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The Ontario Register
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Loyalists of Sussex County, New Jersey
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JOSEPH BEERS . ears in Jones (pp. 24, 251), but his place WIT.,LIA.M DUMONT
An account of hlm app .. tion was found against Joseph Beer
The incorrect spellings of this man's name gave a merry chase
of origin is not stated.CinqutlSl on 20 June 1778. The first default
f G ·ch Sussex oun y, through the records. It was noted in the 1\<Iinutes of the Sussex
o reenwl , . th' ·n the Sussex County Court at August County Court that the first and second defaults of William Doel-
was recorded agams lm 1
Term and t h e secon d de fault at November Term, 1778. Joseph man were ente red at the August and November Terms 177 8. This
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1· t dated 10 December 1778 of those whose
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Bear 1S name on a lS name did not appear in Jones, but it was noted in the Newspaper
esta tes had been forfeited in Sussex County. [2 NE 434; Sussex Extracts that inquisition had been found 20 June 1778 against
William Dedman of Mansfield-Woodhouse (then Sussex County,
County Court Minutes; 3 NE 46)
now Warren County), and that a lot in that township belonging to
William Dedman was scheduled to be sold 22 March 1779 by the

Commissioners of Forfeited Estates. [2 NE 435; 3 NE 132] The
BOUGHNER. BUCHNER
name as entered in these records, in which there are numerous
Henry Boughner enlisted as a private in Capt Joseph Crowell's
orthographie errors, is nototherwise known. However. a branch
Company of the New Jersey Volunteers on 15 February 1777. In
of the Dumont family whose members generally took the variant
November of that year he was in Capt. John Cougle's Company
name of Demund did live in Mansfield-Woodhouse at that time.
as was Philip Boughner.
(See, for example, NJA 34: 138)
Several men of the name settled in the Niagara District and
It was subsequently noticed that a Lieutenant William Dumond
the Long Point Settlement of Upper Canada as is well known.
served throughout most of the war in the New Jersey Volunteers.
Mrs. Orrena Buchner Hanley, of Toronto, informs me that in
His name was sometimes entered in the musters of that corps
addition, one Thomas Buchner settled in the Western District
as William V. Dumond and perhaps once as William Van Dumont.
who possibly went to that area from Kentucky.
It then became apparent that it was this last rendition of the
name which had come to the attention of Jones, and, of course,
the name is listed with the "V's" in that work. No information
JOSEPH CROWELL
is given, however, regarding the origin of the man with the ex-
He served as captain in the New Jersey Volunteers throughout ception of the statement that he was born in America about 1752.
the Revolutionary War, and at its conclusion he settled in New Inquisition was found in the Morris County Court at Xovember
Brunswick. It is erroneously indicated in Jones that he was a Term 1778 against William "Deaman" for having joined the Brit-

resident of Monmouth County although he owned property in Sus- ish forces, but this would refer to the merchant William Demayne
sex County. This idea probably arase from the knowledge that who had come from England with Thomas Gummersall in 1771.

Joseph was a nephew of Capt. Thomas Crowell who was a resi- [2 NE 593; Jones p. 59]
dent of Monmouth County. Joseph Crowell was in fact a resident
of Wantage, Sussex County, un til the outbreak of the war which
is e~sily documented from numerous deed and court ref~rences WIT.,LIA.M EICKLER

to hu~, and .he stated the same before the Commissioners of Inquisition was found against William Ickler of Oxford on 20

LoyaltstCla1ms. [Loyalist Transcripts, New York Public Library June 1778. His first and second defaults were recorded in the
v. 15 p. 389 ff; See also Ontario. Bureau of Arch' S d Minutes of the Sussex County Court at the August and NoYember
Report (1904) pp. 596 _ 991 1ves. econ Terms 1778 under the name William Sigl::l.r. His n~m1e appears

He was a son of Samuel Crowell E as William Ekler on a list dated 10 December 1778 of those
born 30 July 1 711 at Woodbrid sq, of Wantage who was
(Edward2, Yelverton1) a d S ghe, Ne.w Jersey, son of Edwarct3 whose estates had been forfeited in Sussex County. The name is
n ara (Vall) CroweU. entered in Jones as Eikler. William Igler was ta.-xed in Oxford,