From: "Wesley Johnston Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 05:07:29 +0000 (UTC) BEGIN Since the 1820's transaction in Canada that connected James Ward and Robert Harrison (husband of the Mary of our branch) and thus provided a second piece of documentation (the first was her daughter's later record showing Mary's maiden name as Ward) that our branch's Mary's maiden name was Ward and that she was the daughter of Sarah Lake and James Ward and thus the granddaughter of Christopher Lake, the c 1755 son of John Lake and Margaret Snider ... I have begun exploring Christopher Lake's family. And this has led me to a question about the land in New York and another about the delayed move to Canada. Annette has a note that the Board of Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiricies for Cambridge District on 16 Apr 1778, despite Christopher Lake being "brought bef Board on suspicion of having been with the Enemy", permitted him to "return to his usual place of abode" under a surety of [pounds]100 bail. And the 1790 census of Hoosick has a Christopher Lake still living there (if it was the same Christopher Lake). But by 1797, he is petitioning in Canada for land as a Loyalist. So I am wondering whether he was allowed to sell his land in New York or if it was taken from him? The fact that he was still there after the Revolution and after the Constitution and (if the 1790 Census is him) even after George Washington had become President ... all of these seem to indicate that the move to Canada was not urgent until some time well after the Revolution. So what ultimately led them to move to Canada after so many years had passed and not immediately after the Revolution? END Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 03:30:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Wesley Johnston BEGIN So what follows here is a unique effort, due to a significant new DNA result from one of our Lake cousins -- which turned out to be far more significant than I realized Mary Ward does not appear in the records of the children of James Ward and Sarah Lake (daughter of Christopher Lake (1755), son of John Lake and Margaret Snider). Mary was born about 1801. but no birth or baptismal record has been found for her, despite the later children of James and Ward being documented. Annette Truesdell made the breakthrough insight a couple of years ago, based on our discussion in this Loyalist Lake e-mail list about what the DNA results were showing: the best fit of the known records and the autosomal DNA was that Robert Harrison's wife was Mary Ward (not Mary Lake) and that she was the daughter of James Ward and Sarah Lake. I too found this to be the most likely reading of something that we will probably never be able to document with records that either were never created or no longer exist. But today we have a second confirmation that this is indeed the correct configuration. Helen Rhoads descends from James Ward, son of James Ward and Sarah Lake and thus brother of Mary Ward. The new test was one of three Goodchild sisters who descend from Mary Ward. While this sister did not share X-DNA with Helen Rhoads, the other two sisters do share it. And in tracing back the complex X-DNA inheritance of Helen and of the two sisters, it turns out that the MRCA couple of the sisters via their X-DNA is James Ward and Sarah Lake. But for Helen it is specifically Sarah Lake and not James Ward who is the source of this shared X-DNA. So we now have double confirmation of Mary Ward as the undocumented daughter END Wesley Johnston Oct 20, 2020, 9:22:38 AM to Loyalist Lake Family History BEGIN There is a "Loyalist in depth study" Facebook group. I posted this query there. The UELAC page for Christopher Lake (http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=l...) has his daughter Sarah Ward in the "Notes (Expunged, Suspended, Reinstated)" category. As far as I can tell, she was for some reason denied UE recognition by someone at some point that I have never found. She certainly was recognized as UE by the grant of her Upper Canada land petition (http://www.wwjohnston.net/.../C-2951-Bundle%206-Petition...) which gave her 200 acres entered in Land Book 5 page 42, based on her claim as the daughter of Christopher Lake UE (of Jessup's Rangers). Where might I find the reason why Sarah (Lake) Ward was denied UE recognition (and by whom and when)? Anne Redish (whose credentials I do not know) replied: In the early 1800s UE claims were reviewed. Most likely she was removed from the UE list which was for the person who served the crown and met other criteria. She would have been designated DUE...daughter of a UE. And with that designation she and other children often were awarded 200 acres. Male children were SUE. Son of a UE. END