Newcomer Entered Canada

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11th--"To-day I entered Canada, crossed the Niagara river at Black Rock, and lodged with Jacob Miller, in Lincoln county." [Christian Newcomer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]

Early Records In Niagara

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Is my Mary (maiden name unknown) Howard who was born in Canada circa 1791, hiding in plain sight in these records?  

Niagara Region

Studies of the Niagara Frontier,  By Frank Hayward Severance, included the map below:

Butler's Rangers

The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara, By Ernest Alexander Cruikshank:

An excerpt:

"Confidential agents were dispatched at the same time to solicit the assistance of the Indians of Canada and Nova Scotia. To each recruit from these tribes they promised a coat, blanket, and forty shillings a month."

Ship-yard Of The Griffon

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The Ship-yard of the Griffon:...:

"...locating the site of the Griffon's dock on the [Jackson] Angevine farm. In giving his reasons for so doing...says Mrs. Eli Reynolds, now (1876) residing at Niagara Falls, aged 83...says her father settled with his family...at Cayuga Creek in 1810, was well acquainted with an old ship-carpenter named Smith who had some time before located his place for work upon the ground upon which vessels had been built many years before; that old blocks chips and rusted remains of small articles of iron were found under the surface of the ground, and that tradition among the Indians was that the 'Big Canoe' ("Griffon") was built there by the French."

Supplying Detroit

From the Report of the Public Archives, by Public Archives of Canada (excerpts from the year 1761):

March 18  Fort Pitt
Bouquet
Has sent to Detroit 25 out of 34 oxen received from Virginia; this is the last supply he can send till he is reinforced; Campbell had better get provisions from Niagara and send Canadians to Fort Pitt for cattle, giving timely notice. Sends report of a Court of Inquiry on Mr. Baby and two traders which contains the facts.

Source Of Fort Pitt Map

June 12 Fort Pitt
Only 30 provincials arrived 70 more expected tomorrow The garrison at Ligonier relieved The sergeant's party sent to Detroit with oxen has returned after great fatigue and want; the horses carrying the flour broke down and though almost starved they did not kill one bullock. From Sandusky [Ohio] they found continual swamps and often marched middle deep in the water.

Ohio Swamp