Re: Daniel Cook
I am related to Joel Cook thru his daughter Susan Ethelzelda Cook. My research has also been clouded by the common last name and so many repeats of the first names. I am constantly confused by the...
View ArticleRe: Stotts - McVey, U.E. Loyalists
Susanna Wilson, wife of Asher Wilson of Yonge twp wrote a petition in 1817, where she stated she was a daughter of Casper Stotts of Elizabethtown.She is indexed in the land petitions under...
View ArticleRe: John Grant UEL
Recently I too discovered that Grant (Duldreaggan) , John aka John Duldreggan Grant aka Mr John Grant as he appears on Lots 25 & 26 Street Road Charlottenburg Glengarry McNiff's Map 1786 had been...
View ArticleDaniel Cook
Esther Wright's book "the Loyalists of New Brunswick" is not longer in print and I cannot find it in any of my local public libraries. However, my great-great-great . . . grandfather is in that book...
View ArticleRe: John Grant UEL
Jay: I do believe that the head office does not keep the applications and proofs there. They are kept with the Branch who applied for the UE certification. We also are very interested in the final...
View ArticleRe: John Grant UEL
Thanks Anne . I think I have already determined who it was that submitted that PROOF , and I have read other of Her Posts . Please check out Her Item titled John Grant "Ian Mohn Na Catheran" "Big John...
View ArticleRe: Scots Loyalists of Tyron Co., NY
To follow Jay's note above …….Simon Fraser Sr was not a Captain to our knowledge. He could not be in Glengarry Fencibles in Scotland as they were formed in the early 1790's years after he died in...
View ArticleLoyalist Marriages in New York circa 1776
Ephraim Seeley was born in New Milford, Connecticut, before 1756. He took up with the Loyalist Guides and Pioneers around 1776. He apparently went to New York about the same time. He had three children...
View ArticleRe: Loyalist Marriages in New York circa 1776
Try 'Trinity Church' which is situated on Manhattan. I do know it was there in 1775-1777 as I have an ancestor who was an Episcopal Minister there then.I am not sure if they have marriages and Baptisms...
View ArticleRe: Alexander Cameron Indian Agent and connections
Hi Kim, your "Col. Thomas Brown" is the famous Col. Thomas "Burnfoot" Brown[e] [1750-1825]. I have been researching him for about a month now. There is a good amount of information on "Burnfoot" Brown...
View ArticleGrant (Duldreaggan) , John UE ; UELAC Show Your Proof Or Expunge This Name
Apparently someone from Vancouver Branch UELAC , furnished evidence that this Grant (Duldreaggan) , John was PROVEN to be a United Empire Loyalist dated 2006.11.13 . My info suggests that he remained...
View ArticleRe: Sir John Pell, son Thomas and grandson Joshua- were they loyalists as...
From my thoughts, grandson Joshua, if he left the US and came to Canada would be considered a Loyalist. His father and grandfather lived before the disturbances of the American Revolution.Did Joshua...
View ArticleJoshua Pell son of Thomas and Anna
Hi Anne, All I know is that Joshua was supposedly born in 1710 in NY and died in 1781 in NY. Haven't got it sourced yet. Had no idea he was in Canada. Could there be another Joshua Pell? I'm not on...
View ArticleRe: Joshua Pell son of Thomas and Anna
Dana:Most likely if he remained in NY, the family was not loyalist.Most persons known as loyalists left the USA before, during and after the War of Independence.Anne
View ArticleRe: Joshua Pell son of Thomas and Anna
I did come across a Benjamin Pell, a son of Joshua Pell I believe. He took the loyalist stand. He did leave the USA after the Revolution but years later went back there to live. Anne Neuman UE
View ArticleRe: Loyalist Declaration of Dependence
Hi Joanna:Wishing you had been at the United Loyalist Empire Governor Simcoe Branch's potluck dinner last night in Toronto. At least one other person would have been as excited as I was.Over the past...
View ArticleRe: Loyalist Declaration of Dependence
I have obtained a copy of the Declaration of Dependence and am currently trying to decipher the signatures. Some of our ancestors had beautiful hand written lettering, while others make life more...
View ArticleRe: Loyalist Declaration of Dependence
Joanna:I posted earlier to you today, and cannot not see this post. Please message me directly if you are getting these posts.To the Right Honorable Richard Viscount Howe, of the Kingdom of Ireland,...
View ArticleGeorgia and SC Loyalists- Hilburn family
In researching my Hilbun/Hilburn ancestors found in 1788 in Burke Co., GA, I discovered that there were several Hilburns who apparently were aligned with the Loyalists in the American Revolution....
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