From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Sep 29 07:22:08 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8TDM8Yn011582; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:22:08 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8TDLnqp015495 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:21:49 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8TAdVFI016322 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:39:31 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8TAdVeP016321 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:39:31 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8T9dlFI016125 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:39:47 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8TCLsjt002189 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:21:54 -0600 X-Envelope-From: karenprytula@hydroottawa.com Fri Sep 29 06:21:54 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8TCLsYn002180 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:21:54 -0600 Received: from smtp.hydroottawa.com (HydroOttawa-gw.telecomottawa.net [142.46.196.98]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8TCLSpT030997 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:21:31 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] James, Peter & Frank MacDonald Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:21:20 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ROOTS-L] James, Peter & Frank MacDonald thread-index: AcbjdeHo96/qbBmATbGdaLEeDZd/LgARKDAQ From: "Prytula, Karen" To: "Mr. Kim Siever" , X-Spam-Score: 1.31 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists5.rootsweb.com id k8TCLsYn002180 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k8TCLsjt002189 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k8T9dlFI016125 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Hello Kim I don't know if I can help you out or not at this time but I am interested to know how Frank MacDonald became a casualty at the battle of the Plains of Abraham. As you probably know...The battle of the Plains of Abraham took place on Abraham Martin's land at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada You say Frank lived in Glencoe. Where is that? Is that Canada or the USA ? I am curious to know if he was already a member of the British army when he arrived in North America, or did he join up once here. I came across a website where they had a list of all the men that were engaged in that battle. I think I got the link from this list. I could have been at the Canadian War Museum website, too or the Library and Archives Canada website. Anyway if you google 'Plains of Abraham' you might find some pretty interesting stuff. Many of my ancestors were alive at the time the battle was raging...They lived on Isle-aux-Coudres, and along the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River. So far I have not found anyone in my family who would have fought in the battle. These are my French ancestors, so they would have been fighting for France I would think. Anyway the British had been floating up and down the St. Lawrence since June 1759 trying to find a strategic place to come ashore. To take Quebec City was quite a feat because of the high cliff's that kept both Englishman and unfriendly Indians away. In the days before the battle, the French government ordered an evacuation of the Island-aux-Coudres. The British landed on the Island and kicked everyone of that didn't follow the evacuation orders. About 100 people fled to Baie-St-Paul. The English used the Island to plan their attack on Quebec and steal any needed supplies. The male residents that were booted off the Island would sneak back at ni! ght to finish up any farming chores that needed to be done. Eventually the British took Quebec City, in September like you say...scaling the high cliffs with ropes and all the most dangerous pieces of equipment you can imagine. It was a tough long battle with both sides losing their leader to wounds incurred at the battle. And about Peter MacDonald....Do you know where he lived? Was he fighting for the Americans trying to take Canada, or was he in Canada defending us? I have relatives that took part in that war. A great grandfather of mine x5 named Captain Bradley was a member of the 100th or 99th regiment of foot (can't remember right now) I don't know too much about him yet, but when the warring was over he settled in Carleton County. He was stationed at Montreal (where the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers meet) to guard it more or less...but then the regiment had to flee the city because of an outbreak of a contagious disease (can't remember what it was right now), so they floated up the Ottawa River until they got to Richmond Landing (Ottawa). There they unloaded their boats and started cutting roads in land. Because there was no more threat to Canada, and Britain was not fighting the Americans, or the French at the moment there was no work for the soldiers. The British government pensioned them off and bribed them with free land in Canada if they stayed here. Captain Bradley agreed, and received lots of land. I still have to r! esearch this man. Do you know what regiment your Peter was in? or whereabouts they settled after the war? KarenP Ottawa -----Original Message----- From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Mr. Kim Siever Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:59 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] James, Peter & Frank MacDonald I'm looking for information on James, Peter & Frank MacDonald. James is Peter's son and Frank's grandson. Peter was supposedly born in Glasgow and fought in the War of 1812. He had two other sons, Peter and john. Frank died 12 Sep 1759 on the Plains of Abraham, Québec, Canada. Apparently he also lived in Glencoe at the time of the massacre. Mr. Kim Siever http://www.hotpepper.ca/