Correspondence with Mrs. Simcoe [Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe]

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Correspondence with Mrs. Simcoe [Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe]

1838-1845

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In a short note, dated November 1, 1838, Elizabeth Kerr presents Mrs. Simcoe with a biography of her father Joseph Brant. A draft of a response, dated May 21 1839, thanking Mrs. Kerr for the gift, is written by Elizabeth Simcoe on the back of an envelope. In her letter, Elizabeth Simcoe mentions the high esteem in which her husband, John Graves Simcoe, held Kerr's father, and asks for news about Canada. In a letter of October 22, 1840, Elizabeth Kerr thanks Simcoe for the gift of a Bible. A manuscript by an unidentified author, possibly a Mrs. Green, wife of the pastor of the church at Wellington Square, describes the illness and death of Elizabeth Kerr and her husband in 1845. The account includes descriptions of the four Kerr children and of Elizabeth's Indian relatives who gathered at her deathbed.

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Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806

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John Graves Simcoe was born at Cotterstock, England in 1752, the third of four sons of John and Katherine Simcoe. He spent one year at Merton College, Oxford, before entering the army as an Ensign in the 35th Foot in 1770. He was posted to Boston in 1775, and in 1777 was given command of the Queen's Rangers, a mixed (predominantly light infantry) corps made up of loyalists. He took part in several operations in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia before being invalided home as a Lieutenant-Colon...

Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma, 1762-1850

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Elizabeth Simcoe was born Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim in 1762, the daughter of Thomas Gwillim and Elizabeth Spinkes. Thomas Gwillim died seven months before the birth of Elizabeth; her mother died in childbirth. Elizabeth was raised by her mother's sister, Margaret, and her husband, Admiral Samuel Graves. She met John Graves Simcoe through this connection; Simcoe was the godson of Admiral Graves, and stayed with the Graves family on his return to England from America in 1781. In 1782, Elizabeth a...

Kerr, Elizabeth, d. 1845.

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Elizabeth Kerr was the youngest daughter of Mohawk chief Joseph Brant. Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe was the wife of John Graves Simcoe who served as the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 to 1796. The Simcoes returned to England in 1796, where Elizabeth died in 1850. From the description of Correspondence with Mrs. Simcoe [Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe], 1838-1845. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702137714 ...

Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807

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Joseph Brant, also known as Thayendanega, (born March 1743 in Ohio Country along the Cuyahoga River - died Burlington Beach, Upper Canada, November 24, 1807), Mohawk Chief and an officer in the British military during the American Revolutionary War. He served in expeditions during the French and Indian War. As a Captain during the American Revolution, he led the four Iroquois Nations that sided with the British as well as a group of loyalists. He married three times, lastly to Catharine Adonwent...