92 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



(addressed on the back) 

 The Honble 



Col. Talbot 



Port Talbot. 



( The following memo, is endorsed : ) 



To write to the Survr. Genl. to return certificate to Elizth Hufman, 

 Daughter of Jacob Hufman of Bertie U. E. for Lot Xo. 12, 5th Con. of 

 Malahide. 



(L.G.) 



Talbot to E. Wilmot Horton. 

 Private 



Port Talbot 9th February 1824. 

 Dear Sir. 



On my return to this place, yesterday, from York, where I had 

 been spending some weeks, I had the pleasure of finding your letter of 

 the 11th of November, enclosing a communication, signed Jas. Stephen 

 Junr. on the subject of Mr. Wilberforce's finding a Clergyman for my 

 settlement. 



I hasten to assure you, on my honour, tliat when I solicited your 

 assistance in procuring such a Cliaracter, I liad not the slightest inten- 

 tion of interfering with the prerogative of the Lieut. Governor of this 

 Province, as I considered the business altogether of a private nature^, 

 otherwise I would not have forwarded the notes from Miss Simcoe ^ and 

 Mr. Kennaway, but had it appeared to me in an official light, I would 

 have made my application formally through the Bishop of Quebec. 



I sincerely thank you for your friendly liint, and you may rest 

 assured, that you will not find me lienceforth trespassing. 



The November Mail arrived at York, the evening before I left that 

 'Town, by which conveyance I received your very obliging note, accom- 

 panying a Eeport of the Irish Poor Committee of the House of Com- 



chants at St. Thomas, where they opened a general store in 1817. James 

 Hamilton, one of the brothers, well known in the Niagara District, another 

 of whom gave his name to the city of Hamilton, was Sheriff of Middlesex. 

 Warren was Returning- Offlcer for Middlesex in the election mentioned. The 

 other persons named in the letter lived at various places in the Talbot 

 Settlement. The connection of Drs. Rolph and Buncombe with the Rebellion 

 of lSo7-lS."8 is well known. From an advertisement in the .\dvocate of 

 Queenston, it would seem that the Talbot Dispensatory was in actual opera- 

 tion for a few weeks at least. If so, it was the first medical college in wl.at 

 is now the province of Ontario, and perhaps in British North America 

 1 Daughter of the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. 



