Any Nautical Types Out There?

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Originally posted by Bruce MacMillan
GWB quotes "we arrived here in 1786 (the Niagara peninsula) from the Albany area"

Ah, another fellow pre-Canadian. One side of my family arrived in 1785 from Sir John Johnson's colony near Stone Arabia, N.Y. after serving with the King's Royal Regiment of New York and Butler's Rangers. For some reason their rebel neighbours didn't like them

They received their grant of land in Finch township.

Greetings, fellow Pre-Canadian! I'm the great-great-great-great Grandson of Samuel Williams who was born in or near New York city on May 27, 1767. Loyal to Great Britain and an "adherent to the Royal cause" he came to Canada with his father John Williams. John Williams claim of land was witnessed at Mashish, Que. in 1783 and he and his son settled in West Lake, Ontario in 1784. There Samuel married Jemima Platt from Plattsburgh, N.Y. on Oct. 6, 1792 and thus began the long, difficult process of hewing our great nation from a "howling widerness."