Peter Reesor
Peter Reesor (December 25, 1775 – November 16, 1854) was one of the original settlers of
He was born on December 25, 1775, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Christian Reesor (1747–1806) and Veronica (Fanny) Reiff (1751–1818).[1] Reesor's grandparents Peter Rieser (1713-1804) and Elizabeth Hershey had moved from Switzerland to Bavaria and then to America in 1739.[2]
First visit to Canada
At the close of the
Reesor family emigration
In 1804, Peter Reesor led a larger group of
Founding a town
The settlement between Peter Reesor's farm and mill and his brother's farms became known as Reesorville. In 1825, Reesorville was renamed the Village of Markham to coincide with the Township of Markham.[8]
Death
Peter Reesor died November 16, 1854, at his home in Markham (11 Reesor Road), Ontario at the age of 78. Peter Reesor is buried in Cedar Grove, Ontario.[9] [10]
References
- ^ For the broader Reesor family story in connection with the pioneer settlement of Markham Township, see Isabel Champion, ed., Markham: 1793-1900 (Markham, ON: Markham Historical Society, 1979), pp. 52-53.
- ^ "Home". reesorfamily.on.ca.
- ^ See: North Pickering Community Development Project, The Historical Complexities of Pickering, Markham, Scarborough and Uxbridge Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (Government of Ontario, Sept. 1973), pp. 22-25.
- ISBN 0-9690397-1-9.)
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: CS1 maint: location (link - ^ For Peter Reesor's contribution to Cedar Grove, see Isabel Champion, ed., Markham: 1793-1900 (Markham, ON: Markham Historical Society, 1979), 235-237. To locate the Reesor family homestead and mills, see the detailed 1878 map, "Township of Markham," Illustrated historical atlas of the county of York and the township of West Gwillimbury & town of Bradford in the county of Simcoe, Ont. (Toronto: Miles & Co., 1878). See also the artistic presentation of Reesor's life-time contribution by Murray Pipher: "Peter Reesor Portrait," 2010.
- ^ Joseph C. Fretz, "Cedar Grove Mennonite Church (Markham, Ontario, Canada)," Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (1953). See also Paul Burkholder, "Highlights of Mennonite History in the Markham Community Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine," Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario 3 (Nov. 1970).
- ^ Myra Chepack, "Markham Fair President 1910: James McCreight Armstrong[permanent dead link]," Markham Fair official website.
- ^ For the early history of Reesorville/Markham, see I. Champion, ed., Markham: 1793-1900 (Markham, ON: Markham Historical Society, 1979), pp. 248ff.
- ^ "Reesor Family Website". reesorfamily.on.ca/. Reesor Family of Canada. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ISBN 0-9690397-1-9.)
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