Born in Vermont in 1782 Cleveland Stafford brought his wife Sally and infant first son, Solomon to Upper Canada about 1805 eventually settling in Lansdowne Township, Leeds County.
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2nd Regiment Leeds Militia
Cleveland Stafford
William Sturdivant
1st Regiment Leeds Militia
Born in Vermont about 1776 William Sturdivant came to Upper Canada in 1790 where he married Catherine Gordon, daughter of Robert Gordon, a Loyalist who had settled in Charlottenburg.
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1st Regiment Leeds Militia
Walter St. John102nd Regiment of Foot
This application is sponsored by the Border Historical Society, Eastport, Maine.
Walter St. John was commissioned as an Ensign in the 64th Regiment of Foot on 24 December 1804. The regiment was serving in Barbados. When the 64th was transferred to Surinam in mid-1805, St. John remained in Barbados and joined the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot that was part of the garrison there. He was promoted to Captain in 1806. The 46th participated in the capture of the French islands of Martinique in 1809 and Guadeloupe in 1810. St. John most likely participated in these attacks. The 46th returned to England in late 1811. Following garrison duty there, the 46th was ordered to Australia in August 1813. St. John again changed regiments and joined the 102nd Regiment of Foot in July 1813.
John GreenizanDeWattville’s Regiment
John Greenizan was born in the canton of Berne, Switzerland in 1780. As a young man he chose a military career serving as a mercenary in Napoleon’s army. After his capture by the British Greenizan joined DeWattville’s Regiment, a unit of Swiss mercenaries that fought for the British in Egypt and Spain.
Joel Stone
2nd Regiment Leeds Militia
Joel Stone was born in 1749 in Connecticut where he married and carried on a mercantile business until the beginning of the American Revolution when his support of the loyalist cause resulted in the confiscation of all his property.
Allen Sweet
2nd Regiment Leeds Militia
Allen Sweet was born in 1790 in Oswego, New York and came to Upper Canada about 1806 where his family settled in Leeds County. At the age of 22 he was a corporal in the Flank Company 2nd Regiment Leeds Militia commanded by Captain John Struthers and was called to duty at Gananoque in July 1812 where he served until the spring of 1813.
Archelaus Kenney Farnam
2nd Regiment Leeds Militia
Archelaus Kenny Farnam, born in 1779 in Dublin, New Hampshire, came to Upper Canada about 1797 with his parents and siblings eventually settling in Bastard Township, Leeds County.
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Nathan Hicock
2nd Regiment Leeds Militia
A native of Connecticut, Nathan Hicock followed his cousin Truman Hicock to Leeds County, Upper Canada in 1800. Nathan Hicock was clerk of the Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne from 1803 to 1807. In 1806 he married the former Elizabeth Sexton with whom he had a family of eight children.
Levi Hotchkiss2nd Regiment Leeds Militia
Born in Vermont in 1792, Levi Hotchkiss Jr. came to Upper Canada as a young boy with his parents who settled in Leeds County near the present day village of Seeleys Bay.
John Godfrey Lloyd
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John Godfrey Lloyd was born in Kingston in 1784, the son of a Hessian soldier. When still a child his family moved to a lot west of Gananoque in Leeds County where Lloyd spent the rest of his life. As a young man John Lloyd was employed at Joel Stone’s mill in Gananoque. On the early morning of September 21, 1812 the men in the settlement were roused with the news that an American force had landed at Lindsay’s Point.