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The Ontario Rcgister
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American Pens ioners in Ontario
t . d and he was exchanged at Montreal
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compan . was Abigail Sturdh-ant whom he l'har-
Ris wife's matden name . oct 9, 1878 in E lgin County. Affidavit of El'
. Ell' burgh Jefferson County, N. Y., ln March 181 74 . IZa Graver aged
ned at 1S ' . d 9 • of Rodney, Ontar w, that she was present t th ' .
e marr1age
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and she 1S d ceased He has not remarne . He now re- of the Thayer s ln 6 m Cramahe Township N rth b
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'th h' daughter Mrs Abigatl Gnggs at Norwalk, Ohio
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S1des W1 lS . ' county. • o um erland
. t d as ht's attorne'' to apply for the penswn Charles
He appom e J • • Jan 13, 1879. Affidavit of John Tillotson ag d
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years, of
B. Stickney. His signature was witnessed by LIZZie Lobdel! Ameliasburgh, Prmce Edward County, that he was present at
of Norwalk.
the ma rriage of Frances Drewry at her father's bouse in the
March 5, 1878. Application for an increase in the pension of Township of Cramahe, Nor thumberland County, to Nathaniel
Bostwick Squires. aged 89, of the Township of Maryborough, Thayer ; they were m ar r ied by a clergyman of the Church of
Wellington County (post office, Rothsay) Ontario, a pensioner England.
enrolled at Cle\'eland, Ohio. He appoints W. H. Lowes, J. P., The post office address of Frances Thayer was Brighton in
as his attorney to apply for the increase. His application was 1883. She died 9 August 1893. [File # W.C. 18, 811J
attested to by Thomas Holmes and William Philip. In 1883 his
post office address was Bosworth, a village in Maryborough ZIMRI TILDEN
Township. [File=- S. C. 14, 691] Nov 2, 1871. Application of Zimri Til den, aged 75, of l\Iersea

in Essex County (pos t office, Blytheswood). He enlisted at
NA THAt-.lEL THA YER
Stewart's Town, New Hampshire, in Capt Rufus Stewart's Co.,
June14, 1871. Pensionapplication of Nathaniel Thayer, aged 31st Regt. , U. S. Infantr y, in which he served from l\Iay 20,
80, of Brighton, Northumberland County, Ontario. He stated 1813 to July 29, 1814. He was taken prisoner by Indians who

that he enlisted as a sergeant in June 1812 at Sterling in the wer e attached to the British forces at the Battle of Schadigee
Lancaster Artillery of Massachusetts under Capt. Lewis Park in May 1814. He was discharged at Plattsburgh, N. Y. He is
and that he was discharged in 1812 at South Bos ton . (The audi- married and his wife's name before marriage was Rachel
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tor. was only able to find record of a Nathaniel Thayer who French to whom he was married at Oxford, Canada. His char-
enltsted as a private in the Massachusetts Militia on Sept 11 acter was attested toby Donald Cameron of Windsor, Ont .. and
1814 and was di ~ch d '
. . ., arge on Oct 29, 1814). He stated that he by David Moon of Rochester, Ont. .
D is marned and also that his Wife's maiden nam e was Frances Jan 23, 1872. An additional statement of the applicant. His
rewry to whom he wa .
parents were born . m Connectwu an re I .
s'ded in that state and
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A second application w s marn.ed ~August 1826 at Brighton.
Vermont until about one month before the birth of the apphcant
time he was descr'b d as submttted on March 11, 1878 at which when they moved from Milton, Vt., toSt. Armand just acrot~~
April 20 1878 a~ '~r· ads aged 88, of Brighton.
Th , n ln sor Ontario A l' the border in Canada where his father and mother su~sequen J'
ayer, agect 71 of B . h ' · PP tcation of Frances lived and died His father was a soldier of the Amenca~ a~~J
of Nathaniel Tha,yer rhtg ton, Northumberland County widow
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Th w o died at B . ht ' during the Revolution, and both h' f th r and mother \\ ei e
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The appt ·cant
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ey Were married 24 A rtg on on 16 March 1878. ·t d States. 1 ·
Revolutionary pensioners of the Um e
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Ontario. Witnesses to ;:;:st. 1826 at Cranoke, now Brighton, h hire Vermon an d Connecti-
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and Edgar Bartiett, both of Stgnature Wer e William Bartlett ad many realtives in New Hamps f h's time before he
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Sept 7, 1878. A joint ff·64 Goyeau St. ' Windsor. cu , and he spent a cons1 er t hool among· his
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and Fann S a tdavit of G 9 entered the army visiting, a wo~ li\'ed in New Hamp-
of deat Y olomon, aged 39, bot eo~ge Drewry, aged 7 , relations. After his military service he
h of Nathaniel Th h of Brtghton as to the date
ayer. ' Sbire and Vermont for many y~ars: f Rachel Tilden. aged
Oct 10, 1883. Pension apphcatwn °