their troubled relations with them, without success. Amy is said to have been given to John Denison's wife or daughter. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, after Peter's death, Elizabeth relied on the family of Dr. William Warren Baldwin. She found the War of 1812 troubling, and she began to show signs of mental instability. By 1814, members of the Baldwin family moved in with her, to help care for her. She would leave her considerable estate to her cousins Maria Willcocks (spinster) and Phoebe Willcocks, wife of Dr. Baldwin. After Maria's death the entire estate ended up in Baldwin's control, and eventually in the hands of his heirs. In late 2018 Afua Cooper published excerpts from Russell's diary, in which she described Peggy and her children. References 1754 births 1822 deaths Canadian slave owners Upper Canada people Women slave owners