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THE GOOD AMERICANS: Film maker partners with UELAC Scholarship Fund PAGE 12 THOSE FEUDIN’ FRANKLINS: How one Dysfunctional Family Exiled 100,000 loyalists PAGE 24 BENNETT’S ISLAND: New Jersey’s Forgotten revolutionary Battle PAGE 32 Th e Loyalist
BY ROBER T COLLINS MCBR IDE Qu i ll yourself in the Loyalist experience and the history of our UE , B.SC., M.E D., E DITOR Capitol City, Ottawa. I hope that you are inspired by the articles that you read in ome of us know about the Loyalists through casual this issue of e Loyalist Gazette, written by people just like family references to “You come om Loyalist stock” and you who have something to celebrate or inform our readers Sbecome curious enough about this reference to their about. Take up your “Loyalist Quill” and send us your distant past to join an organization that focuses on ancestral stories, anniversaries, new Certi cate recipients, Branch research such as the UELAC. Others inherit the research celebrations, books that helped you in your research … we already done by dedicated family members. e common welcome your submissions. denominator is curiosity: the desire to know more about the Jennifer De Bruin UE, is the Publisher, responsible for life and times, the desires and motives, the di culties and the production, design and layout, of e Loyalist Gazette, dangers faced by our generations past. To satisfy our appetite and the Designer of the Gazette is Amanda Fasken UE, for knowledge and understanding, we feel an urgency to while I continue to be its Editor, responsible for gathering capture as much information as we can gather before it and editing the content of each issue of the magazine, before disappears. True researchers advocate for the preservation of sending it on to the Publisher and Designer, then doing a historical data, monuments, and buildings: the footprint of nal proof-reading before it goes to the printer. lives past. “Living the History” is the emerging theme of this Doug Grant UE is the Editor of the excellent UELAC issue of e Loyalist Gazette. e-mail newsletter, Loyalist Trails. To subscribe, contact him In book format, we see writers, like Cynthia Young UE, at: loyalist.trails “at” uelac.org. All paid-for advertising for Tom Raub UE, and Kathie Ryckman Anderson, exploring the Gazette should also be sent to Doug. print records of family members in the pursuit of accurate e Loyalist Gazette, “the window to the world for the information. You will meet Mark Gallop of Heritage Branch U E L A C ,” may contain viewpoints in some submissions that proudly announcing a distinguished home and repository do not necessarily re ect the philosophy of the UELAC or for Loyalist books and materials. this Editor. In monument format, we will read about Jim McKenzie’s I am always thankful for your feedback and suggestions passion for refurbishing the gravestones of his ancestors, to ensure that we continue to maintain our high quality. or Stuart Manson’s Loyalist Burial Site Commemoration Remember: project: an outreach project of the St. Lawrence Branch. We Teamwork Encourages see opportunities to become involved in the Johnson Hall Active Members !!! Restoration project as Friends of Johnson Hall restore this historic Loyalist landmark. Loyally yours, In digital format, sometimes overlapping with an Robert Collins McBride [Bob] immersive format, the reader can learn about the new lm UE, B.Sc., M.Ed. maker partnership with the UELAC Scholarship fund to Editor of e Loyalist Gazette and UELAC produce . is is a project that you and e Good Americans Publications Chairperson. your Branch may be able to be a part of. Lastly, give yourself the opportunity to attend a UELAC conference and meet many people like yourselves. Immerse
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UELAC8 CONFERENCE: Ottawa 18 HERITAGE BRANCH Book Collection Finds ON THE COVER: A ‘New’ Heritage Home A production photo from the film, “The Good Americans.” GRAPHIC DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Amanda Fasken UE Contact [email protected] for inquires. 20 32 A FAMILY HISTORY: PART ONE: Alida Vrooman UE BENNETT’S ISLAND & Henry Hare UE 24 THOSE FEUDIN’ FRANKLINS: New Jersey’s Forgotten How One Dysfunctional Revolutionary Battle UELAC12 SCHOLARSHIP: Family Exiled The Good Americans 100,000 Loyalists
16 27 FUNDRAISING LOYALIST CEMETERY CAMPAIGN: PROJECT Johnson Hall Loyalist Burial Site Restoration 23 Commemoration Project JOURNEY BACK 36 IN EVER Y I SSUE: IN TIME A CAUTIONARY TALE Grand Lake About identifying the The Loyalist Quill - 2 New Brunswick Presidents Message - 5 correct person The Loyal Review - 42 28 Historians Corner - 44 PART ONE Reverend Thomas Shreve UE New UE Certificates Issued - 45 to 47
2 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 3 THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST’S ASSOCIATION OF CANADA DIREC TORS & CO MMITTEE CHAIRS 201819
BOARD OF DIREC TORS Dominion President Sue Hines Grand River Dominion Past President Barb Andrew Assiniboine Senior Vice-President Patricia Groom Toronto Dominion Treasurer - Interim Wayne Groom Toronto Dominion Secretary Jo Ann Tuskin Gov. Simcoe Atlantic Regional Vice-President Jim McKenzie New Brunswick Central East Regional Vice-President Anne Redish Kingston Central West Regional Vice-President Richard Nowell London & W. ON Prairie Regional Vice-President Gerald Adair Saskatchewan Pacific Regional Vice-President Carl Stymiest Vancouver Atlantic Regional Councillor Carol Harding Nova Scotia Central East Regional Councillor Jennifer De Bruin Bridge-Annex Central West Regional Councillor David Kanowakeron Hill Morrison Grand River Prairie Regional Councillor Joyce Lidster Assiniboine Pacific Regional Councillor Frans Compeer Victoria COMMITTEES
Dominion Archivist Carl Stymiest Vancouver Dominion By-Law Dominion Conference Chair Ruth Nicholson Hamilton Dominion Credentials Gloria Howard Hamilton Dominion Education/Outreach Barb Andrew Assiniboine Dominion Finance Patricia Groom Toronto Dominion Genealogist Peter & Angela Johnson Bay of Quinte Dominion Grants Patricia Groom Toronto Dominion Historian Peter Johnson Bay of Quinte Dominion Legal Advisor As required Dominion Loyalist Information Doug Grant Gov. Simcoe Dominion Loyalist Scholarships Bonnie Schepers Bicentennial Dominion Marketing Frans Compeer Victoria Dominion Membership Joyce Lidster Assiniboine Dominion Nomenclature Dominion Nominations Barb Andrew Assiniboine Dominion Office Administrator Mette Griffin Dominion Office Dominion Parliamentarian As required Dominion Promotions Patricia Groom Toronto Dominion Public Relations Amanda Fasken Bridge-Annex Dominion Publications Robert McBride Kawartha Dominion Standard Bearer David Ellsworth Col John Butler Dominion Systems Jim Bruce Little Forks Dominion Trustee Brian McConnell Nova Scotia Dominion Trustee Lance Lidster Assiniboine Dominion Trustee Wayne Groom Toronto Dominion Dominion Trustee Marlene Dance Vancouver Dominion Volunteer Recognition Gerry Adair Saskatchewan Dominion Website Manager Doug Grant Gov. Simcoe Dominion Website Re-development Doug Grant Gov. Simcoe
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BY SUZA NNE MOR SEHINES UE UELAC PRESIDENT
e are now halfway through what has been week, which will provide some assistance to Jim Bruce a very stark reminder for most of us that regarding membership and certi cates. During the W winter in Canada is both unpredictable three months we will re-evaluate this and the needs of and, at times, very hazardous. I can’t help recalling the o ce. the writings of Mrs. Simcoe in which she talked As a result of Mette’s departure, we have entered about being in a tent at Niagara over the winter until into a further contract with Jim Bruce who is now our their accommodations were completed. Even with o ce manager, working twenty hours each week. e all the down sleeping bags and other winter camping current plan is that Jim will be in the o ce each day, equipment today, I can’t say that there has ever been from Monday to ursday. He has also taken on some an appeal to be out overnight in this weather. is is nancial duties to ensure that our transactions can be one more thing to remind us of the hardy nature of completed in a timely fashion. It is our plan to have the our ancestors, especially when, for many, they lived the information about the o ce opening times posted on winter months under very rude conditions and, even the website. As we transition to the new website it is moving into a cabin, might have found it dray and our plan to be able to update this re: weather, illness not ideal. and vacation, as needed. ere have been several things happening since the ere are some exciting things happening in a variety fall of 2018. As many of you will be aware, we received of areas and the details of these projects will be shared con rmation that the Governor General was prepared via Executive Notes following the Board Meeting. to be a Patron of the UELAC. Our Past President, I am looking forward to several upcoming visits this Barbara Andrew, worked very hard to receive an answer spring and early summer. ere is a calendar on the on this when the new Governor General was sworn in. UELAC website should you wish to check a date. It was not until a newspaper article identi ed that we I hope that this nds all of you well and beginning were not the only organization who had received no to see a return of spring with lots of Branch activities response that something began to happen. and family research. ank you to all of you who have In early January 2019, an invitation was sent to the worked so hard on behalf of the organization and I look O ce of the Governor General inviting her to attend forward to meeting you in Ottawa in the spring. the June Conference, but to date we have received no reply. In early January we received word that, following the Loyally, death of her husband, Mette Gri n would be moving Suzanne Morse-Hines UE north to live closer to her children. We have entered UELAC Dominion President 2018 – 2019 into a three-month contract with Mette for ve hours a
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ATLA NTIC REGIONA L VIC EPR ESIDENT U ELAC DOM INION GRA NTS COMMITTEE U ELAC VOL U NTEER REC OGNITION COMMITTEE
JIM MC KENZIE UE , BBA, CFP ATLA NTIC REGIONA L VIC EPR ESIDENT
n 1982, I joined the New Brunswick Branch of the UELAC Iin Saint John, New Brunswick. I then worked to get my UE designation. My grandfather, Moses, sometime aer his wife, Annie Kerr, passed away from cancer, married a cousin, Alice. Alice cleaned out an old family desk and Jim McKenzie reading scripture at Loyalist Sunday Service held at Trinity Anglican > Church, Saint John.
found a packet of letters that were and a letter advising they were having a written to Nellie MacPherson, wife meeting to decide whether to close the of the Loyalist, Malcolm McKenzie branch or not. I went to the meeting UE. e letters were from Nellie’s and was elected President. brother, Patrick, who was a goldsmith My Loyalist ancestors, Malcolm and in Paris during the Napoleonic wars. Nellie, and their son, Peter, settled on Alice took these letters, as well as the the beautiful Belleisle Bay, a tributary family sheets from the bibles of my to the Saint John River. When I was second great-grandfather, John, my quite young, my parents purchased an great grandfather, David, and my old home with a very nice beach on grandfather, Moses, to the Saint John the Belleisle Bay. Dad took me down Regional Library for safe keeping. the Bay to see the old McKENZIE Like many other members I paid my CEMETERY where my ancestors were dues but did not participate in Branch buried. activities until I received a phone call Many decades later, I approached
6 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 7 the owner and he sold it to me. He felt it should be owned by a McKenzie. We cleaned up the Cemetery and stood many of the tombstones up that had been at on the ground. Two white stones were for my second great grandfather, John, and his wife, Mary Northrup McKenzie, daughter of Benajah Northrup. Her mother had eight boys and four girls. We could not nd a tombstone for Malcolm McKenzie. A few years later, my son, David, and I turned over a at eld stone and on the underside was: M. A. McK, scratched into the stone. Malcolm died relatively young. His wife, Nellie, lived until she was age 97, with no doctors or hospitals nearby. We purchased a cottage and had it moved to the edge of the land where NEW EXECUTIVE OF NEW BRUNSWICK BRANCH: Sitting left Deborah Cole- the Cemetery is located. We plan to > man – President, sitting right Carolyn Johnson – Social Convener. Standing left to be buried there. We have installed a right: Ron Curtis – Book Sales and Distribution, Doug Cosman – Treasurer, Jim Funeral Bench with our names, etc., on McKenzie – Membership, Ruth Lesbriel – Secretary, David Peters – Vice-President it. Date of death will be added later. and Publicity, Cal Craig – Genealogist. Jim continues to enjoy his participation in the UELAC. He has decided to step down from the Atlantic Vice-President’s role. However, he continues to be the Membership Members and branches are encouraged to use the PR Chairperson for the New Brunswick Committee to help secure media coverage for their Branch. He has enjoyed the many events. Send along content for posting on social media to people he has met and worked with help promote and help to encourage a wider public reach. both nationally and in the Atlantic area. We’re currently looking for a few new committee members to contribute to Public Relations.
UELAC members and others are encouraged to send content for posting to: [email protected] or [email protected]
Amanda Fasken UE, public relations chair public relations
Presentation of UE certificate to > Barb Craig.
6 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 7 UELAC Conference 2019 O TTAWA , O NTARIO MA Y 30TH JU NE 2ND OUR NATION’S CAPITAL AS YOU HAVE N EVER SEEN IT BEFORE
BY ROY L EWIS UE
orld-class attractions to absorbing speakers and Wintimate details of the Ottawa region awaits those attending e Capital Calls – e United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada’s Conference this year. Hosted by Sir Guy Carleton Branch, the 2019 Conference will take place from ursday, 30 May to Sunday, 02 June in the National Capital Region, comprising Ottawa, Gatineau in Quebec, and surrounding communities. With a total population of 1.4 million, the National Capital Region is noted for its historic architecture and a plethora still in existence. is full-day tour will of attractions including outstanding THE TOURS be conducted by retired high school museums. teacher and professional genealogist, e headquarters for Conference ree bus tours are planned at Brian Tackaberry UE, of Almonte. 2019 is the Doubletree by Hilton Conference 2019, with all excursions e tour traces the route of the Rideau Hotel Gatineau-Ottawa. Located in starting from the conference hotel River and Rideau Canal, a UNESCO the Ottawa suburb of Gatineau, on the at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, 01 June. World Heritage Site, built between Quebec side of the Ottawa River, this Depending on which tour they select, 1826 and 1832 by Colonel John By, hotel, with an adjacent golf course, is conference participants can travel that ultimately opened the Rideau near major Ottawa attractions. Further along the historic Rideau Canal, visit Valley and Ottawa to settlement. details are available on the conference museums or do research at the Ottawa Beginning in downtown Ottawa, website at UELAC.org. City Archives. the tour will proceed on Colonel By Conference 2019 will also feature Tour A – Rideau Valley Tour: Drive along the Canal, past Hogs Back organized tours of the region, Long before the Rideau Canal System Falls, and continue to Manotick on the interesting workshops and a musical was constructed, some enterprising Long Island Locks, including a tour presentation of traditional songs Loyalists settled along the Rideau of historic Watson’s Mill constructed familiar to the country’s early settlers. River and established communities in 1860. It then continues along the
8 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 9 T HE CAPITAL CALLS Rideau, past settlements by Loyalists: new location on the LeBreton Flats Tour B will nish at Canada’s Roger Stevens, Stephen Burritt and site in downtown Ottawa on 08 May National Museum of History in Robert Nicholson. 2005. Since its opening, the museum Gatineau. e museum explores this e next stop, including lunch, is at has welcomed approximately 500,000 country’s rich cultural heritage. picturesque Merrickville, established visitors every year. e museum’s Tour C – Ottawa City Archives: by William Merrick in the 1790s, with total collection features rare vehicles, ose participating in this tour will a tour of the shops in town and museum artillery, uniforms, medals and have the morning for research at the located in the largest blockhouse along memoirs. City of Ottawa Archives followed the Rideau Canal system. Finally, Following the visit to the war by lunch. e archives has church the tour proceeds to the Goulbourn museum, the tour bus will proceed records, information about individuals, Museum in Stittsville, that tells the through Ottawa’s downtown core families, businesses, organizations, story of the Richmond Military where it will pass the Parliament British Isles records and historical Settlement of 1818 by disbanded Buildings, now under reconstruction, information on Canadian railroads. soldiers following the Napoleonic Canada’s Supreme Court and the e collection includes over three Wa r s . National War Memorial before arriving million photographs, along with many Tour B – Ottawa Tour to War at Rideau Hall. maps. Museum, Rideau Hall, and Museum e o cial residence and workplace THE PRESENTERS of History: is tour will rst of every Governor General since 1867, visit the Canadian War Museum, Rideau Hall is a national historic site Several noteworthy presenters will Canada’s national museum of military on 79 acres that includes trees specially be featured at Conference 2019. history and one of the world’s most planted by a visiting head of State, a Presentation: Loyalist Land respected museums for the study and member of the Royal family or other Grants along the Grand (Ottawa) understanding of armed con ict. dignitaries to mark an important event River in 1788 – To be presented e War Museum traces its origins or anniversary. Among the highlights by George Neville UE on ursday back to 1880 when it consisted of this tour are viewing of the State aernoon, 30 May, at the conference primarily of a collection of militia rooms where the Governor General hotel. A descendant of the Loyalist, artefacts. e museum opened at its ful lls o cial duties. Daniel Shipman UE, George will
A visit to the Canadian War > Museum, shown to the left, is part of Tour B at UELAC Conference 2019 in Ottawa. Photo by Stephen Darby.
8 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 9 describe how his ancestors came to Lower Canada. June, there will be a presentation by the St. Lawrence River front in 1784. Banquet followed by A Traditional Lesley Anderson who has worked for is presentation, including the St. Musical Retrospective will highlight Ancestry.ca for more than ten years Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, will a medley of songs popular with as their Canadian spokesperson. She complement the conference’s Rideau early settlers. To take place on the has done numerous presentations for Valley Tour A to Merrickville. evening of Friday, 31 May, in the genealogical societies and conferences Presentation: Capital City hotel’s Chaudiere Room, the evening across Canada about the endless Treasures – A second presentation, will feature performances by singer, research possibilities on Ancestry.ca. Gala Banquet Keynote Speaker: Glenn Wright – Controversy and Compromise: e Origins of Canada’s National Flag – Many UELAC members are old enough to remember the controversy surrounding the proposal by the federal government to introduce a new Canadian ag during the country’s Centennial Year in 1967. e thorny issues surrounding the development of the ag we have today will be the focus of keynote speaker, Glenn Wright, historical researcher, archivist and author. Hear him at Conference 2019 Gala Banquet Canada Hall at the Canadian Museum of History. on Saturday evening in the > Chaudiere Room. on the aernoon of ursday, 30 May, Carolynne Davy, accompanied by OTHER ACTIVITIES will be an armchair guided historical Edith Troup. Miss Davy has had a and cultural tour of the streets of distinguished music career, including Conference 2019 will also feature downtown Ottawa to be presented by performing at Carnegie Hall, and a vendors’ room, silent auction and Marilyn Schwartz. rough her slide Miss Troup has accompanied choirs, a hospitality suite. A Sunday service presentation, Marilyn will describe singers, instrumentalists and dancers in will be held in Christ Church, near the statues and memorials in downtown concerts and festivals. hotel, in Aylmer. Ottawa. Workshop: Writing Loyalist ose attending the conference may Keynote speaker: Albert Dumont Family History, Saturday a ernoon wish to extend their stay in Ottawa and – Welcome to the Land of the 01 June – Retired teacher, Jean Rae visit other attractions in the region. Anishnabeg – Algonquin Elder and Baxter’s workshop will help those In particular, the city has many ne spiritual advisor, Albert Dumont, attending to write a narrative that museums including Bytown Museum, will be the keynote speaker at the people will want to read. Participants the Canadian Museum of Nature, conference’s opening ceremonies on will learn how to organize their writing the Canada Science and Technology ursday evening, 30 May. Elder project and use the tools of ction to Museum, the Canadian Aviation Dumont, a poet and storyteller, make the true story come alive. and Space Museum, the Canadian has dedicated his life to promoting Presentation: Traitors, Spies and Agriculture and Foods Museum, the Aboriginal spirituality and healing. Heroes: Loyalist Espionage during Bank of Canada Museum, and the Presentation– Jonathan Sewell: the American Revolution, Saturday Diefenbunker Cold War Museum. Chief Justice of Lower Canada, a ernoon, 01 June – Jennifer DeBruin World class art is displayed in the Hotel Frontenac Room, Friday, 31 UE is an author of three, fact-based region’s art galleries including the May by Valerie Knowles – Montreal- historical ction novels. She also writes National Gallery and Ottawa Art born, Valerie Knowles, is an Ottawa historical articles that have appeared in Gallery. Among other attractions are writer and direct descendant of Chief various publications. the Royal Canadian Mint and Library Justice Sewell. She will speak about Presentation: Researching Your and Archives Canada. her ancestor, Jonathan Sewell, a multi- Loyalist Roots on Ancestry – Also talented judge and political gure in on the aernoon of Saturday, 01
10 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 11 Conference Schedule tHUrSDAy FrIDAy SAtUrDAy • 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. — Regis- • 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. — Regis- • 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. — Buffet tration (Hotel - Foyer). tration (Hotel - Foyer). Breakfast (Hotel - Foyer) • 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. — Geneal- • 9:00 a.m. — Board tour bus- • 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. — ogist Meeting (Hotel - Artiste es for Conference 2019 tours: UELAC Annual General Room). - Tour A: Rideau Valley Meeting (Hotel - Chaudiere A • 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. — Mem- Tour, led by Brian Tackaberry- Room). bership Meeting (Hotel - with lunch at Merrickville • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Ven- Artiste Room). Tour B: Ottawa Tour dors, Silent Auction (Ho- • 1:00 p.m. - 4 p.m. — Registra- to War Museum, Ride- tel – Chaudiere C and Artiste tion (Hotel - Foyer). au Hall, and Museum of Rooms) • 2:00 p.m. - 3 p.m. — Presen- History • 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch tation: “Loyalist Land Tour C: City of Ottawa (Hotel – foyer and Chaudiere Grants along the Ottawa Archives Tour, featuring Room) (Grand) River in 1788,” by research 9:30 a.m. –12:00 noon, • 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Work- George Neville (Hotel - Fronte- with lunch (12:00 –1:00 p.m.) shop: Writing Loyalist nac Room). • 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. — Presen- Family History by Jean Rae • 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. — Presen- tation: Jonathan Sewell: Baxter UE (Chaudiere Room) tation: “Capital City Trea- Chief Justice of Lower • 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Presen- sures,” by Marilyn Schwartz Canada, by Valerie Knowles tation: Loyalist Spies by (Hotel - Frontenac Room). (Hotel - Frontenac Room). Jennifer DeBruin UE (Hotel – • 4:00 p.m. - 5 p.m. — Hospi- • 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. — Regis- Frontenac Room) tality Suite (Hotel - Artiste tration (Hotel - Foyer). • 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Presen- Room). • 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. — Ban- tation: Researching Your • 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Recep- quet with entertainment Loyalist Roots on Ances- tion featuring Algonquin by Carolynne Davy & Edith Troup, try by Lesley Anderson (Hotel Elder Albert Dumont a medley of songs popular among – Frontenac Room) early settlers (Hotel - Chaudiere • 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. — Gala Room). Banquet with presenta- tion: From Controversy to Compromise: The Origins of Canada’s National Flag by Glenn Wright (Hotel – Chaudiere Room) SUNDAy • 10:00 a.m. – Buses leave for Christ Church in Aylmer 11:00 a.m. – Sunday Church Service at Christ Church Aylmer (101 rue Symmes, Aylmer sector, Gatineau, Quebec)
Merrickville Blockhouse was built by the Royal Engineers, commanded by Lt. Col. John By, R.E., in 1832-3. The Merrickville Blockhouse Musuem is a part > of the Rideau Valley tour.
10 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 11 Proceeds from The Good Americans film to go to the UELAC Scholarship Fund, along with the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
who has never before appeared in a documentary. e videos were also remarkable for revealing the breadth of the Loyalist experience, from the perspective of women to that of free and enslaved blacks. It breaks down the rigid stereotypes assigned to Loyalists by generations of Canadian and American historians, a subject of one of the book’s essays. Although several popular works about Loyalists have been recently published, most notably those by Maya Jasano and Simon Schama, whose Rough Crossings was made into a BBC documentary, neither Jasano nor Schama are historians tørmerlige Films is making a Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, of the Loyalists. ey more broadly feature-length documentary and Ontario. It is also about what their study the British Empire. For them, Sabout the Loyalists of the absence meant for the nation that they their Loyalist work is one among many American Revolution and their legacy. le behind: the United States, that was subjects that draw their interest. Entitled “ e Good Americans,” from changed forever by the loss of as many “Even as an historian of the Loyalists, a quote by British General, James as one- h of its pre-war free and I was amazed by the richness and depth Robertson, it is based on a new book, enslaved population. of the stories that were shared with us by to be published in February 2019, Originally conceived as a short the extraordinary historians in the new called e Consequences of Loyalism: lm to promote the book and the book,” Stoermer said. “Because people Essays in Honor of Robert C. Calhoon, inspiration behind it, the career of the express themselves so di erently when edited by Rebecca Brannon and Joseph premier historian of Loyalists, Bob speaking, compared with writing, they Moore. Produced and directed by Calhoon, the project quickly grew e ectively brought to life the words in Taylor Stoermer, a Johns Hopkins beyond that limited scope as video the book, recreating the experiences of all University lecturer and documentary content from nine of its authors, both kinds of Loyalists in so many di erent lmmaker, the movie uses primary editors, and several leading scholars circumstances, and also what the study sources, artefacts, interviews with were received in the production of Loyalists means for them, personally. scholars, and innovative graphics to o ces. e videos include a lengthy, It was well beyond what we could tell the diverse, multicultural story of wide-ranging interview about represent in a three-to- ve-minute short. the Loyalists: what drove them and Loyalists and Calhoon, with one of ose stories practically demanded to be what they made of their worlds aer the world’s foremost historians of the represented in a bigger, more meaningful the American Revolution, especially in American Revolution, Jack P. Greene,
12 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 13 Stymiest UE, UELAC Dominion “What became crystal clear to us, Archivist, and Brian McConnell UE as we’ve developed the project, is the are nding and contributing sources, importance of telling the story of two and Bonnie Schepers is providing nations that were created by that one valued advice and contacts as the Revolution,” Stoermer said. “ e UELAC’s de facto coordinator on UELAC is now at the fore ont of not the project. Consequently, archival only preserving a major part of that story, but also in promoting new scholarship about it. So there is really no way of ______separating the UELAC’s story om that of the lm’s.” What became UELAC will also bene t from the lm’s distribution, given Størmerlige crystal clear to us, Films’ policy of donating all net as we’ve developed proceeds of its lms to non-pro ts related to the subjects. For “ e Good the project, is the Americans,” the UELAC Scholarship importance of Fund, along with the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre of the Nova Scotia way. We felt we had no choice, then, but telling the story Museum, will receive those proceeds, to switch om the movie we were making along with promotion through the lm at the time and expand this one into a of two nations itself. full feature. I mean, if one image is worth that were created Stoermer said, “We really see our lms a thousand words, then just imagine as ways to begin important discussions, what 24 images per second can achieve.” by that one rather than to provide de nitive answers. e UELAC’s stamp on the We’re not lming lectures to stick in ont project was clear from the very Revolution of people. But our goal comes with an beginning. Stoermer, whose essay on ______obligation to help spark those discussions Virginia Loyalists leads the book, is a and, as importantly, to keep them member of the UELAC Scholarship going, which is why we make sure that Committee and several other authors, UELAC images, and the organization’s we use our resources to create greater such as the Nova Scotia Museum’s, modern in uence, will be prominent opportunities for others. Given the sheer Katie Cottreau-Robbins, and the features in the lm. ethnic and cultural diversity in loyalist Massachusetts Historical Society’s, Christopher Minty, are bene ciaries of UELAC support for their research. As the short expanded into a feature, the UELAC connections expanded, too. Tim Compeau, a leading Loyalist scholar and another member of the UELAC Scholarship Committee, was enlisted as a commentator, along with the UELAC’s own Bonnie Schepers UE, Jennifer DeBruin UE, and scholarship-recipient Stephanie Seal Walters. e story of the UELAC itself, a major element of the Loyalist legacy, naturally became part of the lm’s narrative. As the script continues to develop, UELAC members are increasingly involved in the production, given the need for both insight and images. Carl
12 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 13 studies, and what it could mean for a promotional video for the book, a ve- Disney Companies as a production better understanding of both Canada minute “sizzle reel” that essentializes the advisor during his time as chief and the United States today, that work lm, and a promotional trailer. Each of historian of Colonial Williamsburg, couldn’t be more timely, or exciting.” these products can be used in a number where he received an Emmy award for e lm’s budget is currently of marketing and educational ways and educational lmmaking in 2014, and $58,000, with a production schedule will be released at earlier points in the worked as an instructor at Harvard that targets release by the end of process, along with shorter behind- University, assisting with everything this year. Currently, those costs are the-scenes and “sneak peek” clips for from movie scripts to the new Hall of being born by Størmerlige Films, use on social media. e sizzle reel, Presidents attraction at Walt Disney but creative partnerships are helping for instance, is targeted for a 02 March World. It was the encouragement of the production team leverage other 2019 release. Disney colleagues that resulted in the resources. For example, Tourism Nova “Making the shorts are a sort of test creation of his own lm company, as Scotia is providing lm footage and run for the story we want to tell in the Disney does not directly produce non- photographs of modern Nova Scotia, feature,” Stoermer said. “It’s a guess at ction documentaries. including its historic sites, as the best, because, while our lms have to “ e most important part of lm will certainly boost an interest have endings, they are always ongoing lmmaking is immersive storytelling, in heritage travelers to visit loyalist- projects. But something like a sizzle reel which is something I learned om the related sites in Canada, particularly in can be the best business card we can hand absolute best at Disney,” said Stoermer. the Maritimes, a happy and intentional out for the lm, the subject of Loyalists, “But historical documentaries come byproduct of the lm. Also, the team’s and for groups like the UELAC that are with an extra responsibility: the stories choice of the New Brunswick folk such key parts of it.” must be true. ere’s an implied contract duo, Tomato Tomato, to provide an Stoermer, himself, is no stranger between the lmmaker and the viewer authentic and traditional, yet modern, to lmmaking or the creative arts. that what you’re going to show them isn’t sound for the lm, has drawn support When he was in college in California fantasy, but fact, or at least the best kind from New Brunswick performing arts he began working for Disney as a of informed speculation. A documentary and tourism groups eager to promote performer, portraying the character lmmaker can never let down an the province’s culture. of “Gaston” in the rst-ever stage audience in that way. So it’s exciting “ e Good Americans” feature lm, production of “Beauty and the Beast,” to come at lmmaking as an historian, however, is only one product of the at Disneyland. He also appeared on rather than the traditional way, which process. Størmerlige Films plans to Fox’s “Beverly Hills 90210” for parts is as a lmmaker to history. Being able create three shorter lms, along with a of two seasons. Aer gaining his PhD to start a project with an historian’s number of brief, subject-oriented clips, in History from the University of perspective can quickly get us to the heart along with it: the original three-minute Virginia, he reconnected with the Walt of stories that really need to be told.” UElAC Scholars Wanted!
The UELAC Loyalist Scholarship Preference may be given to is available to Masters and students who have taken an PhD students undertaking a undergraduate degree in his- program in research that will tory, to those who are of proven further Canada’s understanding Loyalist descent, and to stu- of the Loyalists and our appreci- dents at Universities in Canada. ation of their, or their immedi- The UELAC reserves the right to ate descendants’, influence on award the scholarship in accor- Canada. dance with its sole discretion. Upon completion, a copy of the The award is for $2,500 per thesis must be presented to the year and, on approval, will be Association. provided for each of two years for Masters and three years for The application requirements PhD students. are available at www.uelac.org
The deadline for applications is 28 February 2020.
14 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 15 NOTICE OF MEETING The Annual General Meeting of the Unit- i.e. on or before 3 May. ed Empire Loyalists’ Association of Cana- (b) A proxy that nominates as proxy holder da will be held on Saturday, 01 June a person who is a member of a branch of 2019, at 9 a.m. at the Double Tree the Association other than the branch of by Hilton Hotel, 1170 chemin the appointing member must be deposited d’Aylmer, Gatineau, QC, J9H 7L1 with the Secretary at least 15 business days The purpose of the meeting is to consider prior to the meeting in question; i.e. on or the financial statements of UELAC; to elect before 10 May. directors; to receive the report of the audi- (c) A proxy that nominates as proxy hold- tor; the appointment of an auditor; and to er a person who is a member of the same transact such other business as may prop- branch of the Association as the branch of erly come before the meeting. the appointing member must be deposited The United Empire Loyalists’ Association with the Secretary at least 10 business days of Canada By-laws, Article III, Section 3.4 prior to the meeting in question; i.e. on or allows for each Member to have one (1) before 17 May. vote. Copies of the Meeting agenda, financial UELAC Members unable to attend the Meeting may vote by statements, reports, and motions to be brought before the proxy. A proxy form will be available on-line or on request from meeting will be available on the UELAC website by May 10 Dominion Office. By completing, signing and dating this proxy (Access instructions will be distributed by that date) and on re- form, any member of the UELAC may appoint a proxyholder to quest from Dominion Office. attend and act at any Meeting of the Members in the manner and to the extent authorized by this proxy. Completed proxy forms or submissions revoking NOTE – To be valid, proxies must be deposited with the Domin- a proxy may be submitted by email to dominion. ion Secretary using the following guidelines. (See [email protected] or by post to: UELAC Dominion address below) Secretary, J. Tuskin, 78 - 24 Fundy Bay Blvd., To- (a) A proxy that nominates as proxy holder a person who is not ronto, Ontario, Canada M1W 3A4. a member of the Association must be deposited with the Sec- retary at least 20 business days prior to the meeting in question; NEW UELAC Promotion Items! We are very happy to have our newest item now $ $ available for 20 - Bar 2 each (you have them engraved) The ribbon can hold up to 5 of your ancestors’ surnames engraved on the plate. Show your UE pride. Great gifts for that special person, graduate or spoil yourself. To order contact Patricia Groom UE: [email protected]
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The United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada Supports the “Majesty on the Frontier” Fundraising Campaign for the Restoration of BY JENNIFER D EBRUIN, UE Loyalist-Significant Site, Johnson Hall
E Loyalists Bridge Annex, the rst virtual branch of United Empire Loyalists’ Association Uof Canada (UELAC), submitted a grant request in Fall 2018 to help support the restoration of Johnson Hall, currently undergoing an extensive restoration to ensure it survives for future generations. In a unanimous decision, the UELAC Board of Directors, on recommendation of the Grants Committee, granted a sum of $4,000 (CAD) to the project. e Friends of Johnson Hall, who are spearheading this project called, “Majesty on the Frontier,” are to be SIGNIFICANT Konwatsitsiaienni Brant, among many commended for their success to- others, in relation to this historic date. According the Site Manager, LOYA LIST site, are not only interpreted in detail Wade Wells, “ is was a large project HISTORIC SITE throughout the site itself, but also and a heavy li for a small Friends through the events that the Directors organization and a Site with limited create to engage the public. In addition, discretionary spending…” In an eort to “ e site sta and e Friends of sta are extremely knowledgeable further support this important project, Johnson Hall chose to undertake this about Loyalist history and even provide Bridge Annex wanted to provide the project as its completion would provide insight to Loyalist families seeking to UELAC membership and friends in the most profound rst impression of the better understand the history of their Canada with an opportunity to support mansion and of Sir William’s ability to ancestors in the Mohawk Valley. this worthy project. As such, an online acquire decorative materials om across It is important to remember that fundraising campaign was started, the globe to furnish his colonial ontier we can only fully understand the and raised $805 (CAD) by the end of mansion. Hence the title of the project: experience of our United Empire December 2018. While Bridge Annex ‘Majesty on the Frontier’.” Loyalist ancestors by knowing more is the fundraising manager, all monies of their history, not just that which were donated on behalf of contributors – Wade Wells, Johnson Hall Site Manager began aer the American Revolution. under the UELAC banner. To know the history of these once- Once the restoration project is e signi cance of Johnson colonial Americans, is to understand complete, UELAC, along with other Hall in telling the story of so many the dire circumstances they found contributors will be given recognition United Empire Loyalists cannot themselves in at the outbreak of war. at the site. be underestimated. Key historical Places such as Johnson Hall provide gures, including: Sir William a tangible reminder of the time of so Johnson, Sir John Johnson, and Molly many Loyalists prior to the outbreak
16 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 17 Jennifer DeBruin UE, UELAC Public Re- > lations Chair, presenting a cheque for $4,000 (CAD) on behalf of the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Can- ada (UELAC) to Bernadette Weaver, Secretary, Friends of Johnson Hall. An additional cheque for $805 (CAD) was also presented as part of the ongoing UELAC fundraising campaign, managed by UE Loyalists Bridge Annex, to assist the Friends of Johnson Hall with their “Majesty on the Frontier” fundraising efforts. – December 2018
of war, a war that saw many of our Loyal ancestors facing the known enemy, once called family and friends. To label this a “civil war” would not be overstating the dreadful situation our ancestors faced. In order to understand their life in America, the experiences of the men, women and children before, during, and aer the American Revolution, must be interpreted. Places such as Johnson Hall are an integral part of the education and outreach opportunities for not only descendants of the UE Loyalists, but those who are just discovering this part of our North American story. Along with the work UELAC continues to put into ensuring Loyalists are not forgotten, it is places such as Johnson Hall that are our partners in ensuring Front Parlor to be restored. Johnson Hall. the places they once called home, the > places they saw in their lifetimes, yet multi-faceted telling, provides secured to ensure the restoration exist. Tangibility is a powerful tool to invaluable educational opportunities provides an accurate portrayal of what helping people connect with a past not only for the descendants of UE Johnson Hall would have looked like that seems very far back until they Loyalists, but also the public at large, in its early years.In detailing the work can touch, see, and explore the places that enhances the UELAC’s ability to that has thus far been completed and of that time. Suddenly, they might engage and interest others in preserving ongoing, Mr. Wells added that “… imagine themselves in that time and our complex and fascinating history. with the work properly completed and place, and they are A visit to “ hooked .” with proper care, we can easily expect our Johnson Hall is a powerful experience e orts to last for the next 50 to 75 years for descendants of the area. While all HISTORICAL and possibly longer.” are made to feel welcome, UE Loyalist ACCURACY IN For more information about descendants are made to feel as though RESTORATION Johnson Hall, visit Friends of Johnson they are “home,” and share in the story. Hall: www.friendsoohnsonhall.org Helping to ensure that the places our ancestors came from are preserved by Artisans working with traditional groups and organizations dedicated to a materials and methods have been
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Heritage Branch Book Collection Finds BY MARK W . GALLOP UE A ‘New’ Heritage Home
er three decades in the nancial services sector, Mark AGallop now devotes his time to historical research and writing. He divides his time between New Brunswick and Quebec. Walk up the front path and steps to the Simon Fraser House on the western tip of the Island of Montreal but, before you reach for the latch on the wooden door, turn around. Take in the view over the narrows where the Ottawa River ows into Lac Saint- Louis and the St. Lawrence River, just as the fur trader would have done in his retirement two centuries ago. is passage was the gateway to the voyageur routes west and Fraser could have waved to his old colleagues adieu Simon Fraser House, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, fall 2018, photo by Laurie Billingham. from these steps, or been the rst to > welcome their fur-laden canoes back to Montreal. Now head inside this historic prominent resident, who purchased it this has not been fully substantiated. and welcoming space. ick eldstone in 1810. is was not the Simon Fraser, Not surprisingly, there were numerous walls and exposed ceiling beams catch famed explorer of western Canada. Frasers recruited to the eponymous the eye but, instead of cast iron kettles, e appropriateness of the collection’s regiment. It is more certain that spinning wheels and other implements new home would have been even more Catherine Mckay, the woman Simon of the pre-industrial age, the ancient striking if it had been because the more Fraser married in 1804, was the rooms contain what could be a modern illustrious man of that name was the daughter of a non-commissioned o ce. To the right is a boardroom table son of Simon Fraser UE who joined o cer of the 78th. Fraser was Scottish- and to the le are ling cabinets and General Burgoyne’s forces during the born and came to Canada in 1789 computer terminals with researchers rebellion of the thirteen colonies and under the sponsorship of Simon intent on their screens. Directly ahead died in American captivity at Albany. McTavish. He became a partner of the is what we have come to see, the new Although not of Loyalist stock, North West Company in 1795 and home of Montreal’s United Empire the Simon Fraser associated with the retired as a wintering partner about Loyalist Heritage Branch Book and house was still an important historical 1789. Document Collection. gure. A family source claimed that his e couple raised a family in is eldstone structure was built father was an o cer of the famed 78th the house while he prospered as a over two centuries ago and is known Fraser’s Highlanders regiment and landowner and trader. It remained as the Simon Fraser House for its most present at the capture of Quebec, but Catherine’s home aer Simon’s death in 1839 and stayed in the family for a
18 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 19 century and a half. It served as a branch of the Bank of Montreal from 1906 to 1954 and was then reclaimed by a great granddaughter of Simon Fraser as her residence. Industrial progress menaced the house on multiple occasions. When passing the house, voyageurs navigated the St. Anne’s Rapids. ese were by- passed in 1843 with the construction of a canal directly in front of the property. A decade later a Grand Trunk Railway bridge was constructed y metres west of the house. In 1923 construction of the Galipeault Bridge for automotive tra c loomed even closer. e Simon Fraser House sits in the shadow of the approach to this bridge and a 1961 proposal to double its span called for the demolition of the house. Concerned citizens rallied and the property received provincial historic site status in 1962. Conservation was assured with its acquisition in 1965 by Canadian Heritage of Quebec (CHQ), a national non-pro t organisation dedicated to the conservation of heritage sites Heritage Branch bookplate. and buildings of historical or natural > interest in Quebec. e Simon Fraser House was an early acquisition by However, in the autumn of 2018, Collection. CHQ following its 1960 founding. the organization relocated to the e bookshelves containing e organisation has invested in the wonderful heritage property in Sainte- the Loyalist collection stands as a restoration and preservation of the Anne-de-Bellevue. testament to the value of cooperation structure at regular intervals. For a Heritage Branch’s collection has between smaller like-minded heritage number of years a local chapter of the grown over the decades to more than organizations, not just between Victorian Order of Nurses operated three hundred volumes on Loyalist Heritage Branch UELAC and QFHS a fund-raising tea room but it has sat topics, thanks mostly to the generosity but between QFHS and the CHQ. empty recently. of branch members. It includes a I happen to be a proud member of How did the Heritage Branch number of nineteenth and early all three organizations and Branch collection end up in such an age- twentieth century volumes that would Librarian for Heritage Branch and, appropriate setting? rough good be di cult to nd elsewhere. e although I can take no credit for friends and good fortune. As a collection is available for research by the turn of events that brought our smaller branch, we oen depend on the members of the QFHS. e society collection to its new, and very old, cooperation and assistance from like- also welcomes visitors to its library home, I do take satisfaction in seeing minded heritage societies and have for a daily fee. While perhaps not as them so well-situated and available to collaborated for several decades with enjoyable as a simple browse of the inform researchers of the history of the the Quebec Family History Society shelves, the most e cient way to review Loyalists. (QFHS), that houses the collection the holdings of the collection is via the in their library on a long-term- QFHS website. On the main page, Quebec Family History Society: loan basis. e QFHS maintained go to “Library” then to “Catalogue”. www.qs.ca its library in a modest but easily- Under the “Collection” drop-down Canadian Heritage of Quebec: accessible commercial property in the menu, select “United Empire Loyalists”. www.hcq-chq.org Montreal suburb of Pointe-Claire. is will list all volumes in the UEL
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PREPARED BY CYNTHIA YOUNG UE, FIFTH GREAT- GRANDDAUGHTER, INCLUDING ORIGINAL RESEARCH BY TOM RAUB UE, FIFTH GREAT-GRANDSON:
CYNTH I A YO U NG UE
Persistent and curious, Cynthia spent lida Vrooman UE1, one Department under Sir John Johnson the first few years of her retirement of the few women to be and various accounts suggest Henry researching her genealogy. Her mother acknowledged as a Loyalist on was uent in many Indian dialects. came from many lines of Loyalist ances- A tors. Her great-uncle worked for de- the Executive Council List, descended Johnson is remembered for his cades sifting through records in church from a long line of resilient Dutch collaborative work with the native offices, cemeteries, archives and munic- immigrants. Her maternal second population. ipal offices to trace lineal descent to a number of their Loyalist ancestors, cre- great-grandmother came to the New Henry made his allegiance to the ating a roadmap for the family. Through World in 1638. Crown known as early as 1775 when he his efforts he proved descent to seven Around 1710, Alida’s paternal was one of just two people who refused Loyalists. Assisted by the depth and speed provided by today’s technology, grandfather, Hendrick Vrooman, and to sign an association compact with Cynthia adds depth to his research and his brother, Barent, were contracted the ‘Patriots’ in a place now known as is now transforming the data into narra- as carpenters by Queen Anne to Florida, New York.4 tive non-fiction stories for her children, grandchildren, cousins and their families. build Fort Hunter in the Mohawk e Patriots kept a watch on Henry Cynthia joined the Governor Simcoe Valley (New York) at the place where and his family. In September 1776, Branch of the UELAC and has proven Schoharie Creek intercepted the Henry was captured by the Whigs, and her lineal descent to four Loyalists: Jacob Mohawk River.2 imprisoned in Hartford, Connecticut. Van Allen UE, Jacob Weegar UE, Henry Hare UE, and his wife, Alida Vrooman UE. Alida was born in Schenectady, He was held for seven months before more than 100 years aer her maternal he managed to escape. A later record ancestors settled at Beaverwyck, a reported that his family was kept under Dutch West India Company fur arrest in 1778, and listed one woman, trading settlement, near Fort Orange four boys and three girls (Mrs. Jane, on the Upper North River. e baptism Ally, Johon, Faulky, William, Peter,
TOM RAUB UE > 1765 marriage marriage record. I was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. My maternal grandfather grew up in entry from the Dutch Reform Church Barent, and Caty).5 Smiths Falls, Ontario. I taught mathe- matics in Allentown for thirty-one years. recorded her birth as 17 June 1747. Working from a base in Canada, I do volunteer tutoring at a community Further church records from Henry travelled back and forth and college. My parents and I started work- Schoharie con rm her marriage to behind enemy lines, scouting with ing on genealogy in about 1981. I have Henry Hare3, on 15 April 1765, the Indians to gather intelligence ancestors who fought in the Revolu- shortly before her eighteenth birthday. for the Tories/Loyalists. He joined tionary War on both sides. Henry, born in 1742 to John with Butler’s Rangers and became a Hare, was employed by the Indian Lieutenant.
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Various stories and testimonies Hill in Canajoharie, New York on 21 the Breaking out of the present Rebellion describe Henry’s exploits. One June 1779 at 9 o’clock in the morning. and Entered into his Majesties Service- incident describes a hot pursuit over His body was released to friends for One of the said Brothers, a Capt in the several days when he nally had to burial. General Clinton, it is reported, Indian department, was killed at Fort destroy important correspondence had le the camp at the time of the Stanwix in 77, (1) the other, is now a destined for Sir John Johnson. Another execution to avoid any recriminations Capt. in Leuit. Col. Butlers Rangers, described Henry’s involvement in raids alongside Indian warriors participating in attacks against Patriot settlements. He was also accused of a brutal killing of a young woman at Fort Stanwix. In June 1779, Henry secretly returned to the family home near Fort Hunter. As quoted in the Frontiersman of New York, Jeptha Simms writes, “He brought home for his wife several articles of clothing, such as British calicoes, dress-shawls, Indian moccasins, etc., and on the very day he set out to return to Canada, she was so imprudent as to put them on and go visiting.”6 Alida had turned 32 that 17 June. Canajoharie, Otsego St. looking north. Academy Hill where Henry Hare was hanged. On 19 June 1779, Henry le his > family home to meet up with Sergeant from Hare’s friends. (2) and the nephew a Leuit. in said Newberry for his trip back to Canada. Henry and Alida had several Corps. (3) Your Petitioners, Husband ey were confronted, arrested and children, including my fourth great- and three Brothers served during the last were taken to Roof ’s Tavern where grandmother, Mary HARE, who was War, in the Indian Department, under General Clinton had established a born at Fort Hunter in 1771. the late Sir William Johnson Bart. And camp. e next morning a trial was held Following Henry’s execution, your petitioners said Husband being in the tent of Colonel Gansevoort. e Alida and her young children ed to Ordered on a Scout, last Summer, was Patriot camp was situated in Happy Lower Canada. As with other Loyalist taken by the Rebels: who Charged with Hollow, one and a half miles east of families, she had no means to take care being a Spy - Canajoharie, New York. Henry Hare of her young family. She petitioned Sir Tryed him for the same. an Unjust was found guilty and was sentenced Frederick Haldimand, Governor of Tryal Condemn’d him, in Consequence to hang by his neck until dead. Alida Quebec, for support. of which, he was Executed, whereby your pleaded with the Patriots to spare Petitioner is Rendered Miserable, poor her husband’s life. She reminded “To his Excellency Frederick and Needy - her Situation emboldens the accusers that he had a wife and Haldimand Esqr. Governor and her to Crave your Excellency Support many small children to support. Her Commander in Chief of the Province of and Protection Humbly praying, Your attempts to in uence the commanders Quebec &c &c &c Excellency will take the same into fell on unsympathetic ears. e Petition of Abigal Hare, Widow Consideration, and Allow such a Yearly Alida’s loyalty to the Empire was of the late Leiut (sic) Henry Hare, of the supply or Aid, as your Justice may see t, con rmed by the Court Martial Indian Department. Humbly shewth, in Order to Assist her and her Distressed testimony of Sergeant William at Your Petitioner, is a Poor Widow, Children. Newberry. “Question 12 posed to with six small Children, without any And Your Petitioner, will Ever pray, William Newberry was ‘Who were the means to support them, the want of as in duty bound persons that gave you the Intiligence (sic) Every necessary of life and the Continual Montreal the 10th May 1780 of our movements?’ Newberry answered Insults of the Rebels obliged her to leave You are hereby authorised and ‘ omas Plato, Wilham Rombauch and the Province of New York and Come o directed to pay to Mrs. Abigal Hare, Henry Hairs wife - said Hairs wife went to this. Widow of the late Henry Hare, a backwards and forwards every day to Your Petitioner’s Husband, two Lieutenant in the Indian Department, gain Intiligence for us.’”7 Brothers and nephew, distinguished in Consideration of her Misfortune Henry Hare was hanged on Academy themselves as iends to Government, On and Distress, above related, the Sum of
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My fourth great-grandmother, Mary Hare, married Captain Jacob Weegar UE and together they had twelve children. In the family bible currently held in the archives at Upper Canada Village, the sponsors noted for their eldest child, Caty, were Mary’s mother and stepfather, Alida and Adam Empey. Mary Weegar, née Hare, submitted her own petition, as the daughter of Lt. Henry Hare, in 1807.11 Her sister, Catherine married David Summers and then settled in Eastern District. Possible land owned by Henry Hare. Mary’s brothers Barnabas and William > led a Land Petition Claim with Allada 12 Twenty Pounds Sterling, as a yearly granted land around Cornwall, in the Vrooman in 1802. Pension to be continued to Her during Eastern District. e Hare family members were Her Life, for the Maintenance of Her Alida and her children appear in early settlers in the place we now call and Her Children, which Sum is to multiple Land Petitions including: Ontario. Numerous entries, seventy- be charged in the Contingent Account six in my most recent query, appear on of Expenses of the Six Nation Indian • In 1798, Alida petitioned on behalf the search results for the name ‘Hare’ in Department.- of ve children; John, Barnabas, the “Land Petitions of Upper Canada, William, Mary and Katherine, 1763-1865.” e petitioners include Given under my Hand all married and living in Eastern children of Lieutenant Henry Hare, at Quebec this 25th day of May 178O District.9 and also his brothers, Captain John Fred. Haldimand Hare, who was killed at the Battle of To Colonel Johnson • In 1807, Alida (Allada) further Oriskany in 1777, and Captain Peter Superintendent of Indian A airs petitioned the government, with the Hare, head of the pioneer family that By His Excellency’s Command -- R assistance of her son-in law, Jacob settled outside Niagara in a town Mathews Sec Weegar, to have her late husband, known today as Lincoln. ey paid a [On Reverse Side] Lieutenant H. Hare, added to the price for their beliefs and their loyalty Authority to Pay to the Widow Hare List of UE. She now names only to their monarch. Yet, we so oen a Yearly Pension of 2O Ster” 8 four children, John, Barney, Mary overlook the contribution of their and Catherine, to bene t from Lord spouses and children, making this most Alida married First Sergeant Adam Dorchester’s decree and become recent acknowledgement con rming P. Empey sometime around 1780. ey eligible, as children of those who the loyalty of Alida Vrooman, my h- lived in Soulanges, Les Cedres, Lower joined the Royal Standard before great grandmother, so special. Canada, and together they had more the Treaty of Separation in 1783, to e descendants of Henry and Alida children. Later, Adam Empey was receive land grants.10 may claim the mark of Honour, U.E. – Unity of the Empire.
1Alida Vrooman, alternate spelling variations for surname include Vroman and for 8Extracted from an article by Morrison, James F., ‘A Hanging in Canajoharie (Henry first name; Alida/ Alita/ Alada/ Allada/ Aita/ Abigail/ Abigal/ Elatta/ Elata Hare), published in Morrison’s Pensions; www.revwarny.com/hare.htm 2In 1710, the Mayor of Albany along with 4 Indian Chiefs, travelled to London, Source provided: Special Collections and Manuscripts, New York State Library, England for an audience with Queen Anne. They begged her for protection from Albany, N.Y., Willis T. Hanson Collection, Document No. 12769 the French, who had been raiding their communities. In exchange, the party 9The Petition of John, Barnabas, William, Mary, Katherine Hare, children of the late pledged their loyalty and offered to help re-settle the Palatine immigrants who Lt. Henry Hare; Upper Canada Land Petitions “H” Bundle 4, 1798; RG1, L 3, Vol. had been promised safe passage to the colony. Queen Anne ordered construction 224 (a), Petition No. 14, Public Archives Canada, Microfilm Reel C 2044. of a fort and encouraged settlement. 10The Petition of Allada Hare; Upper Canada Land Petitions “H” Bundle 8, 1806- 3 Henry Hare name variations for surname include Heer/ Hair/ Haire/ Harr and 1807; RG1, L 3, Vol. 226, Petition No. 72, Public Archives Canada, Microfilm Reel for first name include Henrich/ Heinrich/ Henrick/ Harry. C 2046, Image 58,59,60. 4 Frontiersmen of New York Vol. 1 Simms 1882 pp 503, 504 11The Petition of Mary Weegar, Upper Canada Land Petitions “W” Bundle Misc, 5“A List of Persons in the hands of Congress belonging to the Corps of Rangers, 1791 -1838; RG1, L 3, Vol. 547, Petition No. 112, Public Archives Canada, Microfilm Royalists & Their Families.” Reel C 2969, Image 242,243,244. 6The Frontiersman of New York, Jeptha R. Simms, Albany, N.Y., 1883, VOL. II, pp 12The Petition of Barnabas, William Hare, children of the late Lt. Henry Hare and 241-244. Allada Vrooman; Upper Canada Land Petitions 1796-1837, “V Misc” Bundle; RG1, 7Captain Andrew Porter’s Journal, ed. Jay H. Jakovic, Dutch Settlers Society of L 3, Vol. 224 (a), Petition No. 17, Public Archives Canada, Microfilm Reel C 2842. Albany Yearbook, Vol. 44, 1972-1974, Albany, N.Y., pp 6, 7, 9, and 10. 22 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 23 JoUrNEy BACk IN tImE Grand Lake New Brunswick
BY TREVOR ANGELL UE
n late April 2018 we embarked on a journey back in time to see IGrand Lake New Brunswick. Looking back we were fortunate to get away before the extensive ood happened! e historical angle of this trip was well-satis ed with ‘seeing’ the places associated with my Sypher & Albright Loyalist Families. Historically, John Albright UE had been a member of the 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Loyalist Regiment. e New Brunswick Archives held evidence of John being a POW following his being taken at > Allan Sypher and Trevor Angell UE at the Sypher Cove sign. Fort Ninety Six, South Carolina, on 28 Coming forward somewhat in of things suggest he operated lodging August 1781, as illustrated in Bobby John’s life, he held property at what as well as a store. His land location on Gilmer Moss: e Loyalists in the is now the Red Bank Cemetery just the Northwest shore of the Grand Lake siege of Fort Ninety Six. Muster Rolls north of Chipman, New Brunswick. would have made it feasible to traverse indicate John was held by the Rebels e 28 October 1818 Quit Claim, his the waterways to Gagetown or even St. until the end of the Revolution. Family executed for his property, lined John to out t his enterprise. up perfectly with the physical location Lodewick was an industrious sort as of the Cemetery. Evidently John was several Lots of Land were held not only buried on the land he farmed and at by him but also his collective Family some time gave way to the inception of from the late 1700’s into the 1900’s. the Cemetery. John’s descendents are Much like his contemporary Loyalist, spread across Canada to this day. John Albright UE, Lodewick Sypher Lodewick Sypher UE was my UE had lost a great deal of property Loyalist Ancestor too and le a trail of in the Revolution, both real estate and development in the Grand Lake area. cash, according to the compensation He was a notable Grand Lake gure claims. Evidently Lodewick had even and, from the terms in his 1820 will, spent time in a Rebel Provost in the some things came to light about his early part of the Revolution before he life. Although not speci ed, Lodewick managed to escape and make his way to had to be operating a Trading Post or New York City circa 1776. Store. At his 1823 passing, Lodewick Before leaving Fredericton in had in excess of 470 pounds ‘owing’ to advance of the ood we toured the old Sypher Cemetery at the grave- him in his accounts! Loyalist Cemetery, which was truly a > stone of our mutual ancestors: John Also noted in his Inventory taken was thrill to see! Tompkins Sypher & his wife, Elizabeth Allbright. ‘8 beds’ and ‘scales & weights’ which sort
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> Ben Franklin and his son William Franklin. uch of the blame for how a compromise before open warfare. ARTICLE V: the Loyalists were treated Second, Franklin at age 70, at least Maer the Treaty of Paris in the homey/ folky tradition that It is agreed that Congress shall (1783) that ended America’s rst has come down to us through Walt earnestly recommend it to the civil war, can be laid at the feet of Disney, has never been presented as legislatures of the respective states one of the least-faulted Founding the nasty, vindictive, and personal- to provide for the restitution of all Fathers: Benjamin Franklin (1706- axe grinding old coot he apparently estates, rights, and properties, which 1790). is may come as a surprise was. have been con scated belonging to to casual students of the American Aer Franklin was posted to real British subjects; and also of the Revolution. For one thing, Franklin Paris to hammer out a treaty, he estates, rights, and properties of persons wasn’t one of the early rebrands stunned his fellow-delegates by resident in districts in the possession of of the rebellion, like crazy Samuel continually obstructing progress his Majesties’ arms and who have not Adams. Early on, Franklin even on the last point he had reluctantly borne arms against the said United believed that his personal presence agreed to negotiate: Article V of the States. in Parliament, to which he was sent Treaty of Paris, the one about being If you imagine that Article V was as Colonial Observer, could lead to nice to Loyalists. interpreted by the Loyalists and by
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he knew would be rejected by the things, including a libertine. ere British, and that that rejection would are erotic period sketches easily necessitate him recommending to found on the Internet of Franklin Congress a return to open war. getting lap danced by the wandering Franklin produced the warm wives of French diplomats. Even in and fuzzy Article V, but included his younger days, Franklin was quite two important deal breakers. First, the rounder. One of his escapades, by turning “forgiveness” over to the with his chambermaid, produced individual states, Franklin knew an illegitimate son, William (1730- that any “earnestly recommended” 1815), who was raised by Franklin recommendations from his peace and his common-law wife, Deborah commission would be Dead On Read. To his credit, Franklin openly Arrival in those legislatures. Second, he “acknowledged” William as his only was certain that the phrase “real British son. Franklin and Deborah later had subjects” would be, and was, interpreted a daughter, Sarah. Franklin cared by the Congress as meaning only the enough about the political optics and Rebels, and not the Loyalists. his son, to include him in his kite- ying Franklin as Disney portrayed him. Rather than being relieved, the experiments. In return, William set out > Loyalists’ problems were aggravated, to make himself a “legitimate” son in British as the ful llment of the promise but this did not bother Franklin at all. every way, but the legal one he couldn’t from King George III to protect his In fact, he was happy about it. Similarly, change and, to make his father proud supporters in America, you’re right. Franklin knew that there would be of him, which he did, for a time, by If you imagine that Franklin had large numbers of Loyalists asking for becoming the Royal Governor of New any intention of actually helping the assistance from the British, and that Jersey, with a little pull of some strings Loyalists, you’re wrong. Franklin’s any attempts to achieve full restitution, by his Founding Father. successful eort to block the good re-assimilation, or normalization But when Ben changed his views intentions of the Crown by subterfuge, would be doomed to failure because about his loyalty to the Empire, son deception, and betting on the darker it would cost too much, and this made William didn’t, and when Ben crossed angels of his fellow-citizens’ need for him even happier. the Rubicon into sedition, William revenge, is why your ancestors moved Why was Franklin so vengeful? refused to follow. Old Ben considered to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, e First American International this a “stab in the back” rather than Quebec, and all the other places. Polymath was, by de nition, a lot of simply a dierence of opinion, and Even fellow-delegate and rst Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, was shocked at Franklin’s obstinacy, that only grew as the Founding Father came under increasing pressure from the British delegates as well as his fellow- American representatives to soen his rock hard animus toward the 100,000 Loyalists and bring America’s First Civil War to an honorable end. Toward the conclusion of negotiations, even the expected Hardest Liner of All, General George Washington, had had enough of Franklin’s pettifogging, and urged him to include more accommodating language, which Franklin nally did. But Franklin got the word back to Congress that any serious attempt to normalize relations with the Loyalists, would force him to insist on British Ben Franklin with French lady on his lap - sketch. reparations to the Americans, that >
24 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 25 THOSE FEUDIN’ FRANKLINS thus began the open and permanent chamber maid has been suggested, break in their relationship. is was while he was a law student at the Middle the reason Franklin decided to hate all Temple. Naming your rstborn aer a Loyalists (psychologists have a name building did not bode well for either for this), and probably explains why father or son. William immediately Franklin delayed any nal agreement put Temple into foster care and went on Article V until he had worked out o to Barbados to marry an heiress, a the wording to neuter it. legitimate one, legitimately. Who suered more from father But on his way to work out the and son’s disgust with each other: Ben, Treaty, the elder Franklin found Temple William, or the thousands of Loyalists? in London and took the 16-year-old It certainly wasn’t Ben, who died six with him to witness negotiations. years later, beloved of his countrymen, Franklin raised him as the Patriot a for-publication “widower,” rich, fat, son he never had (more laughter). and famous, and full of his years (age William Temple grew up to sire his 84). He had written Will out of his own illegitimate children, of course: will, except for the land that Franklin rst eodore Joseph (died age 1), owned in Nova Scotia, which he le and later a daughter Ellen Hanbury (d. to his disloyal Loyalist illegitimate son. 1875), and then embarked on a series You can insert the old man’s vindictive William Temple Franklin (1762-1823). of business failures, dying in Paris in laughter here. Before this, William had > poverty. With Ellen’s daughter, Maria, been arrested by the Americans and had the Loyalist branch of the House of nd myself deserted in my old Age by my spent two years in the Old Litch eld Franklin apparently ends, although only Son, and not only deserted, but to Gaol, “a long log structure that was the American branch continues to live nd him taking up arms against me, in a the second worst in Connecticut”, for out its clouded ancestry among the Cause wherein my good Fame, Fortune, having organized some British military descendants of Sarah Franklin Bache, and Life were all at stake.” units. Friends of William had appealed Ben’s daughter with Barbara Read, in In other words, it was Franklin, to both Franklin and Washington the country her father founded. according to Franklin, not William nor to pardon the lad, but Franklin and even the Loyalists, who had suered! Washington chose to ignore them William’s death in 1813, twenty- (more laughter). William was nally * Much of the insight in this article three years aer his famous father’s exiled to England, where he died. His comes from the marvelous research passing, didn’t signal the end of the nal return to America was in a co n. done by Maya Jasano, whose House of Franklin, however. By the In one last letter to his disobedient Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists time of the Revolution, William had son, the 84-year-old Franklin wrote to in the Revolutionary War Vintage had his own illegitimate son, William him: Books. New York, 2012, is a fantastic Temple Franklin (1762-1823), so read. “Nothing has ever hurt me so much and named because William conceived a ected me with such keen Sensations as to him of an unknown female, another
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26 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 27 loyAlISt CEmEtEry proJECt Loyalist Burial Site Commemoration BY STUART MA NSON UE Project eneath the ground, in numerous cemeteries located in the catchment area of the UELAC St. BLawrence Branch, serving Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Counties in Ontario, lie the mortal remains of Loyalists. e Branch launched a project in 2018 to formally recognize these sacred locations. Its mandate: To identify and con rm the locations and to erect enduring plaques to recognize the special importance of these sites. e rst two plaques will be erected and unveiled in June 2019: one at Trinity Anglican Church in downtown Cornwall, Ontario, and the other one at St. Andrew’s United Church in rural Bainsville, Ontario. For more information on this project, and updated information on the June 2019 unveilings, please visit our branch website, uelac.org/st-lawrence/, where we have a special series of pages on local Loyalist cemeteries. You can also contact directly Stuart Manson UE, the Branch Executive Member who is the project lead. He can be reached at [email protected]. We are also keen to receive donations that will enable us to continue the project with additional local sites. We can arrange for tax receipts for any donation. The burial site plaques measure one foot square It’s a great project that promotes the work of the > and are cast in aluminum, finely crafted by the firm UELAC and Loyalist history in Eastern Ontario. It also “Signs by McDougall” in Waterloo, Ontario. creates positive partnerships with the local churches and organizations who own the burial sites.
Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery June 11th, 2019. 7:00-8:00 p.m. 105 Second St. West, Cornwall, ON.
St. Andrew’s United Church June 12th, 2019. 10:00-11:00 a.m. 21102 Second Con. Road, Bainsville, ON.
> Trinity Anglican Church in downtown Cornwall, Ontario.
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homas Shreve, my fourth can be gleaned from the following great-grandfather, description published in e was born on 02 Gentleman’s Magazine. TJanuary 1755, most ABOU T T H E AUTHOR likely in New York.1 “ is City is situated Dorothy Meyerhof, a retired He was descended upon the point of a chemist and research manager, from a long line of small island . . . It has pursued her hobby of geneal- omas Shreves, contains between ogy longer than she cares to ad- for whom the two and three mit. Her lineage to three Loyalist earliest record thousand houses, ancestors has been proven: Thom- in British North and sixteen or as Shreve UE and Thomas Cutler America was that seventeen thousand UE, both of whom settled in Nova of a colonist of inhabitants; is Scotia, and Ruliff Ostrom UE who Rhode Island in tolerably well built, 2 made Upper Canada his home. 1675. e father of and has several good As is the case with many Loyal- the omas Shreve of houses. e streets are ists, she has one Patriot ancestor, this article was a sheri paved and very clean, but William Hartshorne, of Virginia. in New York who died in in general they are narrow . Her genealogical activities include 1772, when his son omas . . e whole length of the town being Librarian for the Sir Guy was age 17. His wife, Mary (Seymour) is something more than a mile; the Carleton Branch, UELAC, and Shreve, remarried in 1777 to Lt. breadth of it about half an [sic] one. e Registrar for the Bytown Chap- Paul Dayrelle, a British soldier who situation is, I believe, esteemed healthy; ter (Ottawa), National Society remained in the United States aer the but is subject to one great inconvenience, 3 Daughters of the American Rev- Revolution. e Dayrelle family can which is the want of esh water; so that olution. She is also a member of be traced back to the Domesday Book the inhabitants are obliged to have it 4 the Ottawa and Quinte Branches in England. brought om springs at some distance of the Ontario Genealogical So- omas attended King’s College in out of town. ere are several public ciety, the British Isles Family His- New York City. He seems to have been buildings, though but few that deserve tory Society of Greater Ottawa, a high-spirited and irreverent young attention. e College, when nished, and the Genealogical Association student. University records for 1771 will be exceedingly handsome: it is to of Nova Scotia. and 1772 note that he was punished for be built on three sides of a quadrangle, various misdeeds: taking teacups from onting Hudson’s or North River, and another student’s room, missing part will be the most beautifully situated of of an exam, being absent from prayers, any college, I believe, in the world. At and not handing in an assignment. He present only one wing is nished, which did, however, receive his Bachelor of is of stone, and consists of twenty-four Arts degree in 1773 and his Masters in sets of apartments; each having a large 1776.5 sitting-room, with a study, and bed- An idea of what New York City chamber. ey are obliged to make use of and King’s College were like in 1774 some of these apartments for a master’s
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lodge, library, chapel, hall &c., but as took the 1st and 2nd Battalions to Several sources report that omas soon as the whole shall be completed, Georgia as part of Lt.-Col. Campbell’s Shreve became a Captain during the there will be proper apartments for each invasion eet.15 Revolutionary War.17, 18, 19 is is in of these oces. e name of it is King’s omas Shreve may not have contrast to the summary of his service College.”6 accompanied his battalion to Georgia. with the battalions of DeLancey’s In Muster Rolls for the 2nd Battalion Brigade and his petition for a land King’s College received its Royal in Savannah, Georgia, under Major grant in 1784, both of which give his Charter in October 1754 and began omas Bowden, dated 24 February rank at the end of the Revolutionary classes in June of that year. By the 1781 to 24 June 1781, he was an War as Lieutenant.20, 21 A letter written time of the American Revolution, it Ensign1 serving as Assistant Barracks in 1816, by Abigail Gallop Shreve, was the richest institution of higher Master at New York. e Muster Rolls widow, to the British Secretary of education in the thirteen colonies. It for 25 October 1781 to 24 December War, requesting a larger pension, was also a bastion of Loyalist support. 1781 do not refer to his service in provides further evidence of his rank of In 1775, the Loyalist, Oxford- New York. However, a Muster Roll Lieutenant. educated President, Myles Cooper, for 25 April 1782 to 24 June 1782 for was forced from the College by a mob [Aer being appointed Ensign, he] intent on tarring and feathering him. ______. . . “continued to serve in that rank Although four men were designated as until 25 April 1782. During the ve graduates in 1776, the commencement According to campaigns that took place between these exercises were cancelled because of two periods, Mr. Shreve was constantly the missing President. omas Shreve an unconfirmed with his Reg’t., which was stationed must have been among these as his along with Sir Henry Clinton’s troop of Masters diploma was signed in 1776 account, Thomas Horse for the defence of the lines around by Benj. Moore, President Pro Tem.7 was imprisoned New York. On the 25th of April, 1782 e College was quietly dissolved for Ensign Shreve was promoted to the rank the duration of the Revolution and during the of Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales re-established in 1783 as Columbia American Volunteers and soon aer was 8 Revolutionary War College (now Columbia University). attached to the Barracks Department According to an uncon rmed for reading the in the City of New York, where he account, omas was imprisoned remained until the evacuation of it by his during the Revolutionary War for prayers for the Majesty’s troops in 1783. At that period reading the prayers for the King and King and Royal the Regiment to which Lieutenant Royal Family in church. Upon his Shreve belonged was ordered to Halifax release he joined the Loyalist forces.9 Family in church. in Nova Scotia, and there again he was Whatever his motivation, he joined appointed an Assistant Barracks Master, the 2nd Battalion of DeLancey’s ______in which capacity he had most arduous Brigade on 03 September 1776 duties to perform. In that oce Lieut. under the command of Col. George Shreve continued until 1784, when, his Brewerton.10, 11 Oliver De Lancey Captain Haws Hatch’s Company, 1st regiment being reduced, he was placed on recruited this corps from the Loyalists Battalion, lists Ensign omas Shreve half pay, and retired.”22 of New York, Westchester, Kings and again at New York. At the end of the It appears he received the rank of Queens Counties of New York State. War he was a Lieutenant in the Prince Captain by warrant about July 1780 It was to consist of three battalions of of Wales American Volunteers serving with the 3rd Battalion, DeLancey’s 500 men each.12 Oliver DeLancey was on half-pay. A summary of his career Brigade, and subsequently retired early the brother of James DeLancey, Lt. states “Lieutenant omas Shrieves in 1782. On 25 April 1782 he became Governor of New York, who, in 1754, [sic], born in America, a Gentleman, a Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales’ signed the Royal Charter for King’s served 7 years in Provincial Corps.” In American Regiment. He was Assistant College. e regiment became known reference to his service in DeLancey’s Barracks Master in Halifax in 1784. as “DeLancey’s Brigade.”13, 14 He raised Brigade, the name Shreve was spelled From October 1783 until 24 December the brigade for the defence of Long variously Shraves, Shreave, Shreve, 1789 he was on the military payroll as Island. In December 1778, however, Shrieve, Shrieves, and Shrives.16 a half-pay Provincial Lieutenant.23 It Col. Brewerton and Lt.-Col. Cruger is interesting that while DeLancey’s
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Brigade and the Prince of Wales’ omas Shreve took up his duties in post-Revolutionary Nova Scotia, American Regiment were evacuated to in September 1787 when, according was poor and unwilling or unable to the area that became New Brunswick, to church records presumably in his support a minister. Rev. Shreve took omas Shreve and his family went to handwriting, his rst o cial act was up his post as a Missionary of the Halifax, Nova Scotia.24, 25 the baptism of infant Frances Phinney Society for the Propagation of the On 20 April 1777, while serving on 23 September 1787.32 Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) that in the Loyalist forces, omas Shreve It is hard to imagine a greater provided nancial support. e SPG married Catherine Ash eld, whose contrast between the relative comfort directed its missionaries to travel cousin, Lewis Morris, was a signer and sophistication of New York City to extra-Parochial areas. us, Rev. of the American Declaration of as described in 1774, and the harsh Shreve’s duties extended well beyond Independence. omas and Catherine realities of the Nova Scotia countryside the boundaries of the Parrsboro parish had three daughters: Mary, Elizabeth on the north shore of the Minas Basin as de ned in 1786. He was the only and Catherine. Mary, their eldest when Rev. omas Shreve settled Church of England clergyman in a 160- daughter, died in 1780 before the there. On one of his infrequent visits mile stretch. Settlements under his care family le New York for Nova Scotia.26, to the area in 1790, Bishop Charles included Amherst, sixty miles away, 27 omas and his family took up Inglis described it brie y, “ e country Ratchford Harbour and Half-Way residence in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. In new and rough. [Rev. Shreve’s house] River, as well as the 100 miles along the 1786, the church wardens and vestry of commands a ne view of the Basin of coast from Cobequid to Apple River, the new Loyalist town petitioned the Minas.”33 Nevertheless, Rev. Shreve Truro, Onslow and Londonderry.38 Bishop of London recommending that determined to stay, tend to his far- He travelled on horseback on trails omas Shreve be ordained in England ung parishioners and raise his family. through the forest and along the and appointed as their missionary. e e rst years brought sorrow to him. beaches, and in winter by snowshoe. In Parish of Parrsboro was established by His rst wife, Catherine Ash eld, died 1794 Rev. Shreve wrote the SPG, order of the Governor-in-Council 20 in 1789.34, 35 In 1792 he married Abigail July 1786 as follows: Gallop, daughter of Antill Gallop, his “... I have not received one shilling fellow-petitioner for land in 1788. om the parishioners towards my support “Beginning at Swann Cove about omas was 37 and Abigail just over . . . e labour and the sacri ces that I two miles to the Eastward of Chegnecto 20. ey had nine children together: have been obliged to make . . . have not River, and thence to run North Ten omas, Caleb, Rebecca, James, Mary been small; but the success has fully made Miles, thence Westerly to Parrsborough, Ann, and Martha who were born in amends for all. Were I to be particular aforesaid, and then bounded on the Parrsboro and Lucy, Charles, and in giving you an account of my fatigues North and West by said Parrsborough Sophia who were born in Lunenburg, when on these excursions, I am a aid and on the South by Minas Basin, Nova Scotia.36, 37 that you would think that I exaggerated. comprehending the Public Land, on the e Parrsboro parish, like many I will, therefore, only say my common East side Chignecto River, and all the lots on both sides the Road, leading om thence to Francklin Manor.”28
omas Shreve travelled to London before receiving o cial approval but was successful in securing the Parish. He resumed his studies for the priesthood and was ordained as a Deacon on 25 April 1787. A little over a month later, on 03 June 1787, he was ordained as a Priest and, three days later, was licensed to perform the functions of the Ministerial O ce of Priest at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.29, 30 An account of his return to Nova Scotia describes the trip as “a tedious eight-week passage to Halifax.” 31 Rev.
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fair is sh and potatoes; and if I can get a spare blanket to lay on the oor before the re, I conceive myself fortunate.”39
To support his growing family, Rev. Shreve supplemented his income by acting as Clerk of the Parrsboro Post O ce, as Town Clerk and as Registrar of Deeds. He also registered animals sharing a common pasture. In addition, he applied for, and received, large tracts of land. Following his release from the Army, he was granted land along with Antill Gallop, his future father-in-law, “on the north side, the Gutt or Entrance, into Minas Basin and within the in 1790. is was called by Bishop sermon was presented to his grandson, County of Halifax.” is grant was Lot Charles Inglis into the conduct of Dean Richmond Shreve, in 1922. e No. 50 of 500 acres. At this time he did Rev. John Eagleson of neighbouring inscription on the volume refers to not receive additional requests for 100 Cumberland County. e inquiry Rev. omas Shreve as “Rector of St. acres each for his wife, two daughters resulted in Rev. Eagleson’s dismissal for George’s, Parrsborough, and P. G. C.2 and two servants.40 In June 1788, as drunkenness and incompetence.45 Mr. for the Province of Nova Scotia.” 49 e the rst Missionary at Parrsboro, he Eagleson, however, was not willing to three subjects of his sermon were “Love applied for lots 9, 10 and 11, consisting submit to this charge. Bishop Inglis’s of the Brotherhood, the fear of God and of 800 acres, in the Parish of Parrsboro. journal contains the following account: the honour of the King . . . three of our In July he was granted lots 9 and 10 for rst and most universally prevailing a total of 550 acres.41 In October 1789 “Mr. Shreve informed me that Mr. principles.” His continuing and he again applied for land as the “ rst Eagleson persisted in asserting his unwavering loyalty to the British crown Missionary appointed to the Parish of innocence of the Charge of Drunkenness, was emphasized in his comments on Parrsboro,” this time for Lots 3 and 4 and set his parishioners at de ance to honouring the King: on the east side of Cumberland Road. prove it. He also informed me that Mr. He was granted these lots as well, Eagleson, on his return home aer the “-- Honour him, who, in union with the which consisted of 587 acres bringing scrutiny into his conduct last year, got Lords and Commons of the nation, forms the total land granted to him to 1,937 drunk at Parrsborough, slept some time such an excellent constitution, as with all acres.42 in the new Church, om whence he was its excellencies, is not to be found in all the As soon as he arrived in Parrsboro, taken, carried to a house and ung into world besides. -- Honour Him who, as a Rev. Shreve worked to build a church. a bed with his boots, clothes etc., on and husband, father, iend is a shining patern In 1788, omas William Moore unable to help himself.”46 for the best of imitations . . . generously donated 150 acres of land “In short if we obey not this for the purpose. In 1789 Rev. Shreve e general lack of congregational admonition, we forfeit our characters, applied for lots 10 and 11 consisting support for Anglican ministers in both as good men and as Masons.”50 of 623 acres on the east side of the post-revolutionary Nova Scotia did Cumberland Road for a Glebe, and lots not change during the next decade. To be continued... 5 and 6 consisting of 625 acres on the Rev. Shreve moved to the Parish of west side of the Road for a school.43 St. Lunenburg because he could not Part two of this article will be in George’s Anglican Church, Parrsboro, perform his duties eectively with so the Fall 2019 issue, describing was consecrated by Bishop Inglis on little support from the parishioners of Reverend Shreve in Lunenburg and 10 August 1794.44 e original church Parrsboro.47, 48 One of his last recorded beyond. has long since disappeared. A cairn and duties while there was to preach a plaque (Figures 2 and 3) now mark the sermon at St. Paul’s Church in Halifax Editor’s Note: Individuals wishing to obtain place where it once stood. before the Provincial Grand Lodge of the endnotes and other sources of this article Rev. Shreve and Rev. William Ancient Free and Accepted Masons should email: [email protected] Twining participated in an inquiry on 24 June 1803. A bound copy of this
30 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 31 PART ONE BENNETT’S ISLAND: 18 FEBRUARY 1777 New Jersey’s Forgotten revolutionary Battle C HRIS HA Y UE n the early morning hours of 18 ABOU T T H E AUTHOR February 1777, Colonel John INeilson, of the Second Regiment, Chris Hay UE, a long-time mem- Middlesex County Militia, launched ber of the Chilliwack, British Co- a well-planned surprise attack on the lumbia Branch of the UELAC, is British military outpost of Bennett’s a graduate of the University of Island, New Jersey. e main mission British Columbia with majors in was to disarm this new strategic both History and Anthropology. post and capture Richard Witham It was while raising his family that Stockton, the infamous local Tory Chris was able to return to his guide to Lieutenant Colonel William passion of history after his intro- Harcourt, who just recently, on 13 duction to his UEL family history. December 1776, had played a key role This was followed by his discov- in the capture of General Charles Lee, ery in 2000 of a lost Vancouver second-in-command to the American Colonel John Neilson, 2nd Middlesex Rock Garden in Stanley Park, a forces under General George > Militia. Although John Neilson later 1 National Historic Site of Canada. Washington. e story of the surprise received several higher military ranks, Begun in 1911 by his great-grand- attack on this strategic site and the he still remained documented as father, John Montgomery, it was signi cance of the capture of Loyalist, Colonel John Neilson. later determined to be the first Major Richard Stockton, had long public garden in the City of Van- been forgotten until an amazing chain recognized American Revolutionary couver. On 15 May 2013, the of events led Stockton’s h great War author, Christian McBurney, Stanley Park Rock Garden was grandson, Chris Hay UE, and well- to unravel this intriguing tale of 2 recognized as an official heritage Revolutionary history. landscape of the City of Vancou- Soon aer establishing their ver and, in 2015, was recognized new winter command post at New with a City of Vancouver heritage Brunswick in January 1776, British award. In 2016 Chris was chosen o cers had quickly realized the as the winner of the annual Brit- adjacent Raritan River to be the safest ish Columbia Genealogical Soci- and most e cient supply route to their ety’s ‘Most Improved Genealogy nearby post at Perth Amboy. is was Contest.’ He won for his story on soon to change as the local American Major Richard Witham Stockton, Militia Commander, Colonel John ‘Family Mystery Revealed After Neilson, of the Second Middlesex 240 Years.’ After a varied career Militia, had also realized the military Chris recently retired from Cana- importance of controlling the da Post and is now greatly enjoy- surrounding road access routes and the ing the uncovering of new discov- strategic Raritan River waterway. eries in his genealogical pursuits. In order to ensure the unobstructed use of this river, the British had quickly > Major Richard Stockton 32 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 33 established military posts at Raritan General Charles Lee.11 American Landing and Bennett’s [formerly General, Israel Putnam, in a letter to Lawrence] Island, both at key locations the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, on the lower Raritan River. e post at described Stockton as the enemy’s Bennett’s Island lay about three miles “renowned land pilot.” 12 Stockton had south east of New Brunswick, New just recently been identi ed in the Jersey, on a high point of land with media as having been involved in an strategic river views as far away as the attack on American troops at Drake’s City of Perth Amboy.3 e British Farm near Metuchen, New Jersey, on had occupied a large farm house here 01 February 1777.13 is notoriety, as with numerous outbuildings in order well as his role in the capture of General to build their new post.4 Stockton and Charles Lee, had given the Americans his o cers had made the main house an urgent desire for his apprehension. both their headquarters and sleeping eir chance came soon, on or quarters. around 17 February 1777, when an Just below the new British post unnamed deserter from Bennett’s at Bennett’s Island, Neilson’s militia Major General Israel Putnam. Island arrived at Colonel Neilson’s post forces had established a favourite and > at Cranbury about een miles south of most annoying tactic of harassing Cortland Skinner, a former attorney Bennett’s Island and provided enough British ships using the “Roundabout” general of New Jersey and commander vital details of the new British post for [see map] as an ambuscade.5 Located of the New Jersey Volunteers, sent the American’s to plan a quick attack14. on the Raritan River within view of Major Richard Stockton and one It appears, from Neilson’s documents, Bennett’s Island, the Roundabout hundred soldiers of the same Loyalist that the deserter had likely advised him was close to where the mouth of corps to reinforce the new British post of the lax guard, the stockade to mount, the South River meets the Raritan. at Bennett’s Island.9 Skinner hoped the sleeping arrangements for Stockton Here, at a sharp bend in the river, to quell any further military action and his troops, and the presence of boats were much more vulnerable as and to prevent the Americans from an additional sixty British Troops they navigated slowly through this controlling the heights along the lower stationed across a strategic bridge over particular stretch. e rst use of Raritan. Richard W. Stockton had rst Lawrence Brook, at nearby Long eld’s this ambuscade appears to be on 03 been appointed Captain of the New farm.15 Most important was the news February 1777 when the senior general Jersey Volunteers in August 1776 when of the name of the new commander of of the Continental Army in New the unit was stationed on Staten Island the post, Major Richard W. Stockton, Jersey, Major General Israel Putnam, and still gathering troops.10 He was later the “renowned Land Pilot.” Stockton stationed at Princeton, ordered “50 promoted to Major for his services as commanded only Captain Dunham, good riemen” from Princeton to the the main Guide who helped to capture four subalterns and about one hundred Roundabout “to annoy the enemy’s boats that are passing and repassing with provisions and stores.” 6 Colonel Neilson also added additional support ordering “Sergt. John Voorhees with 7 others of that Co. go with the Rie Men as Pilots.” 7 On 05 February, the “very advantageously placed” ri emen spotted a boat coming down the river from Brunswick with about twelve men on its deck. According to their o cers’ report to General Putnam, twenty- ve Pennsylvania sharpshooters “gave them a how do you do . . .” 8 is action had alerted the British military who responded This map gives a good overview of the Raritan River from Brunswick to Amboy quickly to this new American threat. > where all of the story actions took place. The smaller house helps to show the actual Immediately, Brigadier General location of the island and house.
32 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 33 A map showing the > current battle site location. Source Wikimapia.
privates from several Battalions of the Benjamin Ogden, a young private in & endeavour to surround them & cut o New Jersey Volunteers.16 the raiding party.)22 ere they waited their communication with the house --- Neilson, recognizing the opportunity, until the moon went down at 4:00 a.m. Piloted by Ogden & a deserter.” 23 A third planned for a quick attack, and stated and then moved on to Bennett’s Island.” detachment of men, led by Lieutenant his objectives of not only disarming this Neilson describes what happened Nathaniel Hunt, the moment they saw strategic Raritan River post but also of next: “ e main Body the moment they the house was surrounded, hurried to capturing its infamous commander, got over the causeway at the foot of the Hill capture a bridge that led over Lawrence Richard W. Stockton.17 Colonel Brook to Long eld’s farm, thus Neilson immediately sent a message to ______completing the conquest of Bennett’s General Putnam at Princeton requesting Island. Seeing themselves surrounded, additional reinforcements if available. At sunset and with no avenue of escape, Major Putnam’s response was quick and Stockton and his men surrendered.24 favourable. On 17 February, he returned Neilson ordered A handful of soldiers under Stockton’s a note to Neilson stating: “I am pleased command, perhaps thirty, escaped at your forming a party against Stockton his men to and made their way back to New & I wish you success.” 18 Brunswick. In addition, a Captain On the evening of 17 February begin their with ve or six men of the New Jersey 1777, Colonel Neilson, along with one march, guided Volunteers, retreated to a cellar in one hundred and y men of the Middlesex of the two dwelling houses, and tried Militia, and y ri emen of the Militia by Andrew to hide there. Neilson’s men discovered from Bedford, Pennsylvania, sent as the position but, rather than engage reinforcements by General Putnam, McDowell, in a re ght against a well defended marched in a surprise attack on the and, although post, or burn the house to the ground British post at Bennett’s Island. 19 At and force the Loyalists out, Neilson le sunset Neilson ordered his men to a brisk night, them unharmed.25 begin their march, guided by Andrew Colonel Neilson’s force captured McDowell, and, although a brisk night, with the ground Major Stockton, Captain Dunham, with the ground covered in snow, no covered in Lieutenant Francis Fraser, one Ensign, storm threatened. e Patriot troops a Volunteer and y- ve privates. made good time.20 snow, no storm Neilson continues with a detailed To be continued... rst hand description of the surprise threatened. attack in his personal o cer’s order Part two of this article will be in book: ______the Fall 2019 issue, pick up the “ e rst stop was at David consequences or ramifications of Williamson’s Tavern, which lasted until onting the house (where we Expected the loss to the British of Bennett’s 11:00 p.m., and om there they went to have met with a Sentry) rush’d up to Island. on to ‘old Ogden’s,’ within one mile of the house with the utmost Expedition in Bennett’s house.21 (Ogden’s house, order to surround the house, which was Editor’s Note: Individuals wishing to obtain located one and a half miles inland done --- Piloted by McDowell & Fisher. the endnotes and other sources of this article from the Raritan River, on the South At the same time a detachment being the should email: [email protected] River, was likely the family home of Rie Men to hasten up to the guard house
34 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 35 n June 1783, some 1,330 Admiral Digby for his patronage to (Signed) Edward Brudenell United Empire Loyalists their infant City, I evacuatedH ONOURINGfrom New he has been pleased to fulfill theirOUR As Brudenell’s D ONORS letter states, York following the end of the wishes Amos Botsford, Chief Agent American Revolution 2018and by D permittingONA themTIONS: to call their newJ ANforUAR the YLoyalists, JU wroteNE to arrived in the Basin of Annapolis settlement after his name, and in Admiral Digby for his consent in Nova Scotia to establish a their behalf I beg leave also to solicit to name the settlement on the settlement.IN 1HONOUR e choice of OF the your Annapolis IBasinN HONOUR aer OF nameM forARY that CsettlementRAWLEY and him. BotsfordROBER wasT a MORROW how it was obtained is described Loyalist who had been in the letterbook of Edward born in Newtown, Brudenell,Hamilton an Agent Branch for the Connecticutt,Hamilton Branch settlement of the Loyalists in graduated from Yale Digby.2I NIt wasHONOUR decided to nameOF College, IN studiedHONOUR OF it aerGRA RearNT Admiral, HOWELL e law and JObecameHN anHAMMILL Honourable Admiral Robert attorney prior to the Digby, who commanded the American Revolution. British HamiltonFleet in New Branch York. 4 He refused toAvril take Coffey In October 1783, the the oath of allegiance followingIN HONOURLetter was sent OF to Excellencys permissionIN HONOUR for the OFto the new state constitutionIN HONOUR OF Governor John Parr of Nova same purpose, as your approbation and was excludedCATHER fromINE HARDING ScotiaNOR fromEEN Edward ST BrudenellAPLEY of their conduct DARwill be forYL the CURRIE practising law. His properties in New York, that has been great means of forwarding their were con scated and he went transcribedFred as follows Hayward3: honest endeavoursDonald in the Elevation W. Booth to New York City. He Markacted as Harding of a Maritime town under an Agent for Loyalists and Sir Sir,U ELAC SCHOLARSHIPyour Excellencys protection and Guy Carleton, Commander UELAC BRANCHES UELAC T he Loyalists nowFUND settling on the government. in Chief of North America, Basin of Annapolis in the Township sent him to Nova Scotia to of ConwayB. havingPurin, applied Ellen through Tree I have the HonorCarolyn to be Simpsonarrange for the settlementAllison Nelson their AgentGrand River Branch Your Excellencys mostFrans obedient Compeer & of the refugees scheduled to Mr. Botsford to His Excellency very Humble servant arrive during the ensuing year. U ELAC SCHOLARS H I P E NDOWM ENT FUND Col. John Butler Branch Vera Ash New Brunswick Branch Vancouver Branch Reg Eamer Saskatchewan Branch In Honour of Rebecca Fraser James R. Adair Brooke Skelton Vancouver Branch Lisa Dutton David G. Decker In Honour of Vona Smith Debbie Lewis Ivy Trumpour Jim & Shirley Lockhart In Memory Shirle McGimpsey Mary Anne Bethune of Briar Catharine Lockhart Kawartha Branch Albert Schepers Fred Johnson Governor Simcoe Branch Carl Stymiest Betty Fladager Allan Day Diane Faris David Hill Morrison Brian McConnell Bicentennial Branch Richard C. Nowell Mary F. Williamson Frans Compeer Abegweit Branch Roger & Muriel Reid London Branch Nova Scotia Branch Audrey Fox Marilyn Strang Dale & Brenda Carle Vancouver Branch Lorraine Cook Christine Manzer Dawn Horstead Lance Lidster Hugh Cowan Bonnie Schepers www.uelac.orgAssiniboine Branch Ivan & Amy Forsyth Robert Tordiff In Memory of Jean Marie Norry
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About identifying the correct person KATHIE RYCKMAN ANDER SON UE, D AR, PHD
y lineal ancestor, Albert Ryckman (1792-1870), son Mof Philip Ryckman (1755- 1849) and Rebecca Nagel, has been identi ed by family genealogists as a Loyalist who was granted 250 acres of land, Concession 1, Lot 27, in Prince Edward County, Ontario. In fact, Philip Ryckman bought “Lot No. 27, Township of Sophiasburgh, 1st Concession South West of Green Point.” Philip sold the land to his son, Albert (1792-1870), and Albert sold the Kathie at Gore Park, Hamilton. Her great-grandfather was born in Hamilton, and the land to his son, Edward (1834-1927). > family collection includes a picture of him standing in a similar place in Gore Park when Albert and Charity Warren’s son, John he returned to visit in 1924. Green Ryckman (1825-1910), married Amanda Elzina Ryckman (1834- 1893). Hamilton Branch of the United half-brothers on opposing sides of Philip was recognized as a Patriot Empire Loyalists. the American Revolutionary War for by the Daughters of the American John Ryckman (1738-1784) and American Independence. eir father Revolution. I received my DAR Susanna Bruyn/Brouwn/Brown’s son, was Tobias Ryckman (1711-1784?). membership certi cate on 05 July 2016. Edward (1763/67-1846), married Such a very interesting time in history. Another Albert Ryckman (1766- Ann Warren. Edward and Ann’s 1850), son of another John Ryckman son, John Warren Ryckman (1805- CAUTIONARY TALE (1730-1795) and Eunice Ward, was 1852), married Martha (Patty) a Loyalist on the basis of his family’s Smith. John Warren Ryckman and One Ryckman family genealogist claims about the service of John Martha’s daughter, Amanda Elzina writes: “It is proven beyond doubt, by Ryckman. is Albert received land Ryckman (1834-1893), married a ‘power of attorney’, given by Annetje through Orders in Council. John Green Ryckman (1825-1910), Jans (Anna or little Ann) and her sister, I am a descendant of one of four men bringing together two branches of Maritje (Mary), to a relative to collect a named John Ryckman on the Loyalist the Ryckman family. John Green sum of money due their mother om the Directory of United Empire Loyalists’ Ryckman is the great-grandson of West India Company; that their mother’s Association of Canada. John Ryckman Tobias Ryckman (1711-1784) and his name was Trijnje Jonas, a midwife, and (1738-1784) is my lineal ancestor. I second wife, Cornelis Daly. Amanda that Annetje’s husband was directly received my UELAC membership Elzina Ryckman is the second great- associated with that company.” certi cate on 04 August 2017. John’s granddaughter of Tobias and his rst e next paragraph begins, “Trijnje son, Edward (1763/67-1846), is listed wife, Maria Van Eps. Jonas was the mother of Albert Janse as among the Loyalist Ancestors on the Philip Ryckman (1755-1849?) and Ryckman.” She writes that Albert John Ryckman (1738-1784) were was born about 1647. “1605 Anneke
36 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 37 Jans born in Flekkeroy, Norway” and “Maritje Janse, born in 1603, in Flekkeroy was Anneke’s sister, both children of Tryntje Janse and Jan Janse (Ryckman).” Is it physically possible for the same woman to have given birth to children born in 1603, 1605 and 1647? Could Albert Janse Ryckman have “sisters” who were born forty-four and forty- two years before his birth? If Trijnje was 15 in 1603, when Maritje was born, could she have another daughter when she was 17, and a son, Albert Janse Ryckman, when she was 59? Kathie at New York Historical Society, Manhattan: three stained glass windows from Dutch > Reformed Church in Beverwijck, New Netherland (in 1664 became Albany, New York). According to the 1663 will of Eldert Gerbertsen Cruy and Albert’s mother, Tryntie Janse Ryckman, with Congress to oversee the Virginia hospitals Kathie Ryckman Anderson is a native Janse also translated as Jans/Jansen/ during the American Revolutionary of North Dakota, where her paternal Jansz/Janssz, Albert Janse Ryckman is War, becoming in e ect the rst Surgeon lineal second great grandparents and the son of Tryntie Janse Ryckman and General of the United States.” great-grandparents established farms Jan Janse Ryckman, the sole heir, age Note the dierence in spelling: in Dakota Territory in 1888. At the 16, if he was born in 1647, a minor to Ryckman and Rickman. e doctor’s University of North Dakota, Kathie be cared for until maturity. name is still on the roster, but now has earned her B.A. and M.A. in English. a red warning, “Problems have been She earned a PhD in journalism and ANOTHER discovered with at least one previously mass communication at the University veri ed paper. See ancestor’s full record.” of Texas at Austin. She has taught CAUTIONARY In addition, one name has been high school and college students and TALE THAT EVEN removed and my lineal ancestor, Philip worked as a writer and editor. Ryckman, has been added. She has compiled and written PROFESSIONAL ough information about William e Ryckman Family in Dakota and GENEALOGISTS “Rickman” is disputed, he owned North Dakota Prepared for the 125th MAKE ERRORS Kittiewan Plantation in Charles City Anniversary of the Ryckman Family County, Virginia. e plantation is Farm 1888 to 2013 (2013) and managed by the National Park Service RYCKMAN: One Family’s Journey When I began to research my and the plantation house is listed from the mid-1600s through 1887 Ryckman ancestors, the Daughters on the National Register of Historic (2017). of the American Revolution ancestor Places. At the Rickman Cemetery, a Kathie is a member of the United roster included eight men named tombstone lists “William Rickman, Empire Loyalists’ Association of “Ryckman,” as my surname has been Virginia, Director, Continental Hosp, Canada, Daughters of the American spelled since as early as a document in 1783.” A memorial provides additional Revolution, Dutch Settlers’ Society of 1663 in Beverwijck, New Netherland, information about Dr. Rickman Albany, and Society of Daughters of now Albany, New York, with (c.1731-1783), including “native of Holland Dames, Descendants of the occasional variations in spelling. As Hampshire England.” Ancient and Honorable Families of my ancestors were in Dutch New York, Ah, English. Rickman is English, New Netherland. I expected to nd the names from and Ryckman is Dutch. Not the same She is also descended from New York. I did not expect to nd family. Huguenots: Jesse de Forest, and “Ryckman” ancestors from Virginia, e ancestor list of United Empire Johannes de la Montagne, whose Tennessee, or North Carolina. Loyalists includes Edward Rickerman families escaped from France because A William Ryckman from Virginia and Tobias Rickerman, both of of religious persecution. Jesse de Forest was and is identi ed as “Dr, Director of Sophiasburg and Ameliasburg. Are died in Guinea while searching for a Continental Hospitals in VA.” they the same men as Edward Ryckman home to practise religion freely, and One source notes, “In 1776 Rickman and Tobias Ryckman, also listed? his sons and son-in-law later settled in was appointed by the Continental New Netherland.
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Some Background Information for ALEXANDER MCDONALD
BY FRAN ROSE UE
lexander McDonald was one of eight men with the same Aname, according to Esther Clark Wright’s book, e Loyalists of New Brunswick, Lancelot Press, 4th printing, March 1981. Born in Ireland, he became a Barrack Master General, who lived on Staten Island in New York. He was in charge of the buildings or set of buildings for soldiers, especially in garrison. at might have included oversight of food procurement. BELOW FROM “Centennial Prize Essay on the History of the City and County of Saint John”, by D.R. Jack, Maralynn Wilkinson UE presenting Fran Rose her certificate for Alexander McDonald of published in 1883 by J. & A. McMillan, > McDonald’s Point, Wickham Parish, in what is now New Brunswick. 98 Prince William Street, 1883. A[lexander] McDonald drew lot 1290 in Parr Town in 1784. Parr Town known as MacDonald’s Point. York asserted that the bread supplied to was the initial name of what became [From Chapter XIV, THE General Howe’s army continued to be Saint John, New Brunswick. Many WASHAMADOAK, pp. 107 – 110.] ‘very bad in quality mixt with old bread, Loyalists arrived initially in Saint e following bits from Maya musty and much broken’ … several John, but most were soon granted land Jasano ’s Libery’s Exiles: American Casks promiscuously taken being found elsewhere. Loyalists in the Revolutionary World all more or less to have live Maggots in Alexander must have been well- illustrates the dire state of provisioning them, some quite rotten and those that regarded by the o cials who distributed of the British soldiers in New York: were the best with a great mixture of land to the Loyalists, as he received two Green Pea, which on boiling proves to or more grants, one of which was by far “… Provisions were equently so poor have no Substance and leaves little more the largest grant in the area. He was in quality as to be absolutely inedible, than the Husk.” one of the few among the early grantees even by hungry redcoats. e commissary A private aboard a troop transport, who remained on his Washamadoak generals complained again and again of bound for America, humorously land. He drew lot 12 and bought mouldy bread, weevily biscuit, rancid described the fare of his unhappy other adjacent lots or took over lands butter, sour our, worm-eaten pease, fellow soldiers, as follows: “Pork and escheated because of non-settlement. and maggoty beef. In November, 1776, pease were the chief of their diet. e pork e area in Wickham Parish, Queens despite repeated protests to the Treasury seemed to be four or ve years old. It was County, New Brunswick, became board, the commissary general at New streaked with black towards the outside
38 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 39 and was yellow farther in, With a little DAILY L IFE: or sickness … so Rebecca may have been white in the middle. e salt beef was with him in or near the elds of battle in much the same condition. e ship “ e harsh conditions of life in the during the war. biscuit was so hard that they sometimes army meant that discipline was severe. { e army oen su ered om poor broke it up with a cannonball, and the Crimes such as the or desertion could discipline away om the battle eld, story ran that it had been taken om the result in hanging and punishments such gambling and heavy drinking were French in the Seven Years’ War and lain as lashings were administered publicaly. common among all ranks. [45] e in Portsmouth ever since … Sometimes Soldiers spent a great deal of time distance between the colonies and the they had groats and barley, or, by way of cleaning and preparing their clothing British Isles meant logistics were stretched a treat a pudding made of our mixed and equipment. Families were permitted to breaking point, with the army oen half with salt water and half with esh to join soldiers in the eld. [44] Wives running out of food and supplies in the water, and with old mutton fat.” oen washed, cooked, mended uniforms eld, and forced to live o the land.” and served as nurses in the time of battle
Eight War of 1812 VETERAN BURIAL PLAQUES
BY BR ENDA D ENYES UE & MARILYN HARDS A ND UE
n Sunday, 21 October 2018, at 10:00 a.m., at the Bowman Cemetery, 880 Garner Road, OAncaster, Ontario, Eight War of 1812 Veteran Burial Plaques were unveiled in honour of:
Captain Peter Bowman Sergeant Henry Hagle Private Luke Hagle Private John Kelly Private Benjamin Smith followed by God Save the Queen. and ending with Captain Peter Private Henry Lewis Smith Bob Rennie told all assembled Bowman. Captain John Smith about the Civilian Soldier, and the e Last Post was played on a CD, Gunner Lewis B. Smith hardships that they endured during followed by Scotland the Brave, on the war. We then all bundled up and bagpipes. e day started out cold and grey, were led outside by Scott Beverage, Bob Rennie, along with men from st nd as we gathered at the Bowman United with Amazing Grace, played on the the 1 Oxford Militia, 2 Regiment Church. Reverend Laura Williams bagpipes. Lincoln Militia, and the British welcomed all with a call to Worship. Once outside, Brenda Denyes read Indian Department, were present in ere was an opening prayer, followed each War of 1812 Veteran’s name, full dress. e presentation ended by a scripture reading. Faith of our and we honoured him with a wreath with a three-gun salute and musket Fathers, was played on the piano, laid by a descendent, where possible, volley. starting with Sergeant Henry Hagle
38 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 39 Well Remembered rt passed away in Trenton, ancestors, but he is best known for AOntario, at the age of ninety-one. being a double descendant of Captain He was survived by three daughters, two Abraham Maybee UE. Elsewhere in his sons, several grandchildren and great- ancestry he had numerous ancestors in grandchildren, a brother, Douglas, the Quaker community. A Service was and sister, Doreen Frederick. He was held at Wooler United Church on 15 predeceased by his wives, Dorothy Way March, with interment at McPhail’s and Marjorie Morgan, one daughter Cemetery at a later date. and one grandson. He was the son of the late W. Aylmer Dorland and I had the pleasure of knowing Art for Mildred Jean Arthur. several years and I can do no better than quote from the o cial Obituary, “ We Art was active in the United Church will miss his humourous stories, his wise of Canada, Order of the Eastern Star counsel and his deep concern for all of us.” and a seventy-year member of the Arthur “Art” Francis Masonic Lodge in Frankford, Ontario. Peter W. Johnson UE Dorland UE He was also a member of the Bay of Quinte Branch UELAC for a long time. He likely had several Loyalist
loyd Oakes, aged 91, beloved into Freemasonry at Seymour Lodge Lhusband of Gloria (nee Sheppard) A.F. & A.M. No. 272 G.R.C., then UE and loving father of four sons: A liated into Meridian Lodge A.F. David (Nancy), Daniel, Peter and & A.M. No. 687 G.R.C. in Ancaster Jamie (Ravinder). Grandfather of: and served as their Worshipful Master Brandon, Ayreal, Jaya, Ruby and from June 1993 through June 1994. Rohan. Survived by his sister, Ruth He was Past Grand Organist for Donovan, of Port Stanley, and many the Grand Lodge of Canada in the nephews and nieces. Predeceased by his Province of Ontario, was a 33 Degree parents, James and Naomi (Horning) Scottish Rite Mason and played the Oakes, and siblings: Gordon, George organ there for over 60 years. He was and Jean Hostein. Proud of his United also an Honorary President of e Empire Loyalist heritage, Lloyd was Duet Club of Hamilton. the direct descendant of the Loyalists, John Depue UE and Peter Horning Visitation and the Memorial Service UE. Lloyd served the Hamilton were held on ursday, 13 December Lloyd Horning Oakes at MARSHALL MEMORIAL UE, BA ARC T Branch UELAC as President in 2004- 2006. Respected music teacher and UNITED CHURCH, 20 Gilbert church organist, V.W. Bro. Lloyd Avenue, Ancaster. Memorial donations Horning Oakes UE, was Initiated are welcomed to Marshall Memorial Church.
40 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 41 assed away peacefully at Royal Friends were received at the Innis l PVictoria Hospital, in Barrie, on 21 Funeral Home in Stroud, on Sunday, November 2018. Harold Ross Wallace, 25 November 2018, from 2:00 – 4:00 in his 89th year, was the son of the and 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. A Funeral Service late Harold and Helen (nee Guest) was held at St. James United Church, Wallace. He was a proud descendant Stroud, on Monday, 26 November of Dalhousie Settlers who came from 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Spring interment at the Glasgow area of Scotland to St. James United Cemetery, Stroud. If Dalhousie Township, Lanark County, desired, memorial donations may be Upper Canada, in 1819, and to Innis l made to St. James United Church or to in 1832. Ross was a descendant of a charity of choice. Luke Brady UE, a United Empire Loyalist, who came from Crown Point, First Published in the Toronto Star on New York, and settled in Cornwall 24 November 2018 Harold Ross Wallace Township, Stormont County, in 1784, UE, B.A., M.S.W. and a descendant of omas Jobbitt.
REUNION OF ADAM YOUNG AND CATHARINE SCHREMLING DESCENDANTS
Saturday, 13 July 2019
st From 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 1 Virtual Branch of at the Grace United Church Hall, the United Empire Loyalists’ 174 Caithness Street East, Caledonia, Ontario, Association of Canada! a reunion of Descendants of Johann Adam (Jung) Young (1717 - 1790) This Branch offers unique opportunities for mem- and Catharine Elizabeth Schremling (1720 - 1798). bers to determine how and when they would like to experience the UELAC. Potluck lunch at noon, followed by sharing of Through the use of online technologies, we’ll be stories of our ancestors. offering a variety of services aimed at assisting, informing, educating and entertaining members on For more information, contact: the shared interest of acknowledging, celebrating and Betty Yundt, [email protected] or Dan Young, perpetuating the sacrifices of our Loyalist ancestors. [email protected], Together, we’ll bridge gaps that sometimes prevent and read more on Facebook members from participating and sharing their contri- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ butions through conventional Branch memberships. adamyoungfamily/ www.uelbridgeannex.com
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Loyalist-era history is being presented to the public in a variety of avenues ranging from university textbooks to historically-based fictional novels and television documentaries. T he Loyalist Gazette invites publishers to send publications for review to: T he Loyalist Gazette Review Editor, Grietje R. McBride UE, B.Sc. E-mail: [email protected].
Author: Craig L. Symonds A BATTLEFIELD ATLAS OF THE Cartographer: William J. Clipson AMERICAN REVOLUTION Published by Savas Beattie, California, USA 1986 and 2018 his book was written as a ending with the Battle of Yorktown Paperback 114 pages textbook resource for students and the British surrender. Each map ISBN: 978-1-61121-442-0 Tat the United States Naval is accompanied by a description of the Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. e action with notes referring the reader eBook: 978-1-94066-988-5 writer, now a retired educator with to numbered sites or references to E-mail sales: [email protected] years of experience and awards, has re- ______published a book he rst produced in Price: US $18.95 hard copy in 1986 and updated in 2018 with minor changes. His sources are all Much has been exclusively American authors whose discovered and work was published between 1945 and 1970, without additional updated written in the years sources. As Symonds states in his foreward, much has been discovered since 1970 that since the 1970s but the value of the overview oered by the original text, continues to reveal he felt, merited a reprint. One needs to read this book to decide if this is true! the complex history is book covers, almost exclusively, battles on American soil with the of all participants exception of forays into Montreal and Quebec. It is organized into four parts in the Battles of Reviewed by in chronological order: early campaigns the American Grietje R. McBride UE, B.Sc., northward and in New York, campaigns Review Editor of in central New England states, French Revolution. The Loyalist Gazette. and German alliances morphing into global war, and the Southern campaign ______
42 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 43 other maps. Symonds has written Loyalists and Native alliances to an introduction for each section the British cause. ese sources of his book with an analysis of the counter-balance Symond’s work. signi cance of the military action e real value of this book from therein, as well as an appraisal the readers’ point of view is the of the performance, militarily, collaborative work of Symonds of both British, and American and William Clipson, the generals and tacticians. cartographer, who produced the e focus is on reporting geographical maps of the battles military strategy by land and by described by Symonds. Being able sea between American Rebels to visually follow the maneuvers and British O cers, while of the combattants, including praising Washington at every insets for a more detailed look turn. While heroes on both at battle sites, greatly assists sides of the con ict are praised the reader in understanding for their eective strategy, or the geography of each battle: missed opportunities, Loyalist who led, who supported, when, participation and Indian alliances where and how. In this sense, the are dismissed as an aerthought. book provides an exceptional Fortunately, much has been overview or bird’s eye view of the discovered and written in the American Revolution. It is up to years since 1970 that continues the reader to ll in the details and to reveal the complex history of esh out the Loyalist and Native all participants in the Battles of contribution in the American the American Revolution and, in Revolution. particular, the contributions of Call for Submissions SUBMIT A STORY OR PHOTO SERIES
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42 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 43 H ISTORIAN’S CorNEr PETER W . JOH NSON UE , DOM INION G ENEA LOGIST Some Hidden Loyalists? or those with Loyalists in Upper Canada, a major Source is e FExecutive Council List. For most entries, the Loyalist is named and some sort of residence is listed, usually either a Township or a District. Sometimes there is additional information oen referring to petitions. Occasionally, a son or daughter is also named. e List was compiled in the 1790s during the time of Lieutenant Governor Simcoe. Its purpose was not to compile a stellar list of Loyalists, but to keep track of those designated as UEs, so that land was not distributed casually to folk who didn’t qualify and, by extension, their sons and daughters. A lot of land was involved. Sometimes individuals were removed simply on the suspicion of not being Upper Canada Land Petition for John Cryderman Year: 1790 a UE. For example, Henry Redner > Sr., of the New Jersey Volunteers, was We’ve been using e Executive Carll? ere is certainly enough of a removed because his petition was Council List for decades and so have gap between the two names to make deemed to be lacking in detail. He many Branch Genealogists. erefore one wonder! submitted a far more detailed one and it came as a surprise when Branch I don’t have a ready answer. If pages was reinstated. Genealogist, Patricia Noble UE, posed had been numbered when the List was Over time you will nd that revisions a question that, as far as I am aware, had compiled, that might oer a de nite were made and the Expungements of never been asked previously. anks clue, but any numbers therein are much 1802 was a major one. e purpose Patricia! later additions. Any copies that I have again was to reduce the total by e basic question was, “Do we have seen have that jump from Cameron to weeding out those who were perhaps the whole List or is something missing?” Carll. Likely the only way to be sure a non-serving younger sons of Loyalists I draw your attention to the page page wasn’t missed would be to check or British or German Regular troops. beginning with Donald Cameron and the original in Ottawa. e List is not perfect. We have found ending with John Cameron. e next Sources a few not included who meet the : e Executive Council List. RG 1, L 7, page begins with John Carll so Patricia Volume 52A requirements and also a few expunged wondered if something was missing, who really did serve. given the jump between Cameron and
44 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 45 UELACN EW UE CE rtIFICAt ES ISSUED The following received certification from the UELAC on the dates indicated and from the branches shown. Note 1 indicates members who requested on the certificate application form that their names be unpublished. However, the name of the ancestor and branch remain. They may reconsider by notifying Dominion Office in writing. Editor’s Note: UELAC privacy policy dictates that individuals’ personal information will not be shared. If one wants to contact any member listed below, please indicate whom and contact their branch via e-mail. Branch contact persons can be found on the UELAC website: http://www.uelac.org/branches.html. The branch contact person will then notify that Branch Member on your behalf, and the member will then be able to respond to you. ApplICANt NAmE ANCEStor BrANCH DAtE
John William Lundstrom Adam Young Grand River 2018/07/04 Lucinda (Judy) de Korte Jonathan Williams Grand River 2018/07/04 Lucinda (Judy) de Korte James Slaght Grand River 2018/07/04 Robert Wilfred Terry Jonathan Williams Grand River 2018/07/04 Robert Wilfred Terry James Slaght Grand River 2018/07/04 Gordon Allin Wilkinson Pieter Forsyuar (Forshee) Victoria 2018/07/10 Ronald Herberg McLaughlin Alexander McLauchlin Toronto 2018/07/10 Robert Lawrence Windover Joseph Pringle Toronto 2018/07/10 Janet Suzanne Hodgkins John Brown Col. John Butler 2018/07/10 Marcia Carol Cronin Jacomiah Seaman Nova Scotia 2018/07/18 Nancy Gay Crosbie Joseph Ryerson Hamilton 2018/07/18 Barbara Erin Blackie Joseph Senn Hamilton 2018/07/18 Jessie Ellen Sloan George Gardiner Col. Edward Jessup 2018/07/18 Linda Hood Jobe Jeremiah Allen Nova Scotia 2018/08/02 Merle Elizabeth Duncan Peter Marcellis Toronto 2018/08/02 Andrea Ellen Favell Joseph Merritt Chilliwack 2018/08/02 Cindy Diane Pickering Frizell Francis Ulman Chilliwack 2018/08/02 Carol Anne Terry Henry Johnson Grand River 2018/08/02 Grant John Holditch Benjamin Willson Hamilton 2018/08/03 James Paul Holditch Benjamin Willson Hamilton 2018/08/03 Fraser John Holditch Benjamin Willson Hamilton 2018/08/03 Ross Andrew Holditch Benjamin Willson Hamilton 2018/08/03 Ashley Dawn Rose Harper William Crowder Sr. St. Lawrence 2018/08/03 Ashley Dawn Rose Harper William Crowder Jr. St. Lawrence 2018/08/03 Ashley Dawn Rose Harper Henry Froats St. Lawrence 2018/08/03 Shirley May Cheesman George Barnhart Vancouver 2018/08/23 Bastien Clement Erenati George Cosby Vancouver 2018/08/23 Nolan Parker Graham George Cosby Vancouver 2018/08/23 Steven Edward Sawell Daniel Cummins Hamilton 2018/08/23 Anna Lesley Mason Andrew Ward Ostrander Hamilton 2018/08/23 Jonathan Paul Mason Andrew Ward Ostrander Hamilton 2018/08/23 Rebekah Shelley Mason Andrew Ward Ostrander Hamilton 2018/08/23 Elizabeth Ashley Mason Andrew Ward Ostrander Hamilton 2018/08/23
44 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 T HE LOYAL IST GAZETTE | SPRING 2019 45 ApplICANt NAmE ANCEStor BrANCH DAtE Heather Suzanne Smith James Burdick Grand River 2018/08/23 James Paul Spencer Smith James Burdick Grand River 2018/08/23 Robert John Parker William McClellan Col. John Butler 2018/08/23 Derek Gordon Chase James Piercy Chase Nova Scotia 2018/08/23 Ashley Dawn Rose Harper William Crowder Sr. St. Lawrence 2018/08/25 Walter William Crites George Crites St. Lawrence 2018/08/31 Lyle Vernon Wood Peter Eamer St. Lawrence 2018/08/31 Mark Stewart Kelly Richard Springer Hamilton 2018/08/31 Deborah Anne Marinelli Walter Moody London & W. Ontario 2018/08/31 Barbara Jean Refausse Daniel Dafoe Bay of Quinte 2018/09/07 Barbara Jean Refausse John Ernst Dafoe Bay of Quinte 2018/09/07 Sandra Joan Lemon Leonard Misener Col. John Butler 2018/09/07 William Thomas Harris George McGinnis London & W. Ontario 2018/09/07 Capt. Dale Keith Gray Jesse Gray Nova Scotia 2018/09/07 Carolyn Mildred Simpson Joshua Chandler Nova Scotia 2018/09/13 Beverly Joan (Berry) Henderson Michael Merkley Manitoba 2018/09/07 Jara Nichola Demetrioff Captain Michael Grass Victoria 2018/09/13 Daniel Scott Favell Joseph Merritt Chilliwack 2018/09/13 Owen James Douglas Burgess Joseph Merritt Chilliwack 2018/09/13 Michael Christopher Favell Joseph Merritt Chilliwack 2018/09/13 Ryleigh Ellen Madeline Burgess Joseph Merritt Chilliwack 2018/09/13 Vera Mary Ash Benjamin Eastman Assiniboine 2018/09/13 Douglas John Ivan McLean Isaac Demille Bay of Quinte 2018/09/14 Douglas John Ivan McLean Richard Morden Bay of Quinte 2018/09/14 Douglas John Ivan McLean Joseph Morden Bay of Quinte 2018/09/14 George Carl Casselman Warner Casselman St. Lawrence 2019/09/23 Benjamin Gray Taylor Abaham Maybee Toronto 2018/09/24 Walter Eugene Refausse Richard Spragg Bay of Quinte 2018/09/24 Walter Eugene Refausse Thomas Spragg Bay of Quinte 2018/09/24 Lauryn Hunter Johnson Titus Simons Hamilton 2018/09/25 Alyson Sue Johnson Titus Simons Hamilton 2018/09/25 Ryan Preston Johnson Titus Simons Hamilton 2018/09/25 Neil Alexander Summers John P. Shaver Manitoba 2018/09/25 Susan Frances Pilson McGuire Hugh Munro Heritage 2018/09/29 Susan Frances Pilson McGuire Thomas Sherar Heritage 2019/09/29 Susan Frances Pilson McGuire Daniel Babbitt Heritage 2018/09/29 Susan Frances Pilson McGuire Samuel Tilley Heritage 2018/09/29 Catherine Clare Bastedo-Boileau Jacob Bastedo Sir Guy Carleton 2018/09/29 Deborah Anne Marinelli James Dawson London & W. Ontario 2018/09/29 Deborah Anne Marinelli Mary Moody London & W. Ontario 2018/09/29 August Owen Albin Herold Henry Gesner London & W. Ontario 2018/09/29 Mary Candace Herold Henry Gesner London & W. Ontario 2018/09/29 Matthew Stephen Botsford George Barnhart London & W. Ontario 2018/10/12 Mary Helen Backhouse John Pickle Calgary 2018/10/12 Mary Helen Backhouse George Schyver Calgary 2018/10/12 Rebecca Jane Anne Terry Jonathan Williams Grand River 2018/10/12 Rebecca Jane Anne Terry J ames Slaght Grand River 2018/10/12 Grace Anne Louise Anderson Jonathan Williams Grand River 2018/10/12 Grace Anne Louise Anderson James Slaght Grand River 2018/10/12 Dylan Charles Anderson Jonathan Williams Grand River 2018/10/13 Dylan Charles Anderson James Slaght Grand River 2018/10/13 Sandra Mae Torgerson Christopher German Kingston & District 2018/10/19
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Kenneth Cecil Vance Michael Johannes Warner Sr. Chilliwack 2018/10/19 James Kent Van Iderstine John Van Iderstine Abegweit 2018/10/19 Paul Aubrey Belfry Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/10/19 Richard Kenneth Wright John Stockwell Bicentennial 2018/10/19 Richard Kenneth Wright Henry Wright Bicentennial 2018/10/26 Neil Alexander Summers Adam Fralick Manitoba 2018/10/26 Bradley Thomas William Hulton Samuel Perry Edmonton 2018/10/26 Bradley Thomas William Hulton John Bruce Edmonton 2018/10/26 Jared Mikhail Demetrioff Captain Michael Grass Victoria 2018/10/26 Midori Lauren Demetrioff Captain Michael Grass Victoria 2018/10/26 Carole Winnifred Conrod Duchesneau Edward Crawford Nova Scotia 2018/11/01 Suzanne J. Kilpatrick John Huyck Sr. Kingston & District 2018/11/01 Denis Lachlin Lloyd John Benn Sr. Vancouver 2018/11/01 Willard Herbert Anderson Jonathan Anderson Nova Scotia 2018/11/01 Doreen M. Thompson Michael Grass Kingston & District 2018/11/01 Anne Redish Michael Grass Kingston & District 2018/11/01 Doreen M. Thompson Peter Wartman Kingston & District 2018/11/01 Anne Redish Peter Wartman Kingston & District 2018/11/01 Richard Paul Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Robyn Anne Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Sarah Ruth Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Hugh Tate Canniff Borthwick James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Lucy Grace Borthwick James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Edison Paul Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Charles Essery Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Everlie Autumn Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Etta Juliette Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Eli Charles Gray James Canniff Bay of Quinte 2018/11/13 Ann-Marie Dunford Abraham Maybee Kawartha 2018/11/13 Robert James Taylor Philip Roblin Toronto 2018/11/13 William Donald Leach Benjamin Eastman Sir Guy Carleton 2018/11/30 Garry Dennis Lemon Joseph Lemon Col. John Butler 2018/11/30 Ethan William Nevatte Ebenezer Washburn Calgary 2018/11/30 Everett William Kerr Ebenezer Washburn Calgary 2018/11/30 Lori Lynn Kerr Ebenezer Washburn Calgary 2018/11/30 Hayden Riley Kerr Ebenezer Washburn Calgary 2018/11/30 William Randall Kerr Ebenezer Washburn Calgary 2018/11/30 Peggy Ann (Wiebe) Brock Henry George Merkley Grand River 2018/12/04 Dorothy Viola (Merkley) Wiebe Henry George Merkley Grand River 2018/12/04 Ellis Berteron Merkley Michael Fredrick Merckel (Merkley) St. Lawrence 2018/12/04 Olivia Sehba Fleming Adam Green Toronto 2018/12/04 Brian John Hunt Christopher German Kingston & District 2018/12/18 Kimberly Elizabeth Torgerson Christopher German Kingston & District 2018/12/18 Avaya Eastyn Cairns Christopher German Kingston & District 2018/12/18 Bonita Gail (Render) Bedford John Wees Sr. (Weist or Wist) Bay of Quinte 2018/12/18 Carol Mildred Bonisteel King Philip Reddick Bay of Quinte 2018/12/18 Barbara Jean Refausse Philip Reddick Bay of Quinte 2018/12/18 Kimberly Sue (Almendarez) Pearson Thomas Elmes Matthews Bay of Quinte 2018/12/31 Yvonne Merle Burns Corporal Joseph Marsh Bay of Quinte 2018/12/31 Marjorie Jean Coulter Kane Andrew Van Buskirk Nova Scotia 2018/12/31 Olivia Sehba Fleming Johann Hendrick Windecker Toronto 2018/11/02
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FortRome, Stanwix New York
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