or Sambo, also known by the single name Sambo, black U E Loyalist and early settler. As a Loyalist, he was granted or assigned Lot 30 in the 2nd Concession of Lancaster Township, and in McNiff’s map of 1786 he is listed for this lot under the single name Sambo. This lot was later designated as Clergy Reserve land and no patent was issued for any part of it till a Donald Cameron received the patent for 100 acres in 1842. A letter of 25 May 1805 from Jeremiah Snyder states, with regard to the adjacent 3rd Concession of Lancaster Township, “Sam Denike a free Negro has Lott No 30 Settled on it in the year 1786 Cleared 4 Acres.” In 1818 and 1819 Sambo Denike, described as a yeoman and military claimant, formerly a private in Butler’s Rangers, was assigned the South 1/2 of Lot 30, in the 3rd Concession of Lancaster Township. The patent for this land, being 100 acres, was issued to him on 16 Jan. 1819. As with so many of the Loyalists, little is known about Denike. There seems, at any rate, no reason to suppose that in this instance, as sometimes happens with the biography of Loyalists, we are dealing with a father and son of the same name. A gravestone rock marked Sambo in the cemetery of the Anglican church in the 1st Concession of Lancaster Township may mark his burial place.

Letter: Archives of Ontario-TP (20 & 21: 3 Lancaster) * Archives of Ontario-TP (30: 3 Lancaster) *Domesday Book [record of land patents], entries for 30-2 & 30-3 Lancaster Township * Malcolm Robertson, “Black Loyalists of Glengarry,” Glengarry Life 1994 * Malcolm Robertson, “Black Loyalists of Glengarry,” GHS Newsletter April 1994 * Pringle 403 (names on McNiff’s map of 1786)