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Note: James Bolton, the founder of the family of this name in the township of Albion and village of Bolton, removed from the county of Suffolk, England, to Upper Canada (now called Ontario) in 1818. His occupation was that of builder and carpenter. He settled n the township of Albion in the year 1819. He erected the first gristing mill at Weston; the mills at Newmarket of W.B. Robinson, afterwards Chief Justice; Lloyd's Mills at Lloydtown; also Hughes saw mill in Tecumseh, besides a number of buildings in Toronto and neighbourhood. He took a very active part with voice and pen in the politics of the day, opposing the Family Compact which ruled at that time up to the outbreak in 1837 (of William Lyon Mackenzie's Rebellion), in which he refused to take any part, and, in company with James Lloyd, Esq., of King, removed to the United States in 1837, where he died the following year. He was a member of the Church of England.
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