John Askin

John Askin

John Askin (1739 – 1815) was a fur trader, merchant and official in Upper Canada.

He was born in Aughnacloy in Ireland in 1739; his ancestors are believed to have originally lived in Scotland with the surname Erskine. He came to North America with the British Army in 1758. After the British took over New France, he entered the fur trade and operated a trading post at Fort Michilimackinac. In 1781, he formed a partnership with Robert Hamilton and Richard Cartwright; Askin was based in Detroit. From 1786 to 1789, he was part of a group of trading companies known as the Miamis Company. He was also involved in a shipping business and land speculation; he was one of the partners involved in the Cuyahoga Purchase along the south shore of Lake Erie. In 1789, he was named justice of the peace at Detroit. When Detroit was turned over to the Americans in 1796, he became a justice of the peace for the Western District and moved to Sandwich (Windsor) in 1802. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel for the local milita.

In 1795, Askin was part of a partnership with Ebenezer Allen and Charles Whitney of Vermont, Robert Randall of Philadelphia and several other British subjects in Detroit including William Robertson, which planned to buy the entire lower Michigan peninsula from the United States government. [cite book | title = Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan together with Reports of County Pioneer Societies, Vol VIII. | url = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbumbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lhbum+5298a)): | accessdate = 2006-10-15 | origyear=1886 | year = 1907 | edition=second edition | publisher = Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford | location = Lansing, Mich. | pages = pp. 406-411 | chapter = Account of a Plot for Obtaining the Lower Peninsula of Michigan from the United States in 1795 by J. V. Campbell | chapterurl = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbum:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbum5298adiv184))]

Concession 2 lot 14, Barton Township; where present day Hamilton, Ontario is, was part of the original Crown Grant to John Askin on July 10, 1801. He sold to Nathaniel Hughson senior who sold to James Durand around 1806.cite web| title =Gore Park, Barton Township| url=http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/LibraryServices/Localhistory/Gore+Park.htm| accessdate = 2007-01-08]

He died at Sandwich in 1815.

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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2242 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]


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