<font face="Century" size="3"><font size="4">     </font>William Nodwell was married twice and his eldest son, William, was still in Ireland at the time of his father's death in 1845. All the second family came, eventually, to Canada and settled in Erin and East Garafraxa Townships. <br /> <font size="4">     </font> His second wife (Letitia Dunn) was of low-land Scottish descent. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>His loss of a valuable stock of horses by anthrax seems to have had an influence in the decision to come to Canada. All the second family, except Andrew, (who will be referred to later) landed in Quebec in the fall of 1838 and are said to have travelled all the way to Erin in wagons drawn by oxen. <br />Coming to Toronto, William Nodwell looked at a farm on Yonge St., also the Henderson farm on the 7th line west of Georgetown, but came on to Lot 24, 8th Concession, Erin. We heard that he paid the same price per acre as that asked for the others. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>Misfortune again struck, for within a year, their house and all of its contents were burned, which explains why we have no old records for use in this sketch. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>He then sold the north east half of the lot to Mr. Angus McMurchy and thus a friendship began that lasted through the succeeding generations. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>A new log house, barn and stables were built near the site of the present farm buildings. A new frame barn and shed was built in 1857 and added to from time to time to form the present outfit. A new brick house was built in 1864 and is now occupied by Mungo Carrick Nodwell, a great grandson who is now directing the business of the old farm. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>William Nodwell died in 1845. His will, written by the late William How, and a splendid specimen of simple, exact English, divided the farm land between his sons Robert and Thomas, 55 acres to the former, 45 acres to the latter. The other members of the family received their share in the Estate, largely in cash. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>Robert Nodwell purchased West 1/2 lot of 1 Concession 14 in East Garafraxa and exchanged it for the 45 acres owned by his brother Thomas and thus became owner of the old farm. <br /> <font size="4">     </font> Samuel settled on lot 4, concession 15, East Garafraxa. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>The eldest son of the second family, Andrew was already married before the rest of the family left Ireland but came to Philadelphia the following spring. After living there three years he was on the point of purchasing a 6 acre plot but objected to the oath which bound him to support the Government and people of the US against the machinations of Queen Victoria. This land was sold for $6,000.00. He came to Erin and settled on Lot 22, Concession 8. <br /> <font size="4">     </font>William Nodwell was a Free Mason and held strong views re Democratic forms of Government, Free speech, Gov't by properly constituted authorities etc. <br /> <font size="4">     </font> These questions were real isues in those days.  Today these questions are not discussed, but just taken for granted. </font>