William Howard, David Secord's Witness

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848...(Microform: t-1133):

William Howard, witness for David Secord

9 January 1816

This David Secord or this David Secord or ????

Captain Alexander McMillan

Memorial of Alexander McMillan of the Town of Brockville, Esquire

Captain, Second Glengarry Regiment

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2141

Petition 91

1842

[See Image 1006]

...was on permanent duty with his Company for the greater part of the Summer of the year One thousand Eight hundred and twelve, and in November of the same year (1812) was appointed and took the command of one of the First Flank Companies of that Regiment, vacated by the removal of Captain Donald McDonnell by the General Staff and early in the month of January...[1813]...he was ordered with his Company from Cornwall to Prescott, and on the twenty-second day of February, 1813 commanded his said Company at the Battle & Capture of Ogdensburgh....

Successful Raid On French Mills

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2141

Petition 91

1842

[See Image 1006]

Memorial of Alexander McMillan of the Town of Brockville, Esquire
Captain, Second Glengarry Regiment

From the "Paper Sleuth" paper at Electric Scotland:

"In 1967, I located Donald MacMillan, a great-grandson of Alexander, who owned a trucking firm in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He had carefully preserved his great-grandfather’s handmade French Canadian style armchair. Family legend had it that the chair was made by the St Regis Indians near Cornwall, Ontario, as a token of their regard for his leadership in the successful raid on French Mills, New York, on November 23, 1812. At that time, he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Glengarry Militia." [Source]

Witness, Jacques Beaudoin

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses...(Microform: t-1126):

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Witness Jacques Beaudoin

For

Antoine Barron of Malden

Lost His Span Of Horses

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses...:

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loss of a span of horses

21 August 1815

"Personally appeared before me Charles Barnhart, who maketh Oath that on or about 15th of February 1813 he lost his span of horses on a journey from Kingston to York carrying the baggage of the 49th Regt. in the company of Capt. Manners the same is attested of Joshua Anderson and John Peters...".

Isaac Frazer's Affidavit

A search of Upper Canada Land Petitions can be found at the Library and Archives of Canada website; occasionally affadavits about War of 1812 service can be found among some of the petition papers.

"C," Bundle 5 

C-1737

Petition 170

22 April 1850

Peter Ruttan affidavit vouching for the late Captain James Cotter

Isaac Frazer, late lieutenant, Militia Dragoons, On Duty in 1812

THE UPPER CANADIAN MILITIA.

MIDLAND DISTRICT (Continued.)

 Lieutenant Henry Davey.

 Ensign John C. Clark.

TROOP OF DRAGOONS.

Captain Christopher Fralick.

Lieutenant John Fraser.

 Isaac Fraser. 

Petition For Punishment

From the History of the Town of Cheshire, Berkshire County, Mass:

[Source]

July 8, 1814 

We the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Cheshire, supposing that you have the power to control or remove the British prisoners now located in Cheshire, think proper to state that they have conducted themselves in such a manner as to render their longer stay in this place highly improper.

Richmond Brown was one of the subscribers.

Giles Hall's Petition

Title: Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2043

June 16, 1816

H, Bundle 2

Petition 98

Stamford
"This may Certify that Giles Hall has resided within the limits of the 2d Reg't of Lincoln Militia during the late war..... ."

Gile Hall's Oath of Allegiance

Source

Petition Of Jacob Markle Signed By William Applegarth

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2200

Petition #446c

1812

Fort George

8 February 1816

Certified that Jacob Markle a Private in the 2nd Regt. of York Militia served the time....in the Flank Company under my Command during the Summer of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier.....

William Applegarth

From The Gore District Militia of 1821-1824-1830 and 1838 ; [and] The Militia of West York and West Lincoln of 1804, with the lists of officers...:

William Applegarth was not a U. E. Loyalist. He came from Standrop, Durham, England, in 1791, and received the Crown Grant for the land in East Flamboro, known as "Oaklands." The first grist mill in the neighborhood was built by him in 1809, when sea salmon were plentiful at the Credit, and in his own mill stream. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1812.

His [William Applegarth's] wife was Martha Cooley, U. E. L., whose sister Mary (Polly) was the wife of Richard Hatt. John Applegarth, and his brother Joshua, followed William, their brother, to Canada in 1801, and John formed one of Capt. Samuel Hatt's company at Detroit in 1812. He opened the first store in the town of Hamilton after the war.

Oath Of Peter W. Ruttan

An affidavit by Peter W. Ruttan regarding his knowledge of Captain James Cotter, as well as their service in the War of 1812, was found in the among the papers in the below petition:

Upper Canada Land Petitions

C-1737

"C," Bundle 5 

Petition 170

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County of Prince Edward

22 April 1850

Peter W. Ruttan's oath stated that he was "...with the late Captain James Cotter of Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County" and was "...on duty in the War of 1812."

Some background on the Ruttans (there may have been a Peter Ruttan, Jr. and Sr.) as well as a story about surviving the Hungry Year (1787) in rural Canada:

The Ruttans were descended from a Huguenot, who settled in America about 1734. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Henry's father and his "Uncle Peter took up arms for the King (3rd Battalion of the Jersey Volunteers). [The Loyalist family moved to Canada] At the best of times, it was hard to get provisions in any little hamlet... .   

For instance, if the people at Adolphustown needed to get a barrel of pork or to have a sack of grain ground, they had to go all the way to Kingston. But in "the Hungry Year" the soldiers in the garrison were put on an allowance of a biscuit a day, so it was vain to look for help in that quarter. At last, in desperation, Peter Ruttan, who had saved some money from the sale of his captain's commission, sent two men all the way to Albany, in New York State, for four bushels of Indian corn. It was a perilous journey through the trackless woods deep in snow; but they returned in safety with the precious grain, and upon this, the milk of their cow, and the roots and berries they could gather in the woods, the family of eight persons lived till harvest. [Source]

Petition From The Committee Of Bristol County, Massachussetts

From the Louisiana Digital Library, America At War  -  A Petition from the Committee of Correspondence of Bristol County, Massachusetts, dated March 25, 1813:

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