Amey, Nicholas

  • https://www.uelac.org/Kingston-Branch/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Emich-Amey_by_Sidney_Eighmey.pdf
  • Profile notes:
    • John became the father of Nicholas and Jonas Amey (they Anglicized the name) who later joined Major Edward Jessups’ Loyal Rangers, serving as scouts and guides for British General John Burgoyne during the Revolution. After the War they settled in Ernestown, Ontario.
    • A number of members of the Amey family lie buried in the historic old ground. The heads of that now very large and influential family, both in this and adjoining counties were Nicholas Amey and John Jones Amey. They were both U.E. Loyalists and fought for the old flag during the war of the American Revolution. They came to Upper Canada with the earliest U.E.L. refugees, and settled in Ernesttown. John Jones was in the ranks under the unfortunate Gen. Burgoyne, whose surrender was one of the crowning acts of the war, so far as the British cause was concerned. He was on the government pension list in 1786, after he had settled in Ernesttown.
    • Nicholas Amey, from whom the present Ernesttown families appear to have descended, was a soldier in the Loyal King’s Rangers during that terrible war. His name was on the government Land Board of Mecklenburg of 1790, and on the Provision List of 1786. He settled on a farm on the Bay of Quinte shore, a little east of Mil Have. John Collins Clarke, in 1844, thus wrote of him: “Mr. Nicholas Amey had the next farm above (Vent’s). He and his wife have been dead many years. His wife was a Stover; they had a large family.
  • Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=114
  • Burial: Old Ernestown Lutheran Buriel Ground, noyt in Find a GRAVE.