Ludlow, Gabriel

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: C. M. Wallace, “LUDLOW, GABRIEL GEORGE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ludlow_gabriel_george_5E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Politician, office holder, judge, and colonial administrator; b. 16 April 1736 in Queens County, Long Island, N.Y., son of Gabriel Ludlow and Frances Duncan; m. 3 Sept. 1760 Ann Ver Planck; d. 12 Feb. 1808 in Saint John, N.B.
    • Gabriel George Ludlow was a member of a long-established and wealthy New York family. While his brother George Duncan took up the study of law, Gabriel, like his father and grandfather, turned to the world of business and property. Gabriel owned an estate of more than 100 acres near Hempstead, Long Island, which he subsequently enlarged and improved; in the 1780s he estimated its value at £2,000 sterling.
    • As the turbulence mounted in the period before the revolution, the Ludlows stood firmly and conspicuously on the side of the king. Gabriel spent the war years as a fighting loyalist. In 1775 he was commander of the Queens County militia, and the following year he raised and was commissioned colonel of the third battalion of De Lancey’s Brigade .
    • Regarded as arch-tory to the core, the Ludlows apparently had no choice but to leave New York when the revolution was over.
    • In September 1784 the Ludlows embarked for New Brunswick in company with Governor Thomas Carleton. Gabriel’s wife, Ann, had remained in her Long Island home, even though “obliged to pay rent to the Committee of Forfeitures.” That fall she took ship for Saint John with her family and belongings, only to lose practically everything but lives in a cruel Bay of Fundy wreck. Still, her prospects were far superior to those of the majority of loyalists struggling in the wilderness. In 1785 her husband was appointed mayor of Saint John, and two years later he became judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court.
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=4838
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164212252/gabriel-george-ludlow