Memoirs of Major Thomas Merritt, U.E.L., 1759-1842

For help and additional download options, please see our documentation

[Brampton, Ont.? : s.n., 1909?] (Brampton [Ont.] : Conservator Print.); 30 images with full-text search

Creator: Merritt, William Hamilton, 1793-1862.
Coventry, George, 1793-1870.
Title: Memoirs of Major Thomas Merritt, U.E.L., 1759-1842 : cornet in Queen's Rangers (1776-1803) under Col. John Graves Simcoe, major commandant, Niagara Light Dragoons, in the War of 1812-14, surveyor of woods and forests, and sheriff of the Niagara District for about twenty years.
Published: [Brampton, Ont.? : s.n., 1909?] (Brampton [Ont.] : Conservator Print.)
Identifier: oocihm.79327
79327
Subject: Merritt, Thomas,1759-1842.
United Empire loyalists.
United Empire Loyalists.
Canada -- History -- 1763-1791.
Canada -- History -- War of 1812.
Canada -- Histoire -- 1763-1791.
Canada -- Histoire -- 1812, Guerre de.
Document source: Scanned from a microfiche of the original publication held by Library and Archives Canada.
Notes: Cover title.
Title from title screen.
"Read before the Association on November 11th, 1909 by Col. Wm. Hamilton Merritt [the third], of Toronto."--p. 3.
"The information given below is taken from an old document entitled, "Memoirs of Thomas Merritt, Esquire, of St. Catharines, C.W." This document was evidently written by Mr. George Coventry ... chiefly as dictated to him by my grandfather, Captain the Honorable Wm. Hamilton Merritt [the first], also of St. Catharines, son of the subject of this paper."--p. 3-4.
30 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection: Monographs
Language: English
URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.79327