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In the meantime, John Custin, a refugee from New York, erected 

 a mill just east of Vittoria in Charlotteville Township, thus furnishing 

 another evidence of the growth of the settlement in that district; 

 but despite all the growth of the colony, those settlers who adhered 

 to the English Church were left for years without a regular clergyman. 

 Their opportunities for worship according to the forms of their own 

 faith were confined chiefly to those supplied by Colonel Ryerse and 

 later by Mr. Bostwick, the son of a clergyman, who made a practice 

 of reading the service, and sometimes a sermon, on Sundays. As 

 copies of sermons were scarce, the lay reader was reduced to the neces- 

 sity of frequent repetition. In 1805 a notable event occurred for 

 these people, when the Reverend Robert Addison came by invitation 

 from Niagara — a distance of one hundred miles — to baptize their 

 younger children. For 11 years some of the settlers had not heard 

 the voice of a licentiate of their own denomination, and now with 

 their babes in their arms and their families about them they listened 

 to the words of the ceremonial with deep feeling, a few breaking out 

 in a passion of tears. This afïecting incident sheds a gleam of light 

 on not the least of those trials which the Loyalists had to endure, 

 namely, the enforced deprivation of the form of worship to which many 

 of them clung most tenaciously. However, nearly twenty years 

 more were to elapse before the colony at Long Point was to have a 

 resident clergyman of the Anglican Church. This lack was sui'plied 

 in 1824 by the beginning of the ministrations of the Reverend Mr. 

 Evans. Throughout the early annals of the colony we get no hint of 

 any provision for the education of the young. Schools were, in fact, 

 long absent from this community, and yet the sons of some of the 

 Loyalists at Long Point rose to eminence, among them being Sir John 

 Robinson, who became chief justice of Ontario, and Doctor Egerton 

 Ryerson, who attained the ofifice of superintendent of education of 

 the province.^ 



with their famiUes, from New Jersey, Peter Fairchild, and probably in the same year 

 Sergeant Jacob Wilson and his brother Joseph, both of the New Jersey Volunteers, 

 from the Niagara District; (1810) in Townsend, Anthony Dougherty of the North 

 Carolina Loyalists; in Windham, Sergeant Jacob Glover of Newtown, Connecticut 

 (date uncertain); (1811) in Windham, Hart Smith of the New Jersey Volunteers 

 and family from Crowland, Lincoln County, previously from New Brunswick; 

 and in Townsend, Reuben Grant of the first battalion, New Jersey Volunteers. 

 (See Raymond's Winslow Papers, 470; Papers and Records, Ont. Hist. Soc, II, 

 and Owen's Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement.) 



1 Owen, Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement, 123, 124; Papers and 

 Records, Ont. Hist. Soc, II, 60, 61; Ryerson, Loyalists of America and Their Times, 

 II, 248, 250. 



