Private Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Smith was born 26 Mar 1773, in Sussex County, New Jersey, and died 18 Nov 1851 in Ancaster, Ontario to John H. Smith, United Empire Loyalist and Anna Roy.
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Benjamin Smith
Daniel Young
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Captain Daniel Young, 5th Lincoln Militia Regiment
By William (Bill) Young, UE (January 20 2015)
Captain Daniel Young was my 4th great-grandfather.
John Warren3rd Regiment Lincoln Militia
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John Warren Jr. was the son of John Warren was born in 1777. He was the second son of John Warren, Sr. and his wife Susan. John Sr. was a career soldier with the 8th (The King’s) Regiment of Foot. In 1779 Warren Sr. left the army and was appoint commissary at Fort Erie. He became a prominent merchant and held many government posts.
Phillip Wintemute3rd Regiment Lincoln Militia
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In 1788 Peter and Eva Wintemute migrated from the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania to Canada settling along the Niagara River at Black Rock which was about three miles below Fort Erie. Corporal Peter Wintemute was given a land grant for loyalty to the crown and his service to the King during the American Revolution.
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Christopher Myers
Quartermaster General’s Department
Colonel Christopher Myers CB
Christopher John Myers was born c 1774 in County Dublin, Ireland. In August 1799, as a captain in the 40th Regiment of Foot, Myers was wounded at the Battle of Bergen in what is now Holland. Isaac Brock, then a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 49th Regiment of Foot, participated in the same battle.
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Quartermaster General’s Department
James Kerby, 2nd Regiment Lincoln Artillery
Kerby was a militia officer, businessman, Justice of the Peace, office holder, and politician; b 1785 at Park Farm near Sandwich (Windsor, Ont.), son of John Kerby and Alison Donaldson; m 1811 Jane Lambert, and they had three children; d 20 June 1854 at Fort Erie, Upper Canada.
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Titus Simons
2nd Regiment York Militia
Community Life
- editor & publisher of Canada’s first newspaper, The Upper Canada Gazette
- built an industrial empire on the 2nd Conc consisting of a grist mill, a saw mill, ashery, cooperage, stables, hog pens, and 13 dwellings for his employees
- helped found the Burlington Board of Agriculture
- member of Masonic Lodge (Union Lodge #24)
- laid the cornerstone of the Ancaster Free Church
- was appointed the first Sheriff of the Gore District (Hamilton and its vicinity)
Military Life
- was commissioned as Adjutant in the 1st Regiment Lincoln Militia
- held the rank of Lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment Lincoln Militia
- when war was declared in 1812 he was Captain in the 2nd Regiment York Regiment
- aided in the capture of the American Fort Niagara
- commanded the volunteers and militia at Black Rock and Buffalo
- appointed Major and was in command at Lundy’s Lane until wounded
- Sir Peregrin Maitland wrote of Titus Geer Simon that he,
“served with active zeal and intelligence from the commencement of the war with the United States, his general character and conduct in the command of a Regiment of Militia highly respectable, and his loyalty and attachment to His Majesty’s Government undoubted.”