Hannah Delvena Jarvis

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From "Loyalist Trails Newsletter, Oct. 1, 2006":

In April 1792 the Jarvis family sailed for Canada to take up her husbands appointment as Provincial Secretary to Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe. After a stormy voyage on which Hannah showed invincible courage and a short time in Kingston,the family arrived in Newark( Niagara on the Lake) in September 1792. Jarvis bought a log hut and immediately began to build an addition, a matter of some urgency as his wife was pregnant.

By 1830 Hannah Jarvis was living most of the time with her daughter Hannah Owen Hamilton ( the wife of Alexander Hamilton) in Queenston,helping her cope with a big house and frequent pregnancies. She was there in 1839 when Hamilton died leaving his pregnant wife and nine children penniless. Their sole income was her pension of $100 per year. Hannah Hamilton took in sewing earning 2s6d a shirt, while her mother now in her late 70's looked after the house and young children, assisted by her older granddaughters, and did all the work in the poultry yard and vegetable garden except the spring digging. She who once had 8 servants and slaves, now spent her days washing and scrubbing ,ironing, mending and cooking. She had owned the first carriage in Upper Canada now traveled in a borrowed lumber wagon. She died September 20, 1845 at the age of 82.

She was my fourth great grandmother.

...David Ricketts O.N., UE, CIP, CPD

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