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- WESTBROOK, Nicholas, Pte., served under Captain Daniel Springer 1814, received Land Claim Certificate Unit Flank Company 1st Regiment Middlesex Militia, vol 24, File 90 pages 1556-1557. Possible identification; born October 6, 1792 in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, son of Leonard Westbrook & Margaret Brinck; married Hannah Patrick; died August 17, 1862 in Williams Township, Huron County.
Was his wife, Hannah Patrick, the daughter of Abraham & Lucy Patrick, b1806? The Delaware/Westminster book mentions her on p511 but says there is no other information.
"The first wartime incident of squatting in the Byron area seems to have taken place on July 1, 1813 when Nicholas Westbrook assumed Robert Frank's location."
"Westbrook...entered the province in February of 1810....a follower of Simon Z. Watson. On July 1, 1813 he went on Frank's lot evidently believing that it was really as vacant as it looked, and probably expecting that he would be confirmed there after the war. It is impossible to know what transpired between the two men concerning the lot, and perhaps it is just as well; in the end it was Frank who received the lot. Westbrook, who may have been paid for the work he did on Frank's land, later moved across the Thames River and took up land in neighboruing London Township." [Byron: Pioneer Days in Westminster Township - Guy St-Denis]
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1792 - 1862 (69 years)
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