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Check more info in Belle Fourche LDS Library--- read microfilm on Long Point Settlement by E.A. OWEN again!

BIRTH: Probably---near Roslyn  Harbor, Long Island, NY.  He moved to Westchester county, New York and served in the 5th Company Upper Battalion of the Westchester County Militia during the Seven Years War. He resided at Philipse Manor NY.

??????????  MONTROSS (Mr)   1879 native of England. Historical Atlas of Norfolk County, Ontario: List of emigrants extracted National Library of Canada: ref F5498 H28 P32, page 68   ( When the American Revolution broke out, Peter Montross was a Loyalist and, in 1777, he joined the Loyal American Regiment and served for seven years. Loyal American Regiment, Robinson's Company
Muster Roll of Lieutenant Colonel Beverly ROBINSONs Company of the Loyal American Regiment, Flushing 20th January 1783.)  He  "MIGHT" be this Peter's father!!! ( see below where Peter and family fled to New Brunswick in 1783.)

Lynton (Bill) Stewart <mailto:lstewart@@pacbell.net>
Peter Montross & wife Leah Mabie fled with their children from New York to New Brunswick in 1783. By 1797 they had moved to the Long Point Settlement in Norfolk County with their children
Silas (m. 1st cousin Sarah Mabee - 8 children),
Simon (m. Phoebe - no children),
Frances (m. Thomas Price - 12 children),
Susannah, Leah, Hannah (m. William Drake - 9 children), Peter (m. Mary Leach - no children). Other children followed later -- Margaret in 1798 (m. Lawrence Johnson - 13 children), Levi in 1801 (m. Anna Maria Morrison? - 1 child), Anderson in 1801 (m. Rebecca Newman - 10 children), Amy (aka Phoebe) in 1807 (m. Andrew McCleish - 12 children)

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Peter MONTROSS
  After the war, he joined the 30,000 Loyalists who fled their homes to settle at New Brunswick.  On 18 Jan 1785, he petitioned with three others for a grant of 15,000 acres on the Penniac Creek, ten miles above St. Ann's, N.B. (New Brunswick).  The grant was allowed and divided into 31 lots between 26 individuals.  Lot # 1, 162 acres went to Peter Montross. The farm proved marginal, and, in 1797, Peter moved to Upper Canada (Ontario).
  He petitioned for land in Norfolk County and was granted rights to 2,200 acres as a Loyalist.  They settled at Charlotteville Twp, where the present day village of St. Williams is situated, He died there on 27 Aug 1833.  Leah died there on 13 Mar 1835.
Also, go to http://the-burgers.rootsweb.com/introduction.html to find Frederick MABY--first white man buried in Old Charlotteville.
!CHILDREN: 5 sons and 6 daughters, my ancestor, Phoebe Amy, being the 5th child.
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LIST OF UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS WHO SETTLED AT LONG POINT.
Name                            Township                        Date.
Montross, Peter                 Charlotteville                  1799
http://www.tbaytel.net/bmartin/longpt.htm

CHAPTER XLIX.   http://www.tbaytel.net/bmartin/longpt.htm
MONTROSS
IN the war of American Independence, Peter Montross, sen., had been a soldier in the Loyal American Regiment, and at the close of the war settled in New Brunswick.

In 1799 his three sons, Levy, Silas and Peter, and their three sisters, came west to Long Point, settling in Charlotteville near the lake. They each received from the Government two hundred acres in Charlotteville, under date of Order-in-Council 17th February, 1802.

(The allotment of Silas was Lot 20 of the 1st concession, near the "Glen".)

The wife of Silas Montross was Sarah, daughter of Frederick Maby.
She received one of the first grants of land given in that section, the entry being the third on page 1, folio I. of the Docket Book for warrants of survey to U. E. Loyalists and military claimants.

The various sons of Silas Montross also received free land. Evidently both the father, Peter Montross, and son Silas, were in active service in the Revolutionary War, for Silas is mentioued also in the list of the Loyal American Regiment; but at the time of the war he must have been very young.

PHOEBE, FRANCES and MARGARET Montross, the three original sisters, became the pioneer mothers of large and influential families. They married, respectively, Andrew McCleish, Thomas Price and Lawrence Johnson.
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Posted by Barbara J. Brown <barb@@tir.com> in response to Montross, posted by Elaine Allen on Fri, 13 Aug, 1999.  "MONTROSS;A Family History" Pierre Montras and his Descendants. A record of 300 years of the Montras--Montross--Montrose--Montress Family in the United States and Canada, by John Wilson Taylor, Ph.D. and Eva Mills (Lee) Taylor. BJB   at the Eva Brooke Donly Museum in Simcoe, Norfolk Co.
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Burial:  abt 27 Aug 1833  Place:   St. Williams,,Ontario,Canada
http://members.tripod.com/~Randy_T/montross.html
**Peter Montross** born 27 May 1742 in Rosylin Harbor, Long Island, New York, married **Leah Mabee** ca 1767 in New York. Leah was born 31 Oct 1750 in Yorktown, New York, the daughter of **Simon Mabee and Marie Landrin.** Peter and his family migrated to New Brunswick due to terrible persicution against his family, as they were U.E. Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. He settled on land that was set aside for the U.E. Loyalists, later relocating to Long Point, Ontario, Canada. Peter and his family are listedamong some of the Early Settlers of Long Point, Ontario, Canada. Peter died 27Aug 1833, and Leah died 13 Mar 1835, both are buried in the St. Williams Cemetery, Long Point, Ontario, Canada. Their children were: