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The Ontario Regis ter
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The Ontario Register

Series A - Co nt' d

Volume 2
Pre-1858 English Probate Jurisdictions: Number 3

- Bedfordshire 20 · - Suffolk
7. -Berkshire 21. -Durham
8.
22. -Cheshire
9. -London
10. - Cambridgeshire 23. - Lancashire
24. - Nottinghamshire
11. - Buckinghamshire
12. - Huntingdonshire 25. - Derbyshire

13. - Lincolnshire 26. - Westmorland
14. - Oxfordshire 27. - Worcestershire SOME U.S. WAR OF 1812 PENSIONERS
15. - Northamptonshire 29. - Warwickshire IN ONTARIO

16. - Wiltshire 30. -Hampshire
17. - Hertfordshire 31. - Northumberland
Thomas B. Wilson
18. - Norfolk 32. - Cumberland
19. -Kent

As part of the westward expansion of North America, many
Major Genealogical Record Sources: Americans settled in Ontario as is weil known. It is perhaps

less well known that sorne of the earlier settlers had been
soldiers with the "patriot" or whig forces during theAmerican

B, No. 1. United States D, No. 2. Iceland Revolutionary War and that la ter settlers included many Amer-
c, No. 1. Germany D, No. 3. Sweden ican veterans of the War of 1812. Conversely, many Canadians

C, No. 2. Switzerland
D, No. 4. Finland served with the Union forces during the American Civil War.
c, No. 3. Netherlands
D, No. 5. Denmark The majority of these were probably residents of the United
D, No. 1. Norway States at the time, but many residents of Canada, actuated by

an abhorrence of slavery or imbued with an admiration for
Abraham Lincoln, also served. (See, for example, p. 98 of

this volume). Many of these Civil War veterans received pen-
sions, and their applications are on file at the National Ar-

chives, Washington.
It is doubtful that any of the Revolutionary War veterans

resident in Canada received pensions - at least that is the
opinion of officiais at the National Archives which is where
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A mencan penswn files are loc a e . 1:>·
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h ave been made from the files o a ew of the American Yet-
erans of the War of 1812 who resided in Ontario, and these
thanks to l\fr James
are presented here. I wish to express my d . f ·t·tat·ng
. f his ai m ac1 1 1
D. Walker of the National Archtves or •
access to these files.