An American Family History

Tennant Families

also spelled Tenant

James Tennant

The first European settlements in Ontario were after the American Revolution when 5,000 loyalists left the new United States.

William Tennant was born in 1794 in Scotland.

He married Ann Cain.

David Tennant (1824, married Betsy Ann Hogeboom and Mary Simmonds),
William Tennant, Jr. (1825, married Agnes Ferguson),
Thomas Tennant (1827),
George Tennant (1830, married Emaline Thompson),
Robert W.Tennant (1833),
John Tennant (1838)
James Tennant (1837),
Jane Tennant (1840)
Derrick Tennant (1842),
Christopher Tennant (1843),
Mary Jane Tennant (1840).

In 1821 William and James tenant petitioned for 100 acres each in Yonge township.

William died in 1882 in Yonge Mills, Leeds County, Ontario.

from A Record of Marriages Solemnized by William Smart

1824 March 29th.—James Tennant and Nellie Cain, both of Yonge, banns, wit. Archebald Batee, James Gibson.

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.

Windmill

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