PAGE 1 INDEX .......................................................Page TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................... 1 PREFACE ................................. 2 TO FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE FENELON...... 3 LORD AND LADY TWEEDSMUIR................. 4 ADELAIDE HOODLESS ....................... 5 PICKERING BRANCH OF THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE 6 PHYSIOGRAPHY OF PICKERING TOWNSHIP....... 7 FENELON'S MISSION 1669-1670.............. 9 PICKERING DISTRICT 1670-1685............. 12 DIGGING UP ONTARIO'S HISTORY............. 15 PIONEER DAYS AND PIONEER FAMILIES........ 16 MAP 0F ORIGINAL LAND GRANTS AND TRANSFERS, PICKERING TOWNSHIP....................... 17 PIONEER DAYS AND PIONEER FAMILIES.........19 MEMORIAL TO PETER MATHEWS ................21 MATHEWS...................................22 HUBBARD...................................24 WIXON.....................................25 ROGERS....................................27 THE JOURNAL OF TIMOTHY ROGERS.............28 CHAPMAN...................................40 FRIENDS WHO JOINED TIMOTHY ROGER'S QUAKER COLONY BEFORE 1810 .............................41 ROBERT BETTS..............................42 BARCLAY...................................43 TOOL......................................44 RICHARDSON................................45 POST......................................47 PHILLIPS..................................50 DUNBAR....................................51 COWAN.....................................53 WRIGHT....................................54 MILLER....................................55 GORDON....................................58 O'CONNOR..................................59 MRS. MOWBRAY'S BOOKLET....................60 STONELEA FARM - STORK.....................68 SITTYTON GROVE............................69