Family Link: William Henry Cascadden
[Graveside Team ed — Since no grave or last know location are known, the Cemetery GPS coordinates are the same used for his relative.]
Category Archives: Veteran
War of 1812 Veteran
Alexander Cascadden
William Henry Cascadden
3rd Regiment Lincoln Militia
Family Link: Alexander Cascadden
Richard Smith
104th Regiment of Foot
Richard Smith joined the New Brunswick Regiment of Fencible Infantry on 18 June 1805, which became New Brunswick’s 104th Regiment of Foot in 1810. When he joined he was under the minimum age of 15 to join as a Private, he did it anyway, instead of enlisting as a Boy (the category for people enlisting underage). Being a big lad he was assigned to the Grenadier Company (the biggest and strongest men of the regiment). Only men over 1.83 m (6′-0″) tall could be in this company and he was 1.88 m (6′-5″) tall.
Sampson Howell
2nd Regiment York Militia
He was a Farmer.
Commanding Officer (under the 2nd Regt): Captain John Chisholm
He also served in 5th Regiment Lincoln Militia, under Captain Samuel Hatt. (Source: Soldiers of the King by William Gray)
Samuel Cockran
1st Regiment York Militia
Served in Detroit and in Queenston Heights. He volunteered once and was twice drafted and received a military pension.
Thomas Atkinson1st Regiment York Militia
Commanding Officer: Captain William Applegarth’s Company
John Moore
4th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Nelles
Ashman Moore
4th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Nelles
Joesph Dumaw
4th Montreal Battalion
Erected breastworks on Ash Island
Discharged December 1814
Applied for Pension1
About the time of the Reign of Terror in France, a Dumaw family, Christian names unknown, became Protestants or as they were then known Hugenots [Huguenot] and left their country emigrating to Canada.
John W McIntyre
Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
McIntyre was wounded in action at Queenston on October 13, 1812 but recovered.
Commanding Officer: Major Richard Hatt