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- LAND BOARD 1793
16 Apr 1793, Mary W Meyers, daughter of John W Meyers Capt in the late Loyal rangers on her becoming of age prays as the daughter of a loyalist for 200 acres and it being found she is duly entitled to the same it is granted.
Source: Land Boards of Upper Canada 1765-1804, LAC, RG1 L4, Petitions, V 8, p 26/7, film C-14027, on line image 692
STORY
Mary married John against her father's wishes. (He didn't think it was right for her to marry her sister's husband). They took a canoe down to Kingston and were married on Nov 11, 1797. While in Kingston, Mary's father showed up and Mary disguised herself as an Indian squaw and her father didn't recognize her. After he found out they were married he was reconciled. John Bleecker died of pneumonia in March of 1807. In abt 1808 Mary married John Row. John Row was born abt 1772 in Dutchess Co, NY and he died May 24, 1857 in Sidney Twp, Hastings Co, ON. Mary Meyers was born in 1774 near Poughkeepsie, NY (Bapt May 29, 1774 in Catskill, NY) and she died in 1868 in Trenton, Hastings Co, ON. Mary owned the front ferry plying the Bay of Quinte between Trenton and Belleville.
Source: email from Jane Severino, Jan 2008
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1774 - 1868 (94 years)
