John SCOUT; 1783 soldier in the Loyal Rangers- Canada
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John SCOUT; 1783 soldier in the Loyal Rangers- Canada
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Posted: 11 Dec 2002 6:44PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: SCOUT, SCOUTEN, SCHOUTEN
Looking for family connection to this John Scout who migrated to Canada and then returned to America possibly between 1790 and 1800.
SCOUT John, age 27, from America, 1783 War Office Records: Returns of Detachments and Companies of the Kings Rangers and Loyal Rangers stationed in Lower Canada. National Archives of Canada: Microfilm Reel No. B-2867 (MG 11, W.O. 28/10), (page 184).
Scout John Soldier post 1783 Rank and File List of members of the Loyal Rangers under the command of Major Edward Jessup. It is not dated, so it is unclear whether it is a list prepared before or after the disbandment. The latest date in the 'Dead' or 'Discharged' column is 24 December 1783. Transcribed from original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: RG 19, vol. 4447, file 18.
Documents from Queen's University Archives re: the Scouts and Scoutens who were Loyalists. John Scout and his family, consisting of himself, his wife, and one son, were among the first settlers in Ernesttown Township in June 1784. By this, it is noted that the small daughter must have died before the settlement. A third child, Augustus, was baptized in Ernesttown on 28 Sept. 1788, son of John and Mary.
In a 1786 Provisioning List of Loyalists Victualled at the Second Township above Cataraqui Township (Ernesttown) between July 1 and August 31, 1786 inclusive, there is a John Scout listed with one male, one female and one child under age 10 allowing them 2 1/2 rations per day. In a 1784 Provisioning List & Return of Disbanded Troops and Loyalists Settled in Township 2 of Cataraqui (Ernesttown), it indicates the same number of people and rations, with the comment that they have one acre cleared and the family is settled on the land.
A final report closes out the information from Queen's University Archives regarding John Scout and his family. In July 1790, he applied for additional lands. The Land Board of the District noted that he had sold his 100 acre lot, being the east half of Lot 17, in the first concession of Ernesttown to William Cottier, prior to the return of the Scout family to the United States. It is easy to believe that the Scouts, in particular Mrs. Scout, had suffered greatly by the Revolution. They had lost an infant daughter in a strange land where there was nothing in the line of comforts, where hard labor, with little to show for it, was the foremost consideration.
There are no further records of this family. Their children, none of whom appear to have applied for lands were:
1. a son, unnamed, born about 1780
2. a daughter, born in 1783, who must have died in 1784.
3. Augustus, baptized by Rev. John Langhorn at Bath on 28 Sept. 1788.
Please feel free to contact me by email.
Virginia
SCOUT John, age 27, from America, 1783 War Office Records: Returns of Detachments and Companies of the Kings Rangers and Loyal Rangers stationed in Lower Canada. National Archives of Canada: Microfilm Reel No. B-2867 (MG 11, W.O. 28/10), (page 184).
Scout John Soldier post 1783 Rank and File List of members of the Loyal Rangers under the command of Major Edward Jessup. It is not dated, so it is unclear whether it is a list prepared before or after the disbandment. The latest date in the 'Dead' or 'Discharged' column is 24 December 1783. Transcribed from original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: RG 19, vol. 4447, file 18.
Documents from Queen's University Archives re: the Scouts and Scoutens who were Loyalists. John Scout and his family, consisting of himself, his wife, and one son, were among the first settlers in Ernesttown Township in June 1784. By this, it is noted that the small daughter must have died before the settlement. A third child, Augustus, was baptized in Ernesttown on 28 Sept. 1788, son of John and Mary.
In a 1786 Provisioning List of Loyalists Victualled at the Second Township above Cataraqui Township (Ernesttown) between July 1 and August 31, 1786 inclusive, there is a John Scout listed with one male, one female and one child under age 10 allowing them 2 1/2 rations per day. In a 1784 Provisioning List & Return of Disbanded Troops and Loyalists Settled in Township 2 of Cataraqui (Ernesttown), it indicates the same number of people and rations, with the comment that they have one acre cleared and the family is settled on the land.
A final report closes out the information from Queen's University Archives regarding John Scout and his family. In July 1790, he applied for additional lands. The Land Board of the District noted that he had sold his 100 acre lot, being the east half of Lot 17, in the first concession of Ernesttown to William Cottier, prior to the return of the Scout family to the United States. It is easy to believe that the Scouts, in particular Mrs. Scout, had suffered greatly by the Revolution. They had lost an infant daughter in a strange land where there was nothing in the line of comforts, where hard labor, with little to show for it, was the foremost consideration.
There are no further records of this family. Their children, none of whom appear to have applied for lands were:
1. a son, unnamed, born about 1780
2. a daughter, born in 1783, who must have died in 1784.
3. Augustus, baptized by Rev. John Langhorn at Bath on 28 Sept. 1788.
Please feel free to contact me by email.
Virginia