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Comment by Debra Honor on September 25, 2011 at 11:01am

Thanks Ken. I didn't realize the RG 8 "C" series was digitized. I'll look into that.

Comment by Ken McKinlay on September 23, 2011 at 9:27pm

Just an addendum, the RG 8, "C" series British Military and Naval Records microfilms have been digitized. You might be able to find his name in the muster rolls. See http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-533-e.html for the announcement. Once you get to the page with all the microfilm numbers click on "Help" for guidance on how to possibly locate the correct microfilm.

Comment by Ken McKinlay on September 23, 2011 at 9:12pm

@Debra: In Dr. Esther Clark Wright's book "The Loyalists of New Brunswick" There is a John Butler possibly from New Jersey (question mark beside that) that served in the PWAR (Prince Of Wales' American Regiment AKA Prince of Wales' American Volunteers) and settled in the Kennebecasis area of Kings County, New Brunswick. On the PANB site there are several land grant petitions in Kings County for a John Butler with the first one in 1788 and two more in 1810 and 1814.

Comment by Debra Honor on August 26, 2011 at 11:27am

@ Judith: Edward Hazel had 5 daughters that I am aware of. Some people say he had a son who stayed in the Detroit region. I have no proof of a son to give you. If there was a son, he never asked for free land as a SUE. Edward Hazel died sometime in 1821. In his daughter's petitions one says he is alive and the next daughter's petition he is dead.

This information isn't positive for your quest but it may help to rule out a dead end.

Good luck.

Comment by Judith Hayman on August 26, 2011 at 9:22am

@ Debra:  Your Edward is only a maybe for me.  The furthest on the Hazel line I got was to James Hazel born about 1826 in Ontario.  He married Mary Jane Herbert (or possibly Hebert).  The family lived in the area where Brant, Oxford and Norfolk come together.

Comment by Debra Honor on August 26, 2011 at 6:34am

Judith Hayman - re Hazel

Hi Judith, I have a Loyalist ancestor named Edward Hazel from Essex County. I have proven my line to him. If he is your ancestor too I would be willing to share information.

Comment by Debra Honor on August 26, 2011 at 6:30am

Thanks Paul Caverly -re John Butler. There is a book I found on line called "Orderly Book of the Three Battalions of Loyalists Commanded by Brigadier- General Oliver De Lancey 1776-1778" to which is appended a list of New York Loyalists in the City of New York during the war of the Revolution - compiled by William Kelby. (1917)  On page 117 there is a listing for a John Butler.

In Esther Wright's book for New Brunswick she has a John Butler but it is unclear if he was with DeLancey or the PWAV.

I appreciate your search though. Maybe finding a definative piece of evidence that John was in New Brunswick is asking too much. LOL

Thank you.

 

Comment by Judith Hayman on August 25, 2011 at 6:32am

Hi,  I'm working on the following lines before 1850,  Joseph Mason b 1780 in "Montreal" of English descent, in Wentworth Co, by 1813/4 and his wife Rebecca Wedge, b. 1794 New Jersey, settled in Glanford Tp.  Parentage unknown for both. 

Also searching the following:  Crooks, Hazel, Corey, all in counties around west Lake Erie. 

Comment by Paul Caverly on July 21, 2011 at 6:44am

Debra - re John Butler
I don't see him in any of the books I have. DeLancey's Brigade had 3 units, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalion all out on NY. Disbanded along the Saint John River in 1783.
Prince of Wales American Volunteers were raised primarily in Connecticut and New England. Recruitment at NY over the winter of 1776-1777. They disbanded along the Saint John River in 1783.

Comment by Debra Honor on July 15, 2011 at 11:42am

I have researched all of my lines as well as my husband's lines. I need help with finding John Butler (not Butlers Rangers) from New Brunswick. He was a Loyalist who fled New York to New Brunswick but ended up in Norfolk County, Ontario. What I want to lnow is what Loyalist uit did he serve? Was it Delancey's Unit or the Pricne of Wales Unit?

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