David White

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 7114
Date : 24 juillet 1860
Deed of Sale by David White, Hatter of the Township of Stanstead, to George W. White, Trader, formerly of the same Township aforesaid now of the City of New York (N.Y.).

Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …commencing on the Queen’s highway at the point or corner of land formerly owned by Levi Spalding and the Haskell’s and running Westerly on the Division line to a Garden fence running North and South in C. F. Haskell’s Garden “so called” thence North Westerly by the fence as it now is to land owned by Willard Wood, thence up the hill by Wood’s line and straight on to Charles Kilborn’s land, thence Easterly on said Kilborn’s line to land heretofore sold by said Levi Spalding to Ozro Morrill, thence Southerly by said Morrill’s line to his South West corner, thence Easterly and along by the Stone Wall and said Morrill’s line to the said Queen’s Highway, thence Southerly by the Queen’s Highway to the place of beginning, save and except the portion thereof heretofore by the said Spalding sold to one John Partlow […] ». Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 700 dollars.

Previous to 1850, David White built a dwelling house near the foot of the “Plain Hill” his hatter’s shop south of Gaylord building.

Those two buildings were absorbed by the construction and reconstruction of Rock Island house.

Manufacture de chapeaux, annonce ses produits et demande de la laine, fourrure, peaux, etc

From 1840 to 1850, there were few changes. The limits of the village were gradually extended to the north, and across the river, taking in an area of nearly a square mile. A few enterprising traders and mechanics begun during this time – among whom were A. A. Barry, David White, Stillman Ray, E. Eastman, David Libbee, A. W. Morrill, and C. W. Drew. (p. 35)