Person:John Little (35)

FROM "HISTORY OF CHRIST'S CHURCH COLCHESTER"

    A zealous public spirited old man, this Mr. Pollard, who came walking along the shore road from Amherstburg in 1816, to hold Services in the settlement on Lake Erie.  He was then about 65 years of age, and as some one has recorded, "He was a bachelor, and tall , and he had a big nose".  He held service first in Captain Little's house, on what is now the Craig Subdivision near Oxley.  When I was a boy there was nothing left of the buildings but the log barn and the log stable, and a heap of bricks where the house had stood.  The house had stood near the road along the edge of the bank - the road which still existed 50 years ago as "Lovers' Lane" - a very beautiful grass grown tree shaded walk, a favorite place for Church Picnics.  Of Captain and Mrs. Little, nothing remains but their graves and head stones in the old Cemetery, my memory of my mother's kind feeling for Mrs. Little, and the record that in their house was held the first Anglican Service in Colchester
    1807  There is a record of two weddings performed by the Rev. Richard Pollard.  Sep 6th.  Mr. John Little of Colchester and Mary              Collier.  Sept 13th.  John Cornwall of Colchester and Lucinda Hubbell of Howard.
                                                             By Fred Bell, B.A., former member Christ Church, Colchester Written 1935

MARY AND JOHN'S MARRIAGE RECORD Groom's Name: John Little Bride's Name: Mary Collier Marriage Date: 06 Sep 1807 Marriage Place: Saint John'S Anglican,Windsor,Essex,Ontario Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M58408-1 System Origin: Ontario-ODM Source Film Number: 928968 Reference Number: Collection: Ontario Marriages, 1800-1910

Captain John in Christ Church Cemetery, Colchester, Ontario. The headstone, which is almost illegible, is south of the small chapel and is very close to the lake. The inscription reads:

In Memory of Captain John Little Born __ June 17____ Died 26 Jan 18____ ______ his Wife Mary Born 1 Oct 179__ Died 5th June 186__

1.   M58408-1, in Ontario Marriages Index
   928968, 1800-1910.