Samuel Judge Burton (1797-1844)
J.P., Collector of Customs at Frelighsburg, Quebec
He served as a Lieutenant in the 76th Regiment during the Peninsular War. In 1822, he sailed with his regiment from Bordeaux to Quebec City where later that year he was married to Eleonora Lemoine Woolsey, daughter of Lt.-Colonel John William Woolsey, President of the Quebec Bank. She died in 1828 at Saint-Helier, Jersey, where she was on her way to the south of France for the benefit of her health. They had two daughters. Burton remained in Canada at Frelighsburg, Quebec, where he was Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs, and during the Lower Canada Rebellion served as Major of the Frelighsburg Volunteers. He is remembered as an agriculturist and horticulturalist, and for introducing the art of macadamising roads to Quebec.
