Willard Wood

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  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
    • Acte : # 5633
    • Date : 29 janvier 1855
    • Deed of Sale by Carlos F. Haskell, Trader of the Town of Derby (Vt.), to Willard Wood, Merchant Tailor of the Township of Stanstead.
      • Résumé : Vente d’un partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being on the same tract of land, whereon there is a building now erected known as “The Wood’s Building” and measuring forty eight feet in length by twenty four feet in front, bounded towards the East by the Queens’s Highway, to the West by the land of Albert Young, to the North by the Road leading from the Highway to Stephen Foster’s brick dwelling house and to the South by the Canal […] ». La vente est conclue pour la somme de 62 pounds 12 shillings.
  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
    • Acte : # 8894
    • Date : 9 février 1866
    • Deed of Sale by Mrs. Abigail Foster, widow of the late Willard Wood, Merchant Tailor of the Township of Stanstead, to Thomas O’Rourke, Tailor, and John O’Rourke, Trader, both of the same Township.
      • Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being the same tract of land, whereon there is a Building now erected known as “W. Wood’s Building” and measuring forty eight feet in length by twenty four feet in front, bounded towards the East by the Queens’s Highway, to the West by the land of Albert Young, to the North by the Road leading from the Highway to Stephen Foster’s Brick dwelling house and to the South by the Canal […] ». La vente est conclue pour la somme de 1 200 dollars. [Achat de W. Wood en 1855, voir acte # 5633]

Forests and clearings (original publishing July 15, 1874)

  • “The Old Yellow Store”
    • Built in 1809, by Hon. Timothy Hinman. It was first occupied by Nehemiah Colby, of Derby. The property has passed through various hands and is now owned by the heirs of the Hon. P. Baxter. The store has been successively occupied by Baxter & Chamberlin, Baxter & Edmonds, Judd, Bates & Holmes, Judd, Bates & Wood, Baxter, French and Haskell, P. & J. W. Baxter, and Porter & Wiley. (p. 33)
  • Charles Pierce:
    • From 1834 to 1840, but little change occurred in the settlement. Willard Wood, Benjamin Wyman, and others were actively engaged in business and acquired property. Charles Pierce, and enterprising mechanic, built extensively, and laid the foundation for a large business in the manufacture of boots and shoes. He died suddenly and the business passed into the hands of Austin Foster. (p. 34-35)

Stanstead Journal

  • « Pioneer Life on the Frontier », Jan. 31, 1952
    • 1835: 13 dwelling houses
    • Maple Ave: Stephen Foster’s house; The Libby house (owned by Otis Warren); the Parson house (owned by Willard Wood); the Gilmore house on the corner (owned by Levi Spalding)
  • « Pioneer Life on the Frontier », Feb. 7, 1952
    • 1835: There was but one building (the old Yellow) btw the bridge and the Kelly House on the right hand of the road. On the other side were Foster & Spalding’s, the Gaylord and Walton building, the Wood tailor shop (now O’Rourke) and the Spalding dwelling house on the corner.
    • Stanstead Journal: first printed in the Wood building. The present office was for a dwelling house, for a person known in those days as “Abe Wheeler”. Since 1860, except for a few years the printing presses have been run by the same power that runs the machinery in the ad- …ining factory. The “Mammoth store” was built on the site of the old saw mill and lumber yard.
  • « Pioneer Life on the Frontier », Feb., 1952 (biographical sketches)
    • Charles O’Rourke: 1847: purchased the Willard Wood building, partnership with his brother Thomas as merchant tailor.
  • Vol. I, Nº31, 4 juin 1846
    • Wood demande 1 journalier et 2 apprentis pour son entreprise de « tailoring »
  • Vol. II, Nº21, 25 mars 1847
    • « Tailoring business », Wood cherche un apprenti
  • Vol. VII, Nº43, 2 sept 1852
    • Wood est dans le « Tailoring business » en partenariat avec le « Union Store » de Rock Island
  • Vol. XI, N°5, 20 dec 1855
    • WILLARD WOOD
      • « Tailoring business ».
      • situé au « formely known as the Stanstead Journal office building », à l’étage
  • Vol 16, N°23, 9 mai 1861
    • WILLARD WOOD
      • « Tailoring ».
      • Situé « at his old stand, corner of Main street and Maple avenue »
  • Vol. 18, N°17, 26 mars 1863
    • WILLARD WOOD
      • Tailoring, continuation
  • Vol. 19, N°21, 21 avril 1864
    • WILLARD WOOD
      • Tailor, continuation.

Farmer’s & Mechanics

  • Vol. III, N°31, 22 juil 1841
    • « Tailoring business ». Wood revient en affaire à son ancien stand de Rock Island.

S.H.S. Collection

  • WO - Z. F4T1. Israel Wood, file 1 of 1. Acte notarié : Sale of Land by Mr. Otis Warren to Mr. Willard Wood, 20 février 1832.
    • L’acte confirme la vente d’une parcelle de terre de 7 « rods » sur l’axe Ouest-Est par « 15 rods » sur l’axe Nord-Sud, du lot no 1 du 9e rang du canton de Stanstead (secteur Rock Island) ; plus précisément, le terrain touche au Sud à la « bye road », à l’Ouest à une autre terre d’Otis Warren (vendeur), au Nord à la terre de A. Kilborn et à l’Est partiellement le même terrain de Kilborn et à celui de la veuve Fanny Haskell .
      • Willard Wood est un tailleur (« tailor ») qui tient commerce à Rock Island [terrain de son commerce ??].

Robert W. S. Mackay, The Canada Directory, 1851

p. 361

  • Wood, W., tailor, Rock Island

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