Who is your Loyalist ancestor?

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Bourassa on October 29, 2019 at 6:02pm

My Loyalist ancestor is William England from Kingston NY who removed to Yamachiche, St. Maurice, PDQ and Jacob Snyder who was also from NY.  I have William's memorials from Quebec.

Sandy Bourassa

Permalink Reply by Vivien Martin on May 29, 2020 at 1:33pm

Hi all. I am Vivien Martin. I have been researching my ancestors for many years and have just begun to concentrate on my U E ancestors: Stephen Jarvis U E, William Dummer Powell U E and the one on whom I am concentrating now, Capt. Francis Stephenson U E. Capt. Stephenson was in Virginia before he joined the Queen's Rangers in 1776-7 I think with Lord Dunmore but I am not sure in which regiment or in what capacity he served. He was wounded in 1777-8 in the lung and recuperated for the remainder of the war. Post war he went to England and then returned to NB where he petitioned Sir Guy Carlton and received land grants first in NB and then in Upper Canada in York and also around Louth, So I am looking for him in Virginia, his activity with Lord Dunmore, traces of him if any in Virginia and when and where he came from perhaps Ireland, probably Scotland as there was from there a large migration to Virginia and maybe England. Time will tell.

Permalink Reply by Lynn McAlister UE on October 28, 2022 at 4:36pm

My Loyalists were called Lückhard when they arrived in NY from the Palatine in 1710, but the name was “dutchified” to Lighthart when they were living in Beekman’s Precinct. This was anglicised to Lightheart once they arrived in Quebec. THey had settled in Stillwater, NY, by the time the war broke out. Johann Daniel was imprisoned by the Committees of correspondence about the same time that his sons Daniel and John signed up with Jessup’s Rangers - not sure if he was imprisoned because his sons were with Burgoyne or whether they joined Burgoyne because they were irked that the rebels had imprisoned their father. Perhaps it was coincidence. After Saratoga they escaped to Quebec and spent the rest of the war with Leake’s Independent Company as engineers and (occasionally) on secret missions.

John died young shortly after the war ended, but Daniel moved his family to Upper Canada, where most of us still are. I got a certificate for Daniel from UELAC in 2019.

I have a website with much of my research on this family: https://Lightheartfamily.wordpress.com 

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