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had endured in the revolution. In 1789 he died, five years after 

 coming to Canada. In his will which has been preserved, after pro- 

 viding for his wife, he devised the estate to his second son Frederick 

 (second) on certain conditions, and with other bequests, he gave the 

 family Bible to his eldest son Peter. Descendants of his sons Frederick, 

 John, Matthew, and Abraham, and of his five daughters are to be 

 found to-day from Ontario to Vancouver. The war had wrought 

 havoc in his life. His farm which he had carefully developed for 

 thirty-five years together with his personal property was seized by 

 the Americans; his son had been murdered; his two sons Peter and 

 Stephen had escaped to Canada; and finally with his wife, daughters 

 and four younger sons who had survived the war, he journeyed to 

 Canada when sixty-five years of age to begin a life-long struggle in 

 wresting a home from the wilderness. After such experiences the 

 loyalty of the family to the British crown in the war of 1812 causes 

 no surprise. 



His son Stephen, who was sixteen years old at the beginning of 

 of the revolution, joined the British forces in New York. At the 

 conclusion of the war he travelled north and settled on Pike river, 

 Stanbridge, Quebec. The town of Bedford, P.Q., owes its inception 

 to Stephen Lampman who was one of the original grantees of the 

 township. The location of his mills on Pike river is shown on old 

 government maps of 1800 and 1815 which are preserved in the Archives 

 at Ottawa. His descendants settled in Vermont and later in the 

 states of Wisconsin and Minnesota. 



Peter Lampman, the eldest son of Frederick and great-grand- 

 father of Archibald Lampman was born in Hanover in 1749. He was 

 twenty-seven years old at the beginning of the revolution. In 1777 

 he married Elizabeth Haines of an English family which after the 

 war settled as U.E. Loyalists in the township of Newark, District of 

 Nassau. Soon after their marriage Peter was compelled to flee from 

 their home to escape impressment with the American forces and the 

 young couple were separated for about five years. His eldest child 

 Catharine was born during her father's flight. If Elizabeth received 

 any news of her husband during those five years, it must have been 

 a most unusual circumstance. Alone and on foot, hunted by the 

 Americans, always in peril of his life, he travelled up the Hudson 

 valley to the city of Quebec, where he arrived in 1779. It is related 

 that at one time, when hard pressed by his pursuers, he hid in a hay 

 mow which the Americans searched with swords and bayonets. At 

 another time he slept in a tree while the searchers passed beneath. 

 After his escape through the American lines, he must have encountered 



