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Jeremiah French

Male 1743 - 1820  (77 years)


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  • Name Jeremiah French 
    Born 8 Jul 1743  Stratford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 5 Dec 1820  Maple Grove, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Cornwall, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I29928  Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Dec 2023 

    Father Jeremiah French,   b. 5 May 1712, Stratford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Oct 1793, Dover, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Hannah Edwards,   b. 1715, Stratford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Oct 1776, Dover, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 28 Jul 1737  Stratford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F14524  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Wheeler,   b. 1745,   d. 14 Jul 1838  (Age 93 years) 
    Last Modified 18 Dec 2023 
    Family ID F16878  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 8 Jul 1743 - Stratford, Connecticut, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 5 Dec 1820 - Maple Grove, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Maple Grove Cemetery, Cornwall, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Photos
    Lieutenant's Uniform of the King's Royal Regiment of New York, 2nd Battalion, belonged to Jeremiah French
    Lieutenant's Uniform of the King's Royal Regiment of New York, 2nd Battalion, belonged to Jeremiah French
    The French family preserved this uniform for generations, until they donated it to the Canadian War Museum in 1983.

  • Notes 
    • About 1760, Jeremiah French Jr. and others formed a group called the Nine Partners - a land developing company. They purchased the original patents the King gave to about 61 of his buddies, and subdivided and sold them. Jeremiah Jr. surveyed much of the town of Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, and was the first Town Clerk. He eventually moved to Manchester.
      Jeremiah French Jr, was a Loyalist and a Captain in the Queen's Loyal Rangers, then later a Lt. in the Royal Regiment of New York, (called the "Yorkers"). He forfeited much of his lands in Vermont and moved to Cornwall, Ontario where he became a very prominent citizen and was the area's first representative to Parliament in Ottawa. His house was actually moved from land now submerged to make way for the St. Lawrence Seaway Project in the 1950's, which he had sold to a son-in-law, George Robertson. That house is still standing at Upper Canada Villages, near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. The house is called the "Robertson House?. Prior to this house, Jeremiah lived at the 1811 House in Manchester Village, Vermont.
      --from the research of Mara French, Sutter Creek, California
    • Jeremiah French was a New York farmer and Loyalist who served with the British army during the American Revolution. When he fled to Canada in 1777, French was hunted by rebel Committees of Safety, who issued this wanted notice. THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD ESCAPED from the guards the 21st of April last, one Jerah FRENCH of Manchester, who was prov'd to be a notorious TORY and was confined therefore. Whoever will seize the said FRENCH and return him to the commanding officer at Ticonderoga shall be entitled to the above reward. Every friend of liberty is hereby requested to take him dead or alive. Per order, JOSEPH BRADLEY, chairman of the committee of several towns assembled at Dorset, Dorset 21st April 1777. Jeremiah French was perhaps not a typical Loyalist. Safe in Canada, he joined the Queen's Loyal Rangers as a lieutenant in 1777. According to the charges in his court martial in 1781, French immediately embarked upon a second career of fraud and embezzlement. The Loyalist lieutenant, said his commanding officer, had stolen and sold barrels of beef and flour that should have been issued to his troops. Acquitted, French nonetheless left the Queen's Loyal Rangers and joined the King's Royal Regiment of New York in November of 1781. A new regiment meant a new uniform, which French purchased in Montreal. The French family preserved this uniform for generations, until they donated it to the Canadian War Museum in 1983.
      --from the Canadian War Museum