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From: "Patterson" <>
Subject: Re: [UPP-CAN] Re: [NHGRAFTO] Canaan, NH, families to Upper Canada around 1890
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:05:48 -0500
References: <41CA691C.1C87480A@ix.netcom.com> <000a01c4e908$30ffd7e0$6f81d6d1@net> <41CAF175.DD7B2A98@ix.netcom.com>

The "Brewster Genealogy" has this info about Ezra Brewster which might apply
to other Eastern Township settlers. "Ezra Brewster removed to Colwell's
Manor or Sixth Concession, Canada, in 1807. As he was about to be pressed
into the British Army in the War of 1812, he, with his wife and children,
left Canada for Vermont, in a sleigh, escaping three guards, who were
stationed along the line to Vermont." Ezra eventually settled in Michigan.

Colwell's Manor was very close to the Vermont border and I am guessing that
the Brewsters had moved across the border just looking for more farm land
for their growing family.
After the War of 1812, some Americans moved much further north and were very
early settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley. The tradition handed down is
that they were loyalist. One of these families named a son "George
Washington" (!?!)
Jackie Patterson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sanford R. Wilbur" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: [UPP-CAN] Re: [NHGRAFTO] Canaan, NH, families to Upper Canada
around 1890


> David,
> Thanks, I'll look into the Eastern Townships. Despite my assertion
> that these folks were true, blue "Americans" (or rebel scoundrel
> traitors, as the Loyalists and Brits might have called them), several
> folks on the list felt they were United Empire Loyalists, and moved
> because of their disenfranchisement. That they were well settled in
> Canaan, NH; stayed in Canada a relatively short time; and returned to
> their original farms makes me think there must have been some particular
> non-Loyalist reason for the moves at that particular time.
> Sandy Wilbur
>
> David wrote:
>>
>> The area at the top of the CT river is know as the Eastern Townships. The
>> link below describes the beginning. Use a search engine to find more
>> information. I have some relatives lost in the transition from Grafton
>> County NH to Eastern Townships.
>> http://www.geocities.com/sharut/easterntownships.html
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sanford R. Wilbur" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:43 AM
>> Subject: [NHGRAFTO] Canaan, NH, families to Upper Canada around 1890
>>
>> > Several families, including HARRIS and WALWORTH, left Grafton County,
>> > New Hampshire, some time around 1790. Most (all?) had returned to
>> > Grafton County by 1810. I only know that they went to Canada because
>> > there were a couple of HARRIS births in this group in Canada around
>> > 1800, in families that had been in New Hampshire before 1800 and after
>> > 1810. The only clue I have as to where they might have gone is a record
>> > from Kemptville, Ontario (but it was later, and may have nothing to do
>> > with the movement I am researching).
>> >
>> > Does anybody have any ideas why a bunch of New Hampshire folks would
>> > have gone to Canada en masse (at least, en clan)at that particular
>> > time,
>> > where they might have gone, and why they might have come back? They
>> > weren't Loyalists; they were grantees at Canaan, New Hampshire, who had
>> > moved up river from Connecticut, and moved back to Canaan.
>> >
>> > Sandy Wilbur
>> > Gresham, OR
>> >
>> > =========================
>> > SYMBIOS Books:
>> > http://home.netcom.com/~symbios
>
>
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