====== Anderson, Samuel ====== 
 (4 May 1736 - 1836), U E Loyalist. (Capt. Samuel Anderson) He served in the British forces in the Seven Years War and accompanied General Amherst in his descent of the St. Lawrence past the site of the future Cornwall and GC in 1760. Anderson was married (1761) to Prudentias Deliverance Bates (d. 1824). In the War of the American Revolution, Anderson fought for the Crown as a soldier in the King's Royal Regiment of New York. He settled in Cornwall Township as a United Empire Loyalist and presumably was never a GC resident, but he received land grants totalling 1800 acres in the 8th and 9th Concession of Lochiel Township, GC. His son was drowned in the sinking of the //Speedy//, 1804.


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<fs small>//Lochinvar to Skye// 71-72, 78-80, 178, 198 * Mrs S. Rowe, “Anderson Record,” //Ontario Historical Society, Papers & Records// (1905) * Harkness 105 & index * Senior, //Cornwall//: index * life story //Standard Freeholder// 29 May 1947 based on CKSF radio series * Roy F. Fleming on General Amherst //SFH// 25 Oct. 1947 * life of Anderson’s son Thomas Gummersall Anderson in //Dictionary of Canadian Biography// X * //LLC// 12 * Reid 6, 7 * historic plaque at entrance to Glen-Stor-Dun Lodge near GC-SYC boundary, noted in Mary Ellen Perkins, //A Guide to Provincial Plaques in Ontario// (1989) 250
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