I recently became very confused reading the description of the original Amherst Township boundary lines. According to the description, the western boundary was the Nappan River and the edge of a property owned by Adam Gmelin. However, I knew that DesBarres had owned that property. It turns out that DesBarres sued Gmelin for 200 pounds and acquired the land in a court-ordered sale. Whew and thanks to Peter Landry who posted this information as a timeline item in his online biography of DesBarres! Because it was 8,000 acres I'd originally assumed it was a grant to DesBarres and couldn't figure out how it was also granted to Gmelin. In the search I realized that this edge of property owned by Gmelin and running straight southeast 6 miles and 70 chains must be the Gmelin line that Myrtle Chappell talks about in Fenwick 1778 to 1978. This line runs north-south through Fenwick right past the Community Centre. So DesBarres' land extended from the Maccan River to Fenwick. This explains how both my 3rd great grandfather William Ripley in Maccan and my 2nd great grandfather Andrew C. Ripley in Fenwick could have acquired their property from DesBarres. See the Fletcher Lease Page on this website for more details.
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AuthorHi there! My name is Mallory Burton and I started researching the Ripley family in 2011. I'd describe myself as a careful amateur who's more interested in story than names and dates. I hope you enjoy my website and blog. I also have a public Mallory/Ripley tree on Ancestry with over 4,000 names. To contact me, please comment on any one of my blog posts. Archives
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