• Several members of the Wurtele family immigrated to the province of Quebec in the 1780s. Some chose to settle in Montreal but Josias, like his brother John, picked Quebec where his uncle Jonathan Eckart, who sold tobacco and sundries, was living. Eckart owned a house and retail business on Rue Buade which Josias inherited in 1795.3843

• To Josias Wurtele, my nephew in Quebec, the house which he now occupies in Buade Street.7170

• Louisa Sophia Campbell, called “Sophia,” 1800-1885, married in 1824 Jonathan Wurtele, Seigneur of Riviere David and an Officer in the Quebec Cavalry in the War of 1812. His father, Josias Wurtele, came to Canada in 1782 from Stumpelbach [sic], near Stuttgart, in Wurttemberg, Germany, where their ancestors are recorded back to 1559.4190

• Josias’s mother was Elisabeth Eckart. Josias had many children. He became very rich. He was the “seigneur” of St-David. His first son was named Jonathan. This Jonathan married Louisa Sophia Campbell. They had many children.5280

• In 1805 John Reinhart was a Grand Juror in Quebec along with Josias Wurtele, Jonathan Eckart. I’ve located their signatures on various jury files at Canadian National Archives. The name Wurtele also appears in many Reinhart papers; Josias’s son went on to become a famous Quebec judge.2659

• He retired from business in 1819, handing his store on Rue Buade over to this eldest son, Jonathan.3843

• [the one] who acquired so much Quebec land.4207

• In his will Josias Wurtele bequeathed all his possessions to his wife, the children born of his two marriages, and his grandchildren. The seigneuries of Deguire and Bourg-Marie-Est, the core of the estate, went to Jonathan with the proviso that he was under no circumstances to let them go to anyone outside the family. Wurtele’s three other sons received the lots in the townships, a total of 46,929 acres. His daughters, the grandchildren, and Mme Wurtele shared the money and the other landed properties.3843