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but they paid cash for whatever was taken by them. N'ot so wit'h 

 the piroperty of Isaac, they turned his home into a barracks for tlieir 

 men, destroyed his crops and buildings, and did hot leave as much as 

 a rail of his fences unburned. 



Early in ithe war Isaac was arrested and imprisoned in the old 

 log jail at Andover, Sussex co'unty, N.J. Provisions were supplied to 

 him by his family, and in a baked loaf his sdster oonoealed a key by 

 which he managed to gain his release. He made his way to New York 

 city and joined the British army, becoming " Pilot of the New York 

 Army." 



Ae mentiioned in my previo'us paper, Col, Isaac Swayzie was the 

 originator of the well-known apple named " Swayzie Pomme Gris.'' 

 He was the pioneer nurseryman of the Niagara district and oamied trees 

 on his back to Beaverdams, where they are sitill growing on the old 

 Israel Swayzie homestead between The Cross Roads and St. John's 

 West. 



According to tradition Isaac was married before coaming to Canada, 

 but lost his wife througih the terrible doings of the war. He wias 

 imprisoned; his wife visited him; tliey €x changed clothes; he escaped; 

 she was put to death. His second marriage with Sarah Seoord, and 

 his third marriage with Elenor Ferris are referred to in my previous 

 paper. 



During ithe Hevolutiomary war Isaac Swayzie m'ade his name a 

 terror to the enemy, and for years his deeds were the subject of fireside 

 recital in New Jersey. He was distinguished also in the war of 1813-14 

 as he oomimanded a corps of fifty men variously known as " The Royal 

 Artillery Drivers," " Swayzie's Militia Artillery," and " The Lincoln 

 Militia Artillery." For his services he received a land grant in East 

 Nis'Souri, Oxford county. 



He sat in the Legislative Asseimbly of Upper Canada as follows: 



1st Parliament (1793 to 1796) for 3rd Lincoln. 



3rd Parliiamenit (1801 to 1804) for 3nd, 3rd and 4th Lincoln. 



4th Parliatment (1805 to 1808) for 2nd, 3rd and 4th Lincoln. 



6th Parliament (1813 to 1816) for 4th Lincoln. 



7th Parliament (1816 to 1830) for 4th Lincoln. 



The following notice appeared in The Gleaner and Niagara News- 

 paper of the 18th February, 1838: 



" Died. — At 'his place of residence near this Town on the 11th 

 instant, Isaac Swayzie, Esq., aged 77 years. Mr. S. was a native of 

 New Jersey. In the general defection of the inhabitants of that Colony 

 at the commencement of the Rebellion that ended in the independence 

 of the now United States he remiained true to his King and Country 

 and was persecuted and suffered much by imprisonmnent and otherwise 



