Son of Jedediah and Elizabeth Gifford Wing
Husband of Rebecca Chase
Courtesy of Cheryl and Jeff (thank you!):
Book: History of Leeds & Grenville, by Thad. W. H. Leavitt - (published 1879)
pg. 80 - The Society of Friends (Quakers) erected one of the first churches in the Township of Farmersville, the building, a wooden one, still standing at the eastern end of the village. Previous to the building of the church, the Society met for service in the cooper shop of Gersham Wing. The following list contains the names of the majority of the original members of the Society: Lyman Abel, James Robeson, Samuel Olds, Turner Lillie, Joseph Ballard, Philip Wing, Otis Smith, Thomas Robeson, Abraham Palmer, Jedediah Wing, Harvey Derbyshire, William Church, Gersham Wing.
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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ONTARIO/1998-08/0902795126
The Quaker movement came to Leeds County after the end of the American Revolution. Gersham Wing of New York, who had favored the British in the Revolution, migrated to Upper Canada and it was at his cooper shop just outside Farmersville that the Quakers of the area first met. These meetings later became part of the Leeds Monthly Meeting.
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Farmersville was the name for the current town of "Athens", located in Leeds County, Ontario -
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An addition to the story of Gershom, my wife's direct ancestor (7 generations):
Gershom WING U.E.L. History
Gershom WING was born near Sandwich, Massachusetts, near the "Fort" House that was built by his great-grandfather Stephen and is still owned by the Wing Family of America. Gershom moved to Quaker Hill, New York to the Oblong area (a two mile by sixty mile strip of land next to Connecticut which included the town of Pawling inhabited by Quaker families). Seventeen members of this Quaker Wing family settlement were among the first persons to unite in registering public protest against the holding of slaves in the south. By 1777 Quaker slavery in the Oblong was illegal, about a hundred years before Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
Unlike the rest of his family Gershom was a Loyalist (Tory) who helped carry messages for the British across enemy lines. In 1776. Gershom was a member of Captain Hulett's Corps (of Loyal Americans on Long Island then engaged in carrying intelligence from Manhattan to the Albany area) and finally fought as an officer under Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne.
Throughout the American Revolution, Gershom remained a Loyalist, unlike the rest of his family. Gershom would not take the Oath of Allegiance and on February 26, 1777, he was taken into custody. Gershom was permitted to return home and consider whether he would affirm his allegiance to this State, appeared, and declared that he could not, consistent with his religious principles as a Quaker.
Gershom was released on parole that he could not travel more than two miles from the Stone Church. Gershom and his wife Rebecca Chase Wing, in 1789 along with their ten children, left Quaker Hill, New York on a dangerous 350 mile journey to Upper Canada. The journey was hostile for his family with many of their possessions stolen by American raiders during their journey. Gershom's land was confiscated by New York.
Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor Simcoe promised 200 acres of Crown land for Gershom and land for his family members. The land was in the township of Elizabethtown. Gershom is credited during these early years for organizing the first Quakers who came to Upper Canada and giving them their first meeting house in his Cooper Shop (Barrel Maker) until a permanent Society of Friends Meeting House could be built in Farmersville (Athens today).
Thank you to contributor: Peter J. Boyle (49961030)!
Husband of Rebecca Chase
Courtesy of Cheryl and Jeff (thank you!):
Book: History of Leeds & Grenville, by Thad. W. H. Leavitt - (published 1879)
pg. 80 - The Society of Friends (Quakers) erected one of the first churches in the Township of Farmersville, the building, a wooden one, still standing at the eastern end of the village. Previous to the building of the church, the Society met for service in the cooper shop of Gersham Wing. The following list contains the names of the majority of the original members of the Society: Lyman Abel, James Robeson, Samuel Olds, Turner Lillie, Joseph Ballard, Philip Wing, Otis Smith, Thomas Robeson, Abraham Palmer, Jedediah Wing, Harvey Derbyshire, William Church, Gersham Wing.
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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ONTARIO/1998-08/0902795126
The Quaker movement came to Leeds County after the end of the American Revolution. Gersham Wing of New York, who had favored the British in the Revolution, migrated to Upper Canada and it was at his cooper shop just outside Farmersville that the Quakers of the area first met. These meetings later became part of the Leeds Monthly Meeting.
----
Farmersville was the name for the current town of "Athens", located in Leeds County, Ontario -
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An addition to the story of Gershom, my wife's direct ancestor (7 generations):
Gershom WING U.E.L. History
Gershom WING was born near Sandwich, Massachusetts, near the "Fort" House that was built by his great-grandfather Stephen and is still owned by the Wing Family of America. Gershom moved to Quaker Hill, New York to the Oblong area (a two mile by sixty mile strip of land next to Connecticut which included the town of Pawling inhabited by Quaker families). Seventeen members of this Quaker Wing family settlement were among the first persons to unite in registering public protest against the holding of slaves in the south. By 1777 Quaker slavery in the Oblong was illegal, about a hundred years before Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
Unlike the rest of his family Gershom was a Loyalist (Tory) who helped carry messages for the British across enemy lines. In 1776. Gershom was a member of Captain Hulett's Corps (of Loyal Americans on Long Island then engaged in carrying intelligence from Manhattan to the Albany area) and finally fought as an officer under Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne.
Throughout the American Revolution, Gershom remained a Loyalist, unlike the rest of his family. Gershom would not take the Oath of Allegiance and on February 26, 1777, he was taken into custody. Gershom was permitted to return home and consider whether he would affirm his allegiance to this State, appeared, and declared that he could not, consistent with his religious principles as a Quaker.
Gershom was released on parole that he could not travel more than two miles from the Stone Church. Gershom and his wife Rebecca Chase Wing, in 1789 along with their ten children, left Quaker Hill, New York on a dangerous 350 mile journey to Upper Canada. The journey was hostile for his family with many of their possessions stolen by American raiders during their journey. Gershom's land was confiscated by New York.
Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor Simcoe promised 200 acres of Crown land for Gershom and land for his family members. The land was in the township of Elizabethtown. Gershom is credited during these early years for organizing the first Quakers who came to Upper Canada and giving them their first meeting house in his Cooper Shop (Barrel Maker) until a permanent Society of Friends Meeting House could be built in Farmersville (Athens today).
Thank you to contributor: Peter J. Boyle (49961030)!
Son of Jedediah and Elizabeth Gifford Wing
Husband of Rebecca Chase
Courtesy of Cheryl and Jeff (thank you!):
Book: History of Leeds & Grenville, by Thad. W. H. Leavitt - (published 1879)
pg. 80 - The Society of Friends (Quakers) erected one of the first churches in the Township of Farmersville, the building, a wooden one, still standing at the eastern end of the village. Previous to the building of the church, the Society met for service in the cooper shop of Gersham Wing. The following list contains the names of the majority of the original members of the Society: Lyman Abel, James Robeson, Samuel Olds, Turner Lillie, Joseph Ballard, Philip Wing, Otis Smith, Thomas Robeson, Abraham Palmer, Jedediah Wing, Harvey Derbyshire, William Church, Gersham Wing.
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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ONTARIO/1998-08/0902795126
The Quaker movement came to Leeds County after the end of the American Revolution. Gersham Wing of New York, who had favored the British in the Revolution, migrated to Upper Canada and it was at his cooper shop just outside Farmersville that the Quakers of the area first met. These meetings later became part of the Leeds Monthly Meeting.
----
Farmersville was the name for the current town of "Athens", located in Leeds County, Ontario -
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An addition to the story of Gershom, my wife's direct ancestor (7 generations):
Gershom WING U.E.L. History
Gershom WING was born near Sandwich, Massachusetts, near the "Fort" House that was built by his great-grandfather Stephen and is still owned by the Wing Family of America. Gershom moved to Quaker Hill, New York to the Oblong area (a two mile by sixty mile strip of land next to Connecticut which included the town of Pawling inhabited by Quaker families). Seventeen members of this Quaker Wing family settlement were among the first persons to unite in registering public protest against the holding of slaves in the south. By 1777 Quaker slavery in the Oblong was illegal, about a hundred years before Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
Unlike the rest of his family Gershom was a Loyalist (Tory) who helped carry messages for the British across enemy lines. In 1776. Gershom was a member of Captain Hulett's Corps (of Loyal Americans on Long Island then engaged in carrying intelligence from Manhattan to the Albany area) and finally fought as an officer under Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne.
Throughout the American Revolution, Gershom remained a Loyalist, unlike the rest of his family. Gershom would not take the Oath of Allegiance and on February 26, 1777, he was taken into custody. Gershom was permitted to return home and consider whether he would affirm his allegiance to this State, appeared, and declared that he could not, consistent with his religious principles as a Quaker.
Gershom was released on parole that he could not travel more than two miles from the Stone Church. Gershom and his wife Rebecca Chase Wing, in 1789 along with their ten children, left Quaker Hill, New York on a dangerous 350 mile journey to Upper Canada. The journey was hostile for his family with many of their possessions stolen by American raiders during their journey. Gershom's land was confiscated by New York.
Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor Simcoe promised 200 acres of Crown land for Gershom and land for his family members. The land was in the township of Elizabethtown. Gershom is credited during these early years for organizing the first Quakers who came to Upper Canada and giving them their first meeting house in his Cooper Shop (Barrel Maker) until a permanent Society of Friends Meeting House could be built in Farmersville (Athens today).
Thank you to contributor: Peter J. Boyle (49961030)!
Husband of Rebecca Chase
Courtesy of Cheryl and Jeff (thank you!):
Book: History of Leeds & Grenville, by Thad. W. H. Leavitt - (published 1879)
pg. 80 - The Society of Friends (Quakers) erected one of the first churches in the Township of Farmersville, the building, a wooden one, still standing at the eastern end of the village. Previous to the building of the church, the Society met for service in the cooper shop of Gersham Wing. The following list contains the names of the majority of the original members of the Society: Lyman Abel, James Robeson, Samuel Olds, Turner Lillie, Joseph Ballard, Philip Wing, Otis Smith, Thomas Robeson, Abraham Palmer, Jedediah Wing, Harvey Derbyshire, William Church, Gersham Wing.
-------
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ONTARIO/1998-08/0902795126
The Quaker movement came to Leeds County after the end of the American Revolution. Gersham Wing of New York, who had favored the British in the Revolution, migrated to Upper Canada and it was at his cooper shop just outside Farmersville that the Quakers of the area first met. These meetings later became part of the Leeds Monthly Meeting.
----
Farmersville was the name for the current town of "Athens", located in Leeds County, Ontario -
-----
An addition to the story of Gershom, my wife's direct ancestor (7 generations):
Gershom WING U.E.L. History
Gershom WING was born near Sandwich, Massachusetts, near the "Fort" House that was built by his great-grandfather Stephen and is still owned by the Wing Family of America. Gershom moved to Quaker Hill, New York to the Oblong area (a two mile by sixty mile strip of land next to Connecticut which included the town of Pawling inhabited by Quaker families). Seventeen members of this Quaker Wing family settlement were among the first persons to unite in registering public protest against the holding of slaves in the south. By 1777 Quaker slavery in the Oblong was illegal, about a hundred years before Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
Unlike the rest of his family Gershom was a Loyalist (Tory) who helped carry messages for the British across enemy lines. In 1776. Gershom was a member of Captain Hulett's Corps (of Loyal Americans on Long Island then engaged in carrying intelligence from Manhattan to the Albany area) and finally fought as an officer under Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne.
Throughout the American Revolution, Gershom remained a Loyalist, unlike the rest of his family. Gershom would not take the Oath of Allegiance and on February 26, 1777, he was taken into custody. Gershom was permitted to return home and consider whether he would affirm his allegiance to this State, appeared, and declared that he could not, consistent with his religious principles as a Quaker.
Gershom was released on parole that he could not travel more than two miles from the Stone Church. Gershom and his wife Rebecca Chase Wing, in 1789 along with their ten children, left Quaker Hill, New York on a dangerous 350 mile journey to Upper Canada. The journey was hostile for his family with many of their possessions stolen by American raiders during their journey. Gershom's land was confiscated by New York.
Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor Simcoe promised 200 acres of Crown land for Gershom and land for his family members. The land was in the township of Elizabethtown. Gershom is credited during these early years for organizing the first Quakers who came to Upper Canada and giving them their first meeting house in his Cooper Shop (Barrel Maker) until a permanent Society of Friends Meeting House could be built in Farmersville (Athens today).
Thank you to contributor: Peter J. Boyle (49961030)!
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