Errol Boyd, In 1798, Commander Of The Well Remembered Quebec And
Montreal Trader, The "Dunlop."
"William Smith," one of the last among the signers of the memorial, the
brother of Henrietta Smith, wife of Chief
Justice Sewell, was the Hon.
William Smith, Clerk of the Legislative Council, and who, in 1815,
published his History of Canada, in two volumes, a standard work;
he was a descendant of the Hon. William Smith, a noted U. E. Loyalist, who
wrote the history of the State of New York, and landed at Quebec, 23rd
October, 1786. As a reward for his loyalty he had been made Chief Justice
of Lower Canada, 1st September, 1785; he died at Quebec, 6th December,
1793.
The names of six signers of the Memorial to the King, appear on the
list of the jury empanelled to try, in 1797, before Chief Justice Osgood,
David McLane for high treason, viz.: John Blackwood, John Crawford, David
Munro, John Mure, James Irvine, James Orkney. George Pyke was the Counsel
named ex officio, together with M. Franklin, to defend the misguided
Yankee.
The Jury stood thus; -
John Blackwood, James Irvine,
John Crawford, James Orkney,
John Painter, James Watson Goddard,
David Monro, Henry Cull,
John Mure, Robert Morrogh,
John Jones, George Symes.
Parloir street, well leavened with lawyers, leads to the parloir of
the Ursulines. Here resided the late Judge de Bonne, at the dawn of the
present century. The locality is alive with memories of this venerable
seat of education, and with saintly and heroic traditions of Madame de la
Peltrie, Mere de l'Incarnation - Montcalm.
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