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SAMUEL JOHNSON HITCHCOCK(#210) Samuel Hitchcock --From Wolfe Island, Past and Present, R. M. Spankie, Kingston, Ont. There was a ferry at this time between the island and Kingston, managed by Mr. Samuel Hitchcock. The boats were of rude construction, made of pine, put together with wooden spikes and run by the wind or the oar. Indeed a log canoe was the ferry boat for many a passenger. The fare, which was regulated by the Court of Quarter Sessions, the only form of local government then in vogue, was at first, in 1802, fixed at the rate of five shillings for a single person, two or more persons three shillings each; and it is interesting to note that Mr. Hitchcock had "to be equally attentive at all reasonable hours to the call of a single person as to that of a great number, and also be ready at a short notice and ferry such person or persons, cattle, or carriages or wares." The next year, 1803, the fare was lowered to "four shillings for a single person, two or more half a dollar each, while six shillings were charged for a man and horse, and other things in proportion." In 1808 Mr. Hitchcock leased the ferry for three years to Mr. Bennett, who had settled on the Island in 1807.