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Table of Contents The following Table of Contents was prepared by Global Heritage Press for inclusion in the 2010 reprint of Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada. Contents include: CHAPTER 1 - PAGE 5: GLENGARRY IN SCOTLAND. RESULT OF THE DISARMING, PROSCRIBING AND OTHER ACTS INTRODUCED INTO THE SCOTTISH LAW. FORMATION OF HIGHLAND REGIMENTS AND EMIGRATION. -A LARGE NUMBER LEAVE GLENGARRY IN SCOTLAND IN 1773 AT THE INSTIGATION OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON AND SETTLE IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY, IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM IN 1774 - HIS SERVICES, INFLUENCE AND CHARACTER. CHAPTER 2 - PAGE 12: BREAKING OUT OF THE REVOLUT- IONARY WAR.-THE" COMMITTEE OF "SAFETY" AT ALBANY WARNED AGAINST SIR JOHN JOHNSON, AND NOTIF1ED THAT THE SCOTCHMEN WERE ARMING.- THE WHIGS" DAILY SCANDALIZED, PROVOKED AND "THREATENED" BY THE LOVAL CATHOLIC HIGHLANDERS. - CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SIR JOHN AND GOVERNOR TRYON, AND THE LATTER AND LORD GEORGE GERMAINE. - GENERAL SCHUYLER, OF THE REVOLUTIONARV ARMY, INVADES TRYON COUNTY. - NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN HIM AND SIR JOHN AND MR. MACDONELL (COLLACHIE).-SIR JOHN AND THE HIGHLANDERS ESCAPE TO CANADA. - LADY JOHNSON TAKEN PRISONER. HER LETTER TO GENERAL WASHINGTON. CHAPTER 3 - PAGE 19: FORMATION OF THE KING'S ROYAL REGIMENT OF NEW YORK UNDER SIR JOHN JOHNSON. - IT IS PLACED ON THE ESTABLISHMENT. A SECOND BATTALION AUTHORIZED. - LIST OF GLENGARRY GENTLEMEN TO WHO, COMMISSIONS WERE GRANTED IN THAT AND OTHER LOYALIST CORPS. - ARREST OF WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE HIGHLAND LOYALISTS.- RETRIBUTION. - THE VALLEY OF THE MOHAWK RENDERED "A SCENE OF WIDESPREAD, HEART SICKENING AND UNIVERSAL DESOLATION". BATTLE OF ORISKANY. - DR. MOSES YOUNGLOVE'S "ALLEGED BRUTALITIES." HIGHLANDERS RESCUE THEIR FAMILIES. - CAPTURE OF EXETER AND FORT WINTERMOOT BY BUTLER'S RANGERS. AERICANS ABANDON FORT WYOMING. - HIGHLANDERS MAKE ANOTHER INCURSION INTO THE SCOHARlE SETTLEMENT. CHAPTER 4 - PAGE 34: SULLIVAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SENACAS AND CAYUGAS. INTENDED CAPTURE OF NIAGARA FRUSTRATED. - SIR JOHN JOHNSON AND HIS REGIMENT RETURN TO TRYON COUNTY. BRANT DESTROYS CANAJOHARIE. - STILL ANOTHER INVASION INTO THE SCHOHARIE COUNTRY - INVESTMENT OF FORT MIDDLEBERG - AMERICANS FIRE ON A FLAG OF TRUCE. - IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF GRAIN AND OTHER PROPERTY. - CAUGHNAWAGA AND STONE ARABIA LAID IN ASHES. - DEFEAT OF AMERICANS AT FORT KEYSER. - HALDIMAND'S APPROBATION OF SIR JOHN JOHNSON'S ZEAL. NEGOTIATIONS FOR RETURN OF PRISONERS. - SUFFERINGS OF LOYALIST FAMILIES. - FIGHT AT SCHELL'S SETTLEMENT, NEAR FORT DAYTON. - A BRAVE DISCIPLE OF MARTIN LUTHER. - AMERICANS VICTORIOUS IN TWO ENGAGEMENTS NEAR JOHNSTOWN. - DEATH OF WALTER BUTLER. - AWFUL MASSACRE BY AMERICAN MISCREANTS OF THE MORAVIAN TRIBE OF NON-COMBATANT INDIANS. - CONCLUSION OF THE WAR. CHAPTER 5- PAGE 46: SETTLEMENT OF THE DISBANDED SOLDIERS IN GLENGARRY AND ADJACENT COUNTIES OF STORMONT AND DUNDAS - LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND BATTALIONS OF THE KING'S ROYAL REGIMENT OF NEW YORK. - COLONEL STEWART'S ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL HIGHLAND EMIGRANT REGIMENT (OLD EIGHTY-FOURTH). - LIST OF OFFICERS. CHAPTER 6 - PAGE 57: UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS. - LIST of SCOTTISH NAMES APPEARING IN LORD DORCHESTER'S LIST. - A "DISTINGUISHED INDIVIDUAL'S" OPINION OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF THAT GENERATION. - MR. CROlL'S DESCRIPTION OF THE SITUATION AND CONDITION OF THE LOYALIST SETTLERS IN THE UNITED COUNTIES. CHAPTER 7 - PAGE 69: LOYALISTS IN THE UPPER COUNTRY OF CANADA DESIRE A CHANGE IN THE TENURE OF LAND AND SEPARATION FROM THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. - ADDRESS TO LORD DORCHESTER FROM LEADING SETTLERS IN GLENGARRY AND VICINITY. HIS REPLY. - HE RECOMMENDS ACQUIESCENCE IN REQUEST OF LOYALISTS. - FORMATION OF DISTRICTS OF LUNENBURG, MECKLENBURG, NASSAU AND HESSE BY PROCLAMATION, 24TH JULY, 1788. - PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA ESTABLISHED AND CONSTITUTlONAL GOVERNMENT ASSIGNED TO ITS PEOPLE, 26TH DECEMBER, 179I. - DIVIDED INTO COUNTIES. - FIRST COMMISSION OF THE PEACE, EASTERN DISTRICT. - EXTRACTS FROM RECORDS OF FIRST COURT OF THE DISTRICT. CHAPTER 8 - PAGE 78: SERVICES OF SIR JOHN JOHNSON. - 200,OOO ACRES ABANDONED BY HIM IN THE UNITED STATES. - LORD DORCHESTER RECOMMENDS HIM AS FIRST LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOR OF UPPER CANADA. - POLICY OF HOME GOVERNMENT OPPOSED TO THE APPOINTMENT OF RESIDENTS TO THE GOVERNMENT. - DESPATCH OF THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. - FIRST REFERENCE TO GLENGARRY SETTLEMENT. - COLONEL JOHN MACDONELL (ABERCHALDER).- HE AND HIS BROTHER HUGH MACDONELL ELECTED MEMBERS IN FIRST PARLIAMENT OF UPPER CANADA. - HE IS ELECTED ITS SPEAKER. - LIST OF MEMBERS. - SOME FACTS RELATING TO THEM. - ACTS PASSED AT FIRST SESSION. CHAPTER 9 - PAGE 91: THE FIRST REGIMENT RAISED IN UPPER CANADA. - THE SECOND BATTALION R. C. V. REGIMENT OF FOOT - LIEUTENANT COLONEL MACDONELL; M.P. FOR GLENGARRY, PLACED IN COMMAND. - HEADQUARTERS AT FORT GEORGE. - VOLUNTEER THEIR SERVICES TO ANY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE. - THANKS OF DUKE OF KENT. - REDUCTION OF REGIMENT DURING PEACE OF AMIENS. - RETURN OF OFFICERS. - LIST OF OFFICERS FIRST OR LOWER CANADIAN BATTALION. - COLONEL MACDONELL'S MEMORIAL. - STATE OF THE MILITIA. - LIEUTENANTS OF COUNTIES. - COLONEL MACDONELL RECOMMENDS FORMATION OF A CORPS OF HIGHLAND FENCIBLES IN GLENGARRY. COLONEL BROCK APPROVES OF PROPOSAL AND TRANSMITS RECOMMENDATION TO WAR OFFICE. - DEATH OF COLONEL MACDONELL CHAPTER 10 - PAGE 104: CAREER OF HUGH MACDONELL (ABERCHALDER), M.P. FOR FIRST RIDING OF GLENGARRY IN FIRST PARLIAMENT OF UPPER CANADA. - TESTIMONY OF COLONEL MATHEWS, MILITARY SECRETARY TO LORD DORCHESTER, AS TO SERVICES OF HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY. - FIRST ADJUTANT- GENERAL OF MILITIA UPPER CANADA. - APPOINTED CONSUL- GENERAL AT ALGIERS. - DUKE OF KENT'S TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY. HIS FAMILY. - HIS BROTHER, COLONEL CHICHESTER MACDONELL, ANOTHER U. E. LOYALIST OFFICER. - ALEXANDER MACDONELL (COLLACHIE), M.P. FOR GLENGARRY AND SPEAKER HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, 1804. - HIS SERVICES IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND WAR OF I812. CHAPTER 11 - PAGE 119: THE REVEREND JOHN BETHUNE, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER - CHAPLAIN FIRST BATTALION EIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT. MINISTER OF ST. GABRIEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MONTREAL. - REMOVES TO GLENGARRY. - HIS DEATH IN 1815. HIS SONs. - BISHOP STACHAN'S SCHOOL AT CORNWALL - THE REVEREND RODERICK MACDONELL (LEEK), FIRST CATHOLIC PRIEST. - LETTER FROM LORD SYDNEY, SECRETARY OF STATE, TO LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR HAMILTON, INTRODUCING HIM - KNOYDART EMIGRATION TO GLENGARRY, 1786. OTHER EARLY SETTLERS IN THE COUNTY. CHAPTER 12 - PAGE 134: RAISING OF THE GLENGARRY FENCIBLE OR BRITISH HIGHLAND REGIMENT IN SCOTLAND. - INCIDENTS PREVIOUS THERETO. MR. ALEXANDER (AFTERWARDS BISHOP) MACDONELL ACCOMPANIES A NUMBER OF THE HIGHLANDERS TO GLASGOW, WHERE THEY ARE EMPLOYED BY THE MANUFACTURERS. - CLOSING OF THE MANUFACTORIES ON PROCLAMATION OF WAR BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE. - PROPOSAL TO RAISE A REGIMENT TO BE UNDER COMMAND OF THE YOUNG CHIEF OF GLENGARRY. FIRST CATHOLIC CORPS SINCE THE REFORMATION. - STATIONED IN GUERNSEY. - OFFER TO GARRISON ST. MARCOU. - SERVICES IN IRELAND IN SUPPRESSION OF REBELLION OF 1798. - DISBANDED WITH OTHER FENCIBLES IN 1802. - SERVICES OF THE CHAPLAIN' ON BEHALF OF THE MEN. - HE PROCURES A GRANT OF 200 ACRES FOR EACH MAN IN GLENGARRY IN CANADA. - LORD HOBART'S LETTER TO LIEUT.- GOV. U. C. CHAPTER 13 - PAGE 149: EMIGRATION FROM KINTAIL AND GLENELG, ROSS-SHIRE. - SUBDIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. - LOCAL NOMENCLATURE. - KENYON, LOCHIEL, BREADALBANE, DUNVEGAN, EIGG, STRATHGLASS, UIST, LITTLE KNOYDART, LAGGAN, FASSIFERN, &C.,&C. - MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO UNION OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA, 1840. - ENUMERATION OF THE CLANS. CHAPTER 14 - PAGE 159: OUTBREAK OF THE WAR OF 1812. - EXPRESSIONS OF THE AMERICAN PRESS AND PUBLIC MEN. - SITUATION OF AFFAIRS IN UPPER CANADA. - COLONEL DENISON'S ACCOUNT OF GENERAL BROCK'S DIFFCULTIES. - TREASON OF WILLCOCKS, MALLORY, MARCLE AND OTHER RENEGADES. -EXTRA SESSION OF PARLIAMENT SUMMONED. - MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. - EXPULSION OF WILLCOCKS AND MARCLE. CHAPTER 15 - PAGE 173: SIR ISAAC BROCK. HIS PARENTAGE AND FORMER SERVICE. RAISING OF THE GLENGARRY LIGHT INFANTRY BY CAPTAIN GEORGE MACDONELL OF THE KING'S REGIMENT AND THE REVEREND ALEXANDER (AFTERWARDS BISHOP) MACDONELL - LIST OF OFFICERS - OFFICERS OF FLANK COMPANIES GLENGARRY MILITIA-CORPS DES VOYAGEURS CANADIENS - CANADIAN FENCIBLE INFANTRY. CHAPTER 16 - PAGE 188: FIRST BLOOD OF tHE WAR OF 1812. - A BRITISH INDIAN SCALPED BY AN AMERICAN OFFICER. - CAPTURE OF MICHILIMACINACK. BROCK LEAVES YORK FOR THE SCENE OF ACTION. - LETTER OF COLONEL MACDONELL, A.D.C., M.P. FOR GLENGARRY, TO HONOURABLE DUNCAN CAMERON. - SURRENDER OF FORT DETROIT BY THE AMERICANS. - ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION. LIST OF GOLD MEDALS GRANTED. - ARMISTICE BETWEEN PREVOST AND DEARBORN. - BATTLE OF QUEENSTON HEIGHTS. DEATH OF GENERAL BROCK AND COLONEL MACDONELL, A.D.C. - THEIR FUNERAL. - MOVEMENTS ON QUEENSTON HEIGHTS. - THE PRINCE REGENT'S TRIBUTE. - COLONEL MACDONELL'S ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF GLENGARRY, MARCH 18TH, 1812. - LETTER DESCRIBING HIS DEATH. - BISHOP STRACHAN'S VERSES. CHAPTER 17 - PAGE 208: FORAYS ALONG THE ST. LAWRENCE. - UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON OGDENSBURG. - ST. REGIS SURPRISED. - AMERICANS REPULSED AT FORT ERIE. "GENERAL VAN BLADDER" AND HIS PROCLAMATIONS. - NAVAL ENCOUNTERS. - BATTLE OF STONEY CREEK. THE TAKING OF OGDENSBURG. - YORK TAKEN BY THE: AMERICANS, APRIL 27TH, 1813. CHAPTER 18 – PAGE 225: GENERAL D£ARBORN IN TURN SUPERSEDED. - SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON FORT SCHLOSSER AND BLACK ROCK. - DEATH OF COLONEL BISSHOPP. - ATTACK ON SACKETT'S HARBOUR. PREVOST'S DEMONSTRATION ON FORT GEORGE. - THE