James Baxter
Notes de recherche
- Magasin général à son nom au départ.
- En juillet 1825, il s'associe avec William Baxter dans la James Baxter & William Baxter
BANQ
- Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S24 William Ritchie.
- Acte : # 3064
- Date : 1er juin 1838
- Inventory of the Estate of the late James Baxter.
- Résumé : Sur la demande de Madame Caroline Baxter, veuve de James Baxter, on procède à un inventaire complet des biens. À ce moment, les cinq enfants du couple sont mineurs ; c’est donc Carlos Baxter, de Burlington (Vt.), qui agit en tant que tuteur des mineurs.
The British Colonist
- Vol. I, Nº1, 1 mai 1823
- Possède un magasin général à Stanstead ou Rock Island, incertain de l'endroit.
- Vol. II, Nº33, 13 jan 1825
- Cooking Stoves, toujours incertain du lieu entre Rock Island ou Stanstead.
- Vol. IV, Nº35, 28 juin 1827
- JAMES BAXTER
- Magasin général, arrivage de nouveaux produits « English, West-India & American Goods ».
B. F. Hubbard, Forests and Clearings
p. 6
- The County of Stanstead
- The immetliate result of the creation of new counties was an increase of the number of members in the Provincial Parliament — of these, Stanstead County furnished from one to two. Among its representatives, up to 1847, were Hon. Ebenezer Peck, Hon. James Baxter, Marcus Child, Esq., Col. Wright Chamberlin, and Col. John McConnel.
p. 148
- Family of Hon. James Baxter
- Hon, James Baxter was descended in a direct line from Rev. Richard Baxter of Nonconformist memory, and was b. in Norwich, Vt., Dec. 21, 1788. He commenced mercantile business at Stanstead Plain in 1817 and Sept. 14, 1819, m. Caroline, dau. of William Baxter, Esq. of Rutland, Vt. She was b. Feb. 10, 1795. In 1829 he was elected to the Provincial Parliament, and was the first member sent from Stanstead County. In 1832 he was appointed by the Governor General a member of the Legislative Council, which office he held until the time of his death, Nov. 13,1837. Caroline, his wife, d. April 18, 1865.
- Children
Harriet, b. Oct. 4, 1821, m. William B. Palmer, Esq. She d.
April 18, 1845.
George W., b. July 1, 1824.
Charles B., b. Jan. 5, 1826.
James, b. July 28, 1831.
