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----- Richard Fleetwood Brownrigg – http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/en/winslow/letters/search/text.php?d=844&rn=d&hdr=0&lb=1&bg=0&qs=browse.php%3Fbf%3Dd ates%26p_id%3D1%26dc%3D1780%26yr%3D1785%26mo%3D6&pg=1 Sir Miramichi, 29 th June, 1785. I make bold to Write to You, as I have not the honor of being known to His Excellency, to request that You will be so good, to have me included in the Grant of Lands on this River. I arrived here the 12, th inst. and have opened a Store, for the present, at a M r Mark Delesdernier's – where I must remain until I get an House of my own. He informs me, that M r Micheaux ( a Surveyor) has been here and laid out the Land, in Two Hundred Acre Lotts; whereby, there are Two Lotts become vacant, between M r Frederick Delesdernier, and William Drisdell; but one of them is without Water. About the centre of these Two Lotts, are the Loggs of an Hutt, which I am getting covered, for a Store; opposite to which, Have put down a salmon Nett, to try, what success I shall have, as a fisherman. As one of these Lotts, is without Water, and neither of them, Fishing Places; I hope, with Your assistance, to have a Grant of both; by which, shall be enabled to make a tolerable Farm there, in time. You compliance with this request, will confer a lasting obligation on me. A melancholy accident happened here, last Monday Afternoon; An old Man, named John Fitzgerald, went out, to set a Nett, and was Drowned. He fell out of a Canoe. He was found, Yesterday. I should think it very necessary, to have a Coroner here, as several People have been drowned, and no one, to enquire, how. If there is not any one here, or coming here, that His Excellency would choose to appoint. I, for the benefit of the Public, offer my services; though, as I am a {Damage: Justice of the Peace for the County of } Halifax, I know not, but I may be derogating from that Appointment. I hope M rs and the Miss Winslows, with Your Niece, and Miss Murray, are safe arrived at S t Johns; be so obliging, to present my best respects to them, and I have the Honor to be Sir, P,S, I shall not sign myself Captain, now I am turned Merchant; but I beg leave to remind You, that Captain White, and myself, served in the same Regiment. {Appears vertically on page} M r . Brownrigg. Mirimichi 29 June 1785. ----- Your most obedient very humble Servant. RF Brownrigg William Buell – 1787, New Oswegatchie Lodge No. 14, P.G.L. Quebec; King’s Rangers; 1175, Montreal; 1781, Charter member of St. James Lodge No. 14, P.G.L., Quebec; 1787, Senior Warder; d.1832, Brockville, Upper Canada. http://books.google.com/books?id=sxprqtyjLF0C&pg=PA292&lpg=PA292&dq=%22elijah+bottum%22&source=bl&ots=8UQB4hw9n D&sig=M4e1y9- yFireJTvw1MCnfcRd_HI&hl=en&ei=j9ZhTOWoCIK49gTdpNzLCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCQQ6AEw BA#v=onepage&q=%22elijah%20bottum%22&f=false Lieut. William Buell was the ancestor of the Buell family, the father of the late Bro. Col. Win. Buell of Brockville. He was born in Hebron, Conn., on the 5th October. 1751. When the war broke out he made his way to Montreal and received a commission in the King's Rangers. He was a member of the early lodges at Brockville and died there in 1832. His son, the late Bro. William Buell, died in February, 1894, and was also a member of the Craft there. http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=36895 William Buell, miller, JP, and politician; b. 5 Oct. 1751 in Hebron (Marlborough), CT, son of Timothy Buell and Mercy Peters; m1. 10 Mar 1782 Martha Naughton (Norton), and they had ten children; m2. 31 Mar 1827 Margaret Barnard, née Berkley, and they had one child; d. 8 Aug 1832 in Brockville, Upper Canada. William Buell was a member of a moderately influential family which lived for several generations in Hebron. In the early 1770s Timothy Buell moved to Fort Ann on the Hudson River in New York. When the American revolution broke out, he initially refused to take sides and, when his family was persecuted for his neutrality, he went to Charlotte (Washington) County on Lake Ontario. William Buell, a cooper like his father, supported the British and moved to Montreal shortly after the start of the revolution. He held the rank of assistant quartermaster in Major-General John Burgoyne*’s army when it surrendered at Saratoga (Schuylerville, N.Y.) on 17 Oct. 1777. Subsequently Buell joined Robert Rogers’s King’s Rangers, raised in 1779, as an ensign; he was later promoted lieutenant. During the war, he also served as a courier and was captured twice, although in both instances he escaped. The unit was disbanded in 1783 and Buell went on half pay. Following the revolution, Buell was joined by the remainder of his family, then in New York, and located briefly at Lachine, Que. In 1784 he moved to Township No.8 (Elizabethtown) in western Quebec and claimed 505 acres on the bay shore where Brockville ultimately emerged. There he built the first house in the vicinity. That same year he was rejoined by members of his family; 34
eventually his father, brothers, and sisters all owned land in the same area. Buell, in 1793, also added 1,200 acres of land, to which he was entitled for military service, in Oxford Township near present-day Kemptville. William Buell farmed the land in the Brockville area and during the 1790s opened a mill. He also became involved in a series of quarrels with the families of Justus Sherwood and Daniel Jones, both settled in the same area and both competing for economic and political influence. The three families, easily the most prominent in the locality, could not even decide on a name for their community, which was usually known as Elizabethtown but was dubbed “Snarlington” because of the acrimonious debates. Finally, in 1812, the issue was resolved and the name Brockville was chosen. William Buell was commissioned justice of the peace for the Luneburg District on 24 Jul 1788 and for the Midland District on 15 Jul 1796. In 1800 he was elected to the House of Assembly representing Leeds County. He did not attend the assembly frequently, however; he missed the sessions of 1802 and 1803 altogether, and arrived late and left early in 1804. His voting record tended to be against the administration, thereby starting a reform tendency that would be continued by later generations of Buells. Buell contributed significantly to the development of early Brockville. About 1809 he opened the first school, taught by Joseph Pyle, in his home, where it remained for several years. In 1811 he subdivided his land and by 1820 most of the approximately 60 houses in Brockville were located on his property. Out of a sense of public duty and a desire to attract development near his holdings, Buell donated land for the court-house, and the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, and Roman Catholic churches. In 1820 he built the first stone house in Brockville, an impressive home in the centre of the village. In 1823 Buell helped his son William* to purchase the Brockville Recorder, a newspaper that became an important organ of reform in eastern Upper Canada, and a financial success for the family. During the 1820s he spent most of his time attending to his mill or working on a farm north of the village, owned by his son William. Rather remarkably he fathered his last child in 1828 when he was more than 75 years of age. He died from cholera during the epidemic of 1832. ----- Col. John Butler – b. 1726, New London, CT; 1766, Initiated in Union Lodge No. 1, Albany, NY; Charter member and Secretary of St. Patrick’s Lodge No. 4, Johnstown; Charter member St. John’s Lodge No. 19, P.G.L. Quebec, Niagara; 1795, Senior Grand Warden, P.G.L. Upper Canada; 1795, Charter member St. John’s Lodge of Friendship No. 2, P.G.L. Lower Canada; Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs; Butler’s Rangers;d. 1796. http://books.google.com/books?id=sxprqtyjLF0C&pg=PA473&dq=%22robert+hamilton%22+%22grand+master%22&output=text#c_t op page 470. The Grand Senior Warden was Lieut. Col. John Butler, who was a charter member of St. John's Lodge of Friendship No. 2. He was born in New London, province of Connecticut, in 1728. His life was spent in the service of the crown. In the war with France for the conquest of Canada he distinguished himself at the battle of Lake George on the 8th September, 1755. and was present at the attack on Ticonderoga and the capture of Fort Frontenac, and also at the siege and capitulation of Fort Niagara, 25th July, 1759.. When Gen. Prideaux was killed Sir Wm. Johnson took command of the whole force, and the conduct of the Indians devolved on Butler. He greatly distinguished himself in the defeat of a relieving force. He accompanied Gen. Amherst against Montreal. During Pontiac's war he was active in restraining the Six Nations from taking part. Owing to his knowledge of Indian languages he was retained in the service when the department was reduced at the end of that war. In 1775 he accompanied Col. Guy Johnson to Montreal, and was sent by Sir Guy Carleton to Fort Niagara to take charge of the department there. In 1777 he was present at the siege of Fort Stanwix. He then raised the battalion known as "Butler's Rangers." During the war his wife was taken prisoner and was exchanged for the wife of a Whig colonel, named Campbell. In 1778 he took and destroyed eight forts in the Susquehanna valley near Wyoming, and defeated a large force of Americans in a pitched battle. In the same year he built a row of log barracks at Niagara, on the Canadian side of the river, which was gradually enlarged as his corps increased in numbers. These buildings were known as the Rangers' barracks, and are still standing. During the years 1779-8o-81 and '82 his corps was engaged in many successful expeditions. After peace he was appointed deputy superintendent of the Indians and justice of the district court, and enjoyed a salary of £50o sterling, and a pension of £200, with a grant of land for himself and family. Col. Butler was one of the founders and the first patron of the present parish of St. Mark's in Niagara or Newark, as it was then called. He died at Niagara, May 1796, and his remains were interred in the vault in the family burying-ground near the town. The Butler farm, which includes the burying-ground. is the first after passing the town line on the stone road to St. Catharines. In the register of deaths in the church, in the handwriting of the Rev. Robert Addison. is the entry in the year 1796, " May 15th. Col. John Butler, of the Rangers, buried (my patron)." A tablet is erected to his memory in the church. It reads that Col. Butler was "Born in New London. Province of Connecticut, 1728. Died at Niagara. May 1796, and is interred in the family burying-ground near this town." 35
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