Christopher Lake UEL (1755 - 1820)

Born 18 May 1755 in Six Mile Run, Somerset, New Jersey

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Died 6 Apr 1820 at age 64 in Loughborough, Frontenac, Upper Canada

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Biography

Christopher Lake was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

Christopher Lake was born in 1755 in New Jersey to John Lake and Margrietje Snyder. He was likely named after his maternal grandfather Christopher Snyder. His parents moved to White Creek, NY in the Albany area when he was about six years old.

He was captured at the Battle of Bennington in 1777, and his brother-in-law John Hogel was killed in the same battle. The Lake family’s land was partially situated where the battle took place (very near modern day White Creek), and according to land petitions in Canada they lost a number of possessions.

Christopher married Susannah in about 1778, and they had the following children in White Creek, New York:

1. Elizabeth
2. Mary
3. John
4. Sarah
5. Hannah
6. Aaron
7. Henrietta

The Lake family, including Christopher’s parents and siblings, relocated to Upper Canada shortly after the war as United Empire Loyalists. Christopher himself did not move the family until after 1790, as they are recorded on the 1790 U.S. census in Hoosick, near White Creek.

In 1790^[1] he was living in Albany, New York.

Around 1792-1793, Christopher and his young family joined their relatives in Ernestown Twp. near Kingston. He and his children filed petitions to the British Crown for land as United Empire Loyalists, and UEL sons/daughters, and they were granted the land.

He died in the morning of April 6, 1820 in Loughborough, Upper Canada, per a death notice in the Kingston Chronicle^[2], where he is described as an “old settler.” Christopher is buried in Kingston, Ontario.^{[3] [4]}

Research Notes

DNA evidence for his descendants strongly suggests his wife's maiden name is Cousins - she is at least related to the Cousins and Page families who traveled from Massachusetts to New Fairfield, Connecticut to New York / Vermont, per DNA.

Many trees incorrectly list his wife's maiden name as Ingersoll. There is a Lake who married a Susannah Ingersoll in a different state and time period and it got confused for this couple; it's not them.

Profile originally created by Brian Lake with updates made by Christopher Lake descendant Craig Kanalley who leads a Loyalist Lake DNA research project with 100+ descendants of Christopher who have DNA tested. More source documentation and information on Christopher and his family will be added soon.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1790", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKP-GL8 : Sun Mar 10 02:51:37 UTC 2024), Entry for Cristopher Lake, 1790.
2. ↑ Death: Kingston Chronicle newspaper, 7 Apr 1820, pg. 3, col. 4, https://vitacollections.ca/digital-kingston/97122/page/3
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263438594/christopher-lake
4. ↑ https://billiongraves.com/supporting-record/Christopher-Lake/177525489