Alexander Montgomery Jr (abt. 1758 - 1841)

Born about Feb 1758 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Juda (Myers) Montgomery — married 1779 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York

Descendants

Died 3 Jun 1841 at about age 83 in York Toronto Metropolitan Municipality, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

He achieved the rank of Major.

He married Judah (Judith) Myers in 1778 at Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick.

He later was living in Stamford, Connecticut, before moving his family to New Brunswick, where the family endured "much privatization and suffering."^[1]

Alexander Montgomery (1758-1841) was the son of Alexander and Sarah (Lockwood) Montgomery of Greenwich, Fairfield County CT. Around 1770-75, the Montgomery family was part of the group who migrated to Spencertown NY. At the time of the American Revolution, after making his way to Long Island Sound, Alexander Montgomery married Judah Myers (1759-1821), daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Myers, members of the Jewish Synagogue in Newport RI. In 1803, Alexander Montgomery arrived on Yonge St from Nova Scotia with wife and eight children. In 1805, Abigail Montgomery (1790-1855), daughter of Alexander and Judah (Myers) Montgomery, married at Anglican Church, York, William Hill (ca1781-1849) son of Thomas and Hannah Hill.^[2]

1 Jan 1820: Alexander Montgomery, Jr is listed among the signers of a letter to Commons House of Assembly of Upper Canada.^[3]The letter concerns the degraded state of a part of Yonge St between Blue Hill and Gallows Hill [St. Clair Ave], where carriages and beasts of burden were frequently getting stuck in the mud.

He died in 1841, and he is buried in the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery and Crematorium, Ontario, Canada.

Children of Alexander Montgomery and Juda Myers:

1. Sarah Louise (1779-1883) m William Marsh ( -1856)
2. John (1784-1879)
3. Abigail (1790-1885) m William Hill (~1781-1849)
4. Capt. Alexander (III) (1791-1868)
5. Mary Ann (1793-1873)
6. Statira Edith (1795-1887) m Stillwill the Younger Wilson (1793-1863)
7. Juda (1798-1810)
8. Frances (1801-1896) m Hugh Morrison
9. Richard (1807-1873) m Hannah Smith (1812-1883)

Alexander Montgomery and family came from Connecticut, and settled at York (Toronto) around 1798. Upon arriving in York, he established a tavern, a trade his son John would also take up.

Sarah Montgomery's Findagrave site, states that her brother John is Toronto tavern keeper.

According to Burke^[4], Alexander Montgomery married the daughter of Mordecai M. Myers (identified as Judith on Sarah's Find a Grave record). NOTE: Judith was not the daughter fo Mordecai Myers, she was his sister. He left his home in Stamford during the Revolution, and settled first in Gagetown, New Brunswick, and then in Toronto, where he died in 1839 at the age of 98.

Research Notes

Was the marriage in New Brunswick in 1778 or Yonkers in 1779? Possibly, it was both: legal marriage in New Brunswick but celebrated as a wedding in Yonkers.

Sources

1. ↑ Early Days of some of the York Loyalists, by Victoria Montgomery Brereton in Annual Transactions of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Ontario, p. 21
2. ↑ Betty Hinman Paull. “Alexander Montgomery” in Researching Yonge Street (Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, 1996). Published in: Joseph Hill (1761-1833) The Story of One of the Founders of the Quaker Settlement at Yonge Street, Newmarket, Ontario, including Hill Family History Sandra McCann Fuller and Heather Hill-Gibson1
3. ↑ Toronto Public Library, Baldwin Room Manuscripts
4. ↑ Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry

• http://www.montyhistnotes.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I21009&tree=MontyHistNotes_II
• Geni profile
• FindAGrave for Major Alexander Montgomery, Jr (1758-1841)
• Entry for John Montgomery in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Sarah Louise Montgomery on Find A Grave: Memorial #112796619 retrieved McEvoy-527 19:45, 26 February 2018 (EST)
• Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry
• Major Alexander Montgomery https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K2Y1-TSV

Acknowledgements

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