I went to Queen's University Archives today to check on that 1833 deed from the Proprietors of Wolfe Island to John Kyte. I had been puzzled because John Kyte had died in 1830.

The deed was actually to "John Kyte of the Town of York in the Province of Upper Canada, eldest son and Heir at Law of Mary Kyte, deceased." So this is John Aldham Kyte, or John Kyte Jr., who was by then orphaned and only about 8 or 9 years old.

The 76-acre property is described as "all that certain tract or parcel of Land situate, lying and being in the Township of Wolfe Island, in the County of Frontenac and Province of Upper Canada, known as part of Ferguson's Point, and which is butted and bounded as follows: commencing at a stake and stones on the bank of the St. Lawrence at a distance of Ten chains, Southerly, from a poplar tree blazed standing at the Westerly angle of the land of Richard Hutson Smithers, and in the line of division between the tract hereby conveyed and the Land of Mary E. Wilkinson, then across the Point on the said division line on a course about South Thirty three degrees East, fifty-one chains, more or less, to the edge of the creek called Ferguson's Creek; Then Southerly, Westerly and Northerly along the said Creek by the water's edge and around the Point to the place of beginning, containing by admeasurement Seventy six acres, be the same more or less; And all the ways, waters, water courses, woods, houses, buildings, erections, profits, privileges, commodities, advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises belonging or in any ways appurtaining, and the reversion and the reversions, remainder and remainders yearly and other rents, issues and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, posession, property, claim and demand whatsoever, both in Law and in Equity, of then the said parties of the first part of, in, to, or out of the same, every or any part or parcel thereof."

Brian