(fl. 1890s), shoemaker. James or John McGrieson, a shoemaker of African descent living in Martintown, was shot in the leg on Hallowe’en Night, 1899, probably by local roughs who had recently been terrorizing him. Mr and Mrs John Smith of Martintown are said to have shown him great kindness on this occasion, on which Mr Smith showed great bravery. Thus from newspaper report. The event appears also in Rhodes Grant’s history of Martintown in the words, “There is a story, never proved, that a mulatto living in a small house and shop just off the corner from Dundas St. was accidentally shot by some boys in the course of a Hallowe’en prank and died from the wound.” Further research so far has turned up no additional information.

Martintown column, Cornwall Freeholder 10 Nov. 1899, and 20 Years Ago column, CF 13 Nov. 1919 * Rhodes Grant, i, 143 * role of violence in GC about this time: MacGillivray & Ross 124-125, 136-137, and entries this dictionary for John James Craig, McIntosh Gang