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HISTORY OF LEEDS AND GRENVILLE: Counties in Ontario, Canada
Arvin Stoddard settled in "Chanty" (near Brockville).
List of names of Detachment of Duty 1825: (Return to Captain Jeramiah Day Co ) Brockville:
Nathaniel Stoddard, Sheldon Stoddard, Truman Stoddard, Ichabod Stoddard
Submitted by Joyce Stoddard, Jan 25, 2018

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Ichabod was christened in 30 December 1750, to Abijah and Eunice Curtis Stoddard in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, he was the sixth of twelve children. This was a troubled time period, when the colonies were being suppressed by the British Crown.

Ichabod was twenty-six years old when the Revolutionary War was being fought. His father, Abijah Stoddard died fighting in the Battle of Crown Point, New York in Revolutionary War on 6 May 1776. He was fighting for the Colonists.

Information received from Jim Barton: “In William Cothren’s work, The History of Ancient Woodbury Connecticut, written in 1850, in addition to a splendid family history and a family tree, he lists on page 785, the Record of Revolutionary War soldiers from Woodbury. The names of fourteen Stoddard patriots are listed. From this list we also learn that five died in the service of the fledgling American nation and one was wounded. But the most revealing thing of all is the list includes the name of Ichabod Stoddard, who at age twenty-six (1776) was on the sick rolls at Ft. Ticonderoga.”

Ichabod married Mary Mitchell in Woodbury, about 1786. They had eleven children, all born in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut.

In the first edition of this book (A Window to our Past, A Look Back on our Curfew Heritage), I stated that I thought the Stoddard’s were Loyalists. That research has been found to be flawed as the following stated by Jim Barton, a family genealogist from Oriental, North Carolina will provide an explanation:

“First, the term Loyalist can be widely applied but generally it applies to either those who aided and abetted the Crown during the American Revolution. The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada maintains lists of these people, even including compensations awarded for properties lost. You can run down that lead for the Stoddard family, but I do not think it will yield much because if Ichabod Stoddard and his family moved there, it was well past the loyalist flight to Canada.

“Timing of the Stoddard departure to Canada combined with the patriot history of the Stoddard’s in the Revolutionary War seems to support that they were Patriots. But as history has shown there were often different beliefs and divisions among families.

“Here are a few facts I have assembled using the Canadian Encyclopedia: The American Revolution was fought 1776-1783. During the Revolution over 19,000 Loyalists served Britain in specially created provincial corps, accompanied by several thousand Indians. Others spent the war in such strongholds as New York City or in refugee camps such as those at Sorel and Machiche, Qué. Between 80,000 and 100,000 eventually fled, about half of them to Canada. The vast majority were neither well-to-do nor particularly high in social rank; most were farmers. Ethnically, they were quite mixed, and many were recent immigrants. White Loyalists brought sizable contingents of slaves with them. Free blacks and escaped slaves who had fought in the Loyalist corps and as many as 2,000 Indian allies, mainly Six Nations Iroquois from New York, settled in Canada. So, after the war concluded, the main waves of Loyalists came to what is now Canada in 1783 and 1784. While the initial influx was to the Maritime Provinces, after the creation of Upper Canada (what is now Ontario) in 1791, vast numbers of Loyalists settled there.”

It is thought to be around 1805, that Ichabod and family, including his brothers, left Connecticut and settled in Bastard Township, Leeds, Ontario, Canada.

Jim Barton continues, “In my mind it stems to the fact that the Stoddard’s were patriots during the Revolution. So, while I cannot give you a definitive reason why Ichabod Stoddard left Connecticut for Upper Canada in 1805, I can say with reasonable certainty that it was not for Loyalist reasons. The timing of it is all wrong. Why would a man age fifty-five, a Revolutionary War patriot who came from a family of patriots with a long history of service to the Colony, leave with his family for Upper Canada twenty years after the Loyalist influx? One thing is for certain, by 1850, there were no Stoddard’s listed on the Woodbury rolls. I wonder why? But to determine the answer for his reasons for emigration, I think one probably has to turn no farther than one word: opportunity. The fledging nation had its difficulties, New England especially. Maybe Ichabod sought new opportunity elsewhere.”

EARLY SETTLERS OF LEEDS COUNTY AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BASTARD

Although United Empire Loyalists, principally from Vermont and Connecticut, originally settled the Township a large number of Irish Emigrants in a few years came in, taking possession principally of the northern and eastern parts of the Township. This is where the Stoddard’s settled.

The township of Bastard is located next to the Township of Kitley and Crosby in the military settlements of Canada. This township does not face the St. Lawrence River but is located next to those first settled on the river. There was another consideration. The government feared a future invasion by the Americans, in which case it would be preferable to have the officers scattered throughout the settlements, rather than all along one line. So, it was that when the settlers landed on the shore of the St. Lawrence, they drew their land by slips of paper from a hat.

NAMING OF BASTARD TOWNSHIP

The following account is given as to the peculiar name, which the Township received. Sometime after the settlement commenced, a notice was received from the Government that it was necessary to give the municipality a name. Elder Stevens, Sr., was appointed a delegate to proceed to Toronto and suggest a name, the understanding being that it would be Stevenstown. When the Elder arrived at the Crown Lands Office, the clerks were busily engaged in naming townships, following as a rule, the suggestions of the surveyors, or of interested parties. Coming to Bastard, there was a pause and a slight discussion. Elder Stevens was appealed to, and from modesty hesitated in giving Stevenstown, saying “that he did not know what to call it;” when one of the clerks remarked that, “as it has no father, it must be a bastard township.” The result was that it was set down on the map as Bastard. We do not vouch for the truth of the story, but have related it as received from an old settler.

The following information has been extracted from a book entitled History of Leeds and Grenville Ontario from 1749 to 1879, by Thaddus William Henry Leavitt, 1879. I will include the pages where the information appears. It must be noted that I have found the events listed in the book are not in chronological order, but randomly placed as I suppose, when the information was found.

Page 42 & 43, Chapter XII, Veterans of 1812-15: “Statement Showing the Names of All Veterans Who Have Proved Their Rights to Partake Of The Grant Of $50,000, Voted In Parliament In Favor Of The Militiamen of 1812-15; Leeds and Grenville. (listed among them is) “Arvin Stoddard, Chantry.”

Page 43: GOURLAY’S MEETINGS (Robert Gourlay questioned the decision of Lieutenant Governor’s in banning the granting of land to Americans. This band made it difficult for land owners to sell their land.) “In Bastard, June 23rd, 1818, at the house of E. Ryerson Chamberlain … “Committee: Judson Stoddard.”

Page 105: “In 1812, purchasing the mills … created by Sheldon Stoddard.”

Page 120: is found a list of all the patents for land granted by the Crown up to the 1st of November 1820, in the township of Bastard. There is no Stoddard found on the list. This is a good indication that the Stoddard’s were not part of the Loyalist immigration.

Page 121: “Among the early settlers of the Township were Arvin, Sheldon, Lyman and Ichabod Stoddard . . .” (Author believes these are Ichabod and his sons.)

Page 121: “The Township Clerk has in his possession an interesting book of record, which dates back to 1800. At that time any settler who wished to do so, was permitted to write in the book facts bearing upon the public interest. Part of the work was devoted to family records; another portion being set apart for the registration of sheep marks. We give an example: -- ‘Arvin Stoddard, your mark is two slits in the right ear.’”

Page 122: “Arvin Stoddard and one of his brothers walked most of the journey from Connecticut and settled at Arvin’s residence.”

Page 122: “Ichabod Stoddard settled on the farm now owned by William Barber.” “Dr. Lyman Stoddard settled on the Gallagher farm. Dr. Stoddard left Canada with the Mormons. Nathaniel Stoddard settled at Tophy’s Mill…”

Page 123: “Martha, a daughter of Samuel Seamon, married Arvin Stoddard.”

Page 124: “LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS -- In January 1837, … Truman Stoddard, Lyman Stoddard … left the Township of Bastard and crossed the St. Lawrence at Cole’s Ferry en route for the Mormon El Dorado, in the far west.”

Page 179: CHAPTER XLII, North Crosby. “Among the first and prominent settlers of North Crosby, were the following: -- Sheldon Stoddard who built the first mill in the Township … at the foot of Sand Lake, also erecting a house near at hand, on the farm at present owned by W. H. Rorison.” “A Town Meeting held at Sheldon Stoddard’s for the Township of North Crosby, on the first Monday in January 1829, ...” “In 1831, there were added to the township officers two Wardens, viz., Sheldon Stoddard. “The first building for public worship was a frame one, put up by Sheldon Stoddard ... “ (and others I will not list) ”It was also used as a school house.”

Page 180: (The Township Upper Mills) The land was purchased from (Mr.) Sherwood by (Mr.) Stoddard. In 1817-18, Sheldon Stoddard and Rueben Sherwood built an extensive mill on the north shore of Rideau Lake …”

The Stoddard family certainly was an integral part of settling and establishing the area of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario,

Ichabod blev gift med Mary Mitchel cirka 1780 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. Mary blev født den 3 jan. 1759 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; blev døbt den 3 jun. 1759 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America; døde den 3 jan. 1842 i Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• _MILT: 1776, Crown Point, Essex, New York, United States; Soldier in Revolutionary War (possible)

Abijah + Eunice Curtiss. Eunice blev født den 20 maj 1720 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America; blev døbt den 27 mar. 1720 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; døde den 10 okt. 1794 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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