Levi Matteson

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  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S27 Daniel Thomas.
    • Acte : # 95
    • Date : 23 avril 1824
    • Deed of Sale by Charles Kilborn, Esquire of the Township of Stanstead, to Levi Matteson, Iron Founder of the same Township.
      • Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du canton de Stanstead : « …upon the Canal upon the Westwardly side of the King’s highway leading to Derby, bounded the said tract of land upon the Northeastwardly or upper side by an emplacement and privilege this day conveyed by the said Vendor to Mr. Freeman Haskell on the Southwest or lower side by a line drawn parallel with the said Northeast line and at such a distance herefrom as that it shall pass twenty feet below the lower side of the old saw Mill now in ruins and extending the said Southwestwardly boundary from the Southeast side of the said Canal Northwestwardly eighty feet, on the Southeastwardly side by the Southeastwardly bank of the said Canal and on the Northwestwardly side a line to be drawn from the northern extremity of the said Southwestwardly boundary line to the Northwest corner of the land of the said Haskell, with the privileges of passing to and from the said premises to the said highway […]. […] that [the said purchaser] shall not erect a dam upon the said premises of a greater height than twelve feet nor to injure the Waterwheel or Building above, and also that the said purchaser […] shall not erect any Buildings upon the said premises but such as may be necessary for carrying on the Iron Foundry Business in all its branches for which particular Business the present Bargain is thus made. And the said Vendor doth engage that the water shall not be diverted from the said Canal to the injury of the said purchaser ». Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 25 pounds.
  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S24 William Ritchie.
    • Acte : # 680
    • Date : 28 octobre 1825
    • Sale and Conveyance from Levi Matteson, Iron Founder of the Township of Stanstead, to Amasa Turner Martin, Yeoman of the same Township, and Otis Warren, Wool Carder of the same place.
      • Résumé : Matteson vend, pour la somme de 41 « Pounds », une partie du lot no 1 du 9e du canton de Stanstead, incluant les installations de sa fonderie. Terrain décrit ainsi : « …upon the Canal on the Westwardly side of the King’s Highway leading to Derby bounded upon the Northeastwardly or upper side of the piece of land owned by Freeman Haskell […] together with the Betterments building and improvements thereon erected and made, including all and singular the patterns flasks and apparatus for carrying on the Iron Foundry business […] ».

Forests and clearings (original publishing July 15, 1874)

  • Started an iron foundry in 1815, but soon sold out and left the country. (p. 33)

The British Colonist

  • Vol. I, N°43, 26 feb. 1824
    • LEVI MATTESON
    • Demande de feraille à amener au J. BAXTER store
  • Vol. 2, no 30, 23 décembre 1824, p. 3.
    • Levi Matteson, operating a Foundry “near the line”, offers 2 ₵ a pound for old pot-metal.
    • La publicité souligne qu'il donnait auparavant 1 ₵ la livre, mais qu'il souhaite désormais égaler l'offre de M. Ichabod Smith ; guerre commerciale ?
  • Vol. II, N°31, 30 dec 1824
    • Stanstead Foundry associé à son nom.

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