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Fort Erie, Upper Canada. But the money is not to be paid to any per- 

 son but Thos. or Singleton Gardiner, and to have a certificate from Mr. 

 Warren that they are the person for fear of fraud. I reed your letter 

 of August 4. 



Eemain your affectionate Brother, 



Singleton Gakdiner. 



Take all the expense and trouble you are at out of the money before 

 you send it, postage of letters and the like. My family were all in good 

 health when I left home, and I hope this will find you in the same. 



APPENDIX B. 



The Talbot Anniversary. 



The Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute possesses a number 

 of original documents relating to the institution of the Talbot Anni- 

 versary. These papers were presented to the Institute by John Price 

 J.P. of Port Stanley, grandson of Adjutant James Nevills, secretary 

 of the original celebration. They were printed in 1859 by the late Mr. 

 Edward Ermatinger in his Life of Colonel Talbot. The minutes of the 

 preliminary meeting of 8th March are not amongst them, having evi- 

 dently been carried by Colonel Talbot to England and deposited with 

 the Home Government for the purpose of helping him in his comro- 

 versy with the provincial executive. (See Sessional Papers of U. C. 

 for 1836. No. 22, and pages 69-73. Part II. supra). , 



John Rolph, who took an active part in the proceedings, was at 

 this time twenty-four years of age and a resident of the township of 

 Southwokl. He was the original patentee of Lot 41 South of 'Talbot 

 Road East, about a mile west of Kettle Creek and twelve miles east of 

 Port Talbot. Talbot Road was surveyed in 1809 by Mahlon Burwell, 

 and settlers immediately began to come into the townships east of Port 

 Talbot, chiefly from the Long Point Settlement, of which Rolph's 

 father. Dr. Thomas Rolph, was then a resident. During the war, Colonel 

 Talbol commanded the militia of the London and Western Districts, 

 and made Turkey Point his headquarters. He was thus a frequent 

 visitor at the Rolph homestead in Charlotteville, whose hospitality was 

 always open to persons of distinction. Lieutennnt Governor Gore had 

 regarded with approval the possibility of a marriage between Talbot's 

 brother William and one of the Misses Rolph (see ante, page 110) ; and 

 gossip connected Colonel Talbot's own name with matrimonial inten- 

 tions in the same Quarter. 



