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it as their opinion "that all loyalists, Settling in the Province of Quebec, 

 are Allowed Provision whether on King's Land or not, if within the 

 Province line," and they declined to think that it was by any order of 

 King or Parliament that faithful subjects were deprived of government 

 bounties, even excepting "such and only such, who settle in Particular 

 Places, which Perhapes through the Indication of Selfe interested 

 Gentlemen, has been put into the head of the late Commander in Chief." 

 This petition was signed by Christian Wehr and fourteen others.* A 

 comparison of these names with the nineteen names of families who 

 arrived in the previous fall, or earlier, shows only six names common 

 to both lists. Taking all together, we have a total of twenty-eight 

 different names of families known to have settled east of Mississquoi 

 Bay up to February, 1785. That others should be included is indicated 

 by the testimony of various refugees before the British Commissioners of 

 claims at Quebec and Montreal in 1787 and 1788, in which it appears 

 that they were residents of the same region, t Most, if not all, of the men 

 of this group had fought during the war as loyalists, and nearly all of 

 them — as indicated by their names — were of Dutch origin. X Those 

 who can be definitely traced located on the shore of the bay and in the 

 adjacent country north of the Vermont bovmdary, in part of the region 

 later known as the Eastern Townships. 



On the western side of Mississquoi Bay, as we have previously 

 mentioned, lies the peninsula that embraced Foucault or Caldwell's 

 Manor. Adjoining this on the north was Noyan or Christie's Manor. 

 The peninsula was a fertile and well wooded region, and sufficiently 

 isolated from the rebellious states on either side to attract refugee 

 loyalists and neutrals. Hence, many took up their abode there after 

 the Revolution. Among the first to enter was a loyalist group that 

 assembled in Canada and formed a colony on the western side of the 

 peninsula a mile or two south of the Vermont line, whei'c Alburgh now 

 stands. They supposed themselves still within the Province of Quebec. 

 Discovering their mistake when the forty-fifth parallel was accurately 

 defined, most, if not all, of them made haste to recross the line and 

 choose new locations. Among these colonists was William Soles, a 



^Mississquoi County Historical Society, Third Annual Kcport, 1U2. 



tSecond Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. I., 457; Pt. II., 936-7, 940, 1269. 



JThe names appearing on the combined lists are as follows: Christian Wehr, 

 Conrad Best, John Ruiter, Adam Deal, Ludwig Streit, Alexander Taylor, Harmonus 

 Best, Christian Hayner, Alexander Hyatt, Gilbert Hyatt, John Saxe, Jacob Barr, 

 John Mock, Philip Luke, Joseph Smith, Garret Sixby, James Anderson, Frederick 

 Hayner, Peter Miller, Christian Mayer, John Cole, George Feller, Josamind Drow, 

 Ludwig Streit, Jr., Jacob Thomas, Philip Ruiter, John Van Vorst, and James Hender- 

 son. The names of those referred to as submitting claims are: Robert Brisbane, 

 Abraham Hyatt, Duncan Cameron, and John Waggoner. 



