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more than thirty years. He was gazetted Colonel of Militia, November 

 1st, 1793, and retained the position many years. He was the only " full 

 colonel " in the province. He engaged quite extensively in milling and 

 lumbering. He was for a long time senior Justice of the Court of Com- 

 mon Pleas for the County of Charlolrte. He died in 1813 at the groat 

 age of 97 years. 



Adam Allan settled in New Brunswick in 1783, in the County of 

 York. He became a lieutenant in the King's New Brunswick Regiment 

 which was raised in 1793 and was disbanded in 1802. Lieut. Allan died 

 in 1823. 



CORNETS. 



William Jarvis went to England at the peace and afterwards went 

 to Upper Canada in 1791, when Simcoe was made (jrovernor. He re- 

 ceived the appointment of Secretary of Upper Canada which he held for 

 25 years. His oldest son, Colonel Samuel Peters Jarvis, was attacluxl to 

 the 41st Regiment during the war of 1812 and was present, as lieutenant, 

 at Queenston Heights, Stoney Creek and Lundy's Lane. 



Thomas Merritt served first in Emmerick's Dragoons, but was ap- 

 pointed to the Queen's Rangers Cavalry in 1780. He was a native of 

 Westchester, New York, and was educated at Harvard. At the peace he 

 went to New Bnmswick, but eventually took up his residence in the 

 Niagara Peninsula where he died on the 12th May, 1842. During the 

 war of 1812, he raised the Niagara Dragoons and commanded them at 

 the battle of Queenston Heights.. His son, William Hamilton Merritt, 

 who was a captain in his father's corps and was taken prisoner at Lundy's 

 Lane, was well known as a public man and was the projector of the 

 Welland Canal. 



B. M. Woolsey settled in New Brunswick and was in 1792 Major of 

 the King's County Militia. 



QUARTER-MASTERS. 



Quarter-Master Edward Wright was residing in Upper Canada in 

 1807 on half pay, aged fi4 years. 



Daniel Morehouse settled in Queensbury and died there on the 20th 

 January, 1835, in the 77th year of his age. 



William McLaughlan died in the Parish of Northampton, Carleton 

 County, New Brunswick, on August 19th, 1827, in the 75th year of 

 his age. 



