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The Ontario Register
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Loyalists of Sussex County, New Jersey 45
0 with John Buchner as his su rety. The case against
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of El, before the New Jersey Supreme Court at time of this affair, James Sproules was a resident of Hardyston.
the three men came h
. · April 1780 The files of t at court pro- [New Jersey State Archives, Manuscript Box 11; NJSC 38889)
the sussex Sesswns m ·
. f t' that James 1\lcQuig and Matthew Brown both In 1808 and 1809 a James Sprowls and Susannah his wife were
vide them orma wn .
• greed to guide and conduct th1rty-four living in Wantage, Sussex County, and on l Oth September 1828
of Newtown, yeoman, ' 1 . . .
. r·soners of war to New York City wlthm the James Sprowles and Susan his wife "of Starkey Township, Yates
British so '
ld1ers, P 1
·t· h l'nes The charge against James Slack, of Newtown, was County, N. Y." sold land in Wantage of which Peter Conselius
B
rtlS 1 . '"ct''dh b died seized and which was set off at the division of his e~tate to
that in addition to agreeing to the above, he . 1 a.r our and
his daughter Susan Sprowls. [Sussex County Deeds R: 770, Y:6,
keep in his dwelling house British soldiers bemg pr1soners of
K3:470] James and Susan died in Yates County leavingdescendants.
war." [NJSC 34033, 37078, 38481] At the May Term 1780, the
A John Sprowls was taxed in Hardyston in September 1 ïï4,
Sussex County Court found that the inquisition against Slack and
but this perhaps refers to the John Sprouls who is buried at the
the charges therein contained were not sufficient for taking his
Sparta Presbyterian Churchyard the inscription on whose grave
estate and that he did not come under the law permitting the
marker reads: "John Sprouls died Oct 20, 1804 aged 58 years."
confiscation of the estates of Refugees who left the State and
[GMNJ 5:75] A Sgt. William Sproules served throughout the war
joined the enemy.
years in Captain Joseph Crowell's Company of the New Jersey
Volunteers.

JOHN SPROULS
His first and second defaul ts were recorded in the Minutes of JAMES STEWART

the Sussex County Court at the August and November Terms of Jones (p. 209) provides the following information regarding
1779. His property was consequently confiscated as is evidenced this man. He was a farmer, innkeeper and blacksmith at Green-

by a case in vol ving his son James Sprouls. wich (perhaps in Sussex County), New Jersey, where he was
Details of the case are contained in a memorial of Major Sam- born about 1737. He was a captain in the 5th New Jersey Volun-

uel Meeker "late commissioner of forfeited estates in Sussex teers. Confirmation that the Greenwich mentioned was in Sussex
County" which was addressed to the Legislative Council and the County (rather than being one of the Greenwich Townships in
General Assembly of New Jersey, dated 8 December 1784 The Cumberland and Gloucester Counties) cornes from the Minutes

substance of the memorial is that in the latter part of the year of the Sussex County Court which in the 1770's granted a license

1779 he sold one cow and two steers as part ~f the confiscated to James Stewart to keep an inn or public house in Greenwich of
property of John Sprouls . Before he sold them they were claimed that County. James Stewart was proscribed by the Sussex County
by James Sprouls. son of the said John Sprouls, as his property. Court, his first and second defaults being recorded J.t the Aug-

The matter was submitted to the determination of justices of the ust and November Terms, 1778.
peace of Sussex County who decided that the cattle were clearly

~~~ti:~:r~ of the said John Sprouls. The memorialist sold the
JACOB and JOSEPH WILLSON
Since th: sal: procee~~ were paid into the Treasury of the State.
These Loyalists were brothers who settled in Upper Canada
of which is a~a~~:~h:r:ehave.be~n brought for said cattle, one
sometime after the Revolution. They resided for a time in what
has not only recovered monahst, by James Sprouls, and he
is now Welland County, but shortly after 1800 they mo\'cd to the
the costs on the two s:~:~~~ous sum for the cattle, but also Long Point Settlement, Jacob residing in Charlotte\·ille und Jo-
pounds. Meeker prayed f l'ch amount to upwards of eighty seph in Windham. Several Canadian records indicate that they
th or re lef and the .
at a bill had been passed in t ' . memonal is endorsed were closely connected to. or. ut lcast. well acquainted witl1.
he legislature accordingly. At the