Fonds F1858 - Ladd family fonds

William Clow was born in the town of Dunblane, Scotland in the 1750's and died in Elizabethtown, Leeds County, Ontario on October 22nd, 1814. According to tradition he emigrated to the colony of New York just before the American Revolution. In the Revolutionary War he served in McCalpin's, later Jessup's, Corps of King's Loyal Rangers. In 1784 he was among the original settlers in Elizabethtown Township where he received numerous grants of land. He was married to Sophia daughter of Simon Strader another Loyalist from Old Johnstown, New York. The Clows had eight sons and five daughters all but one of whom reached adulthood. William and some of his sons served in the War of 1812, William's death in 1814 being attributed to war service. Mrs. Clow survived until 1851 at which time she was living with her second son, William Jr. and his wife. She was eighty-five at the time of her death. Nine of her children had been minors at the time of her husband's death.

Walter E. Shipman (1895-1974) was the eldest child and only son, together with three daughters, Wilma Belle (Williams), Edna Marie (Pettem), and Macy Eva (Neville), born to Joel Arthur Shipman (b.30 August 1861) and Macy Elizabeth Johnson (1866-1950). Following their marriage, Macy Elizabeth took up residence with Joel A. Shipman. Walter's father, Joel, died in 1917, at the age of 56, leaving a young family for Macy Elizabeth to raise, and a son forced into early manhood to run the mixed farming operation. Later he married, Oreta Morrison (b.13 September 1900, and they lived separately in an adjacent house at Elm Ridge until his sisters were married, when they took up residence in the old Shipman family home to support his aging Mother. Walter and Oreta had no issue. A brief perspective of this Shipman family would not be adequate without some mention of the background of the mother of Walter Ellis Shipman. Macy Elizabeth Johnson was born in 1866 near Hoasic in Williamsburg Twp., Dundas Co., one of a U.E. family of 4 daughters and 4 sons of Charles Johnson and Charlotta Ann Redick. Her father, Charles Johnson, had been adopted from an impoverished family into the family of Nicholas Freymire, U.E. The Johnsons first settled in the vicinity of Hoasic, Dundas Co., and later they moved to the farm known as Twin Elms at Glen Elbe near Athens in Leeds Co. When Nicholas Freymire died in 1867, aged 59 years, he willed the Twin Elms farm to his adopted son, Charles Johnson. Macy Elizabeth claimed she was seven years old when she moved with her parents to occupy the inherited farm at Twin Elms. Charles had married Charlotta Ann Redick, daughter of George Nelson Redick and Catherine Diana Pillar, on 26 February 1855. The Redick family (probably of Dutch origin, just like the original Shipman orphan who entered the New England Colonies) at one time had owned a large track of land where the city of New York forced by the attitudes of the American Rebellion and mob rule to forfeit their lot and become U.E. Loyalists.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell took an active part in the American Revolution and at its end was granted land in the Townships of Elizabethtown, Edwardsburg, Kitley, Oxford, Augusta, and Landsdowne. The Campbell Family's connection to the Clow Family has not been determined but there is an Indenture of Estate between Alexander Campbell and Silas Judson dated 23 June 1808.

Silas Judson was granted 100 acres of land on Lot 33, in the Third Concession of Elizabethtown on 6 March, 1798. Lyman Judson, son of Silas, settled in the Township of Yonge on Lot 4 in the Eighth Concession. The Judson Family connection to the Clow's has been made through an indenture between the two families on the 4th of January 1863.

Alexander McLean was granted land in the Townships of Elizabethtown and Kitley. Alexander and Ann McLean participated as witnesses to an indenture between William and Rebecca Clow dated 25 November, 1790; and in 1812 on the 15th of February, Robert McLean signed as a witness in an indenture between William and Peter Clow.