Chester, John

  • From: https://www.uelac.org/Bicentennial-UEL/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/fall2010-new.pdf
    • DOB: 1763 November 28 Parish of Albany, New York State
    • DOD: 1839 May 19. Ontario; Montague Twp; Grenville Co.
    • John Chester was born in the Parish of Albany in 1762 and at the age of twenty-one had served two years in His Majesty’s Provincial Regiment called The Loyal Rangers under Major Commandant Edward Jessup Esq.
    • John Chester received his discharge papers, 24 December 1783. In 1784 John Chester settled in the Township of Augusta on the St. Lawrence River. Chester received one hundred acres East side in the Second concession (Lot. no. 10) in the seigneurie number seven dated at the Province of Quebec, 24 May 1785.
    • By 1802 John Chester and his wife Phoebe and their five children were living somewhere along the Rideau River in the vicinity of Merrickville. Their names appear on the census roll of Montague County as inhabitants of Wolford, Oxford, Montague, and Marlborough in 1802, 1803, 1805, 1806, 1817. John Chester served as Ensign in the Second Regiment of Grenville Militia in 1812 as appointed by Isaac Brock, signed James Brock, J.P.
    • A burial marker in McGuigan’s Cemetery, Wolford Twp shows that John Chester departed this life, 19 May 1839.
    • In Jessop’s affadavit for revolutionary war losses, claim was for £15 –.. –
  • Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=1428
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60233322/john-chester