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• Johnson, Jemima

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Johnson, Mary

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Johnson, Sarah

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Ball, Peter

  b. Feb 24,1755; d. May 8,1836 (St. Mark's cemetery); husband of Elizabeth Showers (m. 1784); father of George Augustus, John Clement, Gertrude Servos, Hannah Long, Peter, William Michael Mann and Elizabeth Servos; Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Westbrook, Alexander

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Springer, Margaret

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Secord, John

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Dunn, John

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Bradt, Arent

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Fairchild, Mary

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Fairchild, Benjamin

  U.E.L. of Ancaster and Barton townships;
• Depue [Depew], John Sr. (Lieut.)

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Ancaster and Barton townships;
• McKenzie, Donald A.
• Mills, John

  U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Ten Broeck, Peter (Capt.)

  Militia; Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Ancaster Township;
• Hamilton, Robert (Hon.)

  merchant; 1781 partnership with Richard Cartwright and John Askin; owned 4000 acres of Ancaster Township; U.E.L. of Niagara Township;
• Buck, Philip

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Hodgkinson, William

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Hodgkinson, John

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Springer, Richard

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly and Barton townships;
• Reid, William

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Newkirk, James

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Bessey, Jacob

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Bessey, Robert

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Smith, Henry

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Freel, Deborah

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Shannon, David

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Bell, Derrick

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Springer, Sarah

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Depue, John (Lieut.)

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly and Ancaster townships;
• Miller, Thomas

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Reid, George

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Davis, John

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Van Every, Hannah

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Robinson [Robertson], James

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly and Niagara townships;
• House, Dan

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Van Every, Samuel

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Van Every, Elizabeth

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Boice, Elizabeth

  U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Boice, John Sr.

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Bowman, Adam

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly and Ancaster townships;
• Bowman, George Adam

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Markle, John (Sergt.)

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Sypes, Jacob

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Clendennan, John

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Clement, John

  Indian Department; U.E.L. of Beverly and Niagara township;
• Brown, Joseph

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly and Niagara townships;
• Cockle, John

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of Beverly Township;
• Van Every, Andrew

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Purbus, John

  Butler's Rangers; U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Lottridge, William

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro and Binbrook (1856) townships;
• Simons, Titus Geer

  b. Jan 30,1765 ( Connecticut); d. Aug 19,1829 (family plot at Bullock's Corners); 1st wife: Elizabeth Green (m. Jun 3,1798); 2nd wife: Hannah (Coon) VanEvery; father of Charlotte Markle, Alexander, Elizabeth Jane, Matilda Robertson, Hannah Robertson and Arabella Gore Miller; son of Sarah and Titus Simons; brother of Sarah; half-brother of William Walter, John kingsley and 7 half-sisters; U.E.L. of West Flamboro and Beverly townships; editor and proprietor of 'Upper Canada Gazette and American Oracle'; moved to York and published official 'Gazette'; 1804 Adjutant in 1st Regiment of West Lincoln Militia; 2nd York Regiment; capture of Fort Niagara; built grist and saw mill; 1816 appointed sheriff in District of Gore; helped form Burlington Agricultural Society; active Mason;
• Van Every, David

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro and Niagara townships;
• Van Every, Sarah

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Van Every, Peter

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Showers, John

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Showers, Michael

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Morden, David

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Morden, Ralph

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Morden, Anne

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro and Barton townships;
• Lockwood, Benjamin

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Lockwood, Josiah

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Desjardins

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Shaw, Aeneas

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Bessley, Richard

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Smith, John

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Morden, John

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro and Glanford (1803) townships;
• Morden, James

  U.E.L. of West Flamboro Township;
• Townships of Wentworth County

  map;
• Townships and Counties of Southern Ontario

  map prior to regional government;
• 'Routes of Loyalists'

  map;
• Wilson, Bruce

  author of 'As She Began';
• Stewart, Walter

  author of 'True Blue';
• Mika, Helma

  co-author of 'The United Empire Loyalists';
• Mika, Nick

  co-author of 'The United Empire Loyalists';
• Mathews, Hazel

  author of 'The Mark of Honour', 'Oakville and the Sixteen' (1953);
• Howard, Wallace Brown Sr.

  author of 'Victorious in Defeat';
• Lord Dorchester, Guy (Right Honourable)

  Governor of British North America; 1789 instituted the U.E.;
• Lord Cornwallis (General)

  1781 was defeated at Yorktown; Oct 19,1781 signed "Articles of Capitulation";
• Old Smoke'

  Seneca Chief;
• Aikens, Margaret (nee Miller)

  wife of Robert Aikens (m. Dec 31,1811); mother of Samuel, Sophia Margaret Aikens, John, Hugh, Sarah Ferguson, William, Elizabeth Mary, Margaret Sophia, James, Emma Ferguson and Mary Hughes;
• Washington, George
• Merey, Peter B.

  publisher;
• Williamson, J.R.
• Williams, June
• Walker, Frances S.
• Stauffer, Kenneth J.W.
• Richardson, Mabel
• Morrow, Eleanor
• Mills, Collin
• McChestney, Anna
• McBride, Collins H.

  sketches of DeCew House in Thorold Township;
• McAlpine, Douglas
• Killman, Murray

  sketch of Gateway to Fort Niagara;
• Jones, Hattie
• Jones, Charlotte
• Harrison, Gwendolyn
• Hammill, J. Arthur
• Frances, Margaret
• Brown, Mabel Warner