Elias Garrison

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Catherine Van de Water Elias Garrison 1 Marriage: Catherine Van de Water on 26 Dec 1804 in Fredericksburgh, Ontario 1 2 Elias married Catherine Van de Water, daughter of Jacobus Van de Water and Rachel Van Kleek, on 26 Dec 1804 in Fredericksburgh, Ontario.1 3 (Catherine Van de Water was born on 4 Feb 1787 1 and was christened on 11 Mar 1787 1.)

1 Edna (Van de Water) Cameron, private publication, photocopy received by Verna Pickering, February 2002. about 30 pages of single sided copy..

2 REV. ROBERT McDOWALL, REV. ROBERT McDOWALL'S REGISTER of Marriages (http://www.tbaytel.net/bmartin/mcdowall.htm). :
John Stickney, Rebeca Barker, Adolphustown, 14 Oct., 1804

Thomas Stickney, Sarah Conner , Marysburgh, 25 Dec., 1804

Elias Garrison, Katharine Van De Waters, Fredericksburgh, 26 Dec,1804

John Van DeWaters, Sarah Clapp, Fredericksburgh, 15 Mar., 1809

Caleb Garrison, Lydia Somes, Sophiasburgh, 26 Mar., 1810

Walter Stickney, Sophiasburgh; Phebe Christie, Hallowell, 12 Dec., 1831

Baptisms
(parents, child's name, date)

Sophiasburgh
Abraham Van Blaricum, Rhoda Alger, Mary,. 14 June, 1800


. This information was originally published by:
ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Papers and Records
Volume 1, Published in Toronto in 1899
Reprinted in 1930.
Pages 70-108
NOTE. Rev. Robert McDowall was the first regularly sent Presbyterian Missionary to Upper Canada. He was a native of Saratoga County, New York, educated at Williams' College, Schenectady, N.Y., and sent by the Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany as a Missionary to the U. E. L. refugees of the Bay of Quinte District, numbers of whom came from near Albany and points on the Hudson River, and were members of that denomination before leaving. He reached Kingston early in the spring of 1798, and soon went to Bath and Fredericksburgh, and settled in the latter township, where be remained until his death in 1841. During the first two years he worked as a missionary at large, and then organized congregations at Bath and in Fredericksburgh and Ernest Town, three miles north of Bath. He became the regular minister of these, and had churches built. He continued his regular mission visitations to Kingston and Prince Edward County, sometimes going as far west as where London now stands. He married probably more persons than any other minister in Upper Canada. His register was given to Queen's College, Kingston, since his death, by R. J. McDowall, his grandson, now residing in Kingston, and is kept in the vault of Queen's. The following are extracts from that register. Some pages are so dim from years that it is difficult to decipher them. In July, 1898, a centennial was held at the McDowall Memorial Church, Sandhurst, Fredericksburgh, where he died, and where his remains and those of most members of his family lie buried. It was attended by thousands. T.W.C.

MEMORIAL TABLET The following inscription is on the Memorial Tablet in the McDowall Memorial Church.
"IN MEMORIAM REV. ROBERT McDOWALL ORDAINED BY THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AT ALBANY. CAME TO UPPER CANADA, 1798, TO MINISTER TO THE U. E. LOYALISTS. AS PIONEER MISSIONARY HIS LABORS WERE OF PRE-EMINENT IMPORTANCE IN ESTABLISHING THE CHURCH IN THIS PROVINCE. HE WAs ELECTED THE FIRST MODERATOR OF THE SYNOD OF CANADA IN 1820. HE WAS A FOUNDER OF QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY. HE ORGANIZED THIS CONGREGATION IN 1800, AND REMAINED ITS FAITHFUL PASTOR TILL HIS DEATH. HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCH YARD."

On his tombstone is the following: "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. ROBERT McDOWALL WHO WAS 43 YEARS MINISTER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WHO DIED AUGUST 3RD, 1841 AGED 73 YEARS."

3 REV. ROBERT McDOWALL, REV. ROBERT McDOWALL'S REGISTER of Marriages (http://www.tbaytel.net/bmartin/mcdowall.htm).

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