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Unknown Armstrong was born Unknown, and died Unknown, at age Unknown. He is the son Unknown, and Unknown.

Unknown Unknown was born Unknown, in Unknown, and died Unknown, in Unknown, at age Unknown. She is the daughter of Unknown.

Unknown Armstrong and Unknown Unknown were married Unknown, in Unknown.

Unknown Armstrong and Unknown (Unknown) Armstrong had several children:

  1. Edward Armstrong Sr.: Born before 1773 in British America; Died 1795, in Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Upper Canada (age Unknown).
  2. Thomas Armstrong Sr.: Born before 1773, in British America; Died Unknown
  3. Jesse Armstrong: Born Unknown, and died Unknown, at age Unknown.

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BOOK - A Service History and Master Roll of Major Edward Jessup's Loyal Rangers
By Gavin K. Watt with the research assistance of Todd A. Braisted

The families of Edward Jessup’s Loyal Rangers were major contributors to the settlement of eastern Ontario. Of the original thirteen townships, four were primarily settled by Loyal Rangers, yet the history of this important regiment has largely disappeared.

Created in November 1781 during the closing days of the revolutionary war, the new regiment saw no action in rebel territory, and until disbandment in December 1783, was employed in a wide range of unglamorous duties such as garrisoning, timber cutting, military construction, threshing grain, and cutting hay. Without investigation, casual researchers could be forgiven for concluding that the regiment was composed of late-comers whose contribution to Canada’s war effort was so marginal as to be non-existent. How wrong they would be!

Half of the Loyal Ranger veterans were among the earliest Royalist volunteers, and had experienced a great deal of active campaigning from 1777 to 1781. Many of these officers and men were among the most effective and experienced Provincial soldiers in the Royal Army in Canada. The regiment’s senior captain, Justus Sherwood, managed Canada’s Secret Service and its surgeon, Dr. George Smyth, was his deputy. When Governor Haldimand chose men to conduct surveys in 1783 in preparation for the settlement, his selection included Sherwood and several other Loyal Ranger officers and men.

There are two sections to this book. The history element goes back to the very beginning when men were preparing for military service, and follows the varied paths they took to see their plans realized, some with more success than others. A great deal of attention is given to General John Burgoyne’s expedition of 1777, as the several units that were brought together to create the Loyal Rangers in 1781 had served separately under Burgoyne, and the majority suffered for it. The history follows the aftermath of Burgoyne’s surrender -- exile in Quebec, squabbling among the officers, lack of proper employment, little subsistence and no pay. In 1778, there was a failed attempt to combine them into a single battalion followed by many more exasperating events. Bodies of men were sent on military raids and scouts, but their future as separate regiments remained uncertain until the governor took the situation in hand and forced an amalgamation in 1781. The history finishes with details of the war’s final two years and the subsequent disbandment and settlement.

The second section is a Loyal Rangers’ Master Roll, which was assembled by examining a great many original and secondary sources. The roll records the details of seven hundred and sixteen men whose names were found on Loyal Rangers’ returns of 1781 to 1783

Information included in the Master Roll:

Surname and given names

alternate spellings of their surnames and given names

their ranks in 1783

original enlistment dates

company assignments in 1783

service details

ages

heights

places of origin

trades

wives and families

initial settlement location.

"Of course, not all of these details could be found for every man, but the roll is quite complete".

Contents include:

Errata and Corrigenda

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgements

1777 Provincial Units

Chapter One - The Burgoyne Debacle

Chapter Two - Agonies of Uncertainty

Chapter Three - The Loyal Rangers

Bibliography

Abbreviations

Explanations of Terms

Sources

Endnotes

Loyal Rangers’ Master Roll

Index

 

 

Jesse Armstrong original claim of three lots totaling 500 acres in Quebec Province.

By October 18, 1802, Jesse Armstrong had transferred his three lots in Hawkesbury Twp., totaling 500 acres, to John Grant of Lachine.

Hawkesbury is a Franco-Ontarian city in Prescott-Russell Co., Eastern Ontario, Canada. The vast majority of its 10,550 inhabitants are francophone.

The Long-Sault Bridge links it to Grenville, Quebec to the north. This bridge, crossing Chenail Island, is the only inter-provincial bridge between Ontario and Quebec, east of Ottawa. Hawkesbury is about halfway between Ottawa and Montréal.

Lachine is now a Borough within the City of Montreal, on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada.

Survey description change of the original Jesse Armstrong lots, January 22, 1804, in Quebec Province.

   

Loyalist Thesis by Sophie Heather Jones, 2018.

 A map by Claude Joseph Sauthier and Matthäus Albrecht Lotter, of the Provinces of New-York and NewYersey, with a part of Pennsylvania and Canada or the Province of Quebec. Augsburg, 1777. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

   

Historic map of Albany and Schenectady Counties, NY. Maps courtesy of Kay Koslan.

   

The Old Albany Jail, or in Dutch, "Stadt Haus."

During the Revolutionary era, the city hall housed the Albany Committee of Correspondence - an extra-legal body that served as the civilian arm of the crusade for American liberties and also governed the city between 1775 and 1778. For a time, prisoners of war and Tories joined common criminals in the basement of the Albany jail. Beginning in 1780 - and intermittently until 1797, the New York State government also held sessions in the Court Street.

https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/loc/cityhall.html#sh

In 1741 the city fathers thought it was time for new digs and a new building was constructed on the same location, surrounded by greenery and trees. It was much larger 3 story building of brick, but simple and plain. It had a steep roof and a belfry. It too had a jail. It was on the steps of this building that the Declaration of Independence was first read to the city in July, 1776 and where Ben Franklin first proposed the Albany Plan of Union – a confederation of the British colonies in 1754, 20 years before the Continental Congress was formed.

Edward Armstrong was born before 1773 in British America.

Catherine "Caty" Adams??? was born about 1750, in Unknown.

Edward Armstrong Sr. and Catherine "Caty" Adams??? were married about 1765, in Unknown.