An American Family History

also spelled Bull

United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. They moved to Canada after the American Revolution.

Timothy Buell was born in 1732 in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. He was the son of Timothy Buell and Hannah Bradford.

He married Mercy Peters on January 24, 1751 in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. Mercy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 1730 to John Peters and Mary Marks.

They made their home in Fort Ann, Washington County, New York.

William Buell (1752, married Martha Norton)
Timothy Buell (1760)
Jonathan Buell (1763, married Hannah Smith),
Bemsley Buell (1765, married Phoebe Mann and Lois Sherwood),
Samuel Buell (1767, married Mary Elizabeth Sprague),
Sabina Buell (1770),
Mercy Buell (1772), and
Hannah Buell (1775).

During the American Revolution, he remained loyal to the crown.

They moved to Ontario, Canada in 1781.

He died in March 1788 at the age of 55 in Brockville (was Elizabethtown), Leeds County, Ontario, Canada.

On February 6, 1813, Timothy Buell (probably Jr.) was taken prisoner in a raid by the Americans. and was taken to Ogdensburg.

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch.

Brockville, Ontario was called Elizabethtown. The area was first settled by English speakers in 1785, when Americans who had remained loyal to the crown fled to Canada after the American Revolution.

Brockville
1840

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