Samuel Embury was born in 1765 in New York, New York, USA and was christened on September 29, 1765 in Trinity Lutheran Church, New York, New York. He died in 1853 in St. Armand, Quebec.
Samuel signed a petition of 246 citizens, asking the King for a House of Assembly for the Province of Quebec, on November 24, 1784.
In 1790 Samuel, who had been living with his mother and step-father in Montreal, moved to Oswegatene (Prescott) traveled to Mississquoi Bay and there married Catharine Miller, daughter of Peter Miller and Agnes Benner.
On November 6, 1804 Samuel was suspended from the United Empire Loyalist (UEL) list "for want of proof of his loyalty", although in 1801 and 1803, as the son of a Loyalist he had received 300 acres in Augusta Township. Samuel and Catharine lived in Augusta Township (Ontario) near his mother and step-father until his mother's death then moved to St. Armand, Quebec.
In the footsteps of his parents, Samuel became a leader in the Methodist Society at St. Armand, around 1807. St. Armand was on the same Methodist Circuit, called Ashgrove, as Camden Valley, New York. Samuel served as a local, St. Armand preacher and continued this circuit for many years.
Samuel assisted with the building of a chapel in 1819 which remains the oldest Methodist Church building still in use in Quebec Province.
In 1832, Samuel sold his famous father's Bible to Rev. Fitch Reed who then donated it to John Street Church in New York.
SOURCE: Edited from the work of Embury family researcher, Robert Switzer.
Samuel signed a petition of 246 citizens, asking the King for a House of Assembly for the Province of Quebec, on November 24, 1784.
In 1790 Samuel, who had been living with his mother and step-father in Montreal, moved to Oswegatene (Prescott) traveled to Mississquoi Bay and there married Catharine Miller, daughter of Peter Miller and Agnes Benner.
On November 6, 1804 Samuel was suspended from the United Empire Loyalist (UEL) list "for want of proof of his loyalty", although in 1801 and 1803, as the son of a Loyalist he had received 300 acres in Augusta Township. Samuel and Catharine lived in Augusta Township (Ontario) near his mother and step-father until his mother's death then moved to St. Armand, Quebec.
In the footsteps of his parents, Samuel became a leader in the Methodist Society at St. Armand, around 1807. St. Armand was on the same Methodist Circuit, called Ashgrove, as Camden Valley, New York. Samuel served as a local, St. Armand preacher and continued this circuit for many years.
Samuel assisted with the building of a chapel in 1819 which remains the oldest Methodist Church building still in use in Quebec Province.
In 1832, Samuel sold his famous father's Bible to Rev. Fitch Reed who then donated it to John Street Church in New York.
SOURCE: Edited from the work of Embury family researcher, Robert Switzer.
Samuel Embury was born in 1765 in New York, New York, USA and was christened on September 29, 1765 in Trinity Lutheran Church, New York, New York. He died in 1853 in St. Armand, Quebec.
Samuel signed a petition of 246 citizens, asking the King for a House of Assembly for the Province of Quebec, on November 24, 1784.
In 1790 Samuel, who had been living with his mother and step-father in Montreal, moved to Oswegatene (Prescott) traveled to Mississquoi Bay and there married Catharine Miller, daughter of Peter Miller and Agnes Benner.
On November 6, 1804 Samuel was suspended from the United Empire Loyalist (UEL) list "for want of proof of his loyalty", although in 1801 and 1803, as the son of a Loyalist he had received 300 acres in Augusta Township. Samuel and Catharine lived in Augusta Township (Ontario) near his mother and step-father until his mother's death then moved to St. Armand, Quebec.
In the footsteps of his parents, Samuel became a leader in the Methodist Society at St. Armand, around 1807. St. Armand was on the same Methodist Circuit, called Ashgrove, as Camden Valley, New York. Samuel served as a local, St. Armand preacher and continued this circuit for many years.
Samuel assisted with the building of a chapel in 1819 which remains the oldest Methodist Church building still in use in Quebec Province.
In 1832, Samuel sold his famous father's Bible to Rev. Fitch Reed who then donated it to John Street Church in New York.
SOURCE: Edited from the work of Embury family researcher, Robert Switzer.
Samuel signed a petition of 246 citizens, asking the King for a House of Assembly for the Province of Quebec, on November 24, 1784.
In 1790 Samuel, who had been living with his mother and step-father in Montreal, moved to Oswegatene (Prescott) traveled to Mississquoi Bay and there married Catharine Miller, daughter of Peter Miller and Agnes Benner.
On November 6, 1804 Samuel was suspended from the United Empire Loyalist (UEL) list "for want of proof of his loyalty", although in 1801 and 1803, as the son of a Loyalist he had received 300 acres in Augusta Township. Samuel and Catharine lived in Augusta Township (Ontario) near his mother and step-father until his mother's death then moved to St. Armand, Quebec.
In the footsteps of his parents, Samuel became a leader in the Methodist Society at St. Armand, around 1807. St. Armand was on the same Methodist Circuit, called Ashgrove, as Camden Valley, New York. Samuel served as a local, St. Armand preacher and continued this circuit for many years.
Samuel assisted with the building of a chapel in 1819 which remains the oldest Methodist Church building still in use in Quebec Province.
In 1832, Samuel sold his famous father's Bible to Rev. Fitch Reed who then donated it to John Street Church in New York.
SOURCE: Edited from the work of Embury family researcher, Robert Switzer.
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