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Lt. Hugh Munro

Lt. Hugh Munro

Male 1748 - 1821  (73 years)

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  • Name Hugh Munro  [1
    Prefix Lt. 
    Born 12 Feb 1748  , , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 24 Dec 1821  Charlottenburg Twp., Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Glengarry County
    Buried Williamstown, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Saint Andrew's Cemetery
    Person ID I4778  Munro
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2013 

    Family Catherine Campbell,   b. 1748, Dingwall, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1838, , , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Married , , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. John Munro,   b. 1773, , , , Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1852  (Age 79 years)
    +2. Christina Munro,   b. 2 Jul 1774, Charlottenburg Twp., Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1848, Martintown, Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     3. Ann Munro,   b. 1778, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Apr 1846, Williamstown, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    +4. Phillip Finlay Munro,   b. 1785, Charlottenburg Twp., Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Jul 1862, Charlottenburg Twp., Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     5. Nellie Munro,   b. 1785,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +6. Murdoch Munro,   b. 27 Sep 1786, Martintown, Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Feb 1860, , , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     7. Elizabeth Munro,   b. 1788, Martintown, Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +8. Margaret Munro,   b. 15 Oct 1791, Martintown, Glengarry Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1885  (Age 93 years)
    Last Modified 20 Jan 2009 
    Family ID F1991  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Hugh and his wife, Catherine, left Scotland in 1773 with a number of their neighbors. Soon after they embarked, the ship was disabled and had to return to Ireland where they were obliged to spend the winter. During their stay, their eldest son, John was born.

      In 1774, they settled in what was then Tryon County, now changed to Fulton County, north of the Mohawk Valley, New York. He was known as Hugh Munro of Foulis, parish of Dingwall, Scotland. He located some eight or ten miles northeast of the present town of Johnston.

      Hugh and most of his neighbors remained loyal to the British Crown when the American Revolution erupted. Because of that, he suffered severely financially and otherwise. He narrowly escaped capture when Colonal Dayton was sent to capture Sir John Johnston and the rest of the Loyalist community. The Loyalists fled into the woods and made their way through numerous hardships to Montreal, Canada. Hugh was forced to abandon his home, his farm of 120 acres, and his livestock which were confiscated by the state of New York.

      Sir John was immediately commissioned a Colonel in the British Service and he raised a command of two battalions. The regiment was known as "The King's Royal Regiment of New York" or the "Royal Greens". Hugh was one of the first to join and participated in three expeditions to his old settlement in the Mohawk Valley, New York to retaliate for their treatment. During one of these forays, they fought the Battle of Oriskany, a small but very bloody affair. The battle was a failed attempt to capture Fort Stanoix.

      Hugh served for six and a half years in the first battalion and was discharged as a First Lieutenant when the regiment was disbanded in Dec 1783. Ref 1 says he fought as a private soldier until disbanded in 1784.

      The year after his discharge, Hugh settled on Crown land grant lot 22, in the first concession, south of the river Raisin, one mile south of Martintown (ref 1 says east), in the township of Charlottenburg, Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada. He lived there for about 18 years and then moved to lot 19 in the 9th concession of Charlottenburg where he lived with his family until his death on 24 Dec 1821. (One reference says he died in 1794.)

      In 1785 Hugh made a claim against the U.S. government for the loss of his property. It appears that he was compensated for his property, but the amount of compensation is not known.

      Error alert: The Postma reference places Hugh as a child of John Munro (1728-1800) and Marie Talbot Gilbert Bruere (1738-1815) but this doesn't seem to fit with data from other sources.

      Ref: Clan Munro files - Elder, Charlotte
      Reid, Vera
      "A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the U.S.A."

      References:

      (1) "The Munro Eagle" - number 27 - summer 1997-1998 - p. 28-29

      Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S406] Clan Munro files - Postma, Anna Mary, Anna Mary Postma, Descendants of John Munro (CAPT.) dated 28 Jan 2005 (Reliability: 3).