Records of the Bay of Quinte
Cramahe
Township, now in Northumberland County, was settled early and the lists below were prepared
as "returns" to measure the improvments that had been made. These
men were granted land as "settlers" and not as Loyalists and likely all
came from the States. As of 1794, a settler had only to occupy the lot
and build a house to get a patent. Further conditions were added in
1798 requiring settlers to clear and fence 5 acres.
For these Cramahe settlers, Asa
Danforth and Aaron Greeley were acting as "agents" for American speculators called 'nominees' who were to get a fee for each settler who got a patent. Greeley
was an authorized deputy surveyor who settled near Carrying Place in
1795 and then got involved with Danforth. When the scheme came to
nothing he returned to the States in 1806. See They Left Their Mark, Surveyors and Their Role in the Settlement of Ontario, John L Ladell, Dundurn, 1993, Chap. 7.
There are 4 separate sets of these lists and all are presented
below. The Sept 1797 list has quite a few notes that were filed with
the bundle and these notes are indexed by name, date and a comment.
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Use these links to jump up and down this web page.
- June 1797 list
- Sept 1797 list
- Index of Notes from the bundle above.
- May 1799 list
- June 1799 list - new Jan 2021
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All four lists are found in the Upper Canada Land
Petitions, LAC, RG 1 L3. Source notes with links to each film are
provided below.
Names transcribed as written and can be a challenge to decifier. Let me know if you think
names have been misread.
© Randy Saylor, Jan 2012, updated Jan 2021
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1. List of Settlers in Cramahe by Danforth & Greeley agents for ?
Council Office, York
17 Jun 1797
The [list below] is a true list
Asa Danforth & Aaron Greeley
Entered in Land Book C page 82, 83
See subsequent List C227, No 3 [The above from image 677.]
[Source: UCLP, RG 1 L3, 1797, V91, bundle C3/228, C-1648, online at LAC, starts at image 673 with the list starting at image 674]
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Names of
Settlers |
Lot |
Con |
Cramahe |
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Capt James Richardson |
1 |
1st |
John Spencer |
2 |
Ditto |
Capt Benjamin Richardson |
4 |
Ditto |
James Bottis |
6 |
Ditto |
Oliver Campbell |
12 |
Ditto |
William Campbell |
13 |
Ditto |
John Campbell |
14 |
Ditto |
David Turner Jnr [Turney - see note below]
|
22 |
Ditto |
William Gates |
24 |
Ditto |
Barnabas McKeyes |
26 |
Ditto |
Aldredge Stanton |
27 |
Ditto |
Peres Cooper |
29 |
Ditto |
Aaron Wallice [Wallace]
|
30 |
Ditto |
John Ogden |
32 |
Ditto |
John Ward |
33 |
Ditto |
Joseph Keeler |
35 |
Ditto |
John L Robberts [Roberts]
|
1 |
2nd |
John Belcher |
2 |
Ditto |
Obidiah Simson [Simpson]
|
4 |
Ditto |
Samuel Sherwood |
24 |
Ditto |
John Turner |
5 |
Ditto |
John Nix |
23 |
Ditto |
Palmer Crandall |
29 |
Ditto |
Reuben Crandall |
28 |
Ditto |
George Palmer |
31 |
Ditto |
Nathaniel Gaffield - see note below
|
32 |
Ditto |
John McSherman |
34 |
Ditto |
Elisha Alger |
33 |
3rd |
Cyrus Richmond |
4 |
4th |
John Dowling |
31 |
Ditto |
John Simson |
7 |
Ditto |
James Dowling |
22 |
Ditto
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Walter Warden
|
23
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Ditto
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Sylvester Richmond
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5
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Ditto
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Timothy Olcoth?
|
10
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5th?
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Willim Obryant
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19
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5th
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William Brunson
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20
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Dittto
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Enoch Wright
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2
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4th
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Stephen Campbell
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16
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1st
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David Turner [Turney]
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23
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Ditto
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Jeremiah Scripture
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9
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Ditto
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Two notes form the above bundle
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Elisha Alger |
13 Sept 1807 |
Lot 33, Con 3 |
Privleged for lot of Cramahe as
UE [image 673]
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Reuben Crandall |
20 Apr 1805 |
Lot 28, Con 2 |
Benjamin Ewing paid fee on the grant [image 676] |
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2. List of Settlers in Cramahe 1st Sept 1797
[Source: UCLP, LAC, RG 1 L3, 1797, V91, bundle C3/227, C-1648, online at LAC, starts at image 638]
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Town of
Cramahe |
Lots |
Concessions |
Eldridge Stanton |
27 |
1 |
Timothy Olcott |
1 |
2 |
John Turner |
7 |
2 |
David Turner [Turney as informed by descendant Mark Turney] |
23 |
1 |
David Turner Jnr [Turney]
|
22 |
1 |
Nathaniel Gaffield
|
32 |
2 |
George Palmer |
31 |
2 |
Palmer Crandall |
29 |
2 |
Reuben Crandall |
28 |
2 |
Henry Frint |
26 |
2 |
Amos Beach |
25 |
2 |
John Nix |
23 |
2 |
Martin Frint |
21 |
2 |
Barnabas McKeys |
26 |
1 |
John Ward |
33 |
1 |
Aaron Wallace |
30 |
1 |
Simon Winn |
16 |
5 |
Abraham Winn |
17 |
5 |
Joseph Winn |
18 |
5 |
John Sichler |
19? |
5 |
William Clark? |
20 |
5 |
John Heaviland [Haviland]
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18 |
6 |
William Brunson |
20 |
1 |
John Frint |
22 |
2 |
Elisha Alger |
33 |
3 |
Lanson Bostwick |
10 |
1 |
Aaron Ives |
19 |
2 |
John Ogden |
32 |
1 |
Cryus Richmond |
4 |
4 |
Jeremiah Scripture |
6 |
1 |
William Obryon |
19 |
1? |
James Richardson |
1 |
5 |
Surfernus? Dygert |
3 |
1 |
Benjamin Richardson |
4 |
5 |
James Bothis |
7 |
1 |
Oliver Campbell |
12 |
1 |
William Campbell |
13 |
5 |
Stephen Campbell |
16 |
1 |
John Campbell |
14 |
1 |
Isaiah Hall |
29 |
5 |
Peris Cooper |
24 |
1 |
Joseph Keeler? |
35
& 35 |
1 & 2 |
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John Belcher |
2 |
2 |
Obediah Simson |
4 |
2 |
John McThirnan |
34 |
2 |
John Dowling |
31 |
4 |
John Simson |
7 |
4 |
Walter Warden |
23 |
4 |
Sylvester Richmond |
5 |
4 |
Enoch Weight |
2 |
4 |
Garbrum Spring |
10 |
4 |
Jason Yearns |
8 |
4 |
John Burtley |
8 |
2 |
Elisha Bristol |
17 |
5 |
Joel Merriman |
24 |
1 |
54 [total] |
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[signed] |
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Asa Danforth |
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Aaron Greeley |
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List of Settlers in Cramahe
Signed and ?? 1st Sept 1797
Peter Russell
See a former list 17th June 1797 C228, No 3
2a. Notes from the bundle above.
These notes are lengthy and go from image 640 up to 672.
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Timothy
Alcott |
14 June 1802 |
5 acres of land cleared and
fenced and comfortable house on Lot 10 Con 24 Isiah Hall JP |
Joel
Merriman |
12 June 1802 |
5 acres of land cleared and
fenced and comfortable house on Lot 1 Con 24 Isiah Hall JP |
Peres
Cooper |
12 June 1802 |
5 acres of land cleared and
fenced and built a good log house and has a family and is settled and that
the lot was vacant the person who took it up went to the States soon after
and has not since been herad of on Lot
1 Con 2 A Chisholm JP |
Anson
Ives? |
25 May 1801 |
5 acres of land cleared built
a house and has a family and is
settled on lot 19 Con 2 Chisholm JP |
Henry
Frint |
27 March 1809 |
Has paid Patent fees for himself
and for his father John Frint |
Palmer
Crandell |
23 March 1813 |
Elisha Renson? Agent paid fees |
John
Ogden |
10 March 1809 |
Caleb Elsworth agent paid fees |
David
McGregor Rogers Esq |
7 March 1808 |
paid fees |
David
Turney Jr
see image 665 to 668
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undated |
certify 20 acres cleared lot 23 Con 1 with family and living on lot.
Alex Hagerman |
Joseph
Winn |
1 Sep 1797 |
Joseph Winn, of Ameliasburgh,
yeoman, lot 18, Con 5 as a settler. Fee and survey paid. |
Peter
Wyatt |
2 Oct 1800 |
Joseph J Lency & Jeremiah
Scripture swear that Peter Wyatt has built a house on lot 6, Con 1, Haldimand
18 by 20 and has cleared 5 acres |
Stepehen
Bowerman |
2 Oct 1800 |
John Dowling swears that Stephen
Bowerman has house 18 feet square and cleared 6 acres on lot 7, con 1
Haldimand |
John
Dowling |
2 Oct 1800 |
Jeremiah Scripture swears that
John Dowling has a house 16 by 18 on lot 31, con 4 Cramahe |
Mathew
Morris |
2 Oct 1800 |
John Dowling swears that Mathew
Morris has house 18 feet square and has cleared 5 acres lot 13, Con 2,
haldimand |
John Nix |
27 June 1807 |
Cleared and fenced lot 23, con 2
Cramahe |
John Nix |
10 Nov 1807 |
David M Rogers paid the patent
fees to John Nix located in Cramahe |
John
Ward |
7 Apr 1811 |
paid fees, lot 33, con 1 |
John
Ward and Alemnun Stephens |
13 Apr 1811 |
Before Damian Cameron Esq, make
oath that John Ward and Almenun Stephens, Cramahe, yeomen, lot 33, con 1 40
acres cleared and house built 30 by 18 and half the road front cleared and
fit for carriages |
Jeremiah
Scripture
and John Dowling
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22 Feb 1808 |
paid fees, lot 6, con 1 as a
settler |
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3. A list of the Settlers in the Township of Cramahe 13 May 1799
Stating the Improvments, each one has made as well as their Place of residence.
[See also a second similar list with some differences starting at image 207.]
[Source: UCLP, RG 1 L3, 1799, V92, bundle C4/145, C-1649, online at LAC, starts at image 203]
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James
Richardson |
No 1 in front about 1/2 acre
partly, residing at Kingston |
Benjamin Richardson |
No 4 in front, about 6 acres
cleared - he has also cleared about 15 acres on lot No 5 and erected five
small log houses |
Jeremiah Scripture |
No 6 in front about 8 acres
cleared |
Jeremiah Beatys |
No 7 in front about 7 acres
cleared |
Oliver Campbell |
No 12 in front about 20 acres
cleared |
John Campbell |
No 13 in front about 2 acres
cleared |
William Campbell |
No 14 in front about 4 acres
cleared |
Stehen Campbell |
No 16 in front about 1 acres
cleared |
Zediah Hurd |
No 19 in front about 6 acres
cleared |
William Brunson |
No 20 in front about 3 acres
cleared |
David Turner Jr [Turney]
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No 22, single man settled & improvedAbout 18 acres cleared part on
both lots |
David Turner Sr [Turney]
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No 23 Family settled and improved
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Alexr McDonell |
No 26 in front about 6 acres
cleared |
Eldridge Stanton |
No 27 in front about 15 acres
cleared |
Isiah Hall |
No 29 in front about 50 acres
cleared - he has also partly cleared about 10 acres on lot No 28 in front |
Aaron Wallace |
No 30 in front about 8 acres
cleared |
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John Ogden |
No 32 in front about 16 acres
cleared |
John Ward |
No 3 in front about 12 acres cleared; Sold to
Beeman, and has settled and cleared about 12 acres more in rear of lot Do near the 1st concession
line |
Richard Ogden |
No 31 in 1" Concession about 1 acres cleared |
Timothy Oldcott |
No 1 in 2nd Concession about 1
acre partly clear; he is said to have died in the States, the lot claimed by
John Dowling & Gudger |
John Belcher |
No 2 in 2nd Con - about 6 acres
partly clear living at the Bay of Quinty |
Obidiah Simson |
No 4 in 2nd Con - about 16 acres
clear |
John Turner |
No 7 in 2nd Con - about 1 acre
partly clear; said he has left the Country and resides in the States |
Martin Frint |
No 21 in 2nd Con - about 2 acres
partly clear living at the Bay of Quinty |
John Nix |
No 23 in 2nd Con - about 5 acres
clear |
Amos Beach |
No 25 in 2nd Con - about 6 acres
clear |
Henry Frint |
No 26 in 2nd Con - about 7 acres
clear |
Ruben Crandle |
No 28 in 2nd Con - about 10
acres clear |
Palmer Crandle |
No 29 in 2nd Con - about 10
acres clear |
George Palmer |
No 31 in 2nd Con - about 10
acres clear |
Nathaniel Gaffield | No 32 in 2nd Con - about 15
acres clear |
Elias Alger
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No 32 in 3rd Con - about 6 acres
partly clear |
Cyrus Richmond
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No 4 in 4th Con l- triffling cleared
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Silvester Richmond |
No 5 in 4th Con - a very
triffling clearing, living at the Bay of Quinte |
William Carle |
No 4 in 8th Con - about 10 acres
clear |
Daniel Mastin |
No 5 in 8th Con - about 3 acres
clear |
Paul VanWychule |
No 10 in 8th Con - about 2 acres
clear |
John Kerr |
No 11 in 8th Con - about 1 acres
clear |
Joel Merriman |
residing in the States; said to
clear lot 24 in front; but has not made any improvements thereon but said
that the half of the Improvements returned to Mrs Hall No 28 & 29 in
front belong to him |
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A Jones D. A. S. |
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4. List of Settlers in Cramahe June 1799
A Statement of the Settlement of the Township of Cramahe at this time
made by the persons who were returned as actual settlers by Asa
Danforth and Aaron Greeley in August 1797 at Niagara. [This later "Statement" by Greeley is dated 18 June 1799 at the bottom.]
[Source: UCLP, RG 1 L3, 1799, V92, bundle C4/145, C-1649, online at LAC, starts at image 207]
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Concession
& No of Lot |
Names of Settlers |
Remarks on the improvements and
settlers shewing their Situation |
Concession
1 |
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1 |
Capt James Richardson |
but a small improvement living
in Kingston and since the above return has drawn the lot for his services |
2 |
Saffrenus Digart |
Not in the Country and made no
improvement but is preparing to move on with his family immediately &
settle |
4 |
Benjamin Richardson |
Settled a family & large
improvement |
6 |
Jeremiah Scripture |
a singleman living in the
Township and made considerable improvements |
7 |
Jeremiah Bettys |
Settled a family and
considerable improvements |
9 |
John Spencer |
No improvements settled in the
Township of Hallowell Midland District and one of the nominees of Haldimand |
10 |
Lanson? Bostwick |
No improvements & and not in the Country |
12, 14,
13, 16 |
Oliver Campbell. William
Campbell, John Campbell, Stephen Campbell |
at the time of the above return
drew these lots as UE Loyalists and they have since moved into the Township
and made considerable improvement on Lots 12 & 13. Report to Mr Rogers |
17 |
Elisha Bristol? |
No improvement but has resided
in the Township since the above return and is preparing to improve the lot as
a single man |
19 |
William Obrien |
Not in Country but the lot
settled and improved by a man with a family from the States last year by the
name of Hurd |
20 |
William Brunson |
A single man settled and
improved and has resided in the Country since the above return |
22 |
David Turner Jr [Turney] |
A single man settled and
improved and has resided in the Township since the above return |
23 |
David Turner Sr [Turney] |
A family settled and improved
considerably |
24 |
Joel Merriman |
No improvement a family in Partnership with
with Huriah Hall who has made a large improvement on 29 in front and is now
at the Onadagya Salt Springs manufacturing salt to bring to this Country |
26 |
Barnabas McKeys |
the lot in Dispute with
Alexander Mcdonell who is now settled on the lot and Mckeys residing
elsewhere in the Township with his family |
27 |
Aldridge Staunton |
A family settled & large
improvement |
29 |
Isaiah Hall [Hull?] |
A family settled & large
improvement in partnership with Joel merriman |
30 |
Aaron Wallace |
A family settled &
considerable improvement |
32 |
John Ogden |
A family settled &
considerable improvement |
33 |
John Ward |
A family settled &
considerable improvement |
35 |
Joseph Keeler |
One of the nominees of the
Township |
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Concession
2 |
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1 |
Timothy Olcott |
Dead and his wife since come in
John Dowling a trfling improvement |
2 |
John Belcher |
No improvement a single man
settled in Adolphustown Midland District |
4 |
Obadiah Simpson |
A family settled &
considerable improvement |
7 |
John Turner |
No improvement & left the Country |
8 |
John Bartley |
No improvement not known where he is |
19 |
Aaron Ives |
No improvement a single man and
has resided in the Township since the above return |
21 |
Martin Frint |
A family settled & improved |
23 |
John Nix |
A singleman settled and improved |
25 |
Amos Beech |
A family settled and improved |
26 |
Henry Frint |
A family settled and improved |
28 |
Reuben Crandell |
A family settled and improved |
29 |
Palmer Crandell |
A family settled and improved |
31 |
George Palmer |
A family settled and improved |
32 |
Nathaniel Gaffield |
A family settled and improved |
34 |
John McKinnon |
Dead settled by Thomas Everton
with his family who obtained a warrant for lands in Novemeber 1797 |
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Concession
3 |
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3 |
Elisha Algar |
Referd to Mr Rogers |
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Concession
4 |
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2 |
Enoch Weight? |
Not in the Country not improved |
4 |
Cyrus Richmond |
No improvement a single man
settled in Fredericksburg Midland District |
5 |
Sylvester Richmond |
No improvement a family and
settled in Fredericksburg Midland District |
7 |
John Simpson |
No improvement not of age but
resides in the Township |
8 |
Jason Oyearns? |
No improvement not known where
he is |
10 |
Gabrun Sprung |
No improvement not known where
he is |
23 |
Walter Warden |
No improvement & not in the
Country |
31 |
John Dowling |
No improvement now gone for his
family and will settle immediately |
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Concession
5 |
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16 |
Simeon Winn |
Referd to Mr Rogers |
17 |
Abraham Winn |
Referd to Mr Rogers |
18 |
Joseph Winn |
Referd to Mr Rogers |
19 |
John Sickler?? |
[no note] |
20 |
William Clark |
Dead No improvement and no heir
in this Country |
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Concession
6 |
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18 |
John Haviland |
The deed issued to him |
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York June 18 1799 |
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Aaron Greeley |
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NATHANIEL GAFFIELD UE - the Loyalist With Two Names
and An Early Resident of Cramahe Tp.
Nathaniel Gaffield was born about 1755 and captured in 1756 by Indians during
the Seven Years' War. He was found in the latter part of the War and was given
the name 'Amherst Ferrol' as his actual name was not known by then. The
'Amherst' first name was after British Commander Amherst. It was with this name
he served during the American Revolution, initially in the Rebel Albany County
Militia, but switching sides to close the war in (Jessup's) Loyal Rangers.
After the War he returned to the US and somehow managed to reunite with his
family and reclaim his original name. He returned to Canada, settling finally
in Cramahe Tp.
For a more detailed account see
descendant Roger W. Reid's article in Fidelity Vol
18 No. 1 (Sep/Oct 1995), newsletter of Toronto Branch UELAC. Thanks to Peter W. Johnson
UE for this additional information. DAVID TURNEY Sr and JR
The names David Turner and David Turner Jr of lots 22 and 23, Con 1 are
in all three lists. Mark Turney, a descendant informs that it should be
Turney. This is supported by a single record in the Sept 1797 set of
notes on image 665.
Turney is clearly written but Turner follows on the remaining images of
the note. Mark writes, "The name Turney is also listed on the 1878
Northumberland county atlas on the corresponding lots and concessions.
Many of us still live in the area."
Turney it is. The clerks wrote Turner in the lists and they were probably copying field notes of some sort.
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