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Loyalist is a lower-tier township municipality in central eastern Ontario, Canada on Lake Ontario. It is in Lennox and Addington County and consists of two parts: the mainland and Amherst Island . It was named for the United Empire Loyalists , who settled in the area after the American Revolution .
Wentworth Bygones. From the Papers and Records of The Head of the Lake Historical Society Hamilton, Ontario. Vol.1 Walsh Printing Service, Hamilton, Ontario. 1958 Extracts online at The Story of the Land Family and The Story of the Land Family at Charles Lindbergh; Dorothy I. Brown. A loyalist's legacy: the family of Robert Land 1985; James ...
Amherstview is an unincorporated community in the township of Loyalist, Ontario. It is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario and has a population of approximately 7,959 as of 2016. It is adjacent to the city of Kingston and is considered part of the Greater Kingston area.
The Crawford Purchase was an agreement that surrendered lands that extended west along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario from the Mississaugas to the British crown to enable Loyalist settlement in what is now a part of eastern Ontario, Canada. The agreement was made in 1783 in exchange for various items.
Addington County was a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario which now forms part of Lennox and Addington County. It was named after Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth . Its territory is now distributed among the townships of Addington Highlands , Stone Mills , and Loyalist .
[citation needed] In 1777, he joined the army of Major-General John Burgoyne and served as a recruiter for the loyalist forces, also collecting information for the British and carrying dispatches. In 1781, he led an unsuccessful raid on the house of Philip Schuyler. Later that year, Meyers became a Captain in Edward Jessup's Loyal Rangers.
The Ontario Heritage Act designation notes that the station is "one of only nine first-generation Grand Trunk Stations surviving of thirty-four stations built along the line in an Italianate style that had already become associated with railway buildings in Britain in the 1840s".
Richard Cartwright was born in Albany on Feburary 2, 1759. His father, also named Richard, emigrated to the Province of New York from London England in 1742. His mother, Joanne Beasley, was from a "loyal Dutch family," and his father, an innkeeper and small landowner, was deputy postmaster of Albany and a active member of the Church of England. [1]