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  25. AO. Reel 14, item 346B, WCSL.

  26. Bailey Memoir.

  27. War Office 13, 4280, PRO.

  28. AO. Reel 12, item 387, (Mudge); item 399A; Clifford, item 242, WCSL.

  29. Ibid., Reel 13, items 11, 17 et al.

  30. DRO, Standing Com’ee, July 1803.

  31. AO. Reel 13, items 19, 326 on, WCSL.

  32. Ibid., item 154.

  CHAPTER 21: UNIVERSALLY LAMENTED

  1. DRO, Addington Papers.

  2. AO. Reel 13, item 195, WCSL,

  3. Ibid., Reel 12, item 76.

  4. Ibid., Reel 13, items 271; 277 Simcoe to Yorke; 278; 279, Yorke to Simcoe.

  5. Ibid., item 348.

  6. Fryer/HA, p. 259.

  7. AO. Reel 13, item 388, 10 Aug. 1804; item 404, circular 31 Aug. 1804, WCSL.

  8. Ibid., item 438, (Gibbs); reel 14, item 12, (Exeter).

  9. Clifford Papers, Ugbrooke House, Aug. 1804.

  10. Partridge, diary of Eliza Simcoe.

  11. AO. F47-12 (new catalogue) FGS to EPS, undated, written before he left London for Ireland.

  12. AO. Reels 14, 15, 16 many letters about Rolle, WCSL.

  13. Ibid., Reel 14, item 121.

  14. Ibid., item 84, (Moira); item 86, (Simcoe).

  15. Partridge, Kendall’s corresp. with JGS.

  16. AO. Reel 14, item 134, WCSL.

  17. Ibid., item 177.

  18. Ibid., item 186.

  19. Ravenhill, “Skeletons” pp. 53-54.; Palk is AO. Reel 14 item 181.

  20. Reel A605 F7, (JGS to EPS, 10 Jan. 1805 incorrectly dated; the funeral was on 9 Jan. 1806), NA.

  21. AO. Reel 14 item 209, WCSL.

  22. AO. Simcoe F47-12, reel 1812, (Francis to EPS, Eton, 28 June 1806).

  23. Bailey Memoir; Deluc vol. 2, p. 10, numbered paragraph 941.

  24. AO. Reel 14, item 195, WCSL.

  25. Ibid., item 227, Simcoe to Moira 27 and 28 June 1806.

  26. Clifford Papers, Ugbrooke Archives; AO. Reel 14, item 252, (Russell), WCSL.

  27. Reel A607 F31,(Eliza to Miss Hunt, 30 Nov. 1806), WCSL.

  28. AO F47-12, Reel 1812, JGS to Eliza 13 Sept. 1806, Coimbra.

  29. DRO, Simcoe Papers, (JGS to EPS, 2 Sept. 1806).

  30. Ibid., St. Vincent to Simcoe, 25 Sept. 1806.

  31. EFP, 6 Nov. 1806, WCSL.

  32. Robertson, Diary, p. 412, from Bailey Memoir.

  33. Reel A607 F30 n.d., (Margaret Graves to Eliza), NA.

  CHAPTER 22: LIFE AFTER THE GENERAL

  1. AO. Reel 14, (series of letters starting 8 Nov. 1806).

  2. PROB 11/1458, Will of John Graves Simcoe, PRO; DRO, Land Tax Assessment Rolls, Dunkeswell, 1807, Awliscombe 1806. Clifford Papers, Ugbrooke, (Robert Clifford to Lord Clifford, 1 Nov. 1806), EPS’ invitation re maps, books.

  3. AO. Reel 14, Memorial of EPS, Executrix of JGS’swill; Biography of John McGill by S.R. Mealing, DCB.

  4. AO. Reel 14, has these letters back and forth. (See EPS to Greenwood, 14 Sept. 1807; references to commission, cost of JGS’ suite to Tagus etc.), WCSL.

  5. Scadding, Henry, p. xiii.

  6. AO F47-12, reel 1812, (EPS to Moira, 8 Jan. 1808).

  7. Ibid., no opening, (Jenkins to EPS, 9 Apr. 1812).

  8. The Army List 1813. Lieutenant Simcoe and Captain Johnson died in 1812.

  9. Reel A607 F31, (Charlotte to Miss Hunt, 11 and 20 Aug. 1813), NA.

  10. Fryer, EPS. pp. 202-210.

  11. Hett, Francis Paget. Georgina. Facsimile edition, (Sutton West, Ontario: Paget Press, 1978), p. 48.

  12. Fryer/HA, p. 259.

  13. Ibid., pp. 259-60.

  14. Queen’s York Rangers. The Colours of the Queen’s Rangers. Pamphlet, Fort York Armoury, Toronto, undated. Ceremony 18 Apr. 1975, pp 11-12.

  15. Gellnor, John. Simcoe’s Military Journal. (Toronto: Baxter Publishing, 1962), pp. I-II.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  When joint authors, on different sides of the Atlantic, combine, variation in sources is inevitable. Some authors prefer using only primary sources. However, where a secondary source is also available, it should be included for the interested reader. John Graves Simcoe’s A Journal of the operations of the Queen’s Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War has been published three times. Simcoe’s original work, published privately in Exeter, in 1787, appeared on a large format with an unpaged Appendix. An American edition, dated 1844, on a small format, was fully paged. A facsimile edition of the 1844 edition was issued in 1968. A version, in large format, edited by John Gellnor and lacking the Appendix, is dated 1962. We have had recourse to all three versions — 1787, 1844 and 1962 — and have referred to all of them in the documentation.

  Another problem arose over whether to use Canadian or British microfilm collections. The main Simcoe papers in the Devon Record Office are available on microfilm from the National Archives, Ottawa. The originals of Simcoe collection that do not relate directly to Canada are in the Archives of Ontario, in Toronto. Microfilms of this collection are in both the Archives of Ontario and in the West Country Studies Library in Exeter, but they are catalogued differently. The reference numbers here apply to the West Country Studies Library microfilm since most sources apply to Devonshire. The finding aid in the Archives of Ontario is Reference Code F47 of the Simcoe Family.

  PRIMARY SOURCES

  Manuscript

  Addington Papers, Devon Record Office. ref. 152M

  Arnold, Hilary, for Simcoe genealogy.

  Bailey, John. Memoir, property of Margaret Partridge.

  Cornwallis Papers, Public Record Office, London.

  Chatham Papers, Public Record Office, London.

  Clifford Family Papers, Ugbrooke House, Devon.

  Drewe Family Papers and Genealogy, property of Francis Drewe.

  Simcoe Papers, collections in different places:

  Archives of Ontario, Toronto, include Simcoe-Burges B-1-2 and Simcoe

  Reference Code F47.

  Devon Record Office, Exeter, ref. 1038M

  National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, microfilm of originals in the Devon

  Record Office, listed by folder. F29, the letters of Mary Anne Burges to Elizabeth

  Simcoe. Missing from F29 are letters found in B-1-2, Archives of Ontario.

  West Country Studies Library, copies of originals in the Archives of Ontario.

  Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library. Wolford-Simcoe Papers.

  Still other Simcoe Papers are in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Williamsburg, Virginia.

  Descendants Margaret Partridge and John Vowler have letters and diaries which they generously made available.

  Devon Record Office, other collections

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  The King’s School, Ottery St. Mary, records on Simcoe’s sons.

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  Rogers, Robert. Journals. London, 1769 edition.

  Seaman, Jordan. “Genealogy of the Seaman Family.” Long Island Historical Society, Brookllyn, N.Y.

  Toronto Globe. 16 July 1877. “A Narrative of John Peters, Lieutenant Colonel in the Queen’s Loyal Rangers in Canada.”

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III 1760-1813. Clarendon, Oxford, 1960. Wilson, Ellen Gibson. Thomas Clarkson. Facsimile edition, Wm. Sessions 1996. Wise, S.F. “The Indian Diplomacy of John Graves Simcoe.” Canadian Historical Association, 1957.

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  APPENDIX

  Officers of the Queen’s Rangers

  1791 from The Army List 1793

  Regiment

  Army

  Colonel Commandant

  John Graves Simcoe

  1 Sept. 1791

  18 Nov. ‘90

  Captain

  David Shank

  1 Sept. 1791

  25 Dec. ‘82

  Samuel Smith

  do.

  25 Dec. ‘82

  Captain Lieut. and Captain

  Aeneas Shaw

  1 Sept. 1791

  25 Dec. ‘82

  George Spencer

  do.

  Lieutenant

  Arthur Hen. Brocking

  1 Sept. 1791

  Robert Eyre

  do.

  Rowland Duer

  16 Nov. 1791

  James Givens

  30 Nov. 1791

  Ensign

  John M’Gill

  18 Sept. 1791

  Leonard Browne

  do.

  J. Whitmarsh Pearce

  do.

  William Mayne

  21 Mar. 1792

  Adjutant

  John M’Gill

  1 Sept. 1791

  Surgeon

  David Burns

  do.

  The Army List 1803

  Regiment

  Army

  Lt. Col. Comm.

  David Shank

  14 Apr. 1798

  1 Jan. ‘98

  Major

  Samuel Smith