Second Report of the Bureau of Archives for the Province of Ontario.

This description of the book is from the Quinton Publications website.

This vast work contains the record of claims for losses for more than 1,200 persons who fled to Canada during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War. This work does not contain documents supporting claims for compensation but rather contains the extensive notes of the Commissioners who heard the claims between the years 1783 and 1790. These notes contain a veritable gold mine of genealogical information and quite adequately sum up the position of the claimants. Each document usually gives the claimant�s name, country of origin, reason for emigration, date of migration, place of residence in the American Colonies, occupation, names of family members and friends, location and value of confiscated property, war service rendered, losses sustained, evidence of character, statements of witnesses, notes of deed and wills and highlights of the claimant�s experiences during the war.

Sample Pages
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Page 791

Index to the Books


Aaron - Anderson	Franks - Gardener	Niger - Ormsby
Anderson - Baker	Gardener - Gosling	Oro - Patterson
Baker - Bayard	Gosling - Gummersal	Patterson - Philadelphia
Bayard - Best	Gummersal - Hare	Philips - Pratt
Best - Boulby	Hare - Hendrick	Preble - Rankin
Boulby - Brown	Hendrick - Horse Neck	Rankin - Robinson
Brown - Burgoyne	Horton - Hutchinson	Robinson - St. Augustine
Burke - Campbell	Hutchinson - Johnson	St. Augustine, Bar of - Sayre
Campbell - Cat Island	Johnson - Kelly	Sayre - Sherman
Catline - Christy	Kelsay - La Colle, Riviere	Sherman - Smith
Church - Colden	Lacy - Lewiston	Smith - Starr
Colden - Cornyn	Lexington, Battle of - Lucas	Staten Island - Sumerset
Corry - Crow	Luce - McGregor	Sumpter - Thomas
Crow - Dawson	McGrown - MacLeod	Thomas - Tryon
Day - Dickenson	MacLeod - Marbeltown	Tryon - Van Mater
Dickenson - Dunmore	March - Melyanum	Van Norden - Wall
Dunn - Evans	Mening - Montgomery	Wallace - Weir
Evans - Fisher	Montgomery - Munson	Weiser - Wilkins
Fishing Creek - Franks	Munson - Nicoll	Wilkins - Wood Creek
		Wood - Zubly

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So now you found a name you want to check out. Where can you get the actual books to read the information? I have done a small amount of checking and found:-

The Archives of Ontario have the books on hand.
The National Library of Canada has them in their stacks. Call No. FC 3070 L6 A58
I borrowed the second book from Queen's University Library on ILL.
Global Genealogy sells the books on a CD - CAT # 602CD13......CAN$44.99
Barnes and Noble sell a reprint of the books for US$87.50
- ISBN: 0806314044
- Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Pub. Date: January 1994
Quintin Publications sells a CD version as well - ISBN 1-58211-051-4 - US$29.95

I'm sure there are other sources available.

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