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| <tab>Fraser was a slaveholder, although apparently on a fairly small scale. The baptismal records of St. Andrew’s Church, Williamstown, state that on 22 May 1793 the Rev. John Bethune baptized Aaron Fraser, a Negro belonging to Capt. Thomas Fraser of Edwardsburgh, and that on 8 June 1796 Bethune baptized Sarah, daughter of York and Patience who were Negroes belonging to Capt. Thomas Fraser. The same records list baptisms 1789-1893 of what are evidently the slaves owned by Thomas Fraser’s brother William. | <tab>Fraser was a slaveholder, although apparently on a fairly small scale. The baptismal records of St. Andrew’s Church, Williamstown, state that on 22 May 1793 the Rev. John Bethune baptized Aaron Fraser, a Negro belonging to Capt. Thomas Fraser of Edwardsburgh, and that on 8 June 1796 Bethune baptized Sarah, daughter of York and Patience who were Negroes belonging to Capt. Thomas Fraser. The same records list baptisms 1789-1893 of what are evidently the slaves owned by Thomas Fraser’s brother William. |
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| <tab>Thomas Fraser married (1) Mary MacBain or MacBean, (2) on 7 Feb. 1795, Mary MacDonell, dau. of John Macdonell (Leek), and (3) Cornelia Paterson. He was a Presbyterian. His farm on the St. Lawrence in Edwardsburgh Township was called Fraserfield. His son (by the first marriage) Richard Duncan Fraser who inherited part of his property continued the farm under the Fraserfield name. See also Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield (for Fraserfield in GC) and Amego Londonderry. Thomas Fraser appears in J. Fraser’s //Skulking for the King: a Loyalist Plot// (Erin, The Boston Mills Press, 1985). | <tab>Thomas Fraser married (1) Mary MacBain or MacBean, (2) on 7 Feb. 1795, Mary MacDonell, dau. of John Macdonell (Leek), and (3) Cornelia Paterson. He was a Presbyterian. His farm on the St. Lawrence in Edwardsburgh Township was called Fraserfield. His son (by the first marriage) Richard Duncan Fraser who inherited part of his property continued the farm under the Fraserfield name. See also [[fraser_alexander2|Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield]] (for Fraserfield in GC) and Amego Londonderry. Thomas Fraser appears in J. Fraser’s //Skulking for the King: a Loyalist Plot// (Erin, The Boston Mills Press, 1985). |
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