Thanks for the idea, I'll try that!
It is really neat! He left his wife an annual sum of "forty pounds of lawfull money of Great Britain"
He was a wealthy man, a non-working "gentleman" (one step below knight) who was probably a land owner who made money off renting the land. His son must have been a little more adventurous because he became sloopmaster and eventually captain of some ships for the Hudson Bay Company which is huge in Canadian history
From there we had many surveyors who laid out Canada's first settlements, and even the 49th parallel!
It is such an interesting history, but really, I wouldn't mind living the high life in England instead of working my butt off here
Did they really have to give that up? I was pretty amazed when I discovered that!