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The United Empire Loyalists by Gene Aitkens UE
A Brief History of the UEL Association by Gene Aitkens UE
Butler's Rangers by Harold F. Morgan UE
Christian Riselay/Hannah Schauer by Harold F. Morgan UE
Hendrick Windecker by Harold F. Morgan UE
Adam Young by Robert Collins McBride UE
Daniel Young by Dr. David Faux
Christian Keller by Maralynn Wilkinson UE
James Peters by Mary Sandford UE
Christian Hennigar by Carl Hennigar UE
Pvt Jacob Teague by David B. Clark UE
Pvt Joseph Goodwillie by David B. Clark UE
Ensign Adam Green UE by David B. Clark UE
The Butler's Rangers Uniform by David B. Clark UE
Baking and Cooking in the 18th Century by David B. Clark UE

James Peters 1779 – 1850, Washburn, Marsh Road, St. John, NB

Note pasted on back of frame by Colonel James Peters (1853 – 1926) :-

June 1921 – This is my grandfather, James Peters. He came to St. John, N.B. at the age of four years with his father who was agent for the United Empire Loyalists who left the U.S. at the time of the revolution. He built ‘Ashburn’ near St. John, where I was brought up by my Uncle Jim, his son, and the finest man God ever made. You Peters who follow, call your boys "Jim". None of that name ever went wrong.

(S’g’d) James Peters

James Peters, formerly a merchant in the West Indies trade, retired early from business, finding it irksome from the infirmity of deafness.

His wife brought him a large property on which he lived and died. (per statement by James White Peters, - ‘Uncle Jim’, - to his nephew James Peters who died in 1926 at his residence "Ashburn’, 423 Peters Street, Esquimalt, B.C.

James Peters (2) , was born at Hempstead, Long Island, Feb. 11, 1779 and died in St. John , N.B. Sept.14^th1850.

He was a merchant and also Police Magistrate and Mayor of the city, living at his country seat, Ashburn, on Marsh Road. He married Sussannah White, 1774 – 1838, daughter of Sheriff James White and Elizabeth Cranston DeBlois, (daughter of Louis BeBlois, Loyalists from Boston and granddaughter of Governor Cranston of Rhode Island.

(Per Martha Bockee Flint published 1896)

Copy of the 1847 A. J. Hoit portrait made in 1939 by amateur artist Hugh Peters and with X-mas greetings presented to his eldest brother Lt. Col. James Peters of Little Hill, Instow, North Devon, England.

--- great grandsons presently separated by the width of a continent and an ocean, the latter reputed dangerous for shipping due to hostile German U boats, so here’s hoping the copied portrait meets with no accident.

Submitted by Mary Sandford (Peters) UE