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Article: Like father, like son: the Johnson family and the town site of Cornwall.
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- The Loyalist Gazette
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 United Empire Loyalists' Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Stuart L. Manson, UE
At the close of the American War of Independence in 1783, thousands of Loyalists from the Thirteen Colonies became `landless' refugees, in search of a new home. They had supported the Royal cause for a variety of complex reasons and with the war lost, they shared in the negative consequences of its failure. In the spring of 1784, several hundred such men, women and children under the leadership of Sir John Johnson sailed upstream from Montreal to establish new settlements along the north shore of the upper St. Lawrence River.
These new communities were called Royal Townships, and within Royal Township No. 2 a special town plot was ...
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... ... topics come up concerning Sir William Johnson or Sir John Johnson, I almost feel obliged ... George was the son of Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant, and a family ... children. He was a half brother of Sir John Johnson. In the later stages ...
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