[siebert] loyalists AND SIX NATION INDIANS 109 



The Scotch Presbyterians, who were numerous in Niagara and 

 the vicinity, built a church at Stamford in 1791, and organized for 

 the purpose of building another at the provincial capital in the 

 fall of 1794. The Reverend John Dun was engaged as minister, 

 and the Land Board granted 4 acres to the new congregation 

 for a church and schoolhouse. By March, 1796, the former 

 structure was ready for occupancy. A number of the inhabitants 

 of Niagara, including Colonel Butler, were contributors to the 

 support of both St. Andrew's and St. Mark's. At the end of 

 three years Mr. Dun withdrew from the active work of the 

 ministry to engage in trade, and in 1802 the Reverend John 

 Young came from Montreal to take charge of St. Andrew's 

 Church and teach Latin, Greek, and mathematics in its school. The 

 Reverend D. W. Eastman, a native of Goshen, Orange County, 

 New York, entered the Peninsula in 1801 and began founding Pres- 

 byterian churches in the Niagara and Gore districts, among these 

 being St. Ann's in the northern part of Monk County, which was estab- 

 lished in 1809. Mr. Eastman's activities continued somewhat beyond 

 the middle of the century. "• 



Before the erection of St. Andrew's School the only opportunity 

 for instruction appears to have been at the garrison school at Fort 

 Niagara. After the removal of the garrison to Fort George in 1796 

 various private schools sprang up, one of the best being that of Richard 

 Cockerell, an Englishman, who opened an evening school in 1797, 

 in which writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping, and "any branch of prac- 

 tical or speculative mathematics" were taught. In 1799 Mr. Cockerell 

 removed to Ancaster, leaving as his successor the Reverend Mr. 

 Arthur, whom he recommended as a teacher of Latin and Greek and 

 one prepared to "take a few young gentlemen to board." Another 

 school that was opened at Niagara in 1797 was that of James Blayney. 

 Five years later Mr. and Mrs. Tyler, who lived between Niagara and 

 Queenston, advertised a regular day and night school for children of 

 both sexes from the age of four years upwards. They also announced 

 their readiness to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic to young 

 ladies in such amounts as were "necessary for their sex, to appear 

 decently and be useful in the world and in all that concerns house- 

 keeping." The advertisement closed with the statement that Mrs. 

 Tyler had been "bred in the line of mantua making" and would receive 

 and do her endeavors to execute her work in the neatest manner. "^ 



1 Niagara Hist. Soc. No. 7, 21-24; No. 19, 106; Carnochan, Niagara One Hundred 

 Years Ago. (Lundy's Lane Hist. Soc.) 28, Carnochan, Hist, of Niagara, 80-83. 



2 Carnochan, Hist, of Niagara, 128, 129; Carnochan, Niagara One Hundred 

 Years Ago, 29; Caniff, Settlement of Upper Canada, 331, 338; A Century of Municipal 

 History, County of Welland, Pt. I, 43. 



