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1767-1919 (Creation)
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48 centimetres of textual records
2 maps
4 plans
3 watercolours
2 artifacts
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Samuel Peters Jarvis (1792-1857) was a Tory lawyer and civil servant in Upper Canada and the Province of Canada in the early nineteenth century.
Jarvis was born at Newark, Upper Canada, studied under Dr. Strachan at Cornwall, and was admitted to the bar in 1815. He held various positions in the civil service, including acting as Assistant Secretary and Registrar of the Province, as Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and as Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Upper Canada. Jarvis was involved in the group which damaged William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in 1826. He also saw service in both the War of 1812 and the Rebellion of 1837. He married the daughter of the Hon. William Dummer Powell, Mary Boyle, in 1818.
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The Hon. William Dummer Powell (1755-1834) was Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Upper Canada, an Executive Councillor, and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
William Dummer Powell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was educated at local Boston schools, at boarding schools in England and Holland, and studied law under the Attorney General of Massachusetts. He moved to Canada in 1779 and practiced law in Montreal. From 1783 to 1784 Powell and his family moved between Upper Canada, Boston, and Detroit. He was appointed a Judge of the Hesse District in 1789, and in 1794 was made a judge of the Court of King's Bench and moved with his family to the Niagara frontier. He subsequently held other judicial appointments, including acting as Chief Justice, 1795-1797, 1816- 1825. He was an Executive Councillor and a Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1816-1825.
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Collection consists of correspondence, land records (including deeds), legal records, genealogical information, diaries, maps, memoranda, and accounts. The majority of the records are not specifically concerned with the public lives of Powell or Jarvis, but are personal family documents reflecting the attitudes, interests, problems and way of life of the members of loyalist ruling class families. The memoranda of William Dummer Powell tell of his career and early Canadian years. Many of the letters written between 1820 and 1857 are from Samuel Peters Jarvis to his wife Mary while he was commanding officer of the Queen's Rangers during the Rebellion of 1837-8, while he was with the Department of Indian Affairs, and when he was travelling in Great Britain and elsewhere. Collection also includes various travel diaries maintained by Jarvis.
Also included are various maps and plans of areas including Long Point, Turkey Point, York, the project town of Tayport, Guelph, and Toronto.
Collection also includes miscellaneous documents, such as calling cards, watercolours, poems, an exercise book of William Jarvis, a newspaper article, and a sample of hair from the heads of Aemilius Jarvis and Edward Henry Bernard.
Records created after 1857 deal mainly with estate problems and litigation.
For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+31?SESSIONSEARCH
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Part of this collection was acquired by the Archives of Ontario in 1945 from the Ontario Historical Society. Another portion of this collection was acquired by the Archives of Ontario in 1967 from Mr. W.D.P Jarvis of King, Ontario. Additional materials were obtained in 1972 by Mr. F.G. Cook of Toronto, Ontario.
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Collection contains the following series: Calendared Correspondence And Papers, 1767-1919, N.D. (Series I); Memoranda By William Dummer Powell (Series II-a); Diaries Of Samuel Peters Jarvis, 1847- 1857 (Series II-b); Genealogical Information (Series II-c); Maps, 1801- c.1856, N.D. (Series II-d); Miscellaneous (Series II-e); Land Papers, 1820-1863.
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Records are available on microfilm.
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Copyright held by creator. These materials cannot be published without permission from the copyright holder.
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For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+31?SESSIONSEARCH
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Entered Mar/12.