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Descendants of John Dow McDougall

Generation No. 2


2. JOHN J.2 MCDOUGALL (JOHN DOW1) was born December 29, 1755 in Clonmore near Urquhart, Inverness-shire County, Scotland, and died Bet. October 03, 1826 - 1829 in York County, Upper Canada. He married SARAH CLOUDSDALE Abt. 1778 in Philadelphia, British America, daughter of THOMAS CLOUDSDALE and MARY MCFARLAND. She was born March 16, 1765 in Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland, and died Bet. May 15, 1820 - October 03, 1826 in York County, Upper Canada, British North America.

Notes for JOHN J. MCDOUGALL:
John J. came to New York, shortly before the Revolutionary War. He was an officer (sub altern) in the 84th Regiment of Foot, Royal Highland Regiment. His unit was attached to the Loyal American Regiment, British Army, and served through the war. The winter of 1777-78, while the British Army was occupying Philadelphia - he met, courted and eloped with Sarah Cloudsdale (daughter of a merchant and ship owner). At the end of the war they had to leave America and move to Nova Scotia. He became the first inn and tavern keeper in Toronto. John J. and Sarah were United Empire Loyalists.

John McDougall and his family of wife Sarah and daughter Mary and a female servant arrived on either of the following ships: the 'Ranger': Master James Duncan; sailed from New York to Nova Scotia in November 1783 and docked and disembarked in December 1783 at 'Port Matoon' (Port Mouton), Nova Scotia; Or on the 'Diana': Master William Brown; sailed from both Staten Island and New York City to Nova Scotia in November 1783 and docked and disembarked in December 1783 at 'Port Matton' (Port Mouton), Nova Scotia. These are the only loyalist ships recorded that entered the Port Mouton Harbour, an existing tiny settlement. The construction of an enlarged community was immediately begun.

See
American Migrations, 1765-1799 : the lives, times, and families of colonial Americans who remained loyal to the British Crown before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, as related in their own words and through their correspondence. Coldham, Peter Wilson, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, Md., 2000.
Also contain details of Thomas Cloudsdall and Mary Cloudsdall accounts.


BIRTH: Highlands of Scotlands - Inverness

"Came to New York shortly before the Revolution, probably about 1770. John joined the Loyal American Regiment, and served throughout the whole war. During the winter of 1777-1778, while the army was holding Philadelphia, he met and eloped with Isabella Cloudesdel, the daughter of a merchant and ship-owner trading with the West Indies. A Captain Richard Porter of the 60th Regiment married her sister.

The end of the war in 1783 found John and his family in New York, and the future was dark, The British Government, however offered land in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to those officers and soldiers who had served loyally during the Revolutionary War, and transportation was freely offered. John and his family settled on land in or near Digby, Nova Scotia. The going was hard, as the land turned out to be poor, and so their thoughts turned to Upper Canada."

Information below dated year 2000

John McDougall and his family of wife Sarah and daughter Mary and a female servant arrived on either of the following ships: the 'Ranger': Master: James Duncan; sailed from New York to Nova Scotia in November 1783 and docked and disembarked in December 1783 at 'Port Matoon' (Port Mouton), Nova Scotia; Or on the 'Diana': Master: William Brown; sailed from both Staten Island and New York City to Nova Scotia in November 1783 and docked and disembarked in December 1783 at 'Port Matton' (Port Mouton), Nova Scotia; Or on the 'Abondance': Master: Matthew Roch; sailed from New York to Nova Scotia in November 1783 and docked and disembarked 244 passengers in December 1783 at 'Port Matoon' (Port Mouton), Nova Scotia . These are the only loyalist ships recorded that entered the Port Mouton Harbour, an existing tiny settlement. The construction of an enlarged community was immediately begun.

See
American Migrations, 1765-1799 : the lives, times, and families of colonial Americans who remained loyal to the British Crown before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, as related in their own words and through their correspondence. Coldham, Peter Wilson, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, Md., 2000.
Also contains details of Thomas Cloudsdall and Mary Cloudsdall accounts.

Information below dated year 1962

"John McDougall was a Highland Scotsman who served in the British Commissariat as a conductor of wagons in the American Revolution. After the war he moved to Shelburne N. S., [actually Port Mouton] where he kept a store. He later came to Upper Canada and kept a tavern in York for many years. About 1803, he moved to his lot on Yonge Street north of Eglington Avenue, and kept a tavern there. He was the grandfather of the Hon. William McDougall."

RESIDENCES: >1783 in Philadelphia,served in the British Commissariat Service during the American Revolution; 1783 to Shelburne, Nova Scotia where he kept a store; 1794 to York where he had a inn and tavern for many years; moved 1801/3 farm - Yonge & Glengrove Avenue, also where he had a inn and tavern for many years.

1 July 1784 - Lot 1, Shelburn Road- page 62- Muster roll for Digby - John McDougall 4 [meaning 4 persons]

28 June 1793 -Sarah McDougall petitioned on behalf of her husband on 28 June 1793 at Newark [Niagara] for land in Toronto while he was still "living at Digby in the Province of Nova Scotia, farmer, where he has resided with his family now consisting of four children, since 1783 when your Petitioner with her husband left New York: He having served as Conductor in the Quarter Master Generals Department of His Majesty's forces during the whole time of the Rebellion."

John McDougall and his family arrived at Toronto in the spring of 1794 and established McDougall's Inn & Tavern, the first hotel of Toronto.

1 April 1796 -Petition for grant to John Graves Simcoe Esq., Lieut. Governor and the Council of the Province of Upper Canada.

In 1797 included in the list of inhabitants of the Township of York and its Vicinity (3 males and 5 females)

In 1799 was elected one of the Overseers of Highways for Town of York.

In 1801, bought Lot 4 Con 1 West from Walter Moody.

March 30, 1801 - "6 Persons are a sufficient number for keeping Taverns in Town of York" County of Quarter Session approved issuance of license in York to John McDougall. "In order that the persons who have been recommended for Tavern Licenses might keep good rule and order in their respected houses, they are appointed Constables in and for Town of York for the ensuing year"

"Was proprietor of a hotel in York, and owned lot 4, 1st concession west in 1801, which he sold to his son Daniel in 1826. William McDougall grew up on this farm."

'The original land grant for Lot 3 Con 1W of Yonge was made to John MacDougall an Inkeeper, in 1803"

In 1804, was elected the Overseers for the road from half the Big Creek Bridge to number one on Yonge Street.

3 February 1807 - Petition to Francis Gore, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor to the Province of Upper Canada requesting that his name be inserted in the UE List; approved and entered on the UE list.

In 1813, was elected as the Pathmaster from the Center of Herrin's Bridge to the Middle of the Poplar plains.

In 1826, he sold Lot 4 Con 1 West on Yonge Street north of the tiny community of Eglinton to son, Daniel

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John,

I found this at:

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/culture/to_past_present.htm

Thanks for the information,

regards,

Grant Wilson

City of Toronto History

Toronto's Lost Historic Sites

The history of the modern City of Toronto began in 1793 when Lieutenant-Governor
John Graves Simcoe ordered the construction of a garrison on the present site of
Fort York and then moved the provincial capital to Toronto from Niagara.
Civilian settlement followed and a community named "York" began to grow two
kilometers east of the fort. Although the founding of our city dates to Simcoe's
time, human activity in the Toronto area extended back thousands of years.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the people who lived in the area
were the Mississaugas, a branch of the Algonkian Ojibways from central Ontario
who had pushed the Iroquoian Senecas out of the region at the end of the
previous century. (Seneca occupation itself was relatively short, beginning
about the mid-1600s, following the Iroquois dispersal of the Hurons.) Unlike the
sedentary and agricultural Senecas, the Mississaugas did not live in permanent
villages, but moved between seasonal hunting and fishing camps within their
territory.

In 1700, one of the more significant features of the region was the "Toronto
Passage", a water and portage route connecting Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay and
then on to the northern interior of the continent. The French established a fur
trade post near the Humber River in 1720 to exploit the passage. They left in
1730, but returned 21 years later, building Fort Rouille (near today's CNE
Bandshell) as a small out-station of Fort Niagara. When the British captured the
larger fort in 1759, the garrison in Fort Rouille burned their post and withdrew
to Cataraqui (now Kingston). British rule of the Toronto region followed the end
of the Seven Years' War in 1763.

The next 30 years were a quiet time for Toronto. The Mississaugas continued to
hunt and fish through the region, and a handful of French-Canadian fur traders
took advantage of the Toronto Passage as they sought a replacement for the
hinterland lost to the new American republic south of the Great Lakes. In the
mid 1780s, a number of traders and their dependents asked for land on the
Toronto Passage in hopes of profiting from what they thought would become an
important commercial route. Their names reflected the diversity of late
eighteenth century Ontario's population. For example, some of the petitioners
were Phillipe Francois de Rastel de Rocheblave (a European soldier who served
the British in the Illinois country), Benjamin Frobisher (a Montreal fur
trader), French-Canadians Francois and Louis Marchetere, Jacob Weimer (a
German), the "Widow Orillat", Elizabeth Lord, plus United Empire Loyalists
Richard Beasley and Peter Smyth.

In response to this interest in Toronto, the government paid the Mississaugas
1700 British Pounds in cash and goods for the area in 1787. Gother Mann of the
Royal Engineers subsequently surveyed a town site, but, in the end, the
petitioners did not get their land and the promise of substantial fur trade
prosperity was never realized.

Agriculture ultimately generated more wealth than the fur trade in late
eighteenth century Toronto. Even before Simcoe's arrival, a few Loyalists began
to farm the region. Little is known about these people except for occasional
passing references, such as a remark by Elizabeth Simcoe rowing "6 miles up the
Donn" about a month after her arrival in 1793, "o Coons, a farm under a hill
covered with Pine." The number of such people was small. Governor Simcoe thought
only 15 families between Burlington and the Bay of Quinte before he moved here
in 1793.

In the spring of 1793, it seemed likely that hostilities would break out with
the United States. The Americans and the Western Tribes were at war, and the
British, allied to the Aborginal peoples, expected the conflict to spread to
Upper Canada. Therefore, Simcoe decided to establish a naval base at Toronto and
build Fort York to protect it. He also encouraged civilian settlement to ensure
an adequate supply of food and other goods and services to meet the military's
needs. In Simcoe's mind, Toronto's defensible harbour would allow the British to
control Lake Ontario, while the Toronto Passage would enable troops and supplies
to move to the upper lakes should the Americans cut the Lake Erie-Detroit River
route to the northwest.

The first arrivals in the new settlement were the Queen's Rangers, a regiment
whose officers were a mix of American Loyalists and Britons, and whose lower
ranks consisted mainly of soldiers recruited in the United Kingdom. The civilian
population of York in the 1790s was a diverse group which included immigrants
from Germany who arrived via New York under the leadership of William Berczy,
Loyalists with British, Dutch and German backgrounds, French royalists fleeing
the troubles in Europe, some French-Canadians, Pennsylvanian Mennonites, a few
Black people, plus individuals from all over England, Scotland, Wales and
Ireland. Meanwhile, the Mississaugas continued to live in the region and
interacted extensively with the new arrivals.

The Simcoe Years were a difficult time for the people of York. Although the war
scare with the United States passed in 1794, poor relations with the
Mississaugas produced the fear of violent confrontation for both Natives and
newcomers in the middle 1790s. York's isolation shut the town off from the rest
of the province for most of the winter, and food shortages were so severe that
the government had to issue army rations to the civilian population. When the
Simcoes left York for the last time in 1796, Toronto was a backwoods government
and military settlement, with about 300 people in the town, 175 in the garrison,
450 on the surrounding farms, plus a few hundred Mississaugas who lived along
the north shore of Lake Ontario.

York continued to grow slowly as the eighteenth century closed. Immigration did
not accelerate until after the War of 1812 and the start of the massive
migration to Canada from the United Kingdom - migration that changed Toronto's
character significantly.

There are some reminders of eighteenth century Toronto for people to see today.
Within the city, Fort York preserves the site of the founding of Toronto and
displays cannon and other artifacts from the Simcoe years. In the CNE grounds, a
monument marks the site of Fort Rouille, and Scadding Cabin, a stone's throw
away, recalls the first years of civilian settlement. Various artifacts
associated with these early days are displayed in other museums and institutions
elsewhere in the greater Toronto region. Below ground, particularly at Fort
York, but elsewhere in the city, archaeological resources await exploration to
fill in some of the gaps about the shadowy history of our city's eighteenth
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More About JOHN J. MCDOUGALL:
Christening: January 31, 1756, Urquhart, Inverness-shire County, Scotland

Notes for SARAH CLOUDSDALE:
First date-she signed on a parcel of land; 2nd date, she did not sign, which would have been required re dower rights

The family folklore has been that Sarah eloped with John J. McDougall, and was married in Philadelphia. Prior to Jun 1778, the date of the evacuation of the British from that city, Mary Cloudsdall claimed in a petition that she had four children living with she and her husband. Since her husband served in His Majesty's Civil Service, as "Inspector of Loading of Shipping", then the family were forced to leave, rather than stay like others who were merchants. Sarah could very well have eloped with John J. McDougall at this period in time, even though she was only 13 years of age. Any marriage before the age of 16 required the permission of the parents, so if she was untruthful about her age on marriage, then society would have labelled her marriage an elopment. It is known that McDougall was a Wagonmaster with the Wagonmaster General's Department, and they kept the troops supplied with provisions. When Thomas Cloudsdall had to escape, he turned to being a provider of goods aka "a sutler" to the troops from July 1778 onwards. He had been a merchant in Philadelphia, as well as an official Inspector. Obviously, he accepted the marriage in such trying times and most likely ingratiated himself with his son-in-law, John J. McDougall, an army wagonmaster. What better way to get his retail goods displayed to the troops and ready for purchase.

"Sarah, daughter to Thos Cloudsdale, farmer and Mary McFarland, his spouse, born 16th, baptised 17th".


"The Petition of Sarah McDougall humbly sheweth that your petitioner is the wife of John McDougall, at present living at Digby in the Province of Nova Scotia, farmer, where he has reside with his family now consisting of four children,n, since the year 1783 when your petitioner with her husband left New York; he having served as Conductor in Quarter Master Generals Department of his Majesty's forces during the whole time of the Rebellion - That your petitioner's husband, desirous to remove with his family to Upper Canada, has (whilst he should dispose of his stock of cattle etc.) requested your petitioner, who has relations in this province, to precede him, and to endeavour to obtain a piece of land, whereon he might settle with his family." dated Newark 28th June 1793. PAC Microfilm C2190 - M Bundle (misc 1792 - 1821) U. C. Land Petitions;. M Bundle 1, 1792 - 1795; RG1, L3 Vol. 327 (a) No144, McDougall, Sarah.,


More About SARAH CLOUDSDALE:
Christening: March 17, 1765, Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland

More About JOHN MCDOUGALL and SARAH CLOUDSDALE:
Marriage: Abt. 1778, Philadelphia, British America
     
Children of JOHN MCDOUGALL and SARAH CLOUDSDALE are:
3. i.   MARY3 MCDOUGALL, b. 1781, New York City; d. June 03, 1872, York County, Ontario, Canada.
4. ii.   ANN MCDOUGALL, b. Abt. September 04, 1786, Digby, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia; d. March 09, 1852, McDougall's Corners, United County Of Peel County, Canada West.
5. iii.   JOHN CAMPBELL MCDOUGALL, b. 1789, Digby, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia; d. June 16, 1872, Bolton, Albion Township, Peel County, Ontario, Canada.
  iv.   DOROTHY MCDOUGALL, b. Bef. December 27, 1793, Digby, Nova Scotia; d. Unknown; m. JARIUS H. ASHLEY, December 29, 1807, Church at York, York, York County, Upper Canada; b. Bet. 1776 - 1784, Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.
  More About DOROTHY MCDOUGALL:
Christening: December 27, 1793, Digby, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia

  More About JARIUS H. ASHLEY:
Occupation: Innkeeper in York

  More About JARIUS ASHLEY and DOROTHY MCDOUGALL:
Marriage: December 29, 1807, Church at York, York, York County, Upper Canada
6. v.   SARAH POLLY MCDOUGALL, b. Bef. December 27, 1793, Digby, Nova Scotia; d. Unknown.
7. vi.   DANIEL MCDOUGALL, b. September 27, 1796, York, Upper Canada; d. April 23, 1870, St. Mary's, Perth County, Ontario.
  vii.   HANNAH MCDOUGALL, b. Abt. 1798, York, York County, Upper Canada; d. Unknown; m. JOHN B. HOLMES; d. Unknown.
  viii.   ANDREW MCDOUGALL, b. Bet. 1798 - 1799, York, York County, Upper Canada; d. Unknown.
  Notes for ANDREW MCDOUGALL:
Died young.

From a listing of inhabitants of York and the numbers in their household: in 1797, the John McDougall household had 3 males. This would be John Senior, John Junior and Daniel. By the listing of 1799, there were 4 males. It is doubtful that they had a servant to run the tavern and inn, especially when they had a son and daughters that could help: Mary was 18; Ann 13; & John Jr 11. Unless a younger brother of John or a male guest was counted, then it would seem that Sarah had another baby son. This could be Andrew McDougall. This would be most likely for the period. He disappears by 1813. Previous to this year there were 2 or 3 "Male Children Under 16". For years 1806 through 1808, John Junior graduated to the column "Male Children Over 16". This would be correct as he was known to have been born in by 1789.,


  ix.   HELEN MCDOUGALL, b. Bet. 1805 - 1808, Near Eglinton, Township Of York, York County, Upper Canada; d. Unknown.
  Notes for HELEN MCDOUGALL:
The land grant states that she was the daughter of John McDougall, late of the Town of York and daughter of a loyalist.

A Helen McDougall was a witness to a wedding in St. James' Anglican Church in York:

3 April, 1822, by special license, James RAYMEND, of York, bachelor, and Anne HAMBLER, spinster, of the same place. Witnesses, Samuel GILLERT and Helen McDOUGAL.


Was she the Helen McDougal born 1 Nov 1805 and married 7 May 1842 to James Davis b: 28 May 1798 in Saltfleet Twp., Wentworth County, Upper Canada, British North America? That Helen McDougall Davis died 21 Nov 1855 in Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada West, British North America.

One of this Helen's children was Hannah Davis b: 30 Nov 1845; Spouse unknown, , ,




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