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Many thanks for the information. Reply click didn't work so I will post here. Moses Polley s/o Moses Polley and MJ Watson Polley was born to the couple that ran the Government House Inn at Port Credit, Ontario in the 1830's. MJ was Mary Jane Watson m1 Polley m2 Lynd (her gallery portrait can be googled). According to the Perkins Bull Papers at the Archives of Ontario, their son was born 1835. I have had some question that this Moses Polley could be the same person as Moses Polley Cavan, supposedly the child of Moses Polley's sister Maria Polley who m William Caven or Cavan, also in Port Credit. Mary Jane ran the inn alone (tavern license was in her name) after Moses drowned in the river in 1839, then she remarried in 1841 to Robert Lynd, who took over Government House. It might have been natural to have her only child being taken care of in the home of a relation who had a big family. There's little information about MJ Watson having a child, but Moses Polley Cavan then turns up as a member of the William Cavan household. However, all of the other Cavan children have firm birth dates and baptism records and became pillars of the community but Moses Polley Cavan remains peripheral---uncertain birth date, no information, then he just disappears and nobody seems to know anything about him. Perkins Bull just says MPC "went to the States", appearing on the 1880 census of Pike CO IL married to Belle Johnson with several children---but no official record of the marriage has surfaced. A family record says he died in IL in 1887---but no official record has been found. I have wondered whether Moses Polley Cavan was in fact Moses Polley being raised by his aunt. Then there is some vague scandal around his memory; an elderly aunt told me that he "was never mentioned even at family gatherings". So the thought did occur to me that he might have been a bigamist, married to both Elizabeth Price in Iowa and Belle Johnson in Illinois. Sounds pretty problematic, though, with all this new information. Thanks for posting and for the documentation.
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