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ALLBURG-CALDEWLL MANOR

The Alexander Young family escaped down Lake Champlain from Skeensborou toSt.John on the Richelieu River. They were destitute, only the cloths on there backs, noshelter or food, just like hundreds of other Loyalists. A small ration was supplied andsome military work could be done. A lot of these people, including the Young familyeventually applied for and got grants of land to settle on. The Caldwell Manor area waswhere a lot of the families ended up with grants of land. The map described below hasabout 225 names on it that probably most are from Loyalist families.The two maps that I have been fortunate to receive have the names of families oneach lot owned by them in Caldwell Manor Canada and Allburg VT. In 1790-1826 timeframe.Map one has Alexander Young name on it three times , including two on the USACanada border of the time probably before the border was moved and on the north sideof the line. The third Alexander Young lot is located on part of the third lot directly abovethe Province line, and has Charles Young above and below it. The lot shows the roadgoing through it not as being at the west corner of the lot at the Province line. The lots inbetween have the names; A. Iby, William Newman [? Spelling]. Below the Iby lot isAlexander Young right on the Provencal line. A road from the Provincial line onAlexander Young’s west lot corner goes completely across Caldwell Manor on this map.Next property’s are James Williams, then Charles Young, then Alexander Young andCharles young next- .About half way up this row of lot’s is a William N. Young and thenSamuel Young and near it a Jacob Young ,all three thought to be a different Youngfamily than mine. William Chilton JR. has a lot with a different road crossing it that goesfrom the provincial line through Caldwell Manor. Below him is Amos Kenyon, thenWilliam Chilton, John Manning, Ransom Nutt, then George Chilton, William McDanud?and Richard? McDanud on the border line. This has to be the oldest map.Map two, supposedly 1827, sent to me by Robert Douglas Macfie shows “the widowof Alexander Young” Range one concession 4 Lot 2, 48 acres on it. This map hasRichard Steinbarge on the Provincial line exactly where the first map has AlexanderYoung and the road at the Provincial line exactly at the west corner. Next “widow of Alexander Young 48 acres”, it has the road going across the lot not at the west border aslot one did. Above this Jas Young twice 50 acres each, the Chs Young for 50 acres andthen an odd shaped lot of about 50 more, then Samuel Comer 50 acres. Then StallmanCobb 93 acres, Samual Williams 80 acres, then Samual Comer 25 more, a Comer mar. aYoung. All are in the area involved in the agreement between USA and Canada that madeFort Blunder on USA land when it had been built mistakenly in Canada... This is the roadfrom the border through Beech ridge to Henrysville.I would believe that the first map was where the old line was and map two of wherethe line was AFTER the Fort had been built by mistake in Canada; it was on theRichelieu River, supposedly built in 1816, and on the New York side of the RichelieuRiver. The treaty of Ghent and the King of the Netherlands by agreement offered bynegotiator Ashton to Daniel Webster to settle the boundary problem between Maineand New Brunswick on the upper St.John river in New Brunswick to British satisfactionwith the United States and to get possession of Rousers Point and Fort Blunder , asettlement finalized about 1838. When the line had again been surveyed it was discovered

that the Fort had been built in Canada, so later when a trade could be arranged for land onthe border near Maine, the swap was done and the 45 parallel had a change, the borderwas moved about1/2 mile North See page 10-11 of “Historic Atlas Province of QuebecEastern Townships 1881” by H.Beldon and a Cornell University web site MOA, page266 explains this from the book “North-Eastern and Northern Boundary” This is theFocault tract that had passed on to Gen. John Caldwell as Caldwell’s Manor , and theNorthern or Noyen Seigniory became the property of Gabriel Christe, and was namedChristie’s Manor. This of course created a situation where families on the border as aminimum became residence of a different country or possibly worse had to move.Because the dispute took so long to settle and the possibility of the people who livedthere influencing the decision, there was strife in the area until about 1838 with armedrevolts, houses burned and military mustered in both countries took place. A descriptionof this can be seen on the roots web Vermont Grand Isle Alburg site.”In the winter of 1837-8, the Patriot refugees, the Patriots in Canada and their associates were busy ingathering arms and material aid, preparatory to an invasion of Canada”-while the Canadaauthorities and volunteers on the north side of the line were preparing too.A Vermont Militia was mustered under Capt.G.Harrington`s Company from the 8

dayof April, to the 30

day of April when it was mustered out of service by order of Vt. Gov.Jennison who had mustered then into service earlier. Some of the volunteers on the listwere descendants or relative of Alexander Young in fact one was named AlexanderYoung. Several potential relatives were named Deul, Darby, Magowan, Manning, Mott,Williams etc. All this on the Alburg Grand Isle area and obviously in conflict withloyalists on the Canadian side of the line in some cases. In other words it was a time of choosing or being forced to take sides.On Dec.8, 1837 a party of Patriots from L`Acadie arrived in Swanton Falls where therewas a large group of refugees, about 95 men mustered and proceed into Canada. Theywere armed even with two Cannons and were to forced there way through the belt of loyalists who lined that portion of the border west of Missisquoi bay to reach therefriends in the interior of Canada.[see roots web Vt. Grand Isle ].The Abenaquis Indians in 1786 had laid claim to land in and Isle South Hero .GovernorChittenden appointed Col Allen to remove all unlawful intruders from the frontier butthis disturbance persisted until fall of 1788.The Alburg history site says that probably on Jan.1, 1839- “sometime during the wintera family of VOSBURGH, residing in the first house across the line on the main roadrunning from West Alburg to Caldwell`s Manor was raided by a company of thesemisreauts from the south side of the line”- just up the road a man of the Beech Ridgecommunity refused to take an oath of allegiance.James Young, first son of Andrew Young, born 1762 probably in Skeensboro, likely isthe James Young that was a settler on the Champlain Lake shore on the Alburg side about½-3/4 mile south of where the bridge from Alburg to New York is located. He wouldhave escaped as a loyalist from Skeensborro up Lake Champlain just after the revolutionin 1777 to St.John PQ Canada, with the family, and may have got his land right fromJohn Caldwell as Canadian land, in what is now Alburg Vt. USA. His name is on theearly records at the Vt. State Archives in Barrie Vt. He is listed in the 1790 US censustown of Alburg VT. In 1802 listed with 200 acres in Sutton PQ Canada [item 1374 JamesYoung, Sutton, lot 19, range 8] it appears that he later moved and had descendants in