An American Family History

Ontario Settlers

Church	Date
Brockville First Presbyterian	1815

	Date
Jessup's Loyal Rangers	1781-1783
War in Leeds County	1812
Leeds County Militia	1812

		Date
Petition of the Ninth Township	Thurlow Township, Hastings County	1791
1805 Yonge Assessment	Yonge Township, Leeds County	1805

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

New London County, Connecticut was one of four original Connecticut counties and was established on May 10, 1666, by an act of the Connecticut General Court.

Grenadier Island is in the St. Lawrence River in Leeds County, Ontario. United Empire Loyalists settled on the island in the early 19th century. During the War of 1812, there was a watch post. By 1818, twelve farms had been established.

Family Name	Lived in	From	Remarks
Adams David 1699 Elijah 1785 John 1752 Jonathan 1646 Samuel 1730 Walter 1787 William 1756		Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Alguire	Yonge Township
Andress	Elizabethtown/Kitley Township	Fairfield County, Connecticut
Austin	Yonge Township	New York
Avery	Yonge Mills	Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York
Ayers/Eyers	Elizabethtown (now Brockville)	Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts
Bates	Rear of Yonge	Tribes Hill, Montgomery County, New York
Baxter	Elizabethtown/Kitley Township	Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut Fairfield County, Connecticut
Birdsell	Elizabethtown/Kitley Township, Leeds
Botsford	Elizabethtown Township	Brookfield Fairfield County, Connecticut
Brown Benjamin 1741 Benjamin 1771 Ezra 1782 James 1779 Nathan 1769 Nathaniel 1750 Oliver 1776		Groton, New London County, Connecticut
Buell Jonathan 1769 Samuel 1767 Samuel P. 1801 Timothy 1732 William 1751	Brockville (was Elizabethtown),	Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut
Burtch	Grenadier Island	Pawling, Dutchess County, New York Montgomery County, New York
Byrne
Cain	Caintown Grenadier Island	Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut
Church	Brockville (was Elizabethtown),	Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
Churchill		Tribes Hill, Montgomery County, New York
Cole	Elizabethtown now Brockville
Comstock Aaron 1769 Azariah Ezekiel 1740 John 1730 Levi 1769 William 1791	Grenadier Island	West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island
Connolly
Derbyshire		Saratoga, New York
Dickey		Ireland
Dwinnell	Yonge Mills	New York
Elliott		Pawling, Dutchess County, New York
Ferguson	Caintown	Scotland
French	Mallorytown	Fairfield County, Connecticut
Gardnier		Vermont
Gibson		Scotland
Griffin
Guild	Mallorytown	Milton, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Hagerman		Dutchess County, New York
Hewitt		Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey
Hogeboom		Claverack, Columbia County, New York
Howard		Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Hutchinson		Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut
June		Dutchess County, New York
Kincaid	Caintown	Scotland
LaRue		Pompton Plains, Morris County New Jersey Otsego County, New York
Lapoint		Quebec
Lee		Columbia County, New York.
Lewis	Toronto	Gloucestershire, England
Mallory Daniel 1767 David 1783 Elisha 1769 Elisha 1797 Enoch 1744 George W. 1841 Israel 1776 Jeremiah 1771 Lemuel 1771 Nathaniel 1742 Ogden	Mallorytown	Fairfield County, Connecticut
McArdel		Ireland
McLean		Scotland
Miller	Elizabethtown (now Brockville), Leeds County	Prussia
Miller	Kingston	Ireland
Mott		Dutchess County, New York
Munro		Fairfield County, Connecticut
Munsell		Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut
Palmer		Dutchess County, New York
Parish		Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut
Patterson		Ireland
Pennock		Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Phillips		Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York
Plumb		Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut
Polly
Purvis		Scotland
Ripley		Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Root	Grenadier Island	Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut
Rowsome		Ireland
Seaman		Dutchess County, New York
Seeley Augustus 1739 James 1765 Justus 1766 Peet 1766	Elizabethtown	New York
Sherwood		Fairfield County, Connecticut
Shipman		Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut
Slack		Dutchess County, New York
Smyth		New York
Stevens		Dutchess County, New York
Tennant	Caintown	Scotland
Thomas	Toronto	England
Thompson		Scotland
Treahy	Toronto	Ireland
Trickey		Orange County, New York
Truesdell Cornelius 1785 Daniel 1789 Justin 1755 Justin 1801 Samuel 1796 William 1797		Fairfield County, Connecticut
White		Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts
Wickware/Wickwire Philip Lebbeus 1770 Alpheus 1819 Lebeous Philip 1817 Philip 1791 Lebbeus 1745		Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut
Wilcox		Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island
Wiltse Benoni 1758 Cornelius 1775 James 1764 John 1748 John 1778		Hopewell, Dutchess County, New York
Wing		Dutchess County, New York
Wood	Caintown
Wright

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

Hebron, Connecticut was incorporated in 1708 in Hartford County. It became part of Windham County in 1726 and part of Tolland County in 1785.

Dutchess County, New York patriots forced colonists loyal to the British government to flee north into what became Ontario.

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.

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