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

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

ELIAKIM CORY

Descendant of Sir Francis Drake. 

Eliakim Cory's grandmother was a great-niece of Sir Francis Drake. Eliakim himself was born in New Jersey but later moved to Saratoga, New York. His farming enterprise must have been successful, for he sold it for the then magnificent sum of three thousand dollars, in preparation for coming to Canada.

Eliakim decided to visit Prince Edward County before moving his entire family, so he came with one son to look over the area. It must have pleased him, for he bought two hundred and fifty acres at Pleasant Bay in Hillier Township in 1817, then returned to New York to collect his family.

His two eldest daughters, Rachel and Polly, were already married, so did not accompany the rest of the family northward. They came by sleigh via Kingston in the depth of winter, travelling along the shoreline of Lake Ontario as fare as the Bay of Quinte where they crossed the ice to Prince Edward County.

One of Eliakim's daughers, Eliza C. married Freemason S. Clench, and her second daughter also named Eliza married the Honourable John Douglas Armour, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench. Rebecca Cory married Pitkin Gross, M.D., and two of her sons also became physicians. Nancy, daughter of Dr. Benjamin S. Cory, married F.E. Kilvert, a Member of Parliament.

Catherine Cory married lawyer J.R. Thomson, who was her second husband. Amanda Cory married Sidney Baker, and later on married Thomas C. Newburn.