John married Louise C HILDRITH about 1841. Louise was born in 1818 in New York, USA; died in 1893. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Walden MEYERS was born on 2 Aug 1845 in Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; died on 14 Aug 1927.

Notes:

MILITARY
Meyers, Jacob Walden is listed as a Captain (date of rank September 5, 1807) in the 1st Hastings Regiment.
Meyers, Jacob Walden, Captain, is listed in the 1st Hastings Regiment, Flank Companies. He is charged with disobedience in 1814.
Source: Soldiers of the King, Upper Canadian Militia, 1812 - 1815, William Gray, 1995, p. 66, 122

Captain Jacob Meyers, 1st Regiment of the Hastings Militia, age 40, Sidney Twsp., Concession 1, Lot 9, dated 19 Jan 1819.
Source: Early Militia Lists of Hastings County 1799-1826, from the William Bell Papers; compiled by Don Kellaway, 1994, Quinte Branch, OGS, p. 7.

LAND CLAIM
Jacob W. Meyers made a land claim as a militiaman who served in the War of 1812 - 1814 with the Flank Company, 1st Regiment Hastings Militia.
Source: Index of the Land Claim Certificates, Lauber, OGS, 1995, p. 60: RG9, IB4, V. 22, pp. 416 - 421, NAC.

Jacob married Jane Christine MCKENZIE in 1798. Jane was born on 1 May 1780 in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; died on 12 Dec 1858 in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Where in Sidney Township did the Captain live?

In 1787 Meyers states in a petition that he drew Lots 8 & 9, on Con 1, Sidney. It appears from Canniff interviews that he settled on lot 7, Con 1, opposite an island that is mentioned in Canniff's interviews as both Myers Island and Smith's Island. Today this lot is the core of the RCAF property in Trenton and the island [Bakers Island] still exists now attached by a causeway to the airbase. See this image from Google Maps. Interestingly, the patent in 1797 for lot 7 was to sons George and Tobias W. Meyers suggesting that John somehow had the land board assign the lot to them.

In 1788 Meyers petitions for lots 1 to 13, Con 3 in Sidney and amazingly he is granted this whole section of land. See this chart of the original grantees in Sidney and you will see the extent of his grants.

As early as 1788 Meyers is casting his eye on the Moira River as a mill site. In that year, in a different petition, Meyers asks for a grant on the east side of the Moira River for a Saw and Grist Mill. Meyers selected the Moira because it was narrow and shallow enough to build a dam and banks to sustain a mill pond.

The Captain bought the north half of lot 5, Con 1, Thurlow from John Taylor around 1790 thinking that his mill and dam would be on this lot. In a petition of Catherine [Meyers] Bleecker, his daughter, dated 23 Feb 1791, Captain John Meyers is said to be "of Thurlow." In a petition dated July 1792 John states that he has built a Grist Mill on his land purchased from John Taylor. When it was surveyed more carefully he discovered that his dam encroached on Lot 4, an Indian Reserve. This was the subject of many petitions and was not resolved till the town plan of 1816 and 2 acres of lot 4 were granted to Meyers. Part of the mill still survives

Died:
Buried in Whites Cemetery in Sidney Twp

John married Mary (Polly) KRUGER in 1765. Mary was born in 1745; died in 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]