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mpire emigrant7, had become entitled under the

ws of Canada to a grant of six hundred acres of land, moved westward8 to take

ession of this property. He made his wa

ough the State of New York in wagons9 drawn10 by oxen

ote and primitive11 township of Bayfield, in

er Canada, on Lake Huron. Although the journey occurred in bal

e, it was necessarily attended with difficulty and privation

he new home was situated12 in good farming country, and once again this inter

ting nomadic13 family settled down.

hn Edison moved from Bayfield to Vienna, Ont

we find the name of Thomas Edison, as a bank official on Manhattan Island, si

rency in 1778. According to the fam

ecords this Edison, great-grandfather of Thomas

va, reached the extreme old age of 104 years. But all was not well, and, as has hap

ed so often before, the politics of fat

and son were violently different. The Loyalist movement that took to N

otia so many Americans after the War of Ind

dence carried with it John, the son of this stalwart Continental. Thus it came

ut that Samuel Edison, son of John, was born at Digby, Nova Sc

1804. Seven years later John Edison who, as a Loyalist or Uni