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

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

GEORGE BOULTER

Father of twenty-one children.

George Boulter's father, Nathaniel, was a tanner and currier in Hertfordshire, England. He sailed to Canada and married upon his arrival in Montreal, a lovely lady whom he met on his voyage. George was born and raised in Montreal.

In 1819, George decided to move to the west, which in that year meant the Bay of Quinte region. He crossed over to Big Island, which was owned by the Mississaugas, and paid them an annual rent of one barrel of flour for lot 13.

George married Sarah Peck, the daughter of a United Empire Loyalist. Reverend Robert McDowell, a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony. George and Sarah had ten children. When Sarah passed away, George married Letitia Wilson and became the father of eleven more children.

George was Captain of the Sedentary Militia in the Rebellion of 1837. He moved to Belleville in later years where he died at the age of 83. Nathaniel James, George's eldest son, was Justice of the Peace, member of the Sophiasburgh Council, and a member of the Orange Order. He was Master of L.O.L. 574 for a period of three years, County Master for eight years, as well as being Grand Treasurer for Central Ontario for three years.

George H. Boulter, M.D., was George's second son. He graduated from McGill University, and became a surgeon of the 49th Regiment of Hastings County for twenty-five years, rising to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. He was also Chairman of the High School Board of Stirling, was elected four times as M.P.P., and was a member of the first Ontario Legislature.

Wellington Boulter, the fourth son of George, was born in 1838. He built the first canning factory in Central Ontario in 1882, and for thirteen years was president of Canadian Packers Association. He was a member of the town council of Picton, chairman of the High School Board, and was twice elected Mayor. In 1887, Wellington Boulter shipped the first railway car of canned goods across the continent to Victoria, B.C. He received high awards for an exhibit in Toyko, won the Columbia Medal at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1903, a gold medal in Paris in 1900, and many other awards and medals.  in the old homestead on South Bay.