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James Parrot and family fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1777-1846.

Reference:

R6289-0-X-E, MG23-HII3

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101028

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James Parrot and family fonds
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Fonds includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1777-1846.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4.6 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of miscellaneous papers, including correspondence, returns, reports and accounts of James Parrot's military service and civilian life, 1777-1846, 28 pages; account book, 1781-1783, post-1821, 188 pages.

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Parrot, James, ca. 1740-1821 (family)

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Parrot, James, ca. 1740-1821 (family) : James Parrot (Parrott, Perret[t], Perrot[t]), 1740-1821], was a native of Boston, who farmed at Little White Creek, near Cambridge, in Albany County, N.Y., until 1776, when he joined the British at Crown Point as a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War. He served in Burgoyne's 1777 campaign and was appointed to a lieutenancy, 20 August 1777, first in Capt. Simeon Covell's company in Colonel John Peter's corps of Queen's Loyal Rangers, and later in Capt. Justus Sherwood's company of Major Edward Jessup's King's Loyal Americans. After the war he was granted land in Ernestown Township, Upper Canada, and settled there in 1784 with his wife Marie (née Leak[e] or Lake).

Until 1815, he remained active in the Addington County militia, in which he held the commission of a lieutenant colonel, 2 April 1795. Prior to the construction of their church, the Methodists of the region held their meetings in Parrot's barn. Having no children or other relatives, he persuaded his brother John Parrot (1746-1830), a former sailor settler at New Boston, N.H. to join him in Upper Canada, ca. 1803, and the papers in this unit appear to have been preserved in the family of John Robertson, who married John Parrot's daughter Mary (b. 1770) in 1804.

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Textual records (Paper) The finding aid is a descriptive list of the material and a list of the index cards prepared for the general index. MSS1503 (99: Closed pending processing)

Textual records (Paper) This fonds is available in the General Index (or, card cabinets) in the Reference Services room, 2nd floor, 395 Wellington in Ottawa. These cards are arranged alphabetically by collection and include names, places and subjects. The collections are from various time periods between the 1600s and the early 1980s. (90: Open)
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/genealogy/Pages/general-index.aspx

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Custodial history:

Received in 1940.

Associated material note:

For further information on the Parrot family, see MG 25 G 384.
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United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Personal narratives, 1773-1783 Leek family, [1777-1798]

James Parrot - Correspondence, 1773-1783

United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - British forces, 1773-1783

Soldiers - United States, 1773-1783

Mary Parrot Robertson - Correspondence, [ca. 1830]-1846

Ernestown (Ont.:Township) - Land use, [ca. 1830-1846]

James Parrot - Family, 1776-1846

United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Veterans, 1785-1798

Soldiers - Civil status - Ontario, 1785-1798

Travel restrictions, [1777-1798]

James Parrot - Financial, Personal, 1781-1783

John Robertson - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., [after 1821]

James Perret - Biography, [after 1821]

Religions, [after 1821]

Methodists, [after 1821]

Lutherans, [after 1821]

Quakers, [after 1821]

Women, [after 1821]

Indians, Treatment of - North America, [after 1821]

Liberty, [after 1821]

Equality, [after 1821]
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MG23-HII3
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