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Edward Lee
Royal Newfoundland Fencible

This story is typical of a British soldier during the French Revolution & Napoleonic era. 1789-1815.

Edward Lee was born in Bridgenorth, Shropshire, England in 1766.  St. Leonard’s Church records show the he married a Elizabeth Jones on 5 April 1790, He first joined the British army 1792 in Pigot’s Regiment of Foot it would later be called the 130th (Loyal Staffordshire Volunteers) served in the West Indies, seeing action in what is now Jamaica during the Second Maroon War 1795-96.

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Royal Newfoundland Fencible

John Godfrey Lloyd
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John Godfrey Lloyd was born in Kingston in 1784, the son of a Hessian soldier. When still a child his family moved to a lot west of Gananoque in Leeds County where Lloyd spent the rest of his life. As a young man John Lloyd was employed at Joel Stone’s mill in Gananoque. On the early morning of September 21, 1812 the men in the settlement were roused with the news that an American force had landed at Lindsay’s Point.

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John Sly
2nd Regiment Leeds Militia

John Sly (1763-1868) John Sly was b 23 June 1763 in Dutchess County, New York but grew up in Vermont where his family eventually settled. According to his grand-daughter, Mariah Millenbah, John Sly lived at the foot of the Green Mountains in Vermont and was away from home five years fighting during the Revolutionary War; as a teenager it is unclear what role he fulfilled during this conflict.

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2nd Regiment Leeds Militia