Mosier, Lewis

  • From Wiki Tree:
    • Lewis Mosher, UEL, was born about 1755 in New York. He died between 1808 and 1815 at Wolfe Island, Frontenac, Ontario. Lewis married Mary, daughter of John Freeman, UEL.
    • Lewis Mosher was in Saratoga, New York in 1775, and in 1777 joined the British Army, serving all through the war according to testimony of Capt. John Simeon Covell, husband of Susannah Mosher, daughter of Nicholas. When the war ended, the corps he was in fled to St. John (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Québec, about 20 miles north of the border where it crosses Lake Champlain.
    • At first Lewis and his family were sheltered in a camp at Machiche, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, west of Three Rivers (Trois-Rivières). There were two daughters by 1781, when Governor Haldimand, fearing for their safety so near the border, moved them and others to Township 7 in New Oswegatchie, soon called Augusta, Grenville County, Ontario. Nicholas Mosher was in the group also, and the two were mustered into forces under Capt. Justus Sherwood 12 Oct. 1784. There were then three daughters in his family.
    • Lewis was the first Mosher to settle in Canada. He arrived about 1784 and with him was his brother-in-law, John Freeman, on whose farm the Battle of Saratoga had been fought.
    • On 25 Jun 1785 Lewis signed a petition that Hazekiah Mosher of White Creek, New York [son of Jabez (Nicholas)] be permitted to settle in the township. Permission was given. In 1788 Lewis was back in Québec at South River (Riviere du Sud), probably at Ile-aux-Noix on the Richelieu River, petitioning for compensation for property confiscated when he joined the British Army. On 16 July 1797 he was granted E 1/2 of lot 5 that had been granted him 27 May. He soon moved to Frontenac County and from there sold his land in Grenville to Edward Jessup 25 Feb 1799.
    • At some time Lewis lived in Lansdowne, Leeds County, for the UEL lists identifes that as his residence. When his daughter Elizabeth was married in 1801 he was in Yonge, Leeds County. His daughter, Sarah 1815 Upper Canada Land Petition calls her father “the late Lewis Mosher of the Township of Lansdowne”, which suggests he died before 1815. When his widow Mary petitioned for land in 1835 she said that she had lived in Wolfe Island many years and that Lewis had died there. The petitions by his sons Lewis and Nicholas the same year identify their father as Lewis Sr., late of Augusta. The land sold in 1799 is now in downtown Prescott, Augusta.
    • In Jessop’s affadavit for revolutionary war losses, claim was for £11 5s. –
  • Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=6031
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