Hamilton Branch UELAC

Samuel and Peter Wood

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:37:14 +0000

Peter Wood served as a Sergeant in the Queen’s Rangers throughout the War. Peter was about 32 years old when he embarked at New York for Saint John by the Cyrus on 21 August 1783, and landed in Saint John in September 1783. He settled in Maccan in the River Hebert area. Peter received no …

Adam Green

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:33:47 +0000

Adam Green was a Loyalist from New Jersey who had been imprisoned by the Rebels for various acts of loyalty to Britain. He was accused of giving a brown mare, saddle & bridle to one who said his name was General Richard Prescott, for the purpose of making his escape to the British at New …

Frederick Baker

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:29:57 +0000

My great uncle Alexander Earle Baker UE. self published a history of Frederick Baker U.E.L. and some of his descendants. He spent nearly twenty years gathering information through research, inquiry and correspondence.

The OGS directory of surnames lists Frederick Baker as born in Claverack N.Y. U.S.A. in 1756, d: 1835 at Ernestown Tp. Ontario. …

Nathaniel Pettit

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:27:52 +0000

Nathaniel Pettit was established in New Jersey at the time the Revolution broke out. He owned two mills and was a judge in the county Court of Common Pleas, eventually being elected to the provincial legislature. His success, at a time when British-appointees were distrusted, came to work against him.

Although initially sympathetic to …

Casper Springsteen

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:26:32 +0000

Casper Springsteen, a Butler’s Ranger from 1778 to 1783, was a native of Albany, New York with an ancestry there going back to 1652 in Flatbush (Brooklyn, NY). This family, originally from Groningen, Holland, had a naming convention for their sons that has to be unique or very close to it. Do the names Melchior, …

Daniel Morden

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:20:33 +0000

At the outbreak of the American Revolution Daniel Morden was an unmarried farmer in Tyron County, New York. His assets were probably few, for his name did not appear in the list of Loyalist estates seized by New York.

When word came that the rebels were on their way to attack Johnson Hall the two …

John Wilson

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:18:23 +0000

John Wilson was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and became a Sergeant in Captain Andrew Bradt’s Company of Butler’s Rangers. He and his wife, Maria Bradt, and their children settled in Thorold where they raised their family and became founding members of the Anglican Church in St.Catharines. Before settling he had many adventures including …

Henry Wright

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:15:41 +0000

Henry Wright was born in England circa 1750. In his youth he immigrated to America with a brother, locating in Rutland, Pennsylvania where he married Mary Christina Klingensmith. They became the parents of eight children who grew to adulthood. After the American Revolution, Henry Wright settled first on Grosse Ile which became part of the …

John Moore

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:33:38 +0000

John Moore was born in New Jersey in 1738, married Dinah Pettit, and had ten children. He owned land on Jenny Jump Mountain and was a hatter by trade, both manufacturing and selling felt hats. When war broke out, he participated by hiding British supporters and sending troops to front-line. He was imprisoned at Log …

Hector Dickie

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:32:49 +0000

Hector Dickie was born in Northern Ireland and arrived in South Carolina in 1768 on the ship Chichester from Belfast. After the Revolution, Hector went as a refugee to Jamaica but as the economy was not good and the planters would not support the refugees, Hector decided to leave and he re-settled in New Brunswick …