P6140

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ID Number

P6140

Item Name

Image

Title

First House on 3rd Concession Road / Première maison sur la route de la 3e Concession

Title (Fre)

Première maison sur la route de la 3e Concession

Description

Black and white photograph of the first house built on the third concession road; the house is two storeys high with a small covered porch; there is one window and a doorway on the main storey at the front, and one window in the centre of the front of the second storey; there is one window on the side of the house on the main floor and there is a small lean-to attached to the back of the house; the front yard is covered in dense foliage, there is a path leading from the bottom right corner of the photo to the back of the house and there is a wire and post fence running in front of the house the length of the photograph; handwritten on the back of the photograph is: "1st house on 3rd Concession Road built by Jon Davis in order to prevent stealing of [illegible word]. 1st occupant Fritz. "Moy"."

History

Angus Mackintosh was born in Scotland in 1755. He moved to Detroit as a young man and married Mary Archange St. Martin in 1783. They had 14 children including ten girls. In 1797 Mackintosh purchased farmland from Joseph Beaubien for $1170. Located on Riverside Drive between Gladstone and Moy, Moy House took two years to build. Mary, the eighth Mackintosh child, was born here in 1801. Moy House served as the family's home, as well as a post for Mackintosh's fur trading enterprises. Angus' wife died in 1827 and was buried in Assumption Church Cemetery. That same year, Angus returned to Scotland to succeed his brother Alexander as the 25th Chief of the Mackintosh Clan. He died six years later in 1833 at the age of 78 at Moy Hall in Scotland. Moy House was sold to William Gaspe Hall in 1835. His family lived there until he died in 1882 when the property passed to his niece, Frances Baby. Frances married John Davis, a financier and five-time mayor of Windsor. When Davis died in 1912, the home was demolished to make room for a new subdivision in East Windsor.

Place made

Canada - Ontario - Windsor

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subjects

3rd Concession Rd. / 3e concession

Buildings / Immeubles

Davis, John

Houses / Maisons

Moy House / Maison Moy