====== McDougal, John ====== (died 19 Nov. 1848, aged 96), U E Loyalist and church elder. (date of death 1849 and age 98 also found; spelling McDougall also found) Born at Corrimony, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He emigrated to America in 1773, settling in New York Colony. When the Revolution shook the colonies, he took the loyal side and served in General Burgoyne’s forces and in the 84th Regiment. Discharged at Montreal in 1779, he moved in 1780 to Coteau-du-Lac, and in 1784 to the Front of Lancaster Township, GC, where he lived till within a few months of his death. As a Loyalist, he was granted some 600 acres (all in the year 1808) in Lancaster Township, being Lot 33 in the 1st (Front) Concession, Lot 27 in the 9th Concession, and part of lot 33 in the 4th Concession He was ordained a Presbyterian elder in 1790, during the pastorate of the Rev. John Bethune. “At the period of his death he [McDougal] was the senior Elder in the Church in Canada, and probably in British North America.” (obituary) He died at the home of his son in Charlottenburgh Township. With his sons, he helped built the first Presbyterian church at Lancaster. When he was in his 50s he walked to York (Toronto) and back, probably in the spring of 1809, to obtain the deed for Lot 38, 1st Concession of Lancaster, the 200-acre lot which the government granted to the Presbyterians of Lancaster in March 1809 as their glebe.This lot makes up a sizeable portion of the land occupied by the two Lancaster villages of today. He was married in 1784 to Catherine Grant (d. 17 Aug. 1806, aged 37) (children). ---- MacMillan, //Kirk//: index * Pringle 195 (obit. as repr. in //Cornwall Freeholder// 1886), 403 * //Centenary 1912// 11 (same obit. as Pringle, now identified as from //Presbyterian// 1849), 96 * Elizabeth Blair, “Glengarry Vignettes,” //Canadian Genealogist//, 1:4 (1979) 202-204 (quotes the gravestone inscription, Presbyterian cemetery, Lancaster * Ella May Smith, //The Story of the Old Stone Church// [St. Andrew’s, South Lancaster] (1980?) * Archives of Ontario-TP and Domesday Book, both for lots named * //Second Report //, Part II, 1095 * Reid 199 [<6>]