(fl.1786), black U E Loyalist and early settler. (form of name London Derry also used) London Derry is listed as a private in Butler’s Rangers. He was assigned to Lot 27 in the 2nd Concession of Lancaster Township, GC, by 1786 (Pringle 403, following McNiff’s map), and “London Derry a private” was the original nominee for Lot 27 in the 3rd of Lancaster, but he does not appear to have received a patent for land in either of these lots. A letter of 25 May 1805 from Jeremiah Snyder states, with regard to the aforementioned 3rd Concession, that “London Derey a free Black man Settled on Lott No 27 and sold it.” The words “in the year 1786,” added between the lines, refer to either the year Londonderry settled on the lot or the year he sold it. Little is known about Amego Londonderry. It has been reported that he “married a girl from the Fraser brothers’ farm Fraserfield.” (Robertson) If this is true, he was presumably the father of Rachel Londonderry, who was born on 1 March and baptized on 8 June 1798 by the Rev. John Bethune. She is described as a black child and the property of Capt. William Fraser, who was apparently the brother of Thomas Fraser, of Fraserfield in Grenville County (not the GC Fraserfield).

Letter: Archives of Ontario-TP (20 & 21: 3 Lancaster) * Archives of Ontario-TP (27: 3 Lancaster) * Domesday Book: no entry for him * Fryer & Smy 64 * Malcolm Robertson, “Black Loyalists of Glengarry,” Glengarry Life No. 33 (1994) * Ross, Lancaster, 13