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Subject: Re: [A-REV] Loyalists or Patriots? Truth or Fiction?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:32:32 EDT


Hello,

I can contribute a similar story in my research on Revolutionary War soldiers
regarding
McKown family. From "The Northern Peninsula of Michigan History' it states
that
"Jeremiah Lott married Sarah McKown, who was born in Maine, which was also the
native state of her father, Thomas McKown. Her grandfather Mckown was a man
of
great patriotism and served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of
1812, losing
his life in the last struggle." From my research I have found that the
grandfather Mckown
was John Mckown from Scotland to New Jersey about 1770 and who is mentioned in
the "inquisition" from Sussex county. He served in the New Jersey Volunteers
and
at the end of the war ended up in New Brunswick. His grandaughter Sarah,
mentioned
as born in Maine was either born in New Brunswick or on the disputed boarder
with Maine.
Later in the 1830's Sarah's father Thomas migrated to Wisconsin Territory
where future
generations appear without mention to being Loyalist. Perhaps these people
did not want
to mention Loyalist connections at that time of an 'Expanding America'!

Sincerely,

Stephen Schweyen

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