Person:Isaac Secor (4)

Isaac, being the eldest of the family was the main support of his mother on the long journey to Upper Canada in 1788. Isaac joined his parents in their move to Scarborough in or about 1811.

During Isaac's road contract, he acquired by purchase, lands in Lots 19 and 20 in Concession D in Scarborough, on which he and Mary spent their remaining years in peace. Soon after acquiring the properly, Isaac built a sawmill and a gristmill on the watercourse transgressing his lands, the main stream now known as the Highland Creek. The mills burned down in 1833, and were rebuilt by his son and successor Peter who continued the operation of the mills until his death in 1861. Some years later the mills were again destroyed by fire. The were not rebuilt. The writer (Secor Winslow Johnson) recalls playing on and around some of the foundation timbers in or about 1891 or 1892.

In 1815, Isaac and Mary's son Peter purchased Lots 17 and 18 in Concession D directly across the road allowance later to be known as the Markham Road. In or about 1816, on the death of his brothers, Isaac's wife Rachel, Peter set aside one half acre of his lands as a burial plot for the Secor families. Rachel is beleived to be the first to rest therein, soon to be followed by her mother-in-law. They are buried in the plot provided by their son Peter.