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Pringle family fonds

  • ON00009 F 1030
  • Fonds
  • 1786-1936

Fonds consists of correspondence, receipts, accounts, commissions, military records, legal records, and literary records of Jacob Pringle and other members of the Pringle family. Included are correspondence, receipts, and commissions of Jacob Farrand, a maternal ancestor of Jacob Farrand Pringle. Fonds also contains correspondence of James Pringle at Valenciennes, arrangements for the Pringle family to leave Yarmouth, England, for Upper Canada, accounts regarding the estate of James Pringle, and correspondence regarding a military pension for his wife, Anne. Personal records of Jacob Ferrand Pringle include: a genealogy of the Pringle family, legal appointments, military commission, and personal correspondence. Fonds also includes records relating to the Cornwall Volunteer Infantry Company which was raised by Jacob Pringle in 1862, and saw active service in repelling Fenian forces. These records include correspondence, pay lists, size rolls for the allotment of uniforms, and applications for medals. Also included are various legal records arising from Pringle's work as a lawyer. These records include: correspondence (pertaining to legal cases, points of law, and business letters to and from other law firms), printed materials, legal documents left with Pringle for safekeeping (including deeds, agreements, powers of attorney, quit claim deeds, letters patent, court accounts, leases, mortgages, insurance contracts, court notes from the assizes, petitions, and subpoenas), assessments and tax receipts, crown grants, estate records (of the estates of Colonel Alexander Fraser, Alexander Forsyth, Hugh Urquhart, and Angus Grant, and records include: correspondence, wills, annual reports of banks, and other records). Fonds also includes a groups records arising from a dispute between the Church of Scotland and the Free Church, in which both churches claimed a right to a portion of land in Glengarry County known as the Indian Reservation, inhabited by the St. Regis Iroquois nation. These records include correspondence with the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Reverend H. Urquhart (who was representing the Presbytery of Glengarry on behalf of the Indian Lands Congregation, and Reverend D. Gordon of the Free Church sect. Fonds also contains correspondence from Jacob Pringle to members of the Education Department for the Eastern District regarding the marketing of his book Lunenburgh or the Old Eastern District. Also included are poetry and miscellaneous writings by Pringle.

Pringle, Jacob Farrand