known as Thomas Ross (Taylor), Thomas Ross Taylor, Thomas Taylor Ross (died 22 July 1794, aged 78), U E Loyalist. Born in Kincardine, Ross-shire, Scotland. It has been stated that he served with the British Army at Quebec in 1759 (Cruikshank and Watt). If so, he returned to Britain afterwards. Ross emigrated to America with his wife Isabella and his son Donald on the Pearl in 1773, and became a tenant of Sir William Johnson on the Kingsborough Patent in what is now New York State. Taking the Crown side in the American Revolution, he served as a soldier in the King’s Royal Rifles of New York. He was discharged 24 Dec. 1783. As a Loyalist, he was granted Lot 28 in the 1st Concession of Lancaster Township, about a mile east of the present village of Lancaster. His wife died 24 Sept. 1817 (year 1811 has also been given for her death). They are buried in the “Old Cemetery” at Lancaster, where a stone was placed in their memory by their sons Donald, Alex., John and George. The name Taylor was used to distinguish this Thomas Ross from other Thomas Rosses. There was also at this time in GC a Loyalist known as Thomas Ross Ban (Gaelic: fair), and both the Thomas Rosses signed a petition of 31 March 1790 complaining about the inadequate surveying of the settlement. On the petition, Thomas Ross of the present entry signed his X. There was recorded also another Thomas Ross (but in this case without any special name to distinguish him) among the Loyalist settlers of GC. The aforementioned Thomas Ross Ban is said, like Thomas Ross Taylor, to have fought at Quebec in 1759. On 4 Aug. 1984 descendants of Thomas Ross Taylor and his wife held a reunion at St. Andrew’s Church, South Lancaster, on the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Loyalists in GC. (Ewan Ross, “Ross Family Held Reunion,” Glengarry News 29 Aug. 1984)

Ewan Ross, The Rosses of Martintown (1971) 8-20 (prints the 1790 petition 15-16) * MacGillivray & Ross 602 * Ross, Lancaster, 12, 19-20 (prints the 1790 petition) * UE List 245 (gives three Thomas Rosses for GC and one for Stormont) * Reid, L, 269-270 * Fryer & Smy 50 * LLC 560-562 * Cruikshank King's Royal Regiment of New York 252 * “115-Year-Old Home Has Colourful Past,” Standard Freeholder, ND, on surviving original homestead of Thomas Ross Ban (illustr.), WSC 134