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American Revolution


American point of view: The British used the colonies as a way to make money. They had the power to enact laws in Parliament outside of America which significantly affected life and trade in the 13 colonies. These Acts of Parliament benefited the British but not the colonies. In addition, colonists were not afforded the same rights as the British people, nor did they have any representatives in the British Parliament to present their points of view. The colonists protested and their protests led to revolution.

British point of view: The British view on the American Revolution was that the colonies owed the empire for everything it had provided, such as protection, economy, and supplies. In reality, the British people were divided about the outbreak of war with what was then their colony—over how bad it was, whose fault it was and what to do about it. (time.com)

View from Canada: "At the time of the outbreak of the American Revolution, the population of the Canadian provinces was not large by comparison to the population of the thirteen colonies. Nova Scotia, which had not yet been divided from modern New Brunswick, had some 20,000 inhabitants, of whom approximately 12,000 were from New England. The majority were living in scattered rural settlements and had little in the wayof political interests... According to a Nova Scotia petition laid before the Continental Congress, some six hundred settlers were believed to be able and willing to aid the Revolution. The white population of what is now Ontario was virtually non-existent. Quebec had a population of approximately 90,000... From 10% to 15% of the adult male population of Quebec was sufficiently active in support of the Amercian Revolution to warrant their names being recorded so in government records. Large numbers of others provided more or less passive support; they sold supplies, mounted guard, provided transportation services when they were requisitioned, etc. Most of the rest of the population was deliberately neutral, apparently seeing the dispute as none of their business..." In addition to the Quebecois, many Acadians joined the American Revolution. They strongly disliked the British because the British exiled them from Acadia in 1755. Many spent time exiled in the American colonies and, thus, became fluent in English.
(Canadian participants in the American Revolution, an index, by Virginia DeMarce - familysearch.org)


These ancestors played an active role in the U.S. Revolutionary War / American War of Independence:

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American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Ephraim LYON (1745, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - 24 November 1813, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA)
(Ebenezer LYON & Mercy CLARK)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Matthew LYON (14 July 1749, , County Dublin, Ireland - 1 August 1822, Spadra Bluff, Arkansas, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Stephen LYON (7 February 1739, Woodstock, Connecticut, USA - 26 April 1791, Woodstock, Connecticut, USA)
(Jabez LYON & Urania HALL)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Thomas LYON (15 May 1760, Woodstock, Connecticut, USA - 26 August 1824, Woodstock, Connecticut, USA)
(George LYON & Zerviah MARCY)

Boston Tea Party  male ancestor  David LYON (LYONS) (12 August 1737, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA* - 8 September 1803, Colrain, Massachusetts, USA (Colerain) (Boston Township))
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American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  John MABB (March 4, 1764, , New York, USA - January 15, 1826, Pittstown, Rensselaer, New York, USA)
(Johannes MEB (MABB) & Cornelia HAGEDOORN)

Boston Tea Party  male ancestor  Thomas MACHIN (20 March 1744, Staffordshire, England - 3 April 1816, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA*)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Elisha MACK (13 May 1759, Hebron, Connecticut, USA (Turnerville) - 7 December 1850, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA)
(Elisha MACK & Mary ELLIS)

Boston Tea Party  photo of ancestor   Peter MACKINTOSH (6 October 1757, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale) - 23 November 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Boston Tea Party  male ancestor  Archibald MACNEIL (1750, - 1840, Scituate, Massachusetts, USA )
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Charles MAILLET (1757, , New Brunswick, Canada - 12 December 1829, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Charles MAILLET & Marie BABINEAU)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste MAILLET (11 July 1753, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (Petitcodiac, Acadia) - 29 March 1837, Richibucto-Village, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Charles MAILLET & Marie BABINEAU)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Pierre-Augustin MAILLOT (11 January 1748, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, Québec, Canada - 23 April 1812, Chambly, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly))
(Joseph MAILLOT & Marie-Jeanne PREVOST)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  David MALLORY (6 March 1756, Woodbury, Connecticut, USA (Hotchkissville) - 1 June 1841, Cornwall, Connecticut, USA)
(John MALLORY & Mary SANFORD)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Jonah MALLORY (20 November 1739, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Westville) - 1816, Russell, Massachusetts, USA)
(Peter MALLORY & Mary BEARDSLEY)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  François MALMÉDY (1750, , France - November 1781, , South Carolina, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Elias MANCHESTER (15 August 1758, , New York, USA - 14 March 1846, Scipio, New York, USA)
(Elias MANCHESTER & Hannah SEABRA)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  John MANCHESTER (23 March 1757, Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA (Tiverton, Massachusetts) - 23 January 1838, Colebrook, Connecticut, USA)
(William MANCHESTER & Mary IRISH)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Louis MARCOUX (25 August 1723, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport) - 24 March 1777, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce))
(Noel MARCOUX & Jeanne-Thérèse BAUGIS)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Francis MARION (1732, Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA - 27 February 1795, Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Louis MARNEY (29 July 1724, Poitiers, France - 1810, Champlain, New York, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Louis Augustin MARNEY (15 December 1759, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) - 2 January 1829, Clinton County, New York, USA)
(Louis MARNEY & Marie-Josephe COUTURIER)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Ebenezer MARSH (15 October 1735, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (North Wrentham) - 1 June 1791, Douglas, Massachusetts, USA (East Douglas))
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Joseph MARSH (12 January 1726, Lebanon, Connecticut, USA - 9 February 1811, Hartford, Vermont, USA (White River Junction) (Quechee) (Wilder) (West Hartford))
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Reuben MARSH (18 August 1758, Douglas, Massachusetts, USA (East Douglas) - 9 March 1843, Lee, Massachusetts, USA)
(Ebenezer MARSH & Achsah STEARNS)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste MARTIN (1750, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse) - 27 August 1822, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire))
(Pierre MARTIN & Genevieve PATRY)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Joseph MARTIN (19 March 1728, Neuville, Portneuf, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales) - 1809, )
(Etienne MARTIN & Geneviève ARBOUR (HARBOUR))

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Joseph MARTIN (1740, , Virginia, USA - 1808, )
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Louis MARTIN (6 January 1745, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere) - 7 November 1812, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup))
(Louis MARTIN & Marie-Josephe BERUBE)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Augustin MATHIEU (1738, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) - 8 February 1830, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada)
(Charles MATHIEU & Thérèse DUFRESNE)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Charles MATHIEU (6 September 1708, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada - 5 May 1784, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada)
(René MATHIEU & Geneviève ROUSSIN)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Charles MATHIEU (20 May 1747, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada - 14 April 1800, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada)
(Charles MATHIEU & Thérèse DUFRESNE)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  René-Isaac MATHIEU (23 October 1751, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud) - , )
(Charles MATHIEU & Thérèse DUFRESNE)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Hugh MAXWELL (27 April 1733, Minterburn, County Tyrone, Ireland - 14 October 1799, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
Boston Tea Party  male ancestor  Thompson MAXWELL (9 September 1742, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA - 24 October 1832, Wayne, Michigan, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Hezekiah MAY (21 January 1755, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA - 18 October 1793, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA)
(Samuel MAY & Mary PIERCE)

Boston Tea Party  photo of ancestor   John MAY (24 November 1748, Pomfret, Connecticut, USA (Abington) - 16 July 1812, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale))
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  James MCDERMOTT (9 August 1758, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA - 25 June 1859, Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA)
(Archibald MCDERMOTT & Unknown UNKNOWN)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Charles MCDOWELL (18 October 1743, Winchester, Virginia, USA - 31 March 1815, Burke County, North Carolina, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  female ancestor  Martha MCFARLANE (9 September 1735, Alamance County, North Carolina, USA - 9 September 1820, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Jesse MCINTIRE (21 August 1739, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA (Indian Orchard) - 14 April 1826, West Springfield, Massachusetts, USA)
(William MACINTIRE & Sarah ELY)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Jeremiah MCLENE (1757, , Pennsylvania, USA - 19 March 1837, Washington, DC, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Matthew MEAD (20 August 1736, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA (Rowayton) (South Norwalk) (East Norwalk) - 26 February 1816, Wilton, Connecticut, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Cato MEAD (MEED) (1763, , Connecticut, USA - 25 April 1846, Montrose, Iowa, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Alexander MEBANE (26 November 1744, , Pennsylvania, USA - 5 July 1795, Hawfields, North Carolina, USA)
American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Timothy MEECH (1741, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA (Florence) - 16 September 1825, Worthington, Massachusetts, USA)
(William MEECH & Hannah FREEMAN)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Nathaniel MEEKER (16 October 1753, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, USA - 1836, , Ohio, USA)
(Nathaniel Daniel MEEKER & Phebe SALNAVE)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Jehiel MEIGS (11 June 1703, , Connecticut, USA - 25 March 1780, Madison, Connecticut, USA (East Guilford))
(Janna MEIGS & Hannah WILLARD)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  Jehiel MEIGS (6 July 1743, Guilford, Connecticut, USA - 27 December 1776, , New York, USA)
(Jehiel MEIGS & Lucy BARTLETT)

American Revolutionary War Soldier  male ancestor  John MEIGS (21 November 1753, Middletown, Connecticut, USA - 24 November 1826, New Hartford, Connecticut, USA)
(Return MEIGS & Elizabeth HAMLIN)

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