[siebert] the AMERICAN LOYALISTS 37 



native of Rhode Island, who remained at St. Johns and Sorel until the 

 close of the war, when he joined the company going to Alburgh.* A 

 person less prompt in departing from the American side was Captain 

 John Savage, who in a petition to the government, in 1792, stated 

 that he had a farm in Caldwell's Manor within the American lines, from 

 which Colonel Allen was attempting to remove him for refusing to take 

 the oath of allegiance to the American states, f This appears to have 

 been the same Captain Savage who several years previously had returned 

 with a Mr. Campbell from St. Johns to Vermont to aid Ira Allen in 

 settling loyalists there, pursuant to the latter's plan. When it became 

 clear that Allen's real purpose was to incite Congress to admit Vermont 

 into the Union, his colleagues abandoned him, and apparently Allen 

 took revenge by forcing Savage and his associates to withdraw to 

 Canada, t Another loyalist family that suffered persecution in this 

 seigniory was the Martin family whose buildings were burned by rene- 

 gades from the States.* 



Other refugees, already in Canada, also desired to go to Cald- 

 well's Manor and memorialized the government for its consent.^ The 

 fact that they were preparing to occupy private lands on the Amer- 

 can frontier constituted a two-fold reason why the authorities at 

 Quebec probably withheld their approval, if they did not actually 

 oppose the request. At any rate, these settlers, like those at Missis- 

 squoi, found it necessary to petition for such supplies,* but evidently 

 failed to get them, for they were reported as being in distress early 

 in August, 1784, by Stephen De Lancey, inspector of loyalists.'' 

 Among these settlers were many of Burgoyne's American recruits, 

 including John Church, Captain Henry Ruiter, and John Pickell, 

 Daniel Beagh, Andrew Liddel, Jeremiah Spencer, and John Curtis. 

 These men were from the States of New York and Vermont. Among 

 the civilian pioneers of the district were Moses Westover of Sheffield, 

 Massachusetts, and Rev. William Marsh, who^ helped to organize 

 what was probably the first Baptist Church of Lower Canada.* Chris- 

 tie's Manor likewise received a number of families driven from their 



♦Thomas, Contributions to the History of the Eastern Townships, 207-8 ; Day, 

 History of the Eastern TowTiships, 289. 



t'i'homas, History of Shefïord, 13, 14. 



JMississquoi County Historical Society, Third An. Rep., 104, 105. 



* Ibid. 



8 Can. Arch., 1889, 73. 



« Ibid., 77. 



' Can. Arch., 1888, 742. 



® Thomas, Contributions to the History of the Eastern Townships, 158; Second 

 Rep., Bureau of Arch., Ont., Pt. II., 941, 1118, 1119, 1267, 1259, 1268; Thomas, 

 Contributions, 210, 194-5. 



