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Note: Charles Bolton, born in England in 1804, married Catherine, daughter of Wm. Parker, of Albion, in 1837, and settled on the east part of Lot 7, Con. 7, of Albion/ The same year he bought the farm now a part of Bolton, where he lived until 1831, was away one year, when he returned again. He never took a very active part in politics, and took no part in the troubles of 1837. In 1848, in consequence of losses by going security for a business man, he was induced to go into the mercantile business, through which he lost the whole of his property. The troubles and difficulties therefrom brought about illness, from which he died in 1863. He was a member of the Congregational Church, Bolton, and for many years one of the deacons of the church, was a School Commissioner under the old law, and several times a trustee of the School Sections, always taking an active part in the educational interests of the country.
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