A Century Of Presbyterianism A Review Of The History Of The Congregation Of St Pauls Church PDF Download

Excerpt from Seventy-Five Years of Presbyterianism: A Review of the History of the Congregation of St. Paul's Church From Its Organization in 1835 Life was not easy for these early settlers. Set down as they were in the midst of an interminable forest, no semblance Of a road to or from anywhere, forty miles from the nearest source Of supply, no mill nearer than Port Hope or Cobourg in which to grind their wheat when they had succeeded in clearing enough land to grow any. Some of the younger men are said to have carried their wheat on their shoulders all this distance, and carried back the flour to the Settlement. In other cases, the stumps of the trees were hollowed and the grain pounded with a heavy mallet. Sometimes the wheat was boiled, and even chewed by the parents, for their children One lady whose descendants occupy prominent 13081t118 in our Congregation, writes in February, 1822, when she joined her husband, the first settler in the Township of Douro: We found our, house unfinished, the doors had not been hung nor were there any partitions. A large Opening was left in the roof where the chimney was to be, the floor covered with ice and frozen mortar. We made beds of sbav ings made by the builders and, spreading our bed clothes, slept till morning with the stars shining through the opening in the roof. Mr. Reid and his family were living in an open shanty havmg the fire outside, and the sparks occasionally set fire to their bedding. Pea soup and pork were our principal food. Our bread was good when we could get flour or when the yeast was not frozen. Often we had only rye meal, which was not disagreeable, but one season we were obliged to use boiled wheat and were once reduced to bran cakes, which soon disagreed with us. Under such circumstances and many miles from the nearest doctor, the first white child in Douro (for many years a highly esteemed member Of St. Paul's Church) was born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.