John Walden MEYERS
1745 - 1821 (76 years)-
Name John Walden MEYERS Born 24 Feb 1745 Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States 
Gender Male Died 22 Nov 1821 Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada - Buried in Whites Cemetery in Sidney Twp
Person ID I18485 Patrick Goodmurphy Family Tree Last Modified 2 Aug 2020
Family 1 Mary (Polly) KRUGER
b. 1745
d. 1816 (Age 71 years)Married 1765 Children 1. George W MEYERS
b. 24 Sep 1765, Wurtenburg, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, USA
d. 20 Apr 1836, Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada (Age 70 years) [natural]2. Catherine MEYERS
b. 18 Mar 1767, Wurtenburg, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, USA
d. 1791, Ontario, Canada (Age 23 years) [natural]3. Margaret W MEYERS
b. 24 Apr 1768, Wurtenburg, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, USA
d. Bef 1784 (Age < 15 years) [natural]4. Tobias W MEYERS
b. 1770, Wurtenburg, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, USA
d. Aft 1787, Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada (Age > 18 years) [natural]5. Leonard W MEYERS
b. 1772, Wurtenburg, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, USA
d. Bef 17 Oct 1830, Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada (Age < 58 years) [natural]6. Mary MEYERS
b. 1774, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, USA
d. 1868, Trenton, Sidney Twp, Hastings County,Ontario,Canada (Age 94 years) [natural]7. Anna (Nancy) MEYERS
b. Dec 1775, Coxsackie, Greene County, New York, USA
d. 10 Dec 1844, Belleville, Thurlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada (Age 69 years) [natural]8. Jacob Walden MEYERS
b. 31 Mar 1777
d. Abt 1851 (Age 73 years) [natural]Last Modified 2 Aug 2020 Family ID F11240 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Sophia A HOFFNEL Married Aft 1816 Last Modified 2 Aug 2020 Family ID F11251 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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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
- Where in Sidney Township did the Captain live?