Notes for John Jacob LAKE
Witnesses to their marriage were his cousin, James Lake and Laurence and
Elizabeth Stover, her brother and sister.
"The Marriage License Of John Jacob Lake And Sarah Stover, Or Order In
Council, for Same." The Original in Possession of The Reverend Walter A.
McCleneghan, Minister of The Methodist Church, of Southern
California-Arizona Conference, whose great-grandfather was this John
Jacob Lake.
In this corner the coat of Arms, of Francis Gore, Esq. Lieutenant
Governor of the Province of Upper Canada.
FRANCIS GORE, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper
Canada, etc. etc. etc.
Whereas His Majesty has been graciously pleased by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, to authorize me to grant Licenses for
the due Folemnization of Marriage, and whereas John Lake Junior, of the
Township of Ernestown and Province aforesaid ... and Sarah Stover of the
same place ... are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony,
and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly solemnized; in order
that such their honest desires may the more speedily have their due
effect, and that they may be able to procure the fame to be lawfully
solemnized without Publication of Banns, I do hereby, for good saufes,
give and grant this License of Faculty, as well to them the said parties
contracting, as to all and every Parfon or Minifter, duly ordained, and
lawfully exercifing his Miniftry within the faid Province of Upper
Canada, to folemize and preform the fame: provided always, that by reafon
of any affinity, confangunity, pre-contract, or any other lawful caufe,
there be no legal impediment in this behalf; otherwife, if any fraud
fhall appear to have been committed at the time of granting this Licence,
either by Falfe fuggestions or concealment of the truth, that then this
Licence fhall be null and void to all intents and purpofes whatfoever.
GIVEN under my Hand and Privy Seal of Office, at York, this Twenty fifth
Day of July . . . in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Ten, and of his Majesty's Reign the Fifteenth. Francis Gore Lft' Governor
By His Excellency's Command Wm. Haltone Secretary.
In the marriage of John Jacob Lake and Sarah Stover, were united two
United Empire Loyalist families. Sarah Stover was the daughter of
Valentine Stover, a son of Jacob Stover a U.E. Loyalist who came from
White Creek, New York, following the American Revolution. One of the
witnesses at their marriage was a cousin, James Lake, Jr., who was later
to marry Elizabeth Stover, sister of the bride. She and her brother,
Laurence Stover, were also witnesses at the wedding.
John Lake, 3rd, son of Nicholas Lake, of New Jersey, of John Lake, Jr.,
of John Lake I, of Gravesend, Long Island, who was born in 1728, with his
wife, Margaret Snider-Lake lived in the home of their grandson, John
Jacob Lake, until their death, when John Lake 3rd died in 1835,at the
advanced age of 107 years. Margaret Snider-Lake also died in this
grandson's home about the same time in her 101st year.
A great aunt of this writer, Rachel Lake-Peck, who lived in our home town
as a neighbor, at Wyoming, Jones Co., Iowa, has told this writer of the
death of her great grandparents, in their home when she was but a small
girl. This great aunt died at Wyoming, Iowa, on Feb. 16, 1922, in her
92nd year.
John Jacob Lake died in 1850, at Colborn, Upper Canada, in the home of
his eldest daughter, Caroline Lake-McMillan, and was buried in the Union
Cemetery on the Alger farm, near Colborn. He had returned to Upper Canada
on business and died while
there. Jane McMillan-Alger was his granddaughter)
Sarah Stover-Lake died in Sept. 1872, at Frozen Hill, Iowa, in the home
of her youngest daughter, Rachel Lake-Peck, near Wyoming, Iowa, and was
returned to Rockford, Ill., and buried in Greenwood Cemetery there, in
the Lake family lot.)
In 1836 John Jacob Lake and all his family emigrated from Ernest Town,
Upper Canada, to southern Wisconsin, except his daughter, Caroline
Lake-McMillan, who had married the Rev-erend Charles Patterson McMillan
in 1835, and who continued living in Upper Canada and died there at
Colborn, and was buried in the Union Cemetery on a comer of the Alger
farm.
In 1842 the family moved across the state line into Winnebago Co.,
Illinois. Near where they settled in Winnebago Co., Hiram Lake gave land
for a school house on a corner of his farm, which was called the Canada
School house, and was still in use in 1952. This Canada School house is
south of Rockton, M. The family settled there and took up land in that
vicinity. There the children later married and raised their families.
John Jacob Lake seems to have kept in touch with his family and friends
at Ernest Town, for in 1847 there were seven families who came to the
locality in Winnebago Co., through his influence, and settled about what
came to be called the Canada School House.
This school house was built of native stone, and so well built that while
the building has been improved, it was still in use in 1952. It was then
and still is called the Canada School House and there members of the
families of those early settlers gather for a picnic.
In a letter from Jay L Liddle, Secretary of THE CANADIANS of Winnebago
County, Illinois, he tells of some of the early families who came to the
county and settled near what has been called THE CANADA SCHOOL, sat upon
the corner of the LAKE FARDI, south of Rockton.
"This school is set on the N.W. Corner of section 12, on land owned by
Hiram Lake, which was grandfather of Ratie Gleaseman-Liddle, who married
my cousin Walter B. Liddle of Rockton, M." Hiram Lake came from Canada in
1843 (1= according to Aunt Rachel Lake-Peck) and settled on see. 12.
Valentine Lake, his brother, settled on sec. 13, another brother Adam
Lake, settled near the Elm Wood School in Owen Township -which was called
Telegraph Road. George Moffat family came from Canada in 1845 and settled
near the Canada School. George Moffat was grand-father of Mrs. Phillip
Gleaseman who lives in Rockton Township."
"Patton Attwood family, known as Deacon Attwood, came from Canada in
1849, and settled near the Canada School. They were a very large family
and many of the younger generation are living in a few miles of the old
homestead. Melvin Attwood owns the old homestead. He lives at 1420
Jackson St., Rockford, M. The Hart family came from Canada. They were
early settlers here but I do not know where any of the younger generation
are at present. Horace Hyatt family came here from Canada and settled in
the Canada School District. They were one of the pioneer families here. I
do not know where any of the generation are at present."
The Lake family seems to have come west by the lake route as there was no
railroad that far west at that time. The New York Central reached Chicago
in 1831. The other families also seem to have come by the lake route.
With the Lake family came a young man named Jabez Huntley. Later he
married Amy Lake in September 1847, and they farmed near her people in
Winnebago Co., Illinois.
John Jacob Lake died in the home of his eldest daughter, Caroline
Lake-McMillan while there on business. Buried Union Cemetery on the Alger
farm, near Colborn, Ontario, Canada.
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