From The Settlement of Prince Edward County by Nick and Helma Mika. Transcribed here by Linda Herman

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

CHARLES CUNNINGHAM

Father sold for passage from Dublin to New York. 

When Daniel Cunningham was a young lad of about twelve years of age, he was persuaded by a stranger to board a ship leaving for the New World from Dublin. The ship's captain counted him among the list of stowaways and upon arrival in New York, he offered him for sale in order to cover the cost of his passage.

Fortune smiled on the boy inasmuch as the man who bought him became his benefactor. At first Daniel was given chores to do, as was customary in those days. However, Daniel was of above-average intellect. He was raised with the family, whose only child was a daughter, and he was given an excellent education. Later his kind and generous foster father took him into his business as a partner. The business prospered, and Daniel married his foster parent's daughter. Sadly, she passed away when their first son, Charles, was born.

Eventually Daniel remarried, to Abigail Richmond, who was born in 1743 in Stonington, Connecticut. Daniel and Abigail moved to Canada in 1795 and came to live in Hallowell Township.

Daniel and Abigail had three daughters and one son, William, who married Fanny White. Sarah married Benjamin Leavens, Mary married Joseph Barker, and Martha married Amos Bull.