United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. They moved to Canada after the American Revolution.
Jeremiah Mallory was born about 1771 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the son of Enoch Mallory.
Enoch Mallory and his sons, Jeremiah and Elisha, supported the British in the American Revolution and were members of Jessup's Loyal Rangers. Elisha and Jeremiah were drummers.
Jeremiah was brought to Ontario in 1783 by his father.
He married his cousin, Mary Polly Mallory, daughter of Nathaniel Mallory.
Thomas Mallory (1793),
Lucinda (or Lorinda) Mallory (1795), Elisha Mallory (1797),
Huldah Mallory (1799, married Thomas Kenyon),
David Mallory (1808),
Henry Mallory (1810, married Emeline Griffin and Phebe Comstock),
Mercy Mallory (1812, married Edward S. Thomas), and
Catherine Mallory (1816, married Libeous Philip Wickware).
On December 13, 1820, Jeremiah petitioned for the 100 acres he was entitled to because of his service.
Jeremiah died in 1836.
Fairfield County, Connecticut originally consisted of the towns of Rye, Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, Fairfield, and Stratford. Woodbury (1673) , Danbury (1687), Ridgefield (1709), Newtown (1711), and New Fairfield (1740) were added later. In 1751, part of Woodbury was included in Litchfield County.
George III ruled Great Britain from
October 25, 1760 to
January 29, 1820.
Johnstown District and for the District of Johnstown on Tuesday the eighteenth day of February in the Forty-sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
Wing Walker, Joseph Randolph, and Jonathan Dunham each acknowledge to owe to Our Sovereign Lord the King the sum of forty pounds, upon condition that they respectively appear at the next Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol delivery to be holden in the said District and give evidence against Thomas Mallory and Adam Hetchel, then this recognizance to be void otherwise to remain in full force...
To the maintenance of Thomas Mallory from the 25th of December to the 19th February--8 weeks....Ordered that the Treasurer pay Michael Cook Gaoler the amount of the above account being six pounds seventeen shillings and six pence Currency.
Ordered that William Fraser , Sheriff , do receive from the Treasurer of the District the sum of thirty-five shillings for extraordinary Trouble and expence in apprehending Thomas Mallory, William Anderson and Adam Hetchel.....
John Harnden late of Augusta in said District, Carpenter, because he came not now here to give evidence on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King, against Thomas Mallory and Adam Hetchel in a case of fraud and misdemeanor, as by a certain recognizance taken before Richard Arnold Esquire, one of the Justices of Our said Lord the King he undertook on the twenty third day of December last, he has forfeited the sum of ten pounds to the use of our said Sovereign Lord the King.
Abner Boroughs late of Augusta in said District, Blacksmith, because he came not now here to give evidence on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King, against Thomas Mallory and Adam Hetchel in a case of fraud and misdemeanor, as by a certain recognizance taken before Richard Aarnold Esquire one of the Justices of our said Lord the King he undertook on the twenty third day of December last, he has forfeited the sum of ten pounds to the use of our said Sovereign Lord the King.
...The Treasurer is hereby Ordered to pay Michael Cook the sum of six pounds ten shillings Currency for thirteen weeks Board of Thomas Mallory and Adam Hetchel prisoners in the Gaol of Johnstown.
