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saw mill proved to be profitable, his grist mill turned out quite the 

 reverse. The authorized toll of one bushel in twelve was insufficient 

 to cover the heavy cost of operation and repairs, since the mill stood 

 idle most of the summer seasons. As many of the immigrants had 

 served with the Captain in the New Jersey Volunteers, his home 

 became the convenient place of entertainment for not a few of the half- 

 pay officers and men of that corps who sought lands at Long Point. 

 In 1800 Captain Ryerse was appointed commissioner of the peace 

 for the London District. He also became the first chairman of the 

 Court of Quarter Sessions and judge of the District and Surrogate 

 courts. Furthermore, he was named lieutenant of the County of 

 Norfolk and lieutenant colonel of its militia, which he organized. 

 It has been described as a motley company made up chiefly of "big 

 slouching round-shouldered young men, armed with flint-lock mus- 

 kets", who could be easily distinguished from the few military- 

 looking soldiers who had served in the war of American Independence. 

 As a magistrate Colonel Ryerse's duties were not simply judicial: 

 he performed marriages, applied the dentist's forceps as occasion 

 required, prescribed for the sick, buried the dead, and read the church 

 service on Sundays to his own household and such neighbours as cared 

 to join in the worship. 



During the period from 1800 to 1812 a decline in the number of 

 Loyalists arriving at Long Point is evident. This decline was princi- 

 pally due to the cessation of emigration from New Brunswick. Writ- 

 ing from Woodstock, in that province, in July, 1802, Colonel Edward 

 W^inslow deplored the action of "those who have lately removed 

 with their families to other parts of the King's dominions, particularly 

 to Niagara." A survey of the record of arrivals at Long Point after 

 t-he year 1800 shows but one loyalist family from New Brunswick 

 among the eight or nine immigrants entering during the period 

 specified. One of these came from Adolphustown on the Bay of 

 Quinte, three from the Niagara district, and the others from places 

 not mentioned. All of these persons settled in the townships of 

 Windham and Townsend, which lie in the second range back from 

 the lake. Middleton was not settled until about 1812, when families 

 moved in chiefly from the adjoining townships.^ 



1 Papers and Records, Ont. Hist. Soc, II, 61, 62, 82, 84, 85, 95, 96; Ryerson, 

 Loyalists of America and Their Times, II, 233-236, 241, 242, 247. 



2 Papers and Records, Ont. Hist. Soc, II, 118-122, 38. 39. 



The accessions from 1801 to 1812, inclusive, were: (1801) in Woodhouse, John 

 Clendenning and family from near St. Catherines in Lincoln County and Isaac 

 Gilbert and family of New Jersey from St. John, New Brunswick (date uncertain); 

 (1803) in Townsend, John Haviland of Butler's Rangers and family from Adolphus- 

 town, Bay of Quinte; (1805) Cuthbert Robinson and his sons, William and George, 



