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Bartholomew Homestead (ca.

1855 - 2013), Ringwood / Stouffville


NEW: Executors /Executrix Release Form (1897) for Philip Bartholomew, 1806-1897
Dr. Arnold Neufeldt-Fast, Stouffville

On August 23, 2014,
Loren Grove
(Stouffville) passed
on to me the
original copy of the
Executors/
Executrix Release
Form signed by the
children of Philip
Bartholomew upon
receiving their share
of the assets of their
fathers estate
(signed 1897).
Loren Groves
grandfather, Jacob
B. Grove, Ringwood
(Stouffville), was an
executor of the will.


Philip Bartholomew Homestead - Demolished 2013
In 2013, the brick heritage home below was approved for demolition by Whitchurch-Stouffville Town
Council.
The Heritage Advisory Committee advised that the historic home be designated and protected. See the
following items:
http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/1448153-stronach-farmhouse-demolition-to-stouffville-
council-today/
http://www.townofws.ca/en/town-hall/resources/Documents/Committees/Heritage_Minutes_06-
Feb-12.pdf (item 7.3)
I also advocated to Town Council and in the papers of its significant heritage value:
http://www.stouffvillefreepress.com/letters/what-value-does-an-old-building-have/



Shortly before demolition, over-grown
shrubs and trees around the house had
been removed, and the Bartholomew
House was visiblebriefly--in its
former glory.
Picture: Arnold Neufeldt-Fast

The articles above (based on the research of local historian Fred Robbins) on the 160 year old
Bartholomew homestead demolished last year have one very interesting historical error.
New: While Philips father Henry owned the property originally, he died while returning home from the
War of 1812 in 1815--probably the only settler in what is today Whitchurch-Stouffville that died in
connection with the war (see below; this information was not available for the War of 1812
commemoration event in 2012 in Stouffville).
Almost all Whitchurch-Stouffville area settlers during the War of 1812 were Mennonite, Quaker or
Brethren-in-Christ, all of whom were non-resistant conscientious objectors.
Philips grandfather was a German Hessian
soldier who fought for England against
American colonists in the American Revolution.
New: Philip (1806-1897), not his father Henry
(d. 1815), built the homestead on the Stouffville
Road property ca. 1855, and demolished with
Council approval 2013.
New: Philip became a Mennoniteand by
definition a pacifist
Source below: G.W. Bartholomew, Record of
the Bartholomew Family [1885], pp. 589,
592f).
-ANF

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