Henry Lester was born in New York State in 1788 and came to the Burford area probably as a young boy with his family after the American Revolution.
Henry Lester
Jonathan Stephens
Oxford Militia
Commanding Officer: Captain Bela Brewster Brigham
John Westbrook
Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
John Westbrook was born in New York State and was captured by the Indians as a child. He was later traded back to the Americans in an exchange of prisoners.
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Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Cornelius Bertran
1st Regiment of Lincoln Militia
Cornelius Bertran was born c1785, likely in Sussex County, New Jersey, USA, to David Bertran. David served in the 2nd Battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers during the American Revolution. He and his family came to Upper Canada in 1794 when he was given a land grant in Clinton Township as a United Empire Loyalist.
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1st Regiment of Lincoln Militia
Oro County’s Black Militia
Cpt Runchey’s Men of Colour
The Oro Black Settlement is an historic ‘social experiment’ whereby Black militiamen who fought in the War of 1812, were granted farm land in Oro along one road, creating a “black farming community” — as of 1819 this must have been a world first.
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Cpt Runchey’s Men of Colour
Benjamin File
Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Commanding Officer: John Westbrook’s Company
John Beacham
100th (H.R.H. The Prince Regent’s, County of Dublin)
Regiment of Foot
James Powers
Indian Lands
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Commanding Officer: Captain John Westbrook’s Company
Peter Buck
3rd Regiment Lincoln Militia
Daniel A Freeland
1st Regiment Lincoln Militia
Daniel A Freeland was born in New Brunswick in 1796, son of a Loyalist, Hartman Freeland who served in the New Jersey Vols.
Died in Burford twp., 23 July 1882, buried in Fairfield Plains cemetery.