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Generation One 1. John Walden Meyers #80201, B. 22 January Family of John Walden Meyers and Mary Kruger compiled by John A. Brebner for the Friends of Sandbanks 26th October, 2020 Generation One 1. John Walden Meyers #80201, b. 22 January 1745 in Albany County, New York State,1 occupation Military Captain,2 d. 22 November 1821 in Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario,1 buried in Whites Cemetery/St. Thomas Cemetery, Belleville.1 . Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte, The Meyers Family, pages 20 - 30 "In an old burial ground on an eminence overlooking the Bay, midway between Belleville and Trenton, where lie the ashes of many of the men who built the first log cabins along the front of Sidney, rest the remains of Captain John Walten (sic) Meyers, the founder of Belleville, and the man who erected the first mills in the County of Hastings. Family tradition has it that the old Captain was born in Prussia. Some years before the American Colonies threw off their allegiance, his father left the land of his birth and came with his family to the colony of New York, where he settled on a farm near Poughkeepsie. The family prospered and were in comfortable circumstances when the war broke out. John Walten, our pioneer, had married Polly Kruger, also a native of Prussia; their children were all born on the homestead in New York, where they remained with their mother throughout the war. John's father and other members of his family cast their lots with the rebels, but John himself remained loyal. He took part in with the Tories in organizing a company for service, but being greatly outnumbered by the Revolutionists, they were. For a time, compelled to remain inactive. He was suspected of being a British spy, but his mother secretly warned him of his danger and advised him to keep out of the way. He resolved to leave the country; but in order to secure his wife and children from the loss of their home by confiscation, he turned his property over to a cousin, who betrayed the confidence reposed in him by appropriating it to his own use, leaving the family to starve. The elder Walten Meyers was moved to pity and took one of the children, Jacob, to his own house. "John Walten Meyers having, as he supposed, made safe provision for his family, started for Canada. He came accompanied by his brother-in-law, John Kruger, and his faithful old dog. They tramped through tangled forests and mirey swales, became footsore and weary, and suffered from lack of food. The dog became so emaciated and weak, that his master had to pick him up and carry him. Kruger, who was on the verge of collapse, being merely able to drag himself along, asked his companion in distress why he was carrying the dog. "Oh" replied Meyers, "we may have to eat him yet!" "But a supply of bear meat, furnished by a friendly Indian, saved the dog's bones from being picked; and the destination of the little party was reached in safety. Walten Meyers did not long remain in Canada. He was with Burgoyne at the surrender of Saratoga in 1777, but managed to escape by eluding the guard. As he had previously carried messages from Kingston and Burgoyne's army to Clinton, in New York, he knew too well what the result would be if he were to fall into the hands of the enemy. His secret services in the Royal cause were strongly suspected, and many attempts were made to capture him. Traditions in the family vary somewhat as to the details relating to his attempt to capture General Schuyler at Albany. As the story goes, Meyers went to Albany with only ten men. Boldly entering the yard and approaching the window, he saw the General seated within the room; but when they entered the house, his would-be prisoner was not to be found. Search was made from garret to cellar, but the General had mysteriously disappeared! In the garret were a number of large casks standing on end and seemingly empty; these were all kicked over and examined with the exception of one which, by some unaccountable oversight, was passed by. After the war, the General called on Meyers and informed him that a favorite old female slave had secreted him in that very cask, which had been overlooked. Meyers ordered his men not to injure or carry 1 away any property belonging to the General, and it is said that when upon retiring he discovered a silver cup in the possession of one of his men, he instantly ordered it to be returned. "When the struggle for independence was nearly over, Meyers received a Captaincy from Frederick Haldimand, Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of Quebec. On May 13th, 1782, he was given a company of Major Jessup's corps of Loyal Rangers. When peace was declared and the corps disbanded, many of these soldiers settled along the banks of the St. Lawrence. Meyers remained a year or so in Montreal, but in the spring of 1787, pioneered his way into the Ninth Township, or Thurlow, where he built a cabin and remained a year. He then went to Sidney, settling and building mills on a stream a few miles east of the River Trent. The water power proving insufficient, he subsequently purchased the north half of the lot upon which the business portion of the City of Belleville no stands. For the land on which he built his mills, on the Moira, he paid John Taylor 20 pounds. For years the river was known as Meyer's Creek; and the little settlement which formed the nucleus of the present city of Belleville was known as "Meyer's Creek". "Captain Meyers was energetic and enterprising and possessed a business ability that made him a leader in the affairs of the settlement. His life in the log cabin was of short duration. As early as 1794 we find him living in a brick house that for nearly a century was a prominent landmark in Belleville. It was the first brick house erected in Upper Canada; and the bricks used in its construction were baked on Meyer's land in Sidney. In those early times many persons who afterwards became prominent in provincial affairs found shelter in "Meyer's House" when journeying through the forest between Kingston and Newark or York. Captain Meyers and his jolly, buxom little wife enjoyed such a reputation among all classes of settlers for their hearty hospitality, as to make the fact worthy of mention in the annals of pioneer history. Not many years since, and while the old house was yet in an excellent state of preservation, the vandalism of modern enterprise attacked this old landmark, and completely destroyed it as a monument of pioneer activities. "The first bateaux set afloat on the Upper Reach of the Bay of Quinte were constructed and used by Captain Meyers. Transporting his own freight was a large item in itself, as he operated saw and grist mills; and having established an Indian trading post on Stoco Lake, he had to make frequent shipments of furs and commodities. He ran bateaux down the Bay to Kingston, and even made occasional trips to Montreal. Later on, he put a schooner on the Bay, but the bateaux remained in general use until after his death. It is said, that when making the home runs, he carried passengers free. His “caboose” was always well stocked with “British grog,” and being a great hunter and trapper, and a man of much experience as an early pioneer, it may well be imagined that all pioneer home-seekers who sought passage up the Bay in the Captain's bateaux, were pleasantly entertained. It is said that he built mills in Sidney as early as 1790; he certainly built the mills on the Moira in 1802. Old records show that he owned large tracts of land in different places, two lots of which were located on Collins' Bay, in the First Township, or Kingston. His services to the Crown were further recognized by his being retired as an officer of the British Army. His taste for military life and hunting has been generously transmitted down through all generations of his posterity. In an old list of officers of the Hastings Militia published in 1798, George Meyers appears as Captain, Leonard W. Meyers, as Lieutenant; and Jacob W. Meyers, as Ensign. When war was declared in 1812, records show that Leonard and Jacob were Captains in the 1st Regiment, Hastings Militia. "In common with many pioneers of Upper Canada, the old Captain kept a number of slaves. One of these, a female named “Black Bet,” was so devoted to her master that, when freed by law, she refused to leave him and remained a member of the household to the day of her death. "Representative descendants of the old Pioneer in the fourth and fifth generations are found in Alva P. Meyers and his family. He is a son of Tobias W. Meyers, and consequently great-grandson of Captain Walten. Born in 1833, in 1857 he married a descendant of the pioneer Billings family, so prominent in Leeds and Carleton counties. He owns three hundred and eighty acres, which, with the exception of one farm located near Frankford, is situated on the Sidney Front and produces large crops. He is a staunch Reformer, but outside of being township councillor for two years, has been too actively engaged to afford time for public affairs.
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