Title

Simons, Titus Geer

Description

en-CA 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;

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=415662

page

viii,8,9,225,226,229,230,231,

Bibliographic Citation

10169441

Loyalist ancestors : some families of the Hamilton area / by Hamilton Branch, United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada.