Settler of township lots: Lot 27, Conc. 7, Stanhope

Link to the Barry family in the Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree website

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 101 acre lot at the west of Barry Line Road.

Land acquisition:

• 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Register - 101 acres assessed to James Blott
• 1886 Patent from The Crown by Free Grant. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 7 (Image 149)

Other land:

• Lot 28, Conc. 6, Stanhope: 1924 from The Crown; 1930 Sylvester & Elizabeth Barry. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 6 (Image 157)
• Lot 26, Conc. 7, Stanhope:
  - 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope  Register - 101 acres assessed to Owen Drake

Dates of residency:

• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: James Barry, owner, Lot 27, Conc. 7
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: James Barry, owner, Lot 27, Conc. 7
• 1893 Stanhope Directory: James Barry, Maple Lake
• 1899 Stanhope Directory
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: James & Eliza Barry with 8 children
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: James Barry, Maple Lake
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: James Barry, farmer, Lot 27, Conc. 7
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: James & Ella Barry, 6 children & Hiram D Sawyer, Ella's father
• 1911 Stanhope Post Office List
• 1918 Stanhope Post Office List: Jas Barry, Maple Lake
• 1939 Death:

Other residents: 1929 Stanhope Voters List: Hercules [Herkless] Barry (his son), Lots 26 & 27, Conc. 7

Interesting facts: 

Brothers George, James, Mathias, Frank and Christopher Barry came from Dunnville in Haldimand with the their 75 year old father, James Sr. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 157

The mail was brought to Maple Lake from Minden for over 20 years by Mr. James Barry. For 17 of those years he made the trip with a chestnut driver called Prince, who started the route as a two year old. Mr. Barry hauled the first sack of mail to the new post office which opened at West Guilford at the home of Nelson Barnum. Source: Ibid pg. 155

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner: Both lots

• 1942 Warden/Treasurer, Tax sale to nephew William Leslie Barry. See A 1978 Interview with Bill & Dell Barry
• 1967 Brown Camps Leasing Ltd for $1

Photo. James Barry and Eliza Sawyer from Deloris Sawyer Bailey