Any Nautical Types Out There?

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Originally posted by Bruce MacMillan
GWB quotes "we arrived here in 1786 (the Niagara peninsula) from the Albany area"

Ah, another fellow pre-Canadian. One side of my family arrived in 1785 from Sir John Johnson's colony near Stone Arabia, N.Y. after serving with the King's Royal Regiment of New York and Butler's Rangers. For some reason their rebel neighbours didn't like them

They received their grant of land in Finch township.

Hi Bruce,
Being an afficienado of our early history of that period,there's a mountain all by itself south of Montreal now called Mt.Saint Gregoire which was originally called Mt.Johnson.He & his family settled land below the summit after the revolution.Recently a French Canadian farmer bulldozed a small hill to farm.Only after the fact,he was curious about all the rock amongst the rubble.The Historic society learned this was in fact Sir John's family crypt.Oh well,so much for historic monuments.