Leeds County, Ontario, Canada was first surveyed in 1792 in preparation for the United Empire Loyalists settlers. In 1850, Leeds County merged with Grenville to create the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.
John Hagerman, Sr. was born about 1747 in Dutchess County, New York.
He married Phoebe Ferguson in Dutchess County, New York. Phoebe was born about 1756 at Rombout, Dutchess County, New York. Her prents were Richard and Rachel Ferguson.
John and Phoebe's children included:
Sarah Hagerman(1767),
John Hagerman, Jr. (1770, married Mary (Polly) LaRue daughter of Henry LaRue),
Margaret Hagerman (1771, married John Whitley),
Richard Hagerman (1772, married Eliza Dwyer),
Abigail Hagerman (1775, married William LaRue),
Zachariah Hagerman (1778 married Hannah Griffin), and
Mary Hagerman (1784 , married Joseph Buck).
John Hagerman served as a Private soldier in the Loyal Rangers. He served in the Royal Standard previous to 1783 and discharged in 1783 and removed from the Province of Lower Canada to the Township of Elizabethtown.
United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. They moved to Canada after the American Revolution.
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
The first European settlements in Ontario were after the American Revolution when 5,000 loyalists left the new United States.
John Hagerman, Jr. was born about 1770.
He married Maria LaRue in about 1805 in Elizabethtown (now Brockville), Leeds and Grenville County, Ontario.
Maria and John's children included:
John Hagerman
Norman Hagerman
Henry LaRue Hagerman (1806, married Maria Manhard),
Richard F. Hagerman (1808),
Charles N. Hagerman (1811),
William Hagerman (1816),
Rachel J. Hagerman (1818), and
Mary Ann Hagerman (1822, married Reuben Fields).
The Battle of the Windmill was in November, 1838. Loyalists defeated an invasion attempt by Hunter Patriots, led by Nils von Schoultz, who were attempting to overthrow British rule. The battle was at a windmill two miles east of Prescott.
On February 7, 1813, the American army raided Elizabethtown (present day Brockville, Leeds County, Ontario). The Americans crossed the frozen St. Lawrence River and seized equipment, freed American prisoners, and captured Canadian men.
