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According to Botting:
Among Canadian descendants: he served with the British forces during the Revolution, American tradition: that he like all his brothers fought on the American side.
Both are probably correct.
He was a private in the 4th Ulster Co. Militia, vicinity of Newburgh and New Marlboroough, commanded by Col's. Hasbrouck, Hardenburgh, and Janson. He served for a few days under Capt. William Cross (1779). Thereafter he became an active Loyalists. According to his application for Canadian land he was in N.J. during the summer of 1780, in Capt. Tom Ward's group of British supporters.
On Dec. 25,1780 his father was fined 11 pounds, 15 shillings, 6 pence, in the Hanover Assessment on Tories whose sons had gone over to the enemy. In 1782, he m. Catherine Harris. Many of the Harris's, inclulding Catharine's father, were Tories.
Soon after the war, John took advantage of the offer of resettlement in Nova Scotia made to colonists who supported the British. The length of his stay in Nova Scotia is uncertain.Before 1790, the difficultyof making a living and the urging of his friends and relatives led him to return to the U.S. The census of 1790 shows him as a resident of Montgomery County. Late in April 1812, he removed permanently to Ontario.
There is alot more written, but this might explain he moving patterns.
Sheila McCormack
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