At the capture of Fort Niagara

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McDonald, Donald. Ensign, 8th or King's Regt. At the capture of Fort Niagara, Dec. 19th, 1813.
Lt. Col. Ogilvie

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Widow's Petition

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Lt. Col.Timothy Hierlihy

 Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists - Series I : C-12903:

(Image 42) Lt. Col.Timothy Hierlihy

His Majesty's late Royal Nova Scotia Regiment of Foot

Ensign in 1755 Battle of Lake George

1762 Major at the Havanna

Active part in late rebellion

Wife and Nine children

At present residing abroad

Native of Ireland

Had lived in Middletown, Connecticut

Claim for property in Florida

John and Mary Ann Gillman Howard

WO 42/23 1776-1881, WO 42. H. 344-450:

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John and Mary Ann (Gillman) Howard

Donald McDonald Recommendation

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McDonald, Donald

J. Craigie to Major Jas. Groen.  Recommends - tobe appointed Assistant Storekeeper at Kingston, vice Cameron, deceased.

Quebec, 10-5-1803

Donald McDonald

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McDonald, Donald. (D.S.) Inhabitant, Suburbs St John's, L.C.
Signature to memorial praying for the gates to be opened during the night.
Quebec 5-12-1799
c. 512 p. 50

Donald McDonald Present At Marriage

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17-1-1785

McDonald, Donald. Copy.
Present at marriage of Allan McDonell with Marjorie McDonell and signed register.
Denant, Ptre.
Parish of St. Joseph de Soulanges.
c. 206 p. 46

POW Donald McDonald's Military Index Card

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McDonald, Donald

Private, 3rd Battalion  New-Jersey

Volunteers. (Prisoner)

27-11-1781

c.1856  P. 72

British Soldiers

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British Footguard, 1745

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The Taking Of Quebec

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During The Storm Of Revolution

See more about Lieutenant-General John Maunsell (1724-1795) here

"Twelve years passed, during which the storm of the Revolution was gathering, which burst at Lexington and Concord. As a soldier, Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell felt himself bound to the service of the king, although his affections were strongly fixed on the home which he had adopted. He sailed for England in May, 1775, in company with the Hon. John Watts, Colonel Roger Morris, Isaac Wilkins, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Chandler, and other royalists, with introductions from Liutenant-Governor Colden warmly commending him to the prime minister and Lord Dartmouth. He had returned from a visit there only two years before. He left Mrs. Maunsell in their home in Greenwich, and returned for her the next year, having received an appointment in Ireland which relieved him from serving against his friends in America, to which he was greatly averse. He was given a post at Kinsale, where they remained till peace enabled them to retrace their way across the Atlantic to their home."

"Life in such a post could not have been an eventful one. He was promoted to a colonelcy on half-pay August 29, 1777. Mrs. Maunsell gives some glimpses of their life and of manners and customs among the gentry of the south of Ireland."

"Her [Mrs. Maunsell's] acquaintance with court and camp had not affected her stern integrity; in reproving one whom she thought extravagant and who had incurred a debt, she writes: "I think were I thus situated I would endeavour by every effort to extricate myself, and rather fare on dry bread, and be attired in the meanest apparel than accessory to lessen the substance of others." Husband and wife were of one mind in this high sense of honesty, for it is handed down that having been relieved of his post, which had required large transactions in supplies for the army, his superior greeted him with the jocose remark, as to a comrade who could not be ignorant of the secrets of official perquisites, "Well, General Maunsell, I suppose you have not neglected your opportunities to feather your nest," but was met with the indignant reply, "Sir, I would as soon defraud you as I would my king.'He left with "clean hands and a pure heart.'" [Source]

Donald McDonald, Corporal, Queen's Rangers

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Battlefield Near The Ohio

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George Lewis's Declaration

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George Lewis, negro man

arrived in the Province in July 1793

Lived in Grand Isle, Vermont, the previous six months

lived in different periods with Williams and Rogers at Laprairie

enlisted in the 1st Battalion of the 60th Regiment

now live as a hand servant with Thomas Milford? of Montreal Esquire

John F. S. Smith

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"...I am the third son of respectable parents and was on the 21st of November AD 1821, in the city of Savannah, Georgia, introduced to this troublous world..."

California Great Registers

Name John Francisco Stone Smith

Event Type Voter Registration

Event Date 15 Jun 1866

Event Place 3d Township, Contra Costa, California, United States

Age 45

Birth Year (Estimated) 1821

Birthplace Georgia

Census 1880

Township 3, Contra Costa, California, United States

John F S Smith Self M 59 Georgia, United States

Adeline Smith Other F 50 Tennessee, United States

William Q Smith Other M 29 California, United States

James B Smith Other M 26 California, United States

Elliott H Smith Other M 24 California, United States

Thomas D Smith Other M 22 California, United States

Mary E Smith Other F 20 California, United States

Carrie M Smith Other F 16 California, United States

Adeline Smith Other F 15 California, United States

Virginia Smith Other F 14 California, United States

Amanda Smith Other F 13 California, United States

Nellie Smith Other F 9 California, United States

"My father was Captain James Smith of the United States navy, a native of Richmond, Virginia, of the old cavalier stock of Smiths and Mumfords of that old dominion. My mother was Mary Boylston, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, and of the old Puritan stock of Morgans. James Boylston, my grandfather, was a Captain in the English army and married my grandmother when the old revolutionary war was only a little unpleasantness to be settled in a few days...".

"My grandfather finally parted from his bride, fondly hoping that the unhappy war would soon cease and he would be permitted to return and claim her with the consent of all. But his young bride soon became a widow, and soon after a mother of an orphan girl. Her husband became a martyr to duty, and, after giving birth to her child, she followed him to where no ruthless wars could separate them, leaving her little girl in the care of her brother, the late General David B. Morgan, of Louisiana history, he to become her guardian and protector, the old lady having never forgiven her daughter for her secret marriage with the hated Englishman. The dying mother insisted upon depriving her of any care for or interest in her child and insisted on the brother's promise to guard and protect her little babe."

On relating the incident to the family at the close of the war, he begged to be allowed to adopt little Mary, as he was childless, in gratitude to the dead father. The family declined the honorable request. As time rolled on and peace and social intercourse had been established, my mother, then a girl of fifteen, with her uncle, visited the family of the Lord Chief Justice of Canada. While there she was struck with the resemblance of one of the portraits to that of her father in her locket ,and while comparing the two, the old Admiral Holloway [Hallowell?] of the British Navy came hobbling by and inquired why she compared them, and asked her who the locket represented. She replied, "My father." "Who was your father?" "James Boylston, sir." "Why that is James Boylston on the wall, my nephew, and looking at the locket and then at her said excitedly, "That is he and you are surely his daughter." "Explain to me child; I did not know of his marriage in America." She referred him to her Uncle David, who soon explained the matter of the private marriage with his sister and the unhappy circumstances following.

Send Down All The Rebel Prisoners

General Frederick Haldimand To Brigadier General Henry Watson Powell

Quebec   21 June 1782

I last night received a dispatch from Sir Guy Carleton, dated New York, 21st May. He informs me
that when he left England, it was the determination of the Ministry and the sense of the nation at
large to pursue all possible means consistent with honour to bring about an accommodation with
America.

You will please, therefore, to give such orders in the district of your command as will prevent any offensive operations being undertaken until you shall hear further from me, but in such a measure as not to occasion a belief of a report prevailing in the colonies that there is a Cessation of Arms, which is by no means the case. You will do your utmost to prevent depredations and cruelties upon the frontiers by the Indians.

To save time, I shall communicate the above immediately to Oswego and Carleton Island.

You will please to send down all the rebel prisoners from your post by the first opportunity.

British Library. Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Add MSS 21753, Register of Warrants Issued for the Extraordinary Service of the Army, 1782-1784; National Archives of Canada, Haldimand Collection, microfilm reel number A-678.

William Howard In Muster Roll

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William Howard

Josiah Howard, POW

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Josiah Howard, Private.

of Amhurst, York States, taken prisoner

28th May 1813

c.694.A.  P. 13.

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O Wicked Doctor Connolly!

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