Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Nelles
Ashman Moore
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
Thomas Fowler
Oxford Militia
Commanding Officer: Captain Bela Brewster Brigham’s Rifle Co.
Benjamin Strowbridge
Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Commanding Officer: Major Richard Hatt
Robert P McAlister
Oxford Militia
Commanding Officer: Captain Marvel White
Isaac Ferriss
Flank Company
1st Regiment Essex Militia
My 3rd great-grandfather Isaac Ferriss UE served in 3 battles during the War of 1812-14. He served at the Battle of Detroit, the Battle of the Maumee and the Battle of Raisin River — all in the Michigan and Ohio areas.
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Flank Company
1st Regiment Essex Militia
Henery Ellis
Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Commanding Officer: Captain Thomas Perrin
Daniel Secord Sr.
Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Commanding Officer: Captain Thomas Perrin
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.