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From - Annals of the Forty, No. 5
HARE
In the churchyard of the Disciples Church, Jordan, there is erected a stone in memory of Col. Peter Hare. The inscription on it reads: "In memory of Peter Hare Senior, who was born May 11th 1748 and departed this life April 6th 1834, aged 85 years 11 months."
Peter Hare was born in Tryon County, Mohawk river, New York state, and was a Captain in Butler's Rangers, serving in the War of the Revolution.....
.....After the war Captain Peter Hare came to Niagara. He is mentioned in the Companies of Loyalists Incorporated in the Corps of Rangers, thusly - "Company - Captain Hare - 52 men, 9 women, 10 boys, 14 girls, total - 85."
Captain Peter Hare was granted land in the Niagara district, Lot 1, Conc. 1, Clinton (now the farm on which the Vineland Experimental Station is situated), and in 1784 he had cleared 25 acres.
Family history states that he was a Paymaster in the Indian Department and that the Indians came in canoes every year for their pay and presents to the Jordan. He knew and was a great friend of Capt. Joseph Brant.
Peter was married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Petree, a French lady, whom he married in October 1777 in the Mohawk Valley. They had two children - Mary, born 18 Jan. 1779, probably the Mary are who married Robert Brown 6 May 1798 (Robt. Nelles book of marriages.) Catherine, born 24 Feb., 1781.
Elizabeth died in 1785 and Peter married secondly Catherine Greenwalt in 1787. They had the following children:
Elizabeth, born 1788
Annie, born 1790
John, born 9 Nov., 1792
Peter, born 13 Feb., 1794
William, born 12 April 1796
Deborah, born 23 Sept., 1797
James, born 26 June 1801, married Rachel, daughter of James and Christina Patterson, d. 1880, buried at Jordan.
After Catherine's death Peter married Margaret Secord, widow of Lieut. Solomon Secord. They had one daughter, Margaret, born 20 June, 1812. She married Robert Henry of Clinton.
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Rainham Builders
1748 - 1834 (85 years)