| Name |
Simon Mabee |
| Title |
Rev. |
| Birth |
1776 |
Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, New York  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
10 Jul 1784 |
Belle Hill in Beaver Harbour, Ontario, Canada [2] |
- Roll of Loyalists Settled at Belle Hill in Beaver Harbour has an entry: Frederick Maybee, wife Levina, children above 10: Lydia, Elizabeth, Oliver, children under 10: Mary, Sarah, Simon, Frederick.
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| Anecdote |
1792 [3] |
- The Mabee party, it is said, started for Upper Canada in the fall of 1792, but they wintered in Quebec and did not reach Turkey Point until some time in 1793. They drove twelve cows, rode horses, and employed an Indian guide to pilot the way through the wilderness
Some members of the family claim that the settlement was made as early as 1791, while others say it was not made before 1794; but Mrs. Mabee and her family were living there in a comfortable log-house at the time of Governor Simcoe's visit in 1795. The grave of Frederick Mabee was there also, and a piece of ground known as the "Indian fields" had been cleared of its light growth of timber and cropped; all of which makes it appear quite reasonable that the family may have settled there, at least as early as 1793.
The Mabee party consisted of Frederick Mabee and wife; Oliver Mabee, their eldest son, aged about nineteen; Simeon, the second son, aged about seventeen; Pellum, the youngest son, aged about twelve – at least, these were the ages of the sons at the time of the Governor's visit; two single daughters – Polly and Sally; and two married daughters – Nancy and Lydia, with their respective husbands – John Stone and Peter Teeple. It is said that Peter Secord, also, came with the Mabee family
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| Immigration |
1793 |
Turkey Point, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [4] |
- Frederick Mabee was a United Empire Loyalist, whose home had at the British evacuation of New York, been confiscated, and himself and family subjected to indignity by many of his former neighbours because he declined to swear allegiance to the "New Republic", holding as he no doubt conscientiously did, that the grievances of the colonists should be settled by constitutional means rather than by the sword. Having heard of the wonderful fertility and natural advantage of the Long Point (or as it was first called, the Turkey Point) country in Upper Canada from his cousin. Peter Secord, a U.E. Loyalist who had accompanied him to Saint John from New York and who, being an old hunter, had already penetrated the wilds of Upper Canada with one George Ramsay, and Englishman, on a hunting and exploring trip, he resolved to form a small colonization party to open a permanent party at Turkey Point. Gathering many of his relatives together, including his son-in-law, Capt. Teeple, the "Mabee Party" as they were afterwards called, set out in the fall of 1792, but they wintered at Quebec and did not reach Turkey Point until some time in 1793. They brought some household goods, drove several cows, rode horses and employed an Indian guide to pilot the way through the wilderness. The men drove the animals along the shore, the women came in boats, going ashore at night to camp. During the journey through the wilds they sustained themselves largely on cornmeal and milk from the cows.
The party consisted of Frederick Mabee and Lavinia (nee Pelham or Pellum), Oliver Mabee, their eldest son, aged about 19; Simon, the second son, aged 17; Pollum, the youngest son, aged about 5; three single daughters, Polly, Betsy and Sally, and two married daughters, Nancy, with her husband, John Stone and Lydia, with her husband, Capt. Peter Teeple, and their four children. His cousin, Peter Secord and Thomas Welch, also came with the Mabee party. Frederick Mabee at once erected the first log cabin ever built at the new settlement, at the foot of the hill overlooking Turkey Point. Their corn was pounded in the stump of a walnut tree, the beetle being attached to a "sweep" like the "Old Oaken Bucket".
One year after the arrival of the party he died of apoplexy, and was buried in a hollowed-out walnut log coffin. He was the first white man buried in the new settlement, and a large boulder marks his tomb near Turkey Point. His widow subsequently married Lieut. William B. Hilton, a New York Loyalist of the Kings American Dragoons, but he died three years after the marriage. Large numbers of other Loyalists poured into the settlement shortly after, but the "Mabee Party" came in advance of the rest and became "squatters" until the lands were apportioned by the Crown to all the Loyalists.
Polly and Sally Mabee, two daughters who came to Turkey Point, single, married respectively Capt. David Secord, of Butler's Rangers, and Silas Montross, both U.E. Loyalists. The former was a miller at Niagara, but later settled on Catfish creek, west of Orwell; the latter lived at Turkey Point. The Mabee, Teeple, Secord, Montross and Stone families became prominent factors in the early days of settlement, but now their descendants are very widely scattered.
More than a hundred years have come and gone since Frederick Mabee and his sons and sons-in-law made the acquaintance of the wild, painted and befeathered savages of the north shore of Lake Erie, and where they were surprised and startled by the bedlam of discordant sounds, which daily rent the air, from the throats of the myriads of wild turkeys, geese and duck, as these sturdy pioneers staked out their new homes at Turkey Point. Today their great grandsons are found in the ranks of busy men, scattered all over the American continent, and their great-great grandchildren occupy seats in nearly every school house in the land. In fact, these descendants have become so numerous, and so widely dispersed, that they meet as strangers, never dreaming that the old pioneer mother who pounded corn in the hollow of a walnut stump more than a hundred years ago, was their common maternal ancestor.
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| Witness-Probate |
1801 |
Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [5] |
- William Benjamin Hilton, husband of Levinah Mabee Hilton, died intestate. Sureties included Oliver Mabee and Simon Mabee, both of Charlottesville.
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| Anecdote |
13 Sep 1806 |
Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [6] |
- Sept 13, 1806 at Charlotteville in the District of London; Simon Mabee is a witness in the case of the King vs. Lot Tisdale, Ephraim Tisdale, Alexander Hutchinson, Joseph Milller and Henry Bostwick for assault.
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| Anecdote |
Jul 1808 |
Piper's Corners, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada [7] |
- Piper's Corners: Joel Piper, a United Empire Loyalist from Massachusetts, came with Thomas Ingersoll's party of settlers to Oxford upon the Thames in 1793. He settled on lot 12, Conc 2, one mile south of the Old Stage Road on the east side of the North and South trail. The community which developed here was named after him. On Tremaine's map of 1857, there are Pipers on three of the four corners. The Mabee family occupied the southwest corner, Lot 13, Con 2, as they had ever since Simon Mabee, a fellow U.E.L. from Massachusetts, had arrived from Norfolk County, in the early 1800's. Mr. Simon Mabee played a vital role in the development of Piper's Corners. It was on the north east section of his property that the First Baptist Church in Oxford was established, and the Piper's School was built. Towards the south end of his farm, he constructed a dam and pond, and built a grist mill for the early farmers. The impressive stone house that he erected with the date 1808 inscribed above the doorway is still standing, and is now (late1970's) occupied by its present owners, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Budd. The Piper's Corners Baptist Church was the First Baptist church in Oxford County. In July 1808 Peter Teeple, Simon Mabee, Zachariah Burtch, Deborah Sales, Abigail Burtch and Elizabeth Scott met at the home of Peter Teeple to come under each other's watch-care. In 1809 they organized the Church. Meetings were held in the homes of the members. In Februry 1841, Elder Mabee offered 1 ½ acres on the northeast corner of his farm for a church and cemetery. It was located just south of the school with the cemetery at the rear of the church and school. This cemetery became neglected and a new owner of the farm allowed his cattle to pasture there. The markers, which were numerous, were broken and the farmer gathered them up and put them in the fence corner near the cemetery around 1890 to 1900. They remained there for some years, then these tombstones were made into a nice smooth marble walk from the house to the barn.
Simon Mabee built the Grist mill to serve the settlers. This mill continued in operation for many years. Mr. Ernest Mabee a great-grandson told Miss Hattie Mabee of Ingersoll, about its operation.
In 1834 the first log school was erected a mile south of Piper's Corners. The Second school was built in 1856 on land was obtained from Walter Bishop Mabee, the son of the pioneer Simon Mabee.
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| Info |
- Mary Edith Ward, #142. Long Point Settlers Journal (LPSJ), by R.Robert Mutrie, #23. Much more information is given by Mr Mutrie in the LPSJ.
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| Occupation |
- Simon Mabee possessed a religious nature. He was emotional, warm-hearted and sympathetic; and early in life gave himself up to the work of preaching the gospel. Among the early pioneer preachers who visited the little settlements throughout old London District, no man was better known or more highly respected than Simon Mabee
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| Occupation |
Walsingham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [8] |
| High Constable |
| Reference Number |
1330 |
| Religion |
30 Mar 1824 |
The Regular Baptist Church, Saint George, Brant County, Ontario, Canada [9] |
- The Regular Baptist Church was organized March 30, 1824, under the ministration of Rev. Simon Mabee. The original membership was eleven in number. Elder Mabee remained pastor of the church till 1828. The church worships in a neat stone meeting house in the village of St. George. The main building is 40 feet by 60. The vestry room is 24 feet by 30.
St. George is a post village in the Township of South Dumfries, situated about a mile north of the line of the Great Western Railway, the nearest station being Harrisburg. It is distant 8 miles from Brantford, the same distance from Galt and Paris. There is considerable business done at St. George, situated as it is in a fine agricultural section of the country it contains three churches, viz: - the Canada Presbyterian, the Wesleyan Methodist and Baptist.
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| Death |
3 Jan 1843 |
West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada [10] |
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| Burial |
Ingersoll Rural Cemetery, Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada [10, 11] |
- Sacred to the memory of; Rev Simon Mabee; who departed this life January 3rd , 1843, aged 64 years
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| Person ID |
I1325 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
| Family |
Abigail Gustin, b. Dec 1774, Sussex County, New Jersey d. 17 Jun 1871, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 96 years) |
| Marriage |
1799 |
Turkey Point, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [3, 10] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Elizabeth Mabee, b. 23 Feb 1800, Walsingham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada d. 4 Dec 1884, Aylmer, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada (Age 84 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Anna Mabee, b. Abt Feb 1802, Walsingham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada d. 5 Sep 1878, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Samuel H. Mabee, b. Abt 1804, Walsingham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada d. 24 Apr 1872, Altamont, Effingham County, Illinois (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 4. Walter Bishop Mabee, b. 9 Nov 1805, Charlotteville, Walsingham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada d. 17 Apr 1882, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 5. Nancy Naomi Mabee, b. 1807, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. 2 Mar 1875, Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 6. John G. Mabee, b. Between 1809 and 1813, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 7. Sophia Mabee, b. 28 Aug 1809, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. 7 Sep 1897, Marshall Township, Calhoun County, Michigan (Age 88 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 8. Rachel Cary Mabee, b. 1813, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. 20 Sep 1885, Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 72 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 9. Lovina Mabee, b. 10 Nov 1815, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. 18 May 1902, 168 Mariner Street, Buffalo, New York (Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 10. Abigail Mabee, b. 10 Nov 1815, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. 13 Sep 1901, Windsor, Essex County, Ontario, Canada (Age 85 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 11. Oliver Dennis Mabee, b. 31 Aug 1817, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. 1896, Monteagle, Grundy County, Tennessee (Age 78 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 12. Mary Mabee, b. Aft 1818, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. (in childhood) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F179 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1776 - 1843 (67 years)
