GAGE, JAMES: Farmer and businessman; b. 25 June 1774 in Greenbush, N.Y.; m. 1796 Mary Davis. They had four sons and six daughters; d. 15 Feb. 1854 in Hamilton, Upper Canada.
Although there has been controversy surrounding the identity of James Gage’s father, he was James Gage, a private in the New York militia, killed in 1777 fighting the British at Forts Clinton and Montgomery, N.Y. About 1790, his widow, Mary, moved with young James Jr. and Elizabeth north near Lake Ontario.. Her brother, Augustus Jones, already living and a surveyor in the Hamilton area, traveled to New York and helped them travel safely to Canada.
Mary received 200 acres from the British Crown near Stoney Creek in Township No.7 (Saltfleet) and became the Gage farm. Though the homestead remained in Mary Gage’s name until 1835, James gradually took over responsibility for the family and, in 1796, married Mary Davis, a member of a loyalist family from North Carolina.
On the Gage farm, during the War of 1812-1814, the Battle of Stoney Creek took place on June 6, 1813. This became an annual celebration as this battle was a turning point in preventing further Canadian invasion by American's.
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8166&pid=0
https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/battlefield-house-museum-park-national-historic-site
[Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gage_james_8E.html
Although there has been controversy surrounding the identity of James Gage’s father, he was James Gage, a private in the New York militia, killed in 1777 fighting the British at Forts Clinton and Montgomery, N.Y. About 1790, his widow, Mary, moved with young James Jr. and Elizabeth north near Lake Ontario.. Her brother, Augustus Jones, already living and a surveyor in the Hamilton area, traveled to New York and helped them travel safely to Canada.
Mary received 200 acres from the British Crown near Stoney Creek in Township No.7 (Saltfleet) and became the Gage farm. Though the homestead remained in Mary Gage’s name until 1835, James gradually took over responsibility for the family and, in 1796, married Mary Davis, a member of a loyalist family from North Carolina.
On the Gage farm, during the War of 1812-1814, the Battle of Stoney Creek took place on June 6, 1813. This became an annual celebration as this battle was a turning point in preventing further Canadian invasion by American's.
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8166&pid=0
https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/battlefield-house-museum-park-national-historic-site
[Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gage_james_8E.html
GAGE, JAMES: Farmer and businessman; b. 25 June 1774 in Greenbush, N.Y.; m. 1796 Mary Davis. They had four sons and six daughters; d. 15 Feb. 1854 in Hamilton, Upper Canada.
Although there has been controversy surrounding the identity of James Gage’s father, he was James Gage, a private in the New York militia, killed in 1777 fighting the British at Forts Clinton and Montgomery, N.Y. About 1790, his widow, Mary, moved with young James Jr. and Elizabeth north near Lake Ontario.. Her brother, Augustus Jones, already living and a surveyor in the Hamilton area, traveled to New York and helped them travel safely to Canada.
Mary received 200 acres from the British Crown near Stoney Creek in Township No.7 (Saltfleet) and became the Gage farm. Though the homestead remained in Mary Gage’s name until 1835, James gradually took over responsibility for the family and, in 1796, married Mary Davis, a member of a loyalist family from North Carolina.
On the Gage farm, during the War of 1812-1814, the Battle of Stoney Creek took place on June 6, 1813. This became an annual celebration as this battle was a turning point in preventing further Canadian invasion by American's.
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8166&pid=0
https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/battlefield-house-museum-park-national-historic-site
[Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gage_james_8E.html
Although there has been controversy surrounding the identity of James Gage’s father, he was James Gage, a private in the New York militia, killed in 1777 fighting the British at Forts Clinton and Montgomery, N.Y. About 1790, his widow, Mary, moved with young James Jr. and Elizabeth north near Lake Ontario.. Her brother, Augustus Jones, already living and a surveyor in the Hamilton area, traveled to New York and helped them travel safely to Canada.
Mary received 200 acres from the British Crown near Stoney Creek in Township No.7 (Saltfleet) and became the Gage farm. Though the homestead remained in Mary Gage’s name until 1835, James gradually took over responsibility for the family and, in 1796, married Mary Davis, a member of a loyalist family from North Carolina.
On the Gage farm, during the War of 1812-1814, the Battle of Stoney Creek took place on June 6, 1813. This became an annual celebration as this battle was a turning point in preventing further Canadian invasion by American's.
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8166&pid=0
https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/battlefield-house-museum-park-national-historic-site
[Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gage_james_8E.html
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