Individual Details

The following is a digest from several of the listed sources concerning the events which brought the Robert Land family from America to Canada:
"The first white settler of Hamilton, Ontario was Robert Land, who purchased a tract of 300 acres in 1778. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Robert Land dwelt somewhere in New Jersey, on the banks of the Delaware River near Cochecton, Sullivan County, New York [Note: he was first farmer there and later it became known as Lundy's where a great battle was fought in 1814]. He was a loyalist and took the side of Great Britain and actively engaged in maintaining her interests. While absent from his home a party of Indians attacked his house, and his wife and children barely escaped with their lives, and made their way to New Brunswick, N. J. Robert, on his return, finding his home destroyed, and supposing that his family were victims of the Indians, abandoned the place in despair, and sought the British settlements on the Niagara frontier, near the Falls. He remained here a short time, when he migrated and located on 300 acres of land below Ancaster which is now the east end of Hamilton. He erected a cabin in 1781 at the "head of the lake" or Burlington Bay [Note: now known as Hamilton Harbour] and lived there until 1792. He sowed the first bushel of wheat in that section. After several years and to his great surprise, a weary and travel-stained woman with several large children appeared. Having walked from New Brunswick, it was his wife with his children, whom he supposed had been murdered by the Indians. Her story was, that she had traced him to the Niagara frontier, and after a time she heard that a man by the name of Robert Land had removed to the shadow of the mountain, below Ancaster. Robert and Phebe were of English descent.

Birth	11 Aug 1738	New York
Marriage	Abt 1757	Pennsylvania - Phebe SCOTT
Death	Jul 1818	Ontario, Canada
Burial	Jul 1818	Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Spouse	Phebe SCOTT (1733 - 1826)
Child	John LAND (1758 - 1838)
Child	Abigail LAND (1760 - 1826)
Child	Rebecca (Kate) LAND ( - )
Child	Phebe LAND (1766 - 1808)
Child	Colonel Robert, Jr. LAND (1772 - 1867)
Child	Ephriam LAND (1774 - 1841)