(21 Dec. 1753-24 Sept. 1849), and his son James Grant Chewett (9 Nov. 1793-7 Dec. 1862), both surveyors and both public office holders. In 1785 the elder Chewett was involved with McNiff in surveying in Charlottenburgh Township, and a year or two later he may have laid out the road (as he reported he had been ordered to do) through the southern part of GC, from St. Andrew’s to Coteau. In 1786, he was sent to the Lake St. Francis district, to take charge there of the surveys along the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. William Chewett was married to Isabella Macdonell, the daughter of Archibald Macdonell of Leek. Their son James Grant Chewett was born at New Johnstown, now Cornwall, Ont., and attended the influential school at Cornwall of the future Bishop Strachan, where he must be assumed to have made various GC-area family contacts. In addition to the above, and the loose connection with GC through the Cornwall residence, which did not take up much time in the life of either father or son, they relate to GC through map-making, including the younger Chewett’s map of Ontario east of the Rideau Canal.

Lives in Dictionary of Canadian Biography VII, 174-176, IX, 128-129, by Richard J. Simpson, Robert J. Burns, resp.* OLS No. 36 (1921) * Ladell 76 & index * maps: DCB, Harkness 61, 75, MacGillivray & Ross 674; Ladell 91