References

  1. Upper Canada Land Petition H14/21, dated 7 November 1826, National Archives of Canada, Record Group 1, Microfilm C-2050.
  2. Memorial Will of John Hetherington the Elder of Scarborough, dated 11 February 1851, Scarborough Township Deeds Book vol. A, 1847-1851, Genealogical Society of Utah microfilm 5959
  3. Letter written by Mrs. Margaret Hetherington Hoffman, granddaughter of John Hetherington the Elder, dated December 7, 1930.
  4. Upper Canada Land Petition H13/126, dated 27 August 1823, National Archives of Canada, Record Group 1, Microfilm C-2049
  5. Sir Henry McAnally, _The Irish Militia 1793-1816: A Social and Military Study_, 1949, Dublin and London., 337 pp.
  6. Public Records Office of Great Britain, War Office, Militia and Volunteers Muster Books and Pay Lists, WO 13
  7. Scarborough Township Abstract Index, Genealogical Society of Utah Microfilm 5957
  8. Correspondence with Ms. C. Heatherington of Toronto (no relation), who was told this by Richard Schofield, archivist from the Scarborough Historical Society, Ontario. No further documentation is available at this time.
  9. Records of Grace Anglican Church Cemetery, Markham, Ontario. Archives of Ontario Microfilm Series 451 reel 135
  10. Recollections of Margaret Hetherington Hoffman, granddaughter of John Hetherington, as related to her granddaughter, and communicated to the author by her great-great grandson.
  11. Discharge papers for John Hetherington, dated May 10, 1810. Public Records Office of Great Britain, War Office, WO 119/12, Certificates of Service of Men Domiciled or Discharged in Ireland. Discharge number 3474.
  12. Quartermaster John Core, _Historical Record of the 2nd (now 80th), or Royal Tyrone Fusilier Regiment of Militia, from the Embodiment in 1793 to the Present Time, 1872, Omagh, Alexander Scarlett, 102 pp.
  13. 1861 census, Scarborough Township, York County, Ontario, Canada
  14. St. James (Anglican) Cathedral Marriages 1807-1908 (As transcribed and published by Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986.)
  15. 1871 census, Scarborough Township, York County, Ontario, Canada
  16. Records of St. Margaret in the Pines Anglican Church, Scarborough, Ontario. Archives of Ontario Microfilm Series 451 reel 136
  17. John Spilsbury, _Highland Creek Story_.
  18. Notes of Minnie Helliwell, provided by Ms. C. Heatherington of Toronto.
  19. Personal communication with the Port Union Village Homeowners Association.

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