Receives
Further Information on Clan
Mr. Delbert McCall,
compiler of the recently issued McCall Genealogy, has been the
recipient of a remarkable document, that throws a new aspect upon
the activities of the pioneer John McCall, eldest son of
Donald McCall, the progenitor od the family in this part of
Ontario.
It was not known by the
Simcoe man before that John McCall had been a printer until he
received information of a nine-page booklet printer by the pioneer
at Detroit in 1796, the year of the arrival of the McCall party in
Upper Canada at Dedrick's Creek, near the sit [sic] of the
Port Rowan Cemetery in this county.
The occasion was the
printing of an act regulating trade with the indians and
intercourse with the different tribes, to preserve peace on the
Frontiers, bu the interest of those Detroiters who lived by the
trade with the Indians.
It told them were the
boundary between the Whites and Indians had been fixed, and
specified procedures in cases of infringement.
It began at the mouth of
the Cayuga River on Lake Erie and comprised 150 thousand acres in
the State of Ohio and adjoining states.
It was signed by Jonathan
Dayton, Speaker of the House, and Samuel Livermore, President of
the Senate Pro Tem, and approved on 9 May 1795 by George
Washington, President.
The printing press used by
John McCall had arrived at Detroit with the necessary instructions
for its use. Eleven years later John McCall evidently a visit to
Detroit, set up the press and printed several copies of the Act,
which is an outstanding piece of work, considering the date of its
execution.
Doubtless there are
numerous other bits of information concerning the McCall Clan in
existence even after many decades, and of course Mr. McCall will
be happy to receive anything which he can add it his files.
