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43entrance it was discovered that a strange mistake hasbeen made and it is almost incredible that this hasnever been noticed and that it has been allowed to remainin "enduring brass" all these years, the date ofthe destruction of the monument being given as 1838,instead of 1840."A monument was originally erected on this spotby a grant from the Parliament of this Province, andsubsequently destroyed in the year 1838. The presentmonument was erected chiefly by the voluntary contributionsof the militia and Indian warriors of this Province,aided by a grant from the Legislature, the authorityfot» erecting the same being delegated to a committeeconsisting of the following gentlemen : Sir AllanNapier MacNab, Bart., Chairman ; Sir ,Iohn BeverleyRobinson, Bart., Sir James Buchan Macaulav, Knt.,the Honble. Mr. Justice McLean, the Hon. WilliamHamilton Merritt, M.P.P., Thomas Clark Street, Esq.,Col. the Hon. James Kerby, Lieut.-Col. Daniel ^lacdougall,David Thorburn, M.P.P., Lieut. Garrett, late49th Regt., Col. Robert Hamilton, Capt. H. ::Munro,Secretary, T. G. Ridout, Esq., Treasurer, William Thomas,architect, ,Iohn Worthington, builder."^t'^^^ ^r-r'j'^^^! liST.^DAVIDS.^f^r'iwIiS'^^-'--'^''"In the graveyard around the Methodist Church aremany old stones with no name, or the stones chippedso as to be undecipherable. The name which appearsmost frequently is that of Woodruff, but the oldestdate is Solomon Quick, who died in 1S23, but manywere buried here beTore that date, as St. Davids had amill in 1782, and the village was burnt by the Americansin 1814. Here is the grave of David Secord, ofwhom many stories of daring deeds are told in the RevolutionaryWar, and from whom the village receivedits name."In memory of Major David Secord, who died1844, aged 85, also Mary Page, his wife."David Secord was a magistrate in 1796, and amember of the Legislative Assembly, U C, in 1811.His claim for compensation for property burnt in thewar was nearly £5000, as he owned many buildings.