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Frederick Couse
Captain, Chrysler’s Company
2nd Regiment Lincoln Militia

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Pte Frederick Couse

Born 2 Aug 1794 in Vineland, Clinton, Twp., Lincoln County, UC
son of Peter Couse and Betsy Snover

Joined Captain Chrysler’s Company, 2nd Regiment Lincoln Militia as a Private.

Received 100 acres for War 1812-15  combatant service.

Moved to Yarmouth Twp, Elgin County.

Married Mary Ensley (b. 10 Mar 1799 d. 21 June 1848 both in Yarmouth) on 3 Sep 1818 in Yarmouth.

Twelve children:

  • John
  • Frederick (aka Peter)
  • Aaron
  • Richard
  • Moses,
  • Della
  • Elizabeth
  • Rachel
  • Albert
  • Mary Ann
  • Calista
  • Ellen

He died 16 May 1867 in Yarmouth Twp.

Muster Roll pay record sent as supporting Document.

However, Frederick Course received a land grant for War 1812-14  service in 2nd Flank Company, 4th Regiment Lincoln Militia.

Archives Canada Land Grant Document requested., but pay record is believed to be most accurate.

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Peter Bowman
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia

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Captain Peter Bowman

Peter BowmanHe was a Private in Butler’s Rangers from Susquehanna River. Enlisted at the age of 15 at Niagara July 1784. Took the oath of allegiance at Niagara sometime between Nov 1784 and Jun 1785. Listed as a settler “at the Mountain and near Fort Erie, 1785”. Land entitlement in the District of Nassau in 1792 totalled 350 acres. Captain in the 4th Regiment of the Lincoln Militia in 1811. Settled in Ancaster Township, Upper Canada. Died 28 Oct 1847 at the residence of his only surviving child, Mrs. P. Spohn, in Ancaster in An Annotated Nominal Roll of Butler’s Rangers 1777 – 1784, pg 50.

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Benjamin Vanatter
Artillery
4th Regiment Lincoln Militia

Benjamin Vanatter/Van Etten came with his family to the Niagara region in about 1800.

During the War of 1812, he was a gunner in the 4th Regiment Lincoln Militia Artillery along with his future father-in-law, Jerry (Jere) Kentner.  He received a Crown land grant of 100 acres in Caledon in 1832.  He sold this property in 1834 and was encouraged to move to Erin Township, by his 1st Father-in-law, Jerry Kentner.

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James Dittrick UE
Flank Company
4th Regiment Lincoln Militia.

Captain James Dittrick, commanded the Flank Company in Colonel Robert Nellis’s 4th Regiment Lincoln Militia. Of all five brothers who served in the flank companies of the Lincoln Militia during the War, James’s career is the most thoroughly documented. His “Reminisces of the early years of settlement in Niagara and St. Catharines” was published in the “Loyalist Narratives” compiled by British author George Coventry in 1860 and reprinted many times since; most recently by the Champlain Society. He was also interviewed by Benson Lossing who reported this meeting in the Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 published in 1869. Being a contemporary, and neighbour of William Hamilton Merritt, he is mentioned several times (often competitively) in the Biography of the Honouable William Hamilton Merritt, authored by Merritt’s younger son. James is also recorded in the ”Merritt Papers” preserved by the Archives of Ontario.

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