Kingston records (regionally related)

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off his beauteous prize, and she became the wife of Lieutenant Dixie to the chagrin of his family the vexation of his mother and the mortification of all the young men in the Principality

At the death of the old Baronet. Dixie left the service and came out to this country as a settler entered into negociation for the purpose of Stamford Park the beautifully situated residence of Sir Peregrine Maitland in the midst of the forest of Niagara consisting of a small but elegant villa with gardens and grounds laid out in much taste commanding a distant view of Lake Ontario which lies far off glistening in a radiance like the reflection of a silvery mirror and this is seen over the Niagara forest the tops of the trees representing at once a sea nine miles in extent the waves of which resemble the rich and varied colours of a golden sea

Poor Dixie gave his bill for the amount of the purchase money, two thousand pounds on the Carmarthen Bank; by the time the bill was presented that Bank had stopp'd payment A second settler hearing that the purchase had not been made good, upset farther negotiation by an offer of five hundred pounds more, thus he closed the bargain and got possession before Dixie could look round

The trouble and disappointment occasioned by a protracted litigation together