Location
The County of Hastings - Belleville
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Photographer
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Posted
July 21, 2004
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Text from the Plaque
Born in Albany County, New York, Meyers served with the Loyalist forces during the American Revolution and in 1782 was appointed a captain in the Loyal Rangers (Jessup's Corps). Immediately following the war, he settled in the Richelieu Valley, and in 1787 moved to Sidney Township. Some three years later he purchased land in Thurlow Township near the mouth of the Moira River. Here he built a sawmill and grist-mill around which grew a settlement known as Meyers' Creek. In 1816 it was renamed Belleville in honour of Arabella the wife of Lieutenant-Governor Francis Gore.
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