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Yonge Deed Map1804
Yonge Street, Newmarket, Ontario
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The two hundred acre lots that Timothy Rogers was granted by lieutenant Governor Simcoe in 1801 along Yonge Street, in Upper Canada (Ontario).The conditions imposed on these early settlers was that within 12 months of purchase, they would have cleared a spot and erected a dwelling of at least 16 feet by 20 feet.
They were also expected to clear and fence five acres, and "open as much of the Yonge Street road as lies between the front of their lots and said road, amounting to one acre" within one year (council declaration 1798).
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Quakers who came with Timothy Rogers1801
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
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Quaker families settling on Yonge Street5
Grantee List West side of Yonge1805
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
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This is the present Meeting House as renovated with a basement.7
Original Newmarket Meeting House? Demolished1801
Yonge near Eagle Street, Newmarket, Ontario
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One of the first things that the Quakers did was to build a Meeting House prior to 1806 on a "piece of ground donated by Asa Rogers".The approximate location of this was on the north-east corner of present Eagle and Yonge streets.
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Quaker Meeting House1804
Yonge and Eagle Street, Newmarket, Ontario
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This is the present Meeting House as renovated with a basement.11
Fence around Quaker Cemetery, next to Quaker Meeting House19 October 2004
Yonge Street, south of Eagle, Newmarket, Ontario
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Then they established a Quaker cemetery and located it next to the Quaker Meeting House on the Yonge Street trail.13
Quaker burial ground showing stone markers next to Quaker Meeting House20 October 2004
Yonge Street, south of Eagle, Newmarket, Ontario
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One of the oldest cemeteries in Newmarket, if not in York County, it has very plain slab markers laid out in chronological order. |
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