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Silas Tool, who still resides on the Fifth Concession farm at time of writing, has spent a great deal of time making blueprints of his family documents and also writing a history of his family. He informed me that John Tool, and his wife Catherine Wurts, moved from the vicinity of east Yonge Street in l8l6. They cleared Lot 19, Concession 1 and built their house and barn close to where the small Disciple Church Cemetery still remains. John was a man of Character and when his ten year old son informed him that there was a bear in the woods on their property just north of the Kingston Road (the present Post Manor Farm), he told his little son to get himself a lunch and to track the bear and kill him. The boy did just that and finally ran down the bruin around Greenwood, after several days and nights of tracking. Surely this outshines even Davy Crockett. It is a long trek from Brock Road at Kingston Road to Greenwood. John Tool's children were as follows: Mary, John, Rachel, Jemima, Elizabeth, Katherine, Jane, William, Aaron, Ann, Emeline, Clarissa, and Jacob. The property passed to the hands of John's son-in-laws, the Lengs, and during the late l830's, the Disciples built a crude wooden church on the corner of the Brock Road and the Kingston Road. The south portion of the farm was sold to Swallows, and the old house is now owned and occupied by E. Sleep. (Note: The south 50 acres adjacent to the C.N.R. tracks has since been sold to American Tire Co. for $1500 per acre.) The original log farmhouse on the north east corner of the Lot was replaced by the beautiful red brick farm house and large barn and outhouses of the Lengs, and later, Walter Sleep. Mrs. Sleep, an elderly widow, sold this property to unknown speculators during the 1950's after an unfortunat Court Case, which she lost, and it has bounced back and forth into strange hands. The buildings were finally burned just this winter, (1958). The land has returned to weeds and red willow, and has a chronic "For Sale" sign on its fence posts. Local residents can still remember it as a well-cultivated, beautiful property . John Tool, farmer, pathmaster and hunter, who came to Lot 19, Con. 1 in l8l6, and who finally secured clear Title from David W. Smith in 1831. Born 1792, died l879. Receipt, dated l8l7, & Receipt, dated 1828. John Tool was a friend of the rebels but there is some controversy as to whether he actually marched with the Pickering boys in 1837. The photostats explain his activities during December, 1837, and his duties in 1838. All photostats were lent by Silas Tool, former pupil of Pickering College, rider to hounds, orchardist, builder and now an elderly man, retired with his son on his old home, Concession 5. Please turn to illustrations on next page.