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headed thus : " The use and direction of the new-invented and never-failing Wonder Salve, by 

 D. v. P. Mayerhoffer, of Markham, U.C., H.D., 5th concession." It then proceeds : " Amongst 

 all in the medicine-invented unguents his salve takes the first place for remedy, whereby not in 

 vain obtains the name of Wonder Salve for experience taught in many cases to deserve this- 

 name ; and being urged to communicate it to the public, I endeavour to satisfy to the common 

 good of the public. It is acknowledged by all who know the virtue of it, and experienced ita 

 wortli, it ought to be kept in every house, first for its inestimable goodness, and, second, 

 because the medicine the older it gets the better it is : money spent for such will show its effect 

 from its beginning for twenty years, if kept in a dry place, well covered. In all instances of 

 burns, old wounds, called running sores, for the tetter-worm or ring, &c., as the discussions 

 and use will declare, wrapped round the box or the medicine. It is unnecessary to recommend 

 by words this inestimable medicine, as its value has received the approbation of many inhabit- 

 ants of this country already, who sign their names below for the surety of its virtue and the 

 reality of its worth, declaring that they never wish to be witliout it in their houses by their 

 lifetimes. In Markham, Mr. Philip Eckhardt, jun., do. do., sen,, Godlieb Eckhardt, Abraham 

 Eckhardt, John Pingel, jun., Mr. Lang, Mr. Large, John Perkins, John Schall, Charles Peter- 

 son, Luke Stantenkough, Peter March. In Vaughan, Jacob Fj-icher, Daniel Stang. Kecom- 

 ijiended by Dr. Baldwin, of Yorli. The medicine is to be had in the eighth concession of 

 Markham, called Riarstown, by Sinclair HoldeH ; in the 5th concession, by Christopher 

 Hevelin and T. Amos ; in the town of York, in J. Baldwin's and S. Barnham's stores ; on 

 Yonge Street, by Parsons and Thome. Price of a box, two shillings and sixpence, currency. 

 January 11, 1832." 



Military associations hang about the lands to the right and left of Richmond Hill. The 

 original possessor of Lot No. 22 on the west side, was Capt. Daniel Cozens, a gentleman who 

 took a very active part in opposition to the revolutionary movement which resulted in the 

 independence of the United States. He raised, at his own expense, a company of native 

 soldiers in the royalist interest, and suffered the confiscation of a considerable estate in New 

 Jersey. Three thousand acres in Upper Canada were subsequently granted him by the British 

 Crown. His sons, Daniel and Shivers, also received grants. The name of Shivers Cozens is to 

 be seen in the early plans of Markham on lots 2, 4 and 5 in the 6th concession. Samuel died 

 of a fit at York in 1808 ; but Shivers returned to New Jersey and died there, where family con- 

 nexions of Capt. Cozens still survive. There runs amongst them a tradition that Capt. Cozens 

 built the first house in our Canadian York. Of this we were informed by Mr. T. Cottrill Clarke, 

 of Philadelphia, who has taken a friendly interest in notices which he has chanced to see of 

 these papers. We observe in an early plan of York the name of Shivers Cozens on No. 23 in 

 Block E, on the south side of King Street : the name of Benjamin Cozens on No. 6 on Market 

 Street : and the name of Capt. Daniel Cozens on No. 4 King Street (New Town) north side, 

 with the date of the grants, July 20, 1799. It is thus quite likely that Capt. Cozens or a mem- 

 ber of his family put up buildings in York at a very early period. We read in the Niagara Herald, 

 of Oct. 31, 1801, the following : " Died on the 6th ult., near Philadelphia, Capt. Daniel Cozens.' 

 In the Gazette & Oracle, of January 27, 1808, we have a memorandum of the decease of Samuel 

 Cozens : " Departed this life, on the 29th ult., Mr. Samuel D. Cozens, one of the first inhabitants 

 of this town [York], His remains were interred with Masonic honours on the 31st." 



Another officer of the Revolutionary era was the first owner, and for several years the actual 

 occupant, of the lot immediately opposite Capt. Cozens'. This was Capt. Richard Lippiucott, 

 a native of New Jersey. A bold deed of his has found a record in all the histories of the 

 period. The narrative gives us a glimpse of some of the painful scenes attendant on wars 

 wherein near relatives and old friends come to be set in array one against the other. On the 

 12th of April, 1782, Capt. Lippincott, acting under the authority of the "Board of Associated 

 Loyalists of New York," executed by hanging, on the heights near Middleton, Joshua Huddy, 

 an officer in the revolutionary army, as an act of retaliation, — Huddy having summarily treated, 

 in the same way, a relative of Capt. Lippincott's, Philip White, surprised within the lines of 

 the revolutionary force, while on a stolen visit of natural affection to his mother on Christmas 

 Day. On Huddy's breast was fastened a paper containing the following written notice, to be 

 read by his co-revolutionists and friends when they should discover the body suspended in the 

 air. — "We, the Refugees, having long with grief beheld the cruel murders of our brethren, and 

 finding nothing but such measures carrying into execution, therefore determined not to suffer 



