was a member of the second parliament, and I attach his name to the 

 united ridings of 4th Lincoln and Norfolk. Lt.-Col. Ernest Cruik- 

 shank has directed my attention to the following notes as to his con- 

 nection with the war of 1812-14, as set forth in "The Documentary His- 

 tory of the Campaigns on the Niagara Frontier." 



