of fatherly kindness, and religion, set himself to defeat their title.  By falsifying the facts, he managed to obtain a snap judgment against their guardian in favor of himself, but feeling his tenure insecure, sold the mansion and farm in Troy, and persuaded his wife to move to the property in Lacolle, just on the frontier line.  It was only after his death in 1849, that the widow and orphans discovered his fraud, and that he had obtained the placing of the entire property in his own name in order to possess it.  There followed a furious family quarrel between the Schuyler and Hoyle heirs, in which the old lady took the side of the former, and in fact sued her Hoyle sons to right the injury.  At her death in 1851, she refused to be buried beside Hoyle and stipulated in her will that she be taken back to Troy and interred with her first husband, and that the burial lot be surrounded with stone posts, each carrying the name “Schuyler”.  Henry Hoyle had previously possessed from 1816, the actual land on which the Manorhouse is built.  After their arrival in 1825, he employed the fortune of which he had thus obtained control, and regarding which he represented himself to his wife as only acting for her, in adding to this land and in many investments along a wide range of the border counties.  Her suit estimates the properties at L38,000.  The home property was made a prize stock farm—­one of the first if not the actual first of the kind in Canada.  Cattle-breeding on shares was made by him a large enterprise among the settlers, and every year his share of increase was collected and driven to Montreal for sale.  The farm-book is a parchment-covered ledger previously used by Sarah Visscher’s uncle, Leonard Van Buren in 1782 (who was also uncle of President Martin Van Buren).  Water-powers at various points were bought and developed with her money, and mills erected, including those at Lacolle, Huntingdon and Athelstan; and several thousands of acres were acquired at Huntingdon, Lacolle, Irish Ridge, and other localities.  He was almost at once appointed a magistrate, his brother Colonel Robert Hoyle of Lacolle, was the member of Parliament, later on her son-in-law Merrit Hotchkiss was member and another son-in-law was Registrar of Huntingdon.  At that period several of the wealthy men of Montreal were acquiring large tracts, apparently to form estates like the seigniories.  With some of these, Mr. Hoyle made common cause.  One was a prosperous merchant, Thomas Woolrych, who had very large holdings in what is now Huntingdon county, and their intimacy was so close that Woolrych presented him with his own oil portrait, in late eighteenth century costume, which is now in the Chateau de Ramezay.  Woolrych was closely related to the Christies and to their relatives, the Tunstall family, who ultimately followed them as Seigneurs proprietaires of Lacolle.  The Seigniory, granted in 1727 to Sieur Louis Denis de la Ronde, and anew in 1743 to Daniel