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Note: George Bolton, residing at Fordwich, county of Huron, was born in 1808. He married a daughter of the late Samuel Fuller. Esq., of Albion, in 1831, and in that year started the first store ever in the village of Bolton; he was also the first Postmaster there. He was an active politician and a sympathizer with the Mackenzie Party in opposition to the Family Compact, and acted as an organaizer and leader in the political campaigns of Mackenzie, but never took up arms against the government. He was afterwards prosecuted for yhr part he had taken, and after remaining in hiding from the officers in sesrch of him, and having had several hair- raising escapes, he finally succeeded in reachinf the State of New York the following year. He lived for some years near Rochester in that State, and returned to Canada about 1844, since which time he has taken very little part in politics, but has been occupied more particuularly with agriculturay pursuits. He was appointed Justice of the Peace for the County of Huron in 1863.
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