Hon. David Alex.
Ross claims for his sire, that sturdy Volunteer of 1759, under Wolfe,
"John Ross," who made a little fortune; he resided at the house he
purchased in
1765 near Palace Gate within. He held a Commission as a Captain in the
British Militia in 1775, under Colonel Le Maître; we can recollect his
scarlet uniform which he wore in 1775, also worn in 1875, by his grandson,
our worthy friend, Hon. D. A. Ross, at the Ball of the Centenary of the
repulse of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, 81st December, 1775. He
had three sons, David was Solicitor-General at Montreal, John was a lawyer
also, and Prothonotary at Quebec, (the signer of the memorial of 1802),
the third died young; of three daughters, one was married to the Rev.
Doctor Sparks, already mentioned ; a second was
married to Mr. James Mitchell, Deputy A.C.G., and the third to an army
surgeon. John Ross, Sr., died at an advanced age. Charles Grey Stewart,
our Comptroller of Customs, died in 1854; he was the father of Messrs.
McLean, Charles, Alexander, Robert and John Stewart, of Mrs. William
Price, of Mrs. William Phillips, of the Misses Ann and Eleanor Stewart.
"Joanna George" the mother of an
aged contemporary, Miss Elizabeth George and of * Miss Agnes George, the
widow of the late Arch. Campbell, Esq., N.P., and grandmother of the
present President of the St. Andrew’s Society, W. Darling Campbell, died
about 1830.
"Maya Darling" was another daughter,
and wife of Capt. Darling. "John Burn," also one of the signers of the
Memorial, and who afterwards settled in Upper Canada, was a son of "Joanna
George" by another marriage; the eccentric and clever Quebec Merchant, Mr.
James George, was another son. He was the first who sug-
* Since the issue of this Lecture,
Mrs. Widow Arch. Campbell, closed her long career at Quebec; in November,
1880, a numerous concourse of friends escorted her remains to that
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