Rebecca ANDERSON

1788 - 1863  (75 years)

• Name	Rebecca ANDERSON  [1]
  Birth	1788	Niagra, Niagra, Ontario, CANADA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Note	Rebecca Anderson, eldest daughter of the original Walter, came into possession of the old homestead by virtue of her father's will. She never married. She was born in Niagara District in 1788,[10] and was eleven years old when the family came to Long Point. As before stated, it was through her U.E. Loyalist right that her father was enabled to secure a patent for the old homestead. She was thirty-one years old when she came into possession of the old home. She was her father's favorite heir, and he willed the bulk of his property to her. But "Aunt Becky," as she was familiarly called, did not fully avail herself of the advantage given her by her father's will. She was generous and open-hearted, and the old homestead was ever a welcome home for her bachelor brothers, and her purse strings always hung loose when the cry of want was heard. She possessed an individuality peculiarly her own, and, probably, no woman of her time in the county possessed more striking characteristics than she. A good share of the village of Vittoria was built on her land, and this called for a considerable amount of business tact on her part, and brought her frequently before the public. In these matters she proved equal to every occasion, showing much business ability and executive force. She granted the school section in which she lived, a leasehold of a lot of land, to be held by the lessees in perpetuity for school purposes, in consideration of "one barley corn per year." Of course, if the land be put to any other use it will revert to her heirs. "Old Aunt Becky" died in 1863, in her 76th year.
  Death	24 Mar 1863	Vittoria, Norfolk, Ontario, CANADA   [1]
  Burial	Saint Andrews United Cemetery, Vittoria, Norfolk, Ontario   [1]
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  Person ID	I26025	MM
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	Captain Captain Walter ANDERSON,   b. 1753, SCOTLAND d. 30 Nov 1818, Vittoria, Norfolk, Ontario, CANADA (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Mary UNKNOWN,   b. 1757   d. 18 Apr 1814, Vittoria, Norfolk, Ontario, CANADA (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F5892	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1788 - Niagra, Niagra, Ontario, CANADA Death - 24 Mar 1863 - Vittoria, Norfolk, Ontario, CANADA Burial - - Saint Andrews United Cemetery, Vittoria, Norfolk, Ontario  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S1119] E. A. Owen, Norfolk's Foundation Builders, (W. Briggs, Ontario, Canada, 1898), 1119.