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2 July, 1832 Spoke at M'Nabbs village, a new place thirty four miles from York. I had invitation to this place by some of the principal persons in it to preach a sermon on temperance. The inhabitants are chiefly English, Irish and Scottish, many of whom were very wicked with regards to drunkenness, unequalled perhaps by any other place of its size. We have formed a society of eight members 26 July, 1833 Spoke at McNabbs Baptised four children. Made arrangements for building a new chapel there. -from the Primitive Methodist Magazine, taken from the journal of William Summersides, a Primitive missionary in this area Travels in Upper Canada No. XXI ...Proceeding along the beautiful banks of the Credit, for about 8 miles farther (from Churchville) we pass five saw mills and arrive at Norville, a flourishing village containing between three and four hundred inhabitants. There is here a school house which is occasionally used as a church, a grist mill containing four run of stones, a saw mill, a distillery, and a brewery... -4 March 1837, The Montreal Gazette ACCIDENT - We regret to learn that Mr. Alexander McNab of Norval and another individual, whose name we have not learnt, were very seriously injured, by the falling of the bent of a barn, which they were assisting to raise lately in the vicinity of Norval. -25 August 1849, The Hamilton Spectator McNAB vs ADAMSON - The case concerned damages caused by water from the defendant's mill dam on the River Credit, overflowing on the plaintiff's land on concession 10, Esquesing. The foundation of the dam