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Note: James C. Bolton was born in 1818, and married hiS cousin Ellen Godbolt, daughter of George Godbolt ( who purchased the old homestead farm in 1837), in the year 1838. He settled on Lot 15, in the 9th oncession of Albion, in 1839, and followed farming. About 1842 he purchased the Bolton Gristing Mills from George Bolton, and erected the present flouring lill and improved the grist mill the following year, and erected the present flouring mills in 1846, and continued the business of flouring and gristing, as well as a general store, until 1854, when he sold out the whole property and removed to the Towmship of Wallace, in the County of Perth, where he purchased several hundred acres of land and worked a farm until 1864, when he exchanged his farm with Anne Doan, of the Township of King, where he now resides. He never took any active part in politics, nor had any connection with the rebellion of 1837; was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the County of York in 1848, and for the County of Perth in 1855; was the first and for several years Reeve of the Township of Wallace. and has frequently served as School Trustee
(the forergoing is copied from "Historic Atlas of Peel County", 1877}
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