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	Danforth Avenue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Danforth Avenue is a east-west route in east Toronto.
		In Scarborough, Danforth Road is part of the original road that connects Danforth Avenue with McCowan Road.
		Danforth is also home to Toronto's Greek community, also known as Greektown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danforth_Avenue (286 words)

	History & Fame of Danforth & Broadview Ave's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Danforth Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada was named after Asa Danforth, an American Contractor who was commissioned in 1799 to cut the Danforth but didn't actually build it.
		The lands north of the Danforth and east of Donlands Ave, and Chester Village were later annexed to the City of Toronto in 1909.
		Danforth Ave - Asa Danforth an American contractor, who was hired by the government of Upper Canada in 1799 to construct a road from York east to the Bay of Quinte.
	www.lightingadvice.net /theDanforth/theDanforthMar05/history.htm (1378 words)

	Asa DANFORTH
		ASA DANFORTH, was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, July 6, 1846.
		He belonged to the regiment of Col. Danforth Keys, and was engaged in the battle of Lexington.
		The official papers of Capt. Danforth were preserved by him to the close of the war, and have since been placed among the archives of the Historical Society, at Worcester, Massachusetts, where they will remain.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nyononda/FAMILY/DANFORTH.HTM (936 words)

	Biography of Asa Earl, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana
		ASA EARL, retired farmer, Wayne Township, was born in Onondaga County, New York, August 28, 1804, a son of NEHEMIAH and REBECCA (DANFORTH) EARL.
		ASA EARL, whose name heads this sketch, was reared to agricultural pursuits, his father being a farmer by occupation.
		ASA EARL is one of the early pioneers of Tippecanoe County, coming here in September, 1832, from La Grange County, Indiana, whence he had come from Ohio, in the year 1831.
	www.rootsweb.com /~intippec/Bio_AsaEarl.html (472 words)

	Asa Danforth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asa Danforth ( 29 June 1768 – 1821 or later) was an American Revolutionary War veteran and leading citizen of Onondaga County, as well as a highway engineer.
		He completed the work in a year and the result was named The Dundas Road after a prominent British colonial official.
		However, Danforth left disgruntled with the payment and never returned to Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asa_Danforth (122 words)

	DCTI - School History - The 1930s
		Asa Danforth, who helped transform Toronto with the construction of a busy street.
		Danforth in the thirties was a school whose student population maintained a spirit of cheerfulness and adventure, despite the hardships experienced during this decade.
		They were encouraged to be charitable and sensitive to those who were impoverished by the harshness of the decade, but nevertheless performed several full-scale theatrical plays, hosted masquerades and corn-roasts, and continued to explore the changing fields of technology and new attitudes toward gender roles in such typically male-dominated fields as chemistry.
	schools.tdsb.on.ca /danforthcti/hist_1930s.html (246 words)

	Toronto Neighbourhoods
		Danforth Village, north of the Danforth, was land originally held by the Church of England.
		The land south of the Danforth was not held by the Church.
		Danforth Avenue, this neighbourhood's main thoroughfare, is named after Asa Danforth, an American contractor who built Kingston road in 1799 but ironically he had nothing to do with the building of Danforth Avenue.
	www.torontoneighbourhoods.net /regions/toronto_east/06.html (226 words)

	Canada Free Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Danforth Road was an ambitious project that was to be completed within a year.
		Running behind schedule, Danforth pleaded for an extension, but the government had quickly lost interest in the project, and as a result he gave up in disgust and went back to the United States.
		Danforth Road has gone from an over-hyped highway to a forgotten country road and then to one of the busiest stretches of Toronto.
	www.torontofreepress.com /2002/8vol1.htm (605 words)

	City of Toronto: Parks and Recreation - Colonel Danforth Park Additional Information
		Colonel Danforth Park recognizes the contribution of an American, Asa Danforth, to the expansion of the Toronto road network beyond Scarborough Township.
		He was hired by the government of Upper Canada in 1799 to cut a 33-foot wide highway from the east end of King Street to the mouth of the Trent River, near Trenton, at a negotiated price of $90 per mile.
		As a result, Danforth had difficulty collecting his money and land grants promised to his labourers were deferred, so he returned to America a very disappointed and bitter man.
	www.city.toronto.on.ca /parks/parks_gardens/coldanforth2.htm (291 words)

	toronto.com: Virtual Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Danforth, also known as Toronto's Greektown, refers to the area along Danforth Avenue between Broadview and Pape.
		The area is known for its distinctive architecture, some of which dates to 1910, and for its prominent Greek restaurants and stores, the mark of the area's early residents.
		For three days each August, the area streets are transformed by the Taste of Danforth celebration, which brings about 200,000 people to the area to enjoy food, amusements and music.
	www.toronto.com /feature/244/25.html (143 words)

	Descendants - pafg113.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Asa SHAW was born on 4 Mar 1764 in Norton, Bristol, MA, United States.
		Anna DANFORTH was born on 19 Mar 1770 in Norton, Bristol, MA, United States.
		Asa DANFORTH was born on 6 Apr 1779 in Norton, Bristol, MA, United States.
	www.alden.org /aldengen/pafg113.htm (1648 words)

	School Name - About Our School
		In 1799, under instructions from Gov. Simcoe, Asa Danforth opened a road from York (Toronto) to Kingston.
		century, Danforth's Road became the trail used by the military as Kingston Road was too close to Lake Ontario and more accessible to the threat of American ships.
		In 1954, to facilitate police and fire department needs, the section from Bellamy to Scarborough Golf Club Road, Danforth's Road was renamed Painted Post Road and the third section, crossing the Highland Creek east of Orton Park and running along the ridge towards Kingston Road, was renamed Military Trail.
	schools.tdsb.on.ca /militarytrail (598 words)

	Genealogy of John Marsh of Boston, MA - pafg18.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Charles Marsh ( Nathaniel, Danforth, Abner, Asa, Joseph, Joseph, John) was born on 22 Jun 1871.
		George Danforth Marsh ( Cyrus Carter, Danforth, Abner, Asa, Joseph, Joseph, John) was born on 24 Oct 1857.
		Rush Duane Marsh ( Cyrus Carter, Danforth, Abner, Asa, Joseph, Joseph, John) was born on 16 Mar 1859 in Bloomfield, PA. He died in 1924.
	www.geocities.com /jr1939marsh/genealogical/family/Marsh/pafg18.htm (402 words)

	Where We Live
		In 1798 Governor Simcoe awarded a contract to Asa Danforth to build a road connecting York (now Toronto) with Kingston.
		The Danforth was built a few miles north of Lake Ontario to avoid the swampy river deltas.
		This left disconnected pieces of the Danforth scattered about in Toronto, Cobourg, Grafton, etc. Our Cobourg piece was further fragmented when Highway 401 sliced diagonally through it a few decades ago.
	www.eagle.ca /~roda/RodMerArts/SwallowHill/Live.html (632 words)

	Early history of Cobourg
		Asa Danforth brought 7 families to the area.
		The Danforth road was the local highway and witnessed the marching of British soldiers and the local militia off to the War of 1812.
		The Barracks is the sole survivor of this time of turmoil, though the area quickly expanded after the war ended.
	www.eagle.ca /westhistory/early_history_of_cobourg.htm (855 words)

	Shades of Oakwood - Early History of Syracuse
		Many legends surround his adventurous life, but it was known for certain that he served in two wars, assisted in surveying land in New York State, was an interpreter in native negotiations, and was a friend to natives and whites alike.
		Danforth built a sawmill and gristmill and Tyler laid the first roads and built bridges, and in the future would support the building of churches and schools.
		Judge Seth Philips, General Asa Danforth, and Moses DeWitt petitioned for the formation of a smaller county for a greater sense of homerule and the convenient location of a county seat.
	www.shadesofoakwood.com /pages/syrhist.html (5380 words)

	Onondaga County History
		But two years later a treaty was made at the same place whereby the Onondagas ceded to the State of New York all their lands except certain reservations.
		Cayuga County was taken off five years later, Cortland in 1808, and Oswego in 1816, leaving it as it now exists, an almost square body of land thirty by thirty-four miles, or in terms of square miles, 781.
		The first court was held in Asa Danforth's house in Onondaga town.
	www.hopefarm.com /onondany.htm (917 words)

	Historical Documents
		Webster told the Danforth family all about the beautiful country of the Onondagas.
		Danforth immediately became good friends, and Webster urged Danforth to move there if the Onondagas gave their permission.
		Webster obtained permission from the Onondagas, and Danforth traveled there with his family and a friend named Comfort Tyler.
	lsb.syr.edu /projects/documents/view.php?docu_id=56 (129 words)

	Early History of the Glenora Ferry
		In 1799, the American engineer Asa Danforth was contracted to blaze a "smooth and even" [4] roadway, forty-feet wide along the front of Lake Ontario.
		It was later called the Danforth (or Danford) Road and as part of the Province wide Dundas Road it became the first, if tortuous, path connecting important settlements in Upper Canada.
		If there was any significance in the Danforth Road running from Kingston via the ferry to Picton and beyond, it was reduced after the War of 1812 by the development of a road from Kingston to Napanee and along the north shore of the Bay of Quinte.
	www.aandc.org /research/glenora_early.html (6443 words)

	h3c (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first road cut was made by Asa Danforth in the year 1799.
		Street, near the mouth of the Don River and proceeded eastwards through the pine and oak forest east of the river.
		Danforth's road cut skirted Ashbridges Bay and then turned north, along modern Kingston Road and Military Trail, to by-pass the Highland Creek drainage.
	www.scar.utoronto.ca /~latta/Ashbridges/h3c.htm (67 words)

	The Liverpool Library: A brief history of the origins, growth and maturity of a village library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New York State then bought the approximate area of the present Onondaga County as a military tract, from which land grants were made to soldiers.
		The first settler on one of these land grants in Onondaga County was Asa Danforth; and some years later, in 1788, his brother John settled in what is now Liver-pool.
		As more families came to the area, it was in John Danforth’s house that the first court was held, and the first meeting of the county supervisors.
	www.lpl.org /AboutLPL/LibHistory/GabbayHistory.html (4690 words)

	1999 Annual Meeting Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ASA Annual Meeting brings together more than 5,000 scholars, practitioners, and students who are committed to examining the many important substantive issues that face our social world today.
		Located near the ASA Exhibits at the Hilton Chicago, the bookstore will be staffed by ASA Executive Office personnel and open throughout the five days of the Annual Meeting.
		Also, in 1998 ASA established the Student Forum, and all those who hold Student membership in the Association are members of this new Forum.
	www.asanet.org /meetings/99AM/99highlights.htm (1170 words)

	Asian Students Association @ Carnegie Mellon University
		I would like to take this chance to thank everyone on behalf of the whole ASA board for participating and making this semester eventful and enjoyable.
		Thank you so much to everyone who helped us out in our endeavor and congrats to the booth chairs Eric and Steph and the whole ASA board for the victory.
		Everyone who is even remotely connected to ASA should free up their time and come help us out.
	www.cmuasa.com (360 words)

	Toast and Tea: Toronto -- the Bush Forest
		I couldn't believe it when I read her description of looking out her window from the summer house they eventually built (called Castle Frank) to see the native's spearing salmon by firelight in the DON RIVER.
		Anyway, Toronto (or York as it was known at this time) was fairly isolated from other communities (Kingston, Niagara) and one of the notable accomplishments of the then administrator Peter Russell was the contracting with Asa Danforth on a road that would lead was far as the Bay of Quinte.
		Check out this link for an artist's depiction of "the Danforth Road" as it may have looked during the early part of the 1800s.
	toastytea.blogspot.com /2005/01/toronto-bush-forest.html (275 words)

	Science Tribune
		The salt deposits have long since been depleted and much of the Reservation is now a public park.
		The first two men to commercially exploit the salt springs were Asa Danforth and Comfort Tyler, Revolutionary War veterans who settled on land given to them in lieu of salary by the newly formed government of the United States.
		Danforth records that in his first attempt at making salt he used a 15 gallon (57 liter) kettle and in 9 hours he had boiled down about 30 pounds (66 kg) of salt (3).
	www.tribunes.com /tribune/sel/bell.htm (2281 words)

	Historical Documents
		Asa Danforth thought emigration would increase and settlers would come in more rapidly to Onondaga County if a mill was built.
		So in 1792, he built a saw mill for wood and in 1793, a grist mill to make flour.
		Before, the grist mill was built, the settlers would travel for a week in order to get to the nearest place to make flour.
	lsb.syr.edu /projects/documents/view.php?docu_id=59 (142 words)

	Revolutionary War Records of Cooleys
		Return of men enlisted or drafted into Continental Army from Capt. Asa How's and Capt. Wing Spooner's companies, 7th Worcester Co. Regt., dated Petersham Dec. 30, 1777; res.
		Asa Danforth's Co. of Volunteers which marched from Brookfield Sept. 23, 1777, to join army under Gen. Gates; service 22 days.
		In Capt. Robert Oliver's Co., Col. Doolittle's Regt.; receipt for advance pay dated Charlestown June 27, 1775; also return of enlisted or drafted men into Cont.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ma/state/revwar/cooley.html (5554 words)

	Estate of McLellan (1936) 8 C2d 49
		At the conclusion of the probate proceeding, the executors presented their account and report with a petition for allowance and distribution.
		Edward [Edgar] W. McLellan, Frank L. McLellan and Asa D. McLellan, as Trustees $7,000.00." This decree also approved the payment of $105 for the inheritance tax on the bequest.
		The first account of the trustees under the trust was filed in 1935.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C2/8C2d49.htm (1658 words)

	Faculty Biographies (A-L)
		Exhibitions: ASA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; University of Baghdad, Iraq; Genesis Art Gallery, Chicago; Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, NM.
		BFA, 1991, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, 2000, University of California, Davis.
		BFA, 1994, Ohio University; Post-Baccalaureate, 1995, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, 1997, University of Illinois at Chicago.
	www.artic.edu /saic/programs/faculty/facbios.html (7281 words)

	Philip Allen, Revolutionary War Patriot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Subsequently, he served in Captain Hamilton's Company of Colonel Samuel Brewster's Regiment from August 3, 1776 to September 30, 1776 and also in Captain Daniel Gilberts Company of Colonel Job Cushing's Regiment from July 3, 1777 to September 2, 1777.
		Allen rejoined Colonel Converse's command and served 22 days in Captain Asa Danforth's Company.
		Philip Allen participated in the battles of Half Moon and Bennington and was present at the surrender of General John Burgoyne and his forces at Saratoga, New York.
	www.wissar.org /graves/allen.htm (385 words)

	CCD1878 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Certain it is that the contour and design of the works refer their origin to a superior intelligence.
		For Assemblymen, Silas Halsey, 66; Salmon Buel, 46; Thomas Hewitt, 55; Joseph Grover, 7; John Beardsley, 11; Jacob Snell, George Tiffany, Matthias B. Tallmadge, Asa Danforth, David Ostrom, and Amos Rathbun, each 2.
		The population of the town in 1875 was 1,130; of whom 1,090 were native; 40, foreign; and all, white.
	www.co.cayuga.ny.us /locke/ourtown/history/pages/Directory/CCD1878.htm (3879 words)

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