papers. UWO, 255 (John Scoble papers); Middlesex County, Court of Chancery files, no.103. [J. G. Birney], Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831–1857, ed. D. L
Ellice, Alexander Gillespie, and John Galt*, had been pressing for payment to some Canadian claimants since the summer of 1821. In the fall
Mackenzie*, which soon merged with Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy. After several changes the firm became known as Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company with
1817 Sarah Sharman, by whom he had four sons and three daughters, and in 1842 Catherine Gillespie, née
potash. The partnership continued to expand and by 1800 counted seven partners: Parker and John Gillespie in London; John Mure* in Quebec; Gerrard
representative, George Gillespie*, was Faribault’s agent at Michilimackinac. Faribault obtained a permit to trade in the American Northwest Territory
interest payments due on the provincial debentures held by Thomas Wilson and Company. Through Robert Gillespie*, a merchant familiar with Canadian
Alexander Gillespie Ramsay, former secretary of the Scottish Amicable Assurance Society of Glasgow.
David G. Burley
and timber products had begun to drop sharply. In May Robert Wood and Company assigned the barques to Gillespie, Finlay and Company, which agreed to advance £1,500 for their completion and to sell them
grain and prohibit the entry into the Canadas of American produce. When accused by one Alexander Gillespie of interfering in the electoral process, Sydenham retorted: “If he means that I
the fall of 1836 Street was empowered to act for Robert Gillespie* in financial and land matters, subject to an agent’s fee of 10 per
in Toronto.
James Newbigging received his early Canadian mercantile training as a clerk in the firm of Gillespie, Moffatt and Company in Montreal. In
was to be paid 19s. weekly for the first half of the term and 20s. weekly for the balance.
In the spring of 1816 Gillespie, Gerrard
contact with Liverpool bankers being provided by Robert. He, however, fell deeply into debt to Gillespie, Moffatt and Company of Montreal [see George
GILLESPIE, GEORGE, merchant; b. 1771 in Wiston, Scotland, son of Alexander Gillespie and Grizzel Paterson; m. 1818
in the upper Mississippi valley and at Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.). In 1794 he was in the area of present-day Wisconsin as a clerk for Ogilvy, Gillespie and Company, settling at Green Bay
. Élisabeth wed Benjamin Holmes* and Caroline Matilda, Robert Gillespie*; Aurelia
in garrison duty during the War of 1812. White worked with Chevallier and Phillips again in 1816 when he did the carpentry work on a store they were building for the firm of Gerrard, Yeoward, Gillespie