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the founder of Thorold, son of George Keefer who had emigrated 

 from Alsace, France, to New York and had lost his life and property 

 as a Loyalist in 1770. The infant boy whom Peter brought to Canada 

 in 1783 and whom he named Jacob seems to have died while young 

 for no further record of him has been found. The second son, Frede- 

 rick, married the daughter of a Loyalist and moved from Niagara 

 taking up a grant at Palmyra, Talbot Street, in the township of 

 Orford near Lake Erie, a few miles from Clearville, where David 

 Henry Gesner, about the same time 1825, had received a grant. 

 Frederick Lampman was one of the first settlers on Talbot Street 

 and the original grant from the Crown is still preserved by his grandson 

 who occupies the old homestead. All of Peter Lampman's sons served 

 in the Lincoln Militia in the war of 1812 and several of the Lampmans 

 lie buried in Lundy's Lane. His third son, named Peter, the poet's 

 grandfather, was wounded at the battle of Fort George 27th May, 

 1813. Another son, John, Captain of the 1st Lincoln Militia, was 

 severely wounded at the battle of Lundy's Lane. The Orderly Books 

 of the war of 1812 contain many references to the Lampmans. In 

 the records of marriages made by Peter Lampman's children the 

 names of several well known Loyalist families occur. Captain John 

 Lampman married Mary Secord, sister of Laura Secord, whose 

 brother Abraham Secord married Elizabeth Lampman. 



Peter Lampman's third son, who was also named Peter, the grand- 

 father of the poet, inherited the family estate at Mountain Point. 

 He married Agnes Ann McNeal, daughter of Archibald McNeal who 

 had come to Canada from Baltimore. Their family consisted of ten 

 children, of whom seven were sons. The third son, named Archibald, 

 father of the poet, was born in 1822 and died at Ottawa 1895. He 

 was educated at Upper Canada College, graduated Bachelor of Arts 

 from Trinity College, Toronto, 1857, and was ordained in the ministry 

 of the Church of England 1857. He was appointed incumbent of 

 Trinity Church, Morpeth, in 1860 and in May of that year married 

 Susanna Charlotte, daughter of David Henry Gesner. He was 

 remarkably p*-oficient in the classics even for those days when the 

 study of classical authors was considered essential to a liberal educa- 

 tion. He was especially devoted to Vergil, Horace, and Cicero, and 

 having the advantage of an excellent memory his store of classical 

 knowledge never faded. 



In reading the foregoing sketches of these hardy men, one cannot 

 fail to be impressed with a few facts which seem to distinguish them 

 from men of the present time. Hardships and great labours did not 

 shorten their lives, for they generally attained the age of eighty and 



