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- Phoebe is the daughter of George Vernon, U.E. (1781-1862).
The children of Richard Vanderburgh & Pheobe Vernon are:
Leticia Vanderburgh, 1847 - 1909,
William Henry Vanderburgh, 1849 - 1908,
Sarah Jane Vanderburgh, 1851 - 1914,
Charles Moses Vanderburgh, 1849 - 1908.
Father of Phoebe Vernon:
CAPTAIN GIDEON VERNON, U.E.
Thomas, Randall, and Robert Vernon, 3 brothers, Quakers, came from Cheshire, England, & settled in William Penn's Quaker colony of Pennsylvania, in Chester County, in October 1682. Robert Vernon had been born probably between 1630 & 1645; he died in January or Feb 1709/l0; his wife was Elinor Minshall. One of their children wa sJohn Vernon, born 1679 in England; in 1702 he married Sarah Pyle (1682-l706). Their first child was Moses Vernon, born 26 June 1703, died 1767; on 23 October 1730 he married Abigail Woodward( 1710-1795).
Gideon Vernon, youngest child of Moses & Abigail, was born in 1743 in Nether Providence, Chester County, Pennsylvania. On 21 June 1775 he married Phoebe Farr. From the very beginning of the Revolution he was a Tory & did his best to harass the revolutionaries. In Sept 1777 he left home & joined the British. On 15 June 1778 he was attainted of high treason by the government of Pennsylvania; 6 weeks later his property (133 acres) was confiscated & sold. He served the British first as a spy, guide, & courier. Subsequently, despite his Quaker scruples, he joined the armed forces. On 9 April 1781 he was commissioned Captain of an Independent Company of Associated Loyalists; shortly thereafter he commanded a whaleboat & a party of troops on an excursion to the Delaware. He included an outline of his adventures during the Revolution in his claim for indemnification Ref: Ontario Archives, Report 2, 1904, P900-902).
After the war he was one of the group of Loyalist Quakers who sailed from NewYork on board the Camel in September 1783, & settled in Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, first at Bellevue (Beaver Harbour), & then at Pennfield. He was the first Sheriff of Charlotte Co.
In 1792 he came on to Upper Canada, & by Order-in-Council of 17 Oct. he received a warrant for 3000 acres. He returned to NB to bring his family, but was prevented from so doing by a severe fit of
rheumatism which continued intermittently for years. Finally in 1808 he was sufficiently recovered to move. His grant in Upper Canada was renewed on 10 December 1808. On 21 August 1812 he was given a Crown Patent to 300 acres in Gwillimbury East & 1100 acres in Scott. He also purchased Lot 35 Con 3, Whitchurch at Newmarket, where he settled. He died in 1836. He had 8 sons & 1 daughter., Phoebe Vernon.
Ref: The family of Richard Vanderburgh of Richmond Hill, by Wallace McLeod, Middlesex, London, 1962. - - -
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